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MLP G5 Discussion and Speculation Thread

Background Pony #BECD
@DerpyFast
I’ve always had mixed feelings about the pegasi controlling the weather.
It’s not just the pegasi; there are others - gryphons and cloud gremlins - who also manipulate weather at the same time it had been known that unicorns were able to control the weather with their spells as seen in MYM Ch. 3. The weather over Everfree was unusual in that it moves by itself, but the explanation may lie in the mysterious magical accumulation that was there in G4. In the rest of the world, it has been noticed that there is very weak wind strength at higher altitudes and that turbulent weather mostly occurs at lower altitudes.
The magical world, Equus, is static - meaning that this planet is stationary in very stark contrast to our own world. When I read a manga, Hoshi o Tsugu Mono, where the story was written by the science fiction author James P. Hogan, it emerged that the moon had acted as a “brake” on Earth from 50,000 years ago. According to Hogan, absence on the moon had resulted in faster rotation - instead of 24 hours, it would be 8 hours. It makes anyone 10% lighter - think of the huge dinosaurs - and much denser atmosphere with extreme wind force - Hogan’s Earth would be a windswept world with wind force up to 300 km/h.
MLP’s Earth - which is called Equus by the fans - is the exact opposite, almost no wind is generated by a rotation that is completely absent, so that it is only at the lower altitudes that climatic activity could occur, such as hurricanes, rain, gusts - and all this would be within reach of flying beings like the pegasi, who could probably reach 5,000 m altitude without much difficulty. The airships in G4 constantly moved several thousand meters above the ground, but not higher - because it becomes so much colder and more difficult, the wind can be calmed at higher altitudes. Perhaps aircraft with lift based on drag is not realistic at higher altitudes. (Perhaps why Price had “planes” with pegasi mounted under wings)
Local climatic variations can be extreme in such a world, from extreme desert heat to intense cold - the many mountains, valleys, steppes and so much else will mean a great diversity of different weather that moves with light winds. A new force that generates climate was needed - and then magic is the only answer. Magic can create “heat” and “cold”, and can thus leave its mark on the surroundings by influencing the local weather and plant growth.
This could not have been overlooked by the intelligent beings who learned how to use magic. They started small by manipulating weather elements, not least to be able to expand beyond the countries where they need sun, rain and shelter. In some of the areas it could be too dry, elsewhere too wet. The pegasi and the unicorns understood that if they were to spread out - they had to be able to control the local weather in order to survive and establish their own communities. Others had understood the same, the zebras with their special magic collaborated with the abadas and the kelpies for example.
Weather control is thus essential for civilization development, and the pegasi were unique throughout the world with their skills surpassing the presentations of others. It made them sought after as allies - and feared as enemies. It can also explain why airships and balloons were important means of transport, these could have taken advantage of the climatic conditions, not least by moving in the “layer” between the upper, windless atmosphere and the lower, turbulent atmosphere with constant winds in predictable directions . If lower, extra power like a pegasus pushing is needed - if higher, advanced magic spells are needed.
Equus was not a static world in the beginning anyway, there had to have been a natural disaster to make this possible. And I’m not thinking about Discord, because that might have happened long before his time. Or it was just created like that by mysterious divine beings.
Background Pony #BECD
Very interesting - but dating is strange, August 2025? And it’s a compilation of different comics - only one of which is possibly confirmed, the one about Cadence? Also, it seems that distortions and incorrect angles in the descriptions of the stories the IDW comics are unusual, “the Mane 5?” We know that it is now the Mane 6 with Misty - although it should be called “the New Mane 6” to avoid confusion with the Mane 6 from G4.
For a whole ten years it had been lore that Cadence became an alicorn after overcoming and reforming a witch with her talent magic despite being a pegasus. It is possible that she, being very young as an alicorn, is sent to the magical school where the dragons attacked, which may be her first time using pure magic. Celestia could defeat a dragon even if she had to work a little with a dragon lord, without killing - but it will be different with a swarm of dragons.
Violette Rainbow and Skye are in demand and in addition something that the G5 teams had worked on, which makes these two their “heart children”. So a new story about these is not really unexpected. We see a continuation of the royal pegasi sisters in the two subsequent stories, although the one about a famous pegasus and a tournament seems interesting. Maybe Rainbow Dash’s ghost will test Zipp, or is there a new G5 pegasus we don’t know about? The Mane 6 with the possible exception of Twilight have become “ghosts” who can visit the homes of mortals as seen when Fluttershy comforted Old Discord.
It’s unclear, but it’s possible that IDW is in high gear to prepare for a new round of G5 stories and this publication of the comic for August 2025 may have happened accidentally.
The situation for Hasbro is still not good. Have seen the link with the video essay - and much of what Cxcd stated seems to agree with my observations. It came out that the G5 preparations had gone through several rounds in 2017-2021, among other things to avoid Discovery who had mistakenly obtained license rights to G4, especially S4-S9 which is unavailable today. There was a high level of ambition around G5 which means that Goldner put down considerable resources - which became a big disadvantage when the virus came in the spring of 2020. And almost at the same time Goldner started to get sick, serious errors started to occur - the 2D continuation from the ANG movie is what we had been promised in 2019-2021.
Netflix was chosen to avoid extra costs, the Entertainment One purchase had become more expensive than expected. It then suggests that Goldner may have lost control - for the handling of the S10 was under any criticism as it was preferred to shorten rather than slow down during the epidemic. The cancellation of PonyLife in the winter of 2020-21 was another example. For unknown reasons - perhaps out of pride - Goldner refused to retire or seek assistance until his death in October 2021. It is possible that the Hasbro management for which Goldner was CEO had begun to intervene and thus already in the year 2021 gained an upper hand that prepared the ground for the new CEO, Chris Cocks from January 2022. And then things really started to crumble, so that the G5 received an exceptionally bad treatment.
Transformers ONE has turned out to be a very good movie, but the advertising effort - which was Hasbro’s responsibility - was miserable, and no preparations were made for toy sales in connection with the release of the movie. It threatens to do major damage to the brand, and Transformers fans are in a growing frenzy, because they had to go in and try to fix it. This testifies to a lack of strategic management. The strategy for G5 was partly dumped by Hasbro before the movie came out, and it had a very difficult birth beforehand.
Hasbro has got the Boeing disease. Being a company that gambles on the willingness of other companies to fund brands on “loans” from the licensee for their own profit makes Hasbro vulnerable, TYT 2.0 was dumped because Netflix quit. Paramount could be next. And perhaps IDW comics, which has too small a stable of capable artists and a failing comic market in the US. Hasbro transfers the risk to others. Without thinking that there will come a day when no one will take this risk.
The Chinese might as well come and eat Hasbro.
DerpyFast
Pixel Perfection - Hot Pockets Spotted
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.

Here are some alternate Elements for some of The New Mane Six:
Sunny: The Element of Change
Zipp: The Element of Nonconformity
Pipp: The Element of Information
Misty: The Element of Agency
CloudMistDragon
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Artist -

Misty Shadow
@Markiz93
And him doing this is going to be a regular thing for a while…
For a long time, I disliked the saying, “We got robbed.”, in this fandom because of the kind of annoying complaints you’d read on every single comment section for scrapped G5 plans…but even I have to admit now that we are a victim of highway robbery.
Still happy to see these though, they’re great for keeping the fandom inspired to make their own G5 content.
Dustcan
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Condensed Milk - State-Approved Compensation

Dogs
Someone compiled both the storyboards and audio. Since it’s still a leak I’m not sure I should link it, but for now it’s up on youtube.
Shame. It was pretty decent.
Background Pony #7D1B
It can’t be a coincidence that the series ended right before Sprout’s official TYT appearance.
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