Why do all of you care ?.None of you are obligated to follow G5 now that they are not one single person with credentials in animation like Faust on board (which was the main reason it blow up because it give them credibility who vanished following dick moves after dick moves and those here leaks) and that they are back to what they always wanted to be and will never deviate from.A toy company Plus it’s worth repeating it,G5 AJ does not make G4 AJ dissapear,the 1984-esque “unperson” narrative pushed by [REDACTED] does not work when you can watch G4 episode to your leisure if this is your favorite version of characters that are interchangeable by their toyetic nature
@mjangelvortex
Heh..now we just need to see how much they pay attention to fan ideas…
Honestly I wish they would make A MLP:Extras series sometime. You know, a series where we see other characters lives without the main six at all…imagine a daring doo episode then a Ra Ra episode…or maybe one of the other cities Cutie Mark Crusader divisions..Basically a series to expand the character Lore for minor characters we all know and love.
@Reishin8Amara
I never really thought about it like that but the comparison with Babs Seed actually makes sense. As for the hat, yeah, she can always get one in an episode as a cute little call back to G4.
Hmm..kinda hope they keep the hat…but hang it on a wall in her home a memento a family member. Also was gonna complain about appliances new behavior style they have planned..Then I realized they are basically making her a grown up Babs Seed.
We need a new Babs Seed episode.she was a fun character.
@Iron Storm
Well yeah, obviously. Any other Applejack isn’t going to make the G4 one not Applejack.
@wumbl3
The farthest right is my favorite. I don’t know if it was a deliberate design choice by the artist or not, but it seems like a callback to Bonnie Zacherle’s first pony toy that would eventually become My Little Pony.
Uh… Am I the only one here who really likes all versions of AJ in this picture (mainly the two last ones, not counting the current one)? Or there’s more people and I’m just not focused enough to realize it?
@Background Pony #78DC
It is possible that these people she is emailing are just part of the writing team for S1 like Faust was with Larson and McCarthy. But I just have a bad feeling that these women are responsible for toy departament and none of them really know much about storytelling and character development.
@Esteban @SeraphimDawn
I wouldn’t read too much into those exchanges just yet. Hasbro also collaborated with Lauren Faust on the creation of G4, resulting in changes small (Luna instead of Celene) and large (mostly episodic rather than largely serialized), arguably good (Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo added) and arguably bad (Princess instead of Queen Celestia). And given these leaks/thefts were from Hasbro, it makes sense we’re getting conversations between Hasbro employees, rather than between McCarthy and whoever else she has working with her on the creative side at this early stage.
@Esteban
Implying that Hasbro is going to take full creative control over gen 5?
Oh boy!
You know, the last time they did that. That resulted in G3.
G4 was successful largely due to one, the timing, and the fact that Hasbro allowed unprecedented creative freedom among their creative staff.
@SeraphimDawn
So far only Meghan and “part of the old team” is going to make this series. And based on emails, Meghan was deciding all factors with people that they refer to eachother as “Tyla, Emily, Chappie and Gretchen” but i guess they are all Hasbro execs (who somehow have creative control over their personalities and races and universe of the series rather than artists and writers)
@SeraphimDawn @Esteban
Those tweets are from mid-March 2014; I just found them to be an amusing coincidence, what with that comment from @SeraphimDawn about focusing on AJ for G5.