Hello fans, my name is Edward and i’m a recently released Hasbro employee. I’ve noticed that many fanbases have had a lot of confusion concerning Hasbro’s future plans for their properties so I decided I would make my rounds on as many sites as I could using various aliases of course to set the record straight. Given this is a My Little Pony site i’ll start with that.
-Generation 5 isn’t technically official yet as nothing has been put into production, its merely ideas being thrown around the past year. If it is finalized you’d see one CG movie roughly every 3-4 years staring between 2023-2025 and annual Flash or Toon Boom animated direct to video films
-Friendship is Magic is still an active production Season 9 begins the animation process soon. Despite last year’s leaks there is still a 50/50 chance Hasbro will approve a 10th season which would air sometime in late 2020.
-Season 9 will be 26 episodes.
-There will be a 45 minute 10th anniversary special for Friendship is Magic in 2020. It is undecided whether Boulder Media or DHX will animate it.
-Season 10 if approved would most likely be animated by Boulder Media instead of DHX. As would any/most future animations after that. Hasbro is pleased by Boulder’s work on Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own.
-Season 10, if approved might air on a different outlet as Hasbro wishes to slowly ween themselves off of Discovery Family. My money would go with Cartoon Network or Netflix.
-Equestria Girls will have more animated specials and shorts over the next 3 years at least. There are no plans to do a big reboot for the spin-off. It could keep on as is indefinitely or lead into a sequel series like Rescue Bots did. What that would be I have no idea as I doubt they’d do a series set in college.
-Hasbro will continue its partnership with IDW into the 2020’s,so expect many many more comics based on Friendship is Magic and Equestria Girls for years to come. And maybe 4 issue G5 mini series to act as tie-ins to movies as we have done for Transformers in the past.
-Liscensors don’t want a reboot, Hasbro is really worried of losing partners over this so expect them to keep allowing companies to liscense out Friendship is Magic and Equestria Girls for Apperal, Misscelanious, and High-Quality Collectibles for at least the next five or so years regardless of what happens with the property.
-Hasbro is aware a reboot for an actively popular franchise could bomb, which is not what they want so there is a chance they may try to have their cake and eat it too by having new animations of Friendship is Magic still running concurrently to act as a safety net if the Generation Five movie fails. Equestria Girls is also being pushed harder to act as a buffer as well.
-If Gen5 plans fall through you would probably see the current incarnation continue as shorts and specials like Equestria Girls current format.
-Hasbro will continue to work with partners to push the brand harder in Asian countries, ecspecially China and Japan.
And for a few none pony bonuses.
-There WILL be a fully animated Transformers Movie by Boulder Media released within the next three years
-Hana-Zuki season 2 should be up on the American YouTube page within the next six months.
-Expect another live action G.I. Joe movie within the next five years.
Well, that’s all from this old dead horse. Have fun kids.