#mlp ff

[hellspawnsparks]

welcome back, twilight sparkle!

[zoeyhorse]

pipp petals hears the news

(I am a g5 fan) (also i like the new designs i think they are pretty)

[horse-time-babey]

Let’s talk about the AI accusations Forever Friendship has been receiving, shall we?

Nothing about it triggered any red flags for me, but there were instant knee-jerk ascertations from the moment the image leaked about it being AI. Some people even said it was obvious! That’s especially troubling to me, because no AI was used to create the image or the song. I understand the age of AI makes people feel like they can’t trust their own eyes, but it’s necessary to ACTUALLY give art a close look-over before you label it one way or another. Even before we had it officially confirmed, there were no tells of AI generation! Anything people pointed to was either an artistic decision or a result of a low-qualith JPEG, both of which are clear distinguishable flaws apart from AI generation. We can’t forget what imperfections in human-made art looks like, people.

Think how amazing this must have been for the real flesh and blood artist to pour his talent into this key art, to deliver us a new and magical iteration of ponies, only for people to overwhelmingly assume it isn’t even real. This kind of behavior is bound to DISCOURAGE real artists from doing what they do best! Generative AI should always be pointed out, but we should be SURE when we make these claims, and sure from a place of logic, not knee-jerk certainly!

I think the new key art is beautifully done. I’m also an honest fan of the new color streaks in the manes, and of course a return of my beloved G3 eye sparkles! I also think the hoof…shoes? they don’t look like fetlocks… either way, the hooves are so cute and I love the different shapes they take with each character!

[sillyen]

Mlp forever friendship toy idea :D

The one piece of art we’ve gotten reminds me of the g3 artstyle, so I think it would be cool if the toys were around the size of the g3 toys. Also think it would be good if they had articulation, because that would make them more fun to display and play with.

[guillotinedream]

Friendship is forever if completely forgetting about your two other homies for being orange and british was friendship. At least they’ll be rarijack forever together now

[quonit37]

MLP News

Gen 6 was announced and all the youtube videos on it are weirdly bad so I'm just making a post of what I have! I'm curious if people have more information

Only got this one blurry promotional image

According to an interview with the writers (which I recommend if you're curious), this is a new show called "Forever Friendship" that will focus on the characters as individuals as much as their friendship and the more messy realistic way friendship has its ups and downs. Because of wanting to focus much more on the complexities of friendship, the main cast been consolidated from 6 to 4.

The returning ponies are Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Rainbow. This is an entirely new canon not continuous with G4. The writers wanted to make the show enjoyable for both kids and adults. Similar to G4, it'll have both slice-of-life episodes as well as serialized plotlines.

The theme song is also out

Now my personal thoughts! Put under a readmore in case you just want to hear the news lol

I am PERFECTLY fine with them reusing the characters from g4 to tell their new plot, though I do wish that they used ponies that weren't main characters in g4. I know it's for recognition, really, but I think it'd be cool if they recycled ponies that didn't even appear in g4 for our new cast. Would be less confusing so we don't get them mixed up.

Like, for example, what if they used these four? Pearly Pie, Lily Lightly, Cotton Candy, and Thistle Whistle? They basically look the same and now there's less chance of confusing it with g4 lol

I also feel like some fans feel like Applejack and Rarity have been "excluded" due to this decision to reuse these four, but I really don't think that's an important criticism.

That said I have no doubt that these four, acting anywhere near like their G4 counterparts, would have really interesting chemistry to explore as the writers state their intent is.

The theme song sounds really generic, over-edited, and autotuned. With how boring it is to me it sounds like AI, which I guess is just another word for "trendy" at this point. It's not bad, it's just not my style, and I hope we get more character-sung songs in the show.

The voice actors sound good also!

Overall I'm pretty hyped for this overall. I really did not like the latter half of G4 and didn't care for G5 hardly at all. Children nowadays, which how much "Youtube Kids" and slop machine content farms are literally rotting their brains getting some good quality childrens shows at all is a must and I'll be so happy if it's as good as it's looking it will be.

[ask-wing-song-mlp]

Helen, mod: The real sad part of G6 being a G4 reboot with a mostly new staff is that we won't get the return of the real star of that series: Daniel Ingram's fuck-ass mandolin. 😔

[moonry]

AJ, Rarity, if you’re out there, pls come home