>>5284 >from a marketing perceptive I've seen some speculate they are trying to counter some new lines like LOLdolls and I've personally seen a whole lot of pony themed but not MLP toys on the toy shelves over the past year or so (actually may upload some pictures). So a revamp maybe warranted. considering that EQG was created just to fight against Mattel, I can see why Hasbro would respond to other trends and jump onto the ship with their own version. However, my optimism isn´t as high as they did for EQG because at least, EQG had a Rainbow Rocks, causing a huge boost in popularity and fandom´s change of perspective towards it (not instantly but slowly sneaking up into a part of gen 4), especially for Sunset Shimmer and the artstyle was exactly the same as FIM, so the animation aspect always stood there in that spin off.
But will Pony Life conquer the kids in the end? Only the marketing directives might have an idea of it.
>But it doesn't look like they have much in any originality and it maybe completely soulless (Can't say 100% till I see). yeah, they look cheap and they remind me of the spontaneous Funko trend that came and went to the void without much noise. The main question leans towards this: does Hasbro plan in making MLP a trendy thing for a couple of years, bombing it for every trend they can get or do they even consider the franchise as something that stands alone for itself? I ask this because relying on others and random casuals might not be the greatest strategy all the time despite aiming at greater quantities of money for a while.
>I guess they are leaving the comics but you'd think they'd be some potential for a spin off miniseries or something for more long term fans. yeah, I meant the strategy of appealing to casuals with Pony Life while getting a few episodes worthy to discuss during this transition but as you say, the comics are up to that task with season 10.
>Another one of those Pinkie shorts got released. It'd be interesting if this runs along side it. They aren't great but they feel more underdeveloped than awful in concept. well, it mostly serves at keeping some sort of MLP activity in the Youtube channel. They made another video of 3d Pinkie not too long ago I think so I suppose that they will use her model for narrating pony content on their channel, like a mascot. I don´t see that going further than that.
>When looking at Pony Life, Rainbow Roadtrip and this it seems like Hasbro is just throwing random ideas to the wall. Not sure if it's a good or bad sign. I don´t know what to say towards that. If that´s the case, MLP has never taken a break then because FiM has experimented constantly with itself and aiming towards different directions/arcs from one season to another. I won´t blame them if they are experimenting with complementary content but it would say quite a lot if they didn´t actually what to do with this franchise. However, there is nothing to fear, considering that FiM will always stay there for anyone to check it out and see what should be the next step.
