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Friendship is Magic #43 cover by Tony Fleecs
Solicitations for June are now available. Check out the details on what’s coming after the break.
Friends Forever #26 cover by Sara Richard
An extended preview is available for Friends Forever #26 on Comic Book Resources. While it appears some online and real life stores released this issue last week, this Wednesday will be the official release for the issue everywhere. Check out the preview after the break.
Fillies and gentlecolts, prepare your yourselves for 3 days of San Franciscolt-style adventure at this year’s Bay Area Brony Spectacular. Joining our massive Show & Comic staff Guests of Honor, are celebrities of fandom, the #HorseFamous, none other than our Community Guests. Master producers FiMFlamFilosophy and ShadesofEverfree join us as this April 22-24 for all things animation! From the realm of YouTube we bring you the multi-talented Dustykatt, ILoveKimPossibleAlot, Catie “Boxxy” Wayne, Your OC Sucks and Solrac. Analysts Silver Quill and Dr. Wolf will break things down for everypony and the full troupe of Blog Ponies from Equestria Daily will be here to tell you Trixie is best pony and how to never go to bed. Dynamic Duo Saberspark and ACRaceBest are guaranteed to shake things up and The Lost Narrator, Pegasus Pitch and Magpiepony will spin some wild tales.
But we’re not done yet! The talented hands behind our exclusive Golden Gates plushes, Equestria Plush returns this year, as do the shadow box master minds, The Paper Pony. You’ll be able to lend an ear to none other than Kira “Rina-Chan” Buckland to hear all about voice acting and The Brony Chef will be mixing up a good time for all. Last but not least, the one and only Chelis joins us for a spin of the yarn and bit of drama and Everfree Motorsports is sure to excite with their Forza 3 racing rig.
Be sure to catch your favorite bronies at the one and only Bay Area Brony Spectacular, April 22-24, 2016. They’ll be with us for all the festivities and friendship we have to offer, so come be a part of the action. Meet your favorite stars here at BABSCon! You can join us and get your membership at registration.babscon.com. Hurry, April is closing in fast and you don’t want to miss your chance!
A bit of sad news, Katie Cook unfortunately will be unable to attend due being too darn awesome and being given just so much work to do. She has to take some time to knock out a ton of fresh new comics!
And for anyone having trouble getting a room at con hotel, we have a room block just opened up at the Holiday Inn Express next door that you can get here!
The Bay Area Brony Spectacular (BABSCon) is the first convention devoted to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in the San Francisco Bay Area. In our first year, we became the second-largest MLP con anywhere, and we’re back for our third year April 22–24, 2016 at the SFO Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, CA. Contact [email protected] for more information!
babscon.com • facebook.com/babsconsf • twitter.com/babscon • babsconsf.tumblr.com
The shortest hiatus in the show’s history between seasons (119 days) ends on the Saturday before Easter. Season Six’s theme is “Explore Equestria”, though it apparently won’t be just lands old and new that we will be exploring. There’s a new addition in the Crystal Empire. There’s a question of what’s next for the Cutie Mark Crusaders. And there’s a question of backstories for the Mane Six. What’s amazing is that there is still so much to explore for this show. Only ten Western Animated shows that debuted before Friendship is Magic are still going (The Simpsons, SpongeBob, Family Guy, South Park, American Dad, Winx Club, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Arthur, and Fairly Oddparents).
The main question for this season is indeed simply, “What does come next?” That’s simply hard to answer with 26 episodes on the way. The majority opinion was that Season Five was a fantastic season (some say even better than Season Four). There’s always a worry that the quality from season to season will diminish should the show keep going (i.e. SpongeBob and The Simpsons) and I do realize that, but for now that’s a bridge to cross when we get to it and I’m not seeing a bridge right now.
We don’t know for certain if “Guardians of Harmony” will indeed become a new spinoff series or even the theme of the movie coming on November 3rd, 2017. The challenge, at least towards the movie, is to keep the momentum going. There are still the comics that continue to go on (40 issues for the main series now and 26 for Friends Forever). The chapter books will continue (Do read “The Mares from S.M.I.L.E.”!). And while there probably won’t be as many conventions as there were in years past, there are still the likes of BABSCon, Everfree Northwest, Whinny City PonyCon, MLP-MSP, and BronyCon.
Friendship is Magic has done a lot over the past 5+ years and perhaps the biggest surprise of all of this is that we even got this far and to the point where Hasbro itself considers the franchise as an “all-inclusive gender brand”. There is more to come at least up through the time of the movie. But what happens between now and then is largely an unknown and that’s part of the fun in my opinion. Interest may have waned for some people for one reason or another, but for many, the interest is still there. Whatever way you look at it, there fact remains that there is simply more to explore with MLP right now. That journey starts on March 26th.
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Despite not reaching 6,000 shares yet, the My Little Pony Facebook page has decided to share a clip of the premiere. Check it out after the break.
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The MLP Facebook page posted a video with 35 seconds of clips from the new season mashed up with ones from the past with the added incentive of posting another 2 minutes of the premiere in exchange for 6,000 Facebook shares.
Season 6 is coming on March 26th, 11:00 AM EST on Discovery Family Channel!! And there are going to be a lot of new…
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Doesn’t seem like Gravity Falls is done dishing out answers to mysteries just yet. Like Alex said in his farewell post, even though the story is over, we could probably still expect to see more of the Mystery Twins after the show ran its course. On March 26th (the same day MLP & LPS come back), the “post-finale edition” of Between the Pines airs, which should fill in the gaps left open in the pre-finale cut, which would’ve probably spoiled things otherwise. Check out the promo after the Break.
