MLP G5 Discussion and Speculation Thread

Background Pony #51DA
@Latecomer think  
I think having one character close to a echelon would be alright, just don’t have that charater be the MAIN character like Twilight.
Brass Beau

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@Background Pony #51DA  
We already had the G5 personalities so I see no point in doing them again. I do enjoy some contradictory character design so a large but timid earth stallion, a big brained unicorn jock mare, a clumsy pegasus mare, a brash and dirty alicorn mare and Spike acting like an upperclass English gentleman (and designed like an eastern dragon) would be my picks. Really mix things up. Maybe toss in a kirin with rapid mood swings. That’d be a crazy show.
GoodVibesGorgeous
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Grumpy and antisocial
@Brass Beau  
I totally would like to see a short, muscular Earth Pony in the G5 cast. I mean, G5 Applejack was supposed to be like that before they scrapped the original ideas! But this concept can come back.
Latecomer

Physical variance will be limited based on toy moulds, probably. Well either that, or some of them will end up looking as bad as Rainbow-Dash-repaint Fluttershy.
 
And I’m leery about alicorns as a starting race.
Wiimeiser
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I have an idea:  
-A brash, tomboyish pegasus♀ tinkerer with an attitude problem who is a total horndog. Also, she has heterochromia.  
-A rich, snooty but adventurous otokonoko unicorn♂ chef who has a library’s worth of information and whose parents are never home.  
-A loud, obnoxious kirin♀ with schizophrenia who constantly does weird things and has an obsession with using pastries in her attacks. She also has a phobia of squirrels.  
-An earth pony♀ amazon from an abusive family who has trust issues and social anxiety and wants to become a fashion designer.  
-A devout and religious flutterpony/melowy♀ who is really tall, a lesbian, and a combat medic.  
-A jock batpony♂ who is openly gay and enjoys playful teasing, but was once beaten up for choking in a sports game and lost his old friends.  
-A nerd zebra♂ who tries to think and act logically and rationally to a fault, and is really endowed.  
-A hippy kelpie♂ who’s openly a nudist and talks like he’s stoned all the time. Very philosophical, as well.  
-A ♀ brobdingnagian of undecided race who’s British AF and wants to travel the world.
 
Wait, those are all characters from my original IP. Oops.
GoodVibesGorgeous
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Grumpy and antisocial
@Latecomer  
Yep. If we get six main characters, probably only three bases will be used (maybe four if one of the Earth Ponies in the group ends up being shorter than others like one of the emails in the December 2017 leaks mentioned).
Brass Beau

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@Latecomer  
Eh, if alicorns aren’t treated as special and if they aren’t more powerful than the other races (and in fact, should be generally weaker to counterbalance their versatility) then it shouldn’t be a problem.  
@Wiimeiser  
That’s a lot to take in.
 
@GoodVibesGorgeous  
It probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a stallion and a mare for each race as the main cast. Six molds with all the bases covered. The shipping wars would be hell, though.
DerpyFast
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In my opinion, when it comes to unicorns, either everyone should be a unicorn (with some ponies being winged unicorns), or they should be as rare as alicorns were in FiM.
Brass Beau

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@Cosmas-the-Explorer  
Considering feral horse herds generally have one head stallion with the rest being mares and foals, G5 could, instead of being a medieval, steampunk or modern society, be more tribalistic and follow suit. Considering the combat capabilities of a unicorn, even without magic, the rarity heh and importance of unicorns would be pretty well justified. Plus, the importance of alicorns could be diminished a tad by simply being the “unicorns” of pegasus herds.
Brass Beau

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@Cosmas-the-Explorer  
Thinking about it, you could probably get away with ponies being like a pseudo Romani peoples. They travel in small groups of at most a dozen or two. Unicorns (alicorns and other horned variants) are the sages of the group. It gives us a reason to explore the world and various cultures.  
Annnnnd I just realized I was describing everyone living like Trixie.
Cosmas-the-Explorer
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@Brass Beau  
That would be an interesting concept to say the least. I always was intrigued by the Romani especially their links to India. Maybe the ponies would also have a sort of Holy Land in a lost Indian based country. The ponies were forced out by invaders and were disperced throughout the world. Some ponies wish to reinvade their old motherland. Of course many sages debate whether ponies really came from this land or not.
Brass Beau

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@Cosmas-the-Explorer  
Ooo If that were the case, then dragons could be a conquering force across the land. Give them a Western European design. They’re at constant war with other dragons of an East Asian design. The ponies were forced out of their homeland during one of these conflicts. Older dragons tend to form bonds with the creatures they conquer, sometimes taking on a guardian role and other times as a slave master. Expansion is usually done by ambitious, younger dragons.
Background Pony #6ABD
So there was a cast listed for the G5 movie on IMDB so I deleted them, not sure why people are so adamant about adding info from FiM to G5 stuff, like IMDB. There’s this MLP G5 Wikia that…I honestly have no idea what it’s supposed to be. Is it just supposed to be a fan content Wikia or a real one? Both? It’s a bit of a mess, and it’s mostly just a mix of fan content, leak stuff, and FiM stuff. I don’t want to be mean since it looks like it was made by a kid and it just needs some work but by the looks of the comments on the pages (which look like is mostly kids) some people are believing it and I don’t want misinformation to spread, especially among excited kids.
 
Are you guys interested at all in fixing that Wikia or is it a lost cause?
Cosmas-the-Explorer
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@Brass Beau  
A conflict between occidental and oriental dragons? Sign me up!
 
I would like there to be though a little more nuance when writing the races like how dragons wouldn’t just be a completely barbaric race and ponies would have their own barbarities.
Wiimeiser
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I would like there to be though a little more nuance when writing the races like how dragons wouldn’t just be a completely barbaric race and ponies would have their own barbarities.
 
My previously mentioned original IP has that. I plan to have one commit an actual atrocity which shatters the main character of said race, but now I’m getting into spoiler territory.
Brass Beau

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@Cosmas-the-Explorer  
Well, I’m just painting in broad strokes so nuance isn’t difficult. An idea for a village I had was for an elder dragon to claim the village as his property. In practice it means “don’t mess with the village protected by a giant-fuck-you dragon.” I don’t think G4 really delved into the inter dependencies of cultures and races. As for Occidental versus Oriental dragons, I imagine that as more of a conflict fought by younger dragons. Elder dragons tend to get along better.
Background Pony #6ABD
@GoodVibesGorgeous  
Yeah, I didn’t mean it was an “official” Wikia (as in, as official as a fandom Wikia can be!) but there is A Wikia a kid made that gets…some attention. I’m just worried about some young kids seeing it (it’s one of the first things to come up on Google if you search “My Little Pony G5”) and getting the wrong idea, is all. I added a little note to the front page so I hope that’s good enough.
DerpyFast
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@Latecomer  
Try as they might, Earth Ponies never really came into their own, and just felt distractingly underpowered. Meanwhile, unicorns or pegasi just felt objectively better, rather than special or magical. The kirin and Potion Nova are what made me latch on to the idea of things feeling magical.
 
So either make Earth Ponies the baseline and have it be a big deal when a unicorn or pegasus shows up, or make magic the baseline and have everyone be unicorns.
Wiimeiser
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Dream Come True! - Participated in the MLP 9th Anniversary Event
Wallet After Summer Sale -
A Tale For The Ages - Celebrated MLP's 35th Anniversary and FiM's 8th Anniversary
An Artist Who Rocks - 100+ images under their artist tag

(Foil Hat)
So either make Earth Ponies the baseline and have it be a big deal when a unicorn or pegasus shows up
 
G3
 
or make magic the baseline and have everyone be unicorns.
 
Generic girls show
 
In my original IP they all have magic, the pegasus lead can cast magic (it’s an RPG), mainly storm spells
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