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Apr 1: Come join us for a MLP marathon.
Mar 31: With the Merger coming up soon, we have created an official steam group for the combined sites. It can be found at http://steamcommunity.com/groups/PonychanSteam

The promo for the new channel is here. Anonymous 36780796

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1lRahRrvsg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mneVqR_btA

>tfw rainbows no longer punch holes in the sky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOhLtol02Rg

So...it's primarily a science/nature show channel, huh? I really don't think mixing that type of show with cartoons is a very good formula. I weep for the Target Demographic.

Mondo!peSTIcIDes 36780797

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>>36780796
>So...it's primarily a science/nature show channel, huh?

I seem to remember the show appearing on some kind of pet related network...

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36780798

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>So...it's primarily a science/nature show channel, huh?
That's more during prime time. During the day it'll have the kind of shows usually seen on Hub. In the evening, it'll cover various shows that are meant to feature exploration, history, animals, etc in shows meant to appeal to families.

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36780799

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Hasbro's shows are going to occupy timeslots between 9am and 3pm. The rest of the network is going to be Discovery shows.

FIM is still going to air at 10:30am.

Last edited at Mon, Oct 6th, 2014 16:34

DemonioBlanco 36780800

The hasbro toy commercial shows look out of place.
they are all the cartoon on the entire channel

Last edited at Mon, Oct 6th, 2014 16:56

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36780801

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>>36780799
>FIM is still going to air at 10:30am.
10:30-12:00 and later 3:30-5:00 to be more precise.

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36780802

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>>36780800
There are a few other channels that do that.

I'm pretty sure NBC shows cartoons all saturday mornings, and then "normal" shows the rest of the day.

>>36780801
Ah yeah, it's 5pm not 3pm.

So out of the 8 hours they have, pony will be taking up 3 of them. Hah.

Last edited at Mon, Oct 6th, 2014 17:12

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36780803

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>>36780802
>I'm pretty sure NBC shows cartoons all saturday mornings, and then "normal" shows the rest of the day.
Not really. They only got a couple cartoons on Saturday, and even those look more like the type aimed at very little kids and/or are educational. There was even people lamenting about how there's not such thing as Saturday morning cartoons anymore now that the CW has ended Vortexx (the last rendition of the Fox Box/4Kids TV/Toonzai), and most cartoons are shown on channels that are nothing but or are mostly cartoons.


>So out of the 7 hours they have, pony will be taking up 3 of them. Hah.
3 out of 12 hours actually. Hasbro gets 5 AM to 5 PM.

36780806

>>36780802
but im talking mostly on the commercial.

it is like "look all this nature, and exploration, and humans, then transformers and a pony for 4 seconds, then back to all the exploration and humans RL stuff"

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36780807

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>>36780806
50% of the channel is Hasbro cartoons.

36780809

>>36780807
i know, but it is just the way it is edited in the commercial

im not saying that it is weird having this shows on the channel.

is just that it look out of place in the commercial. because they are not even shows which fit in the exploration and knowledge things.

Geldon 36780812

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>>36780796
I wonder how long until all that cool-looking educational stuff deevoles [blog.chron.com] into documentaries on UFOs, Ghosts, and Hitler?

Last edited at Mon, Oct 6th, 2014 18:34

Anonymous 36780816

>>36780812
'Bout a month after Larson's "Twilight finds inconsistencies in the history books and confronts Celestia about her secret agenda" episode airs.

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36780818

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>>36780812
I think History is the only channel that did that. It seems to no longer be about History, but shows about overly-dramatized trading, aliens, and other not-history things.

Geldon 36780819

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>>36780816
Great, now I want to see Discovery Channel do a straight-faced docufiction show about the existence of magical ponies, the land of Equestria, and the conspiracy by top government officials to keep it from the public.

>>36780818
Yeah, History Channel is a much greater offender, but Discovery has certainly tested the waters of contemporary docufiction, perhaps even popularized it.

Last edited at Mon, Oct 6th, 2014 18:44

Anonymous 36780822

>>36780819
>Great, now I want to see Discovery Channel do a straight-faced docufiction show about the existence of magical ponies, the land of Equestria, and the conspiracy by top government officials to keep it from the public.

That's a MUCH better idea than mine!

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36780823

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>>36780818

well you also got things like Myth busters and similiar shows for discovery channel XD

>>36780796

Anyways, yeah... Not sure how much I like the change. it does make me very worried for hasbro in this department.

I mean, they bought a channel specifically to insure the safety of their properties, the fact that its not going financially well as an experiment makes me worry that it could cause repercussions for their franchises.

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36780829

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>>36780823
>the fact that its not going financially well as an experiment

It's not that The Hub was doing bad, it's that it was not doing as good as CN/Nick.

Which was very unrealistic to begin with; that they expected to tackle the two cartoon giants and successfully compete with them in just four years.

>it could cause repercussions for their franchises

FIM is still insanely popular. Transformers is still insanely popular. LPS is still (somewhat) popular.

As long as their franchises are popular, they're not going anywhere. That and, both Hasbro and Discovery know that FIM/Transformers etc are the only thing keeping the channel from fading into obscurity.

Last edited at Mon, Oct 6th, 2014 20:19

Geldon 36780835

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>>36780823
>>36780829
The way I look at it, Discovery always had a stake in The HUB, it was co-owned between Hasbro and them from the start. The main thing that's happened is Hasbro has decided to give Discovery a larger stake and allow them to re-brand the channel as a Discovery affiliate, but Hasbro still has the time slots for their original programming. If I had to guess, the main reason behind this change was probably because Hasbro was having a hard time filling all their time slots, while Discovery has tons of programming. So Hasbro just kept as many slots as they reliably had programming for, meaning this is probably not the change that's going to lead to MLP:FIM coming to an end.

Of course, the future is never a certain thing. Television networks are probably facing an uphill battle with the widespread proliferation of the Internet. This will result in a scaling back of channels and time slots. What then? Will MLP:FIM float to the top as one of the few shows worthy of the remaining time slots? Will it migrate into the web? Will some corporate boneheaded moves kill the series regardless of the environment? Your guess is as good as mine.

Personally, I'm keeping an eye out for DHX, particularly the Studio B acquisition. Those guys seem to be pretty talented.

Last edited at Mon, Oct 6th, 2014 23:00

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36780837

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>>36780835
Didn't Studio B *become* DHX?

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36780838

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>>36780837
Studio B is a subsidiary of DHX Media, which was renamed as DHX Media/Vancouver.

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36780839

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>>36780823
http://investor.hasbro.com/social/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=874978
Well it looks like Transformers at least will be shown on CN now. I'm guessing Rescue Bots will probably remain on the Hub due to it being more aimed at younger kids.

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36780841

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>>36780839
Eh, I remember Transformers airing on CN back in the day.

DemonioBlanco 36780845

>>36780841
and i remember watching the last transformers on cartoon network...
once....

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36780859

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oZJQEbrdVA
>>36780841
>>36780845

Well, while some of the transformers like Armada were handled well by other channels, Wasn't Transformers animated really mishandled by Cartoon network though?

I thought that the way animated was dealt with by other networks was supposedly a bit of a debacle.

>>36780839
>>36780841



So here's something I'm wondering now:
If MLP starts airing on other channels, will they start just airing S1 or S1 and S2 for a year or so before gradually releasing each season, or start out of the gate showing from S1 to S4?


(also interested in if this will increase viewership or not once they start doing multiple channels.)

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36780861

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>>36780859
When has that ever happened, though? I can't recall any instance of a show or cartoon where they sell reruns to other channels while airing new episodes on their own channel.

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36780869

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>>36780861
I think some of the shows that 4Kids handled, like their dub of One Piece, got reran on Cartoon Network starting from the very first episode.

And I think the same happened when Teen Titans was aired on Kids WB.

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36780872

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>>36780869
Teen Titans aired in KWB? I only ever remember it airing on CN.

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36780873

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD1dx0Tr1ic
>>36780872
Yep.

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36780875

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>>36780873
Huh...

>Mucha Lucha
>Yughio
>Batman

I guess CN had some kind of deal with WB to hand over all their reruns to WB or something.

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36780876

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>>36780875
Those were all originally WB's shows, not CN's.

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36780877

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>>36780876
This shit is confusing as hell.

Anonymous 36780878

>>36780876
Huh. So that explains why Mucha Lucha just sort of showed up and acted like it had always been there, without the usual awkward first week where they play the first episode 20 times.

DemonioBlanco 36780879

>>36780877
i even knew that

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36780880

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Gotta admit, I found mucha lucha to be utter shit. >.<

I just couldn't find the funny in it. the Jokes basically just boiled down to "mexican stereotype! Mexican stereotype 2! gratuitous spanish!".

Anonymous 36780881

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>>36780880
I didn't know it was written by George Lopez.

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36780885

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>>36780880
Eh, it wasn't bad, but it was nothing special either.

Some of the names were really cheesy though..."Buena girl" ? Really? That's the best they could come up with for a female main character? Ech.

I mean it kinda fit with her character, but...uncreative as fuck.

Last edited at Tue, Oct 7th, 2014 20:52

Geldon 36780887

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUnurwA92ik
>>36780880
Nah, you missed the point. Mucha Lucha wasn't there to make fun of Mexican stereotypes or latin culture. Mucha Lucha was a one-trick pony whose trick was, "cartoon super-power-enhanced Lucha Lubre is awesome!"

Gotta admit, some of the stuff they came up with, such as those wacky signature moves, was pretty creative. Granted, El Tigre was even more clever than that.

Last edited at Tue, Oct 7th, 2014 21:01

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36780889

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfQgZ9AlB2s
>>36780887
>>36780887

I don't think it was making fun of Mexican stereotypes, it was meant to celebrate them as far as I could tell: doesn't mean it was any more enjoyable.

Like, I enjoyed Nacho libre's Luchador stuff, but just found mucha lucha's attempts to go over the top with Luchador stuff annoying and uninspired.



Hell, I found most every other Luchador type scenario better than much lucha, like the Absurd (but still entertaining) Luchador episode from angel.

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36780891

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRwJvOm395E
>>36780889
It's not exactly Luchador, but my preferred fictional wrestling show would be this.

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36780893

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc8flWxYBYg
>>36780891

Dik Dik van Dik is still the best name for a character ever.

Geldon 36780894

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>>36780891
Woah. That actually looks like it has really good production values (although the style of 4Kids dubbing is all over it). I've seen Ultimate M.U.S.C.L.E. toys around but I had no idea there was a cartoon like that.

Hitting up wikipedia, I see what happened. The toys had been around since the 1980s from a Japanese-created manga series, but there were three recent anime series that aired around 2002-2006, and I was not really watching much of the Fox Box around that time.

Last edited at Tue, Oct 7th, 2014 21:23

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36780895

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>>36780893
Weird that the same dubbing company that would change a character's name from Gazelleman to that would later alter the name Ace to Trace supposedly because of the name possibly referencing cards and therefore gambling, as well as being the name of an alcoholic drink (which I didn't know until I looked up why they would change his name).

>>36780894
It's actually considered one of 4Kids best dubs. Like a legitimately enjoyable dub. They're even the ones who went and ordered an extra season so that the series didn't end in the middle of an arc.

Last edited at Tue, Oct 7th, 2014 21:25

Geldon 36780897

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYUdTLFAwZ4
>>36780895
That was pretty cool of them. I guess not all the series they imported had to be so heavily "Americanized" that it alienated fans.

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36780898

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4VsdfdZfyc
>>36780897

To be honest I don't think they had much to work with anyways before 4kids got their hands on the show. Sonic X wasn't exactly a Uber quality show in its base form.

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36780899

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-8b04GZuT4
>>36780898
Still probably didn't help that they went and toned down a lot of the darker and more emotional stuff (a lot of which happened to be in an extra season that they also ordered), as well as getting some things wrong like what chaos control was due to the ones in charge not knowing anything about the games, comics, or past shows before getting the job. It's also sort of a shame they didn't leave in Live and Learn playing in the background during the end of the SA2 adaption.

Last edited at Tue, Oct 7th, 2014 21:56

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36780900

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvyakbw-6WY
>>36780899

yeah, that song has such emotional value for people that played SA2, that its a real shame.


Still, I guess everyone should be thankful it wasn't as bad as one piece. good lord, that was just plain butchery in one piece.

The Scyphozoa!SCIPIOB65. 36781443

Did The Hub ever have commercials about consolidating your debt? Because Discovery Family is running one in the middle of Rainbow Rocks.

whatevenisatargetaudience

Dee Twenty(Element of Cheer)!Nat20kBygE 36781448

>New channel

Heh. So nobody remembers that before it was the Hub it used to be Discovery Kids? If anything it's pretty much just reverted to its original form, they just changed "Kids" to "Family" which are effectively the same thing as far as television networks are concerned.

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36781453

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>>36781443


Bronies obviously.
Clearly this is the perfect people to sell debt advice to.


Though, to be fair, alot of parents watch cartoons with their kids. 5 and 6 year olds alot of the time you have to still stay with even if they're watching cartoons, because they'll get bored halfway through and wreck shit.

The Scyphozoa!SCIPIOB65. 36781454

>>36781453
>Bronies obviously. Clearly this is the perfect people to sell debt advice to.
PFFFT! Bronies don't have incomes.

Clonehunter!Flakygyd4M 36781472

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Oh... No?

It's like nature and ponies (And robots). Fine with me.

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36781492

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>>36781472

Don't you know? Robots are totally natural.

Nother Nonymous (Element of Threadkilling) 36781871

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>>36781492
Nature abhors a natural robot.

Last edited at Tue, Oct 21st, 2014 11:25


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