BaronEngel
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Back from Bronycon 2019
🕑 Added 2019-08-06 19:18:35 +0000 UTCI got back from Bronycon yesterday afternoon. I want to thank everyone who dropped by the Roan RPG booth and said hi. I'm sorry if I couldn't talk to you as long as I wanted to, but Bronycon 2019 was the busiest and most successful convention I have ever done. I want to thank the staff of Bronycon for putting together such a great finale.
I also want to take a moment to address a feeling that some people have that Brony fandom will, or must, cease to exist now that Bronycon is no more and the TV series will be ending soon. I have been involved in fandoms of various sorts since 1989. I've seen many of conventions cease to exist, and fandoms losing their original source of material when the TV, movie, game, or novel series stops creating new content. In every case those fans have continued enjoy it, and often have gone on to create more original content than was ever offered by the original source material. Yes the fandom contracts in size, but it often maintains its vibrancy and passion for the subject.
One only has to look at original Star Trek fandom which existed for about a decade before the movies started coming out, and over 20 years for a new TV series. However it was their passion, commitment, and support for the property that helped contribute to their being new content created for the Star Trek universe.
What I am getting at is fandoms only die when their fans chose to let them die. Will Brony fandom be the same once Friendship is Magic ends. no. But it can still be a unique, vibrant, creative genre. Lauren Faust and all of the crew that worked on the series have created a rich, vast world we can still explore, expand, enjoy, and as fans create our own content for it.
So will I continue to create new MLP art once the TV series ends? Yes. If for no other reason I am still routinely having dreams in my Equestria dreamscape. So long as myself, Petina, and Carousel continue to live in that cottage outside of Ponyville, I will continue to create new content. Will I start creating content based on other properties? Yes. But for me My Little Pony is still a wondrous thing, and friendship is still magic.
Baron
Comments
DocSpit
Even so, at the end of the day Hasbro is a company that wants to make money. G4 is easily the biggest critically and financially successful iteration in the franchise (what cartoon 'for kids' gets 9 SEASONS! ). So, I feel they can't want to break their stride too badly, even if they want to keep it more in house. They have shareholders to answer to after all.
Sky Shatter
Hasbro has been increasingly discontent with their IP's growing popularity under a third party's designs and snatched it back up with an iron fist. G5 is to be made entirely in-house as it was before Faust and DHX.
Baron Engel
Actually DHX has shut down their part of the MLP project. So it will be a new team. However DHX was once the new team as well. So we shall see.
DocSpit
Besides, who's to say that Gen 5 won't be as imaginative or captivating? I at least ASSUME that a lot of the current staff will be involved in it...
Ferrous
Well said!
Morhag
Well said. It's true for any fandom - never understood why would one drop it just because it's officially over, as long as you have fun creating it it's alive.
Vet
😢 Things end.......but the memories go on forever. Past it on.
Sky Shatter
Our RP started in season 2 and ain't stopping anytime soon.
Baron Engel
And you'll get them. My next stream is August 17th.
Nicole Sunstone
Looking forward to great art and more great streams! ^_^
