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As many will already know, My Little Pony's Season Five premiere episdode, "The Cutie Map", has been nominated for a Hugo in the "Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form" category. It's up against Doctor Who, Grimm, Jessica Jones and Supernatural. On the face of it, this is quite an honour.

Now, as some of you will also know, the reason MLP ( Read more... )

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We have a rather odd problem in the MLP fandom right now, and that problem is that demand for pony conventions clearly outstrips supply, and now (with BUCK gone) by quite a margin. You might think that's a nice problem to have, and it's certainly much better than nobody caring, but it creates its own difficulties ( Read more... )

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Here's the link. This time round, there's a veritable pile of stuff, with the top packages containing almost every IDW MLP comic released. (Yes, even Art is Magic.) You can get PDF, EPUB or CBZ format and, yes, they're DRM-free. If you pay $25 or more, there's even a physical paperback thrown in, with free worldwide shipping ( Read more... )

PublicThe VIP-tier tickets have now sold out, more than six months before the convention opens. Obviously these tickets were pretty limited in number (35, I think), but they certainly didn't go quite this fast in 2015. The con's at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds this time, and its 500-ish capacity is similar to that of last year's hotel in ( Read more... )

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The fourth and final BUCK has finished -- and with it an era in the British My Little Pony fandom also comes to an end. Through four years and four cons, it established itself as the UK's one and only full-scale, all-out brony convention, and from everything I've seen and read so far, it went out on a high. I'm sad that I couldn't make it ( Read more... )

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Discovery Family finally seem to have realised how dreadful their promotions for MLP were last season, and have released a fun little video for the forthcoming Season Six with a distinctly Game of Thrones feel. There's one short scene that might be considered mildly spoilery, but I'd say it was probably worth watching unless you're really ( Read more... )

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April will mark the fourth and final iteration of BUCK, the only really big My Little Pony convention in the UK. From what the people behind it have said, the reasons are several, but they mostly boil down to increasing running costs, declining interest in staffing and sheer burnout. I can't say I blame the guys for deciding to call it a ( Read more... )

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Hey, what did you think of that bit in My Little Pony where the unicorn dictator enslaved his entire population, fitted them with mind-control helmets and sent them off to be killed in a years-long war against the ponies whose land now lay in ruins, including a pegasus officer who'd lost a wing and had a maimed ear and a scar across her eye ( Read more... )

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One that was passed a little while ago, actually, but which I completely missed. Fimfiction, the main My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfiction site, has comprehensively surpassed HarryPotterFanfiction.com, the largest (that I know of) Harry Potter fanfiction site, in numbers of both total and completed stories. (The HP fandom wins by ( Read more... )

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I wonder if anyone's done any sort of comparative study about how different fandoms' meets differ (or indeed don't)? Most people aren't seriously in more than a couple of fandoms, so inevitably have quite a narrow view of it all. I mean, I have no clue what a Doctor Who meet is like, or a Firefly one, or... well, you get the idea ( Read more... )