Show A series and two specials for Netflix and a weekly YouTube series will all roll out later this year, paving the way for a new US toy range.Hasbro’s My Little Pony is ready to ride into a big content year, with a new series and two specials for Netflix and another series for YouTube all slated to debut in 2022. Netflix has ordered My Little Pony: Make Your Mark (pictured), an eight x 22-minute series about five magical ponies taking on new adventures. With CG animation courtesy of Atomic Cartoons, the show will debut in September. Netflix is also rolling out a 44-minute same-same special in May to tee up the series. And a second special called My Little Pony: Winter Wishday launches on November 21. Gillian Berrow (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) developed the Make Your Mark series and new specials, with Cort Lane (Spidey and His Amazing Friends) executive producing and Willian Lau on board as supervising director. Netflix has been leaning into My Little Pony content, picking up eOne’s August-launching My Little Pony movie, and ordering a new original series called My Little Pony G5 in February 2021. For its part, Hasbro has been busy building out its equine franchise since acquiring eOne in 2019, calling on the Canadian studio put more My Little Pony content into its pipeline. And the strategy seems to be working: Hasbro saw a 76% revenue jump in its entertainment segment to US$327 million in Q3 2021, driven by the new film My Little Pony: A New Generation. In a bid to reach kids online as well as on TV and cinema screens, the company is also rolling out weekly YouTube series My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale, the first episode of which drops on April 7. A new five-minute ep of the 2D-animated series will be released each week after that on My Little Pony’s YouTube channel. Malaysian animation studio Lil Critter Workshop produced the 70 episodes, with Gretchen Mallorie working on scripts as head writer and story editor, and David Flack serving as creative producer. Tying into the new content, Hasbro is also gearing up to debut a toy line that will include mini figures, playsets and travel accessories when it hits US shelves in the coming months. About The AuthorNews editor for Kidscreen. Ryan covers tech, talent and general kids entertainment news, with a passion for kids rap content and video games. Have a story that's of interest to Kidscreen readers? Contact Ryan at
My Little Pony: Make Your Mark is a computer-animated children's TV series. It serves as a sequel to the 2021 film My Little Pony: A New Generation. It made its debut on Netflix on May 26, 2022, with the first special episode "Make Your Mark". The next 8 episodes, following after the events of the special, released on September 26, 2022. It will be animated by Atomic Cartoons. It is currently set to have 23 episodes, each with a length of 22 minutes.[1] The show's release is being divided into "chapters", with the special episode being described as "Chapter 1" and the first 8 regular episodes being described as "Chapter 2". SynopsisWelcome back to Equestria, where pony magic is everywhere. With friends Zipp, Sunny, Izzy, Pipp and Hitch leading the way, adventure is sure to follow! Chapter 1Months after magic has returned to Equestria, Sunny Starscout and her new pony friends are excited to celebrate their new lives on Maretime Bay Day! But while their group may have adjusted to magic’s return, plenty of Unicorns and Pegasi are still having trouble mastering their powers, frustrating the non-magical Earth Ponies who wish to return to how things were before. This division worries Zipp, who notices that the Unity Crystals have begun glitching, disrupting magic for everyone. Zipp begins investigating, discovering the glitches seem to be happening more and more, their chaos further dividing the ponies of Maretime Bay. She tries to convince her friends that the Unity Crystals are acting strange, but they think she’s worrying over nothing and don’t believe her. That is, until they witness a Pegasus falling out of the sky onto an Earth Pony themselves. This spurs outrage from the Earth Ponies, who threaten to boycott Maretime Bay Day if the town isn’t made a magic-free zone. Now on her side, Zipp explains to her friends her discovery that magic is glitching when ponies aren’t treating each other with kindness. Their mission now is to throw such an amazing Bay Day that everypony comes together in harmony to stabilize magic again. But as the Earth Ponies air their frustrations with the inclusion of Pegasi and Unicorns in a holiday they see as their own, the glitches escalate, bringing about a massive magical storm that threatens to swallow the town. In the end, it’s only the power of Sunny and her friends working together that saves the day. As magic stabilizes, the Earth Ponies discover they now too have powers! Feeling included and having seen the error of their ways, they apologize and come together with the Unicorns and Pegasi in harmony to celebrate the rest of Maretime Bay Day together. Chapter 2Magic has finally returned to Equestria thanks to Sunny Starscout and her new friends! The Pegasi can fly and the Unicorns can use levitation again… and the Earth Ponies have activated their own special magic for the very first time in history. It’s a whole new world! Which is exhilarating… but, well, also a little scary and strange. And now that Sunny is an Alicorn with powers, there’s a lot to figure out. Cast
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Development and productionOn September 17, 2020, Hasbro allegedly attended an online Russian licensing summit where it was announced that a 44-minute special would premiere in Spring 2022, followed by the release of season one of an untitled G5 television show in Fall that year, and season two of that same show the following year.[2] On February 2, 2021, The Motley Fool published an article that said that My Little Pony would be getting a television series.[3] On February 24, 2021, it was revealed by Enternainment Tonight that both the film My Little Pony: A New Generation and a follow-up animated series would be released on Netflix.[4] The next day, Hasbro revealed in an investor event that the upcoming series would be "computer-animated".[5] Further confirmation of the release date from Hasbro's Newsroom reiterated that the series would premiere in 2022.[6] The PDF from Atomic Cartoons. On May 7, 2021, Atomic Cartoons posted a job listing for a CG designer for the series.[7] They later disclosed publicly in an investor presentation that 23 22-minute episodes and 4 44-minute episodes had been ordered by Hasbro.[8] Further job openings were announced throughout the rest of 2021.[9] The title of the series, as well as the amount of content planned for 2022, was revealed by Entertainment One in a press release on February 17, 2022.[10] The main cast of the series was confirmed by the Netflix website on April 19, 2022, preceding the release of the initial "Make Your Mark" special episode. This revealed that the voice actors from My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale would be reprising their roles, as well as the addition of Rob Tinkler (Sparky) to the cast. GalleryChapter 1"Make Your Mark" 02:59 "Make Your Mark" 05:30 "Make Your Mark" 27:55 "Make Your Mark" 33:06 "Make Your Mark" 39:59 Chapter 2"Izzy Does It" 10:16 "Izzy Does It" 16:00 "Growing Pains" 09:28 "Growing Pains" 19:34 "Portrait of a Princess" 02:54 "Portrait of a Princess" 12:20 "Hoof Done It?" 05:40 "Hoof Done It?" 18:56 References
Will there be a My Little Pony new generation show?Hasbro's My Little Pony is ready to ride into a big content year, with a new series and two specials for Netflix and another series for YouTube all slated to debut in 2022. Netflix has ordered My Little Pony: Make Your Mark (pictured), an eight x 22-minute series about five magical ponies taking on new adventures.
Is My Little Pony coming back 2022?eOne has announced the highly anticipated all-new computer animated feature film based on the MY LITTLE PONY franchise will premiere on Netflix later this Fall. Fans can also look forward to the release of a new MY LITTLE PONY G5 series in 2022.
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