*Runs over to Pinkie with a brush and dispenses brushies*

YESYEYESYEYSYESYESYES

Best news for months ^^^

Good to know. Hopefully it won't strain the studio too much. Or won't have strained, animation lead time is weird.

@Santos: Yup, that's the one I was thinking of.

I have a feeling that the season gap is going to be miserable.

Well they've managed before.

We have plenty of official stuff coming though, unlike the last gap

We have the comics, several chapter books, the Guidebook, that 66 minute DVD thing. And who knows what else.

Yeah, we've got plenty to hold us. And also...

Ya'ay! Hurrah! 26 new episodes!

26 new episodes for season 4?

Hot diggity daffodil!

Speaking of books, you think there will ever be a Twilight Sparkle Kindle? I'd buy one.

So at least one more full sized season, the comics, books and some sort of movie thing...plenty of pony still to go. That is reassuring.

Season 4 will have a full set of episodes? That's good news! That leaves room for a variety of characters to get focus episodes and also for episodes focusing on pairs or ensembles as well. I personally would like to see some stories that combine characters that haven't really interacted much yet, just to give some variety in character interactions. For example, Fluttershy is usually paired with Rainbow Dash, and that's understandable because they're both pegasi and they knew each other when they were fillies. But it might be interesting to see Fluttershy get an episode where she is paired with someone like Applejack or Pinkie Pie. She and Pinkie would be quite a pair of opposites, since, when it comes to interacting with other ponies, they are at opposite extremes of the extrovert/introvert spectrum.

Concerning Pinkie and Fluttershy, does anyone else think that they both have similar problems with and reactions to being rejected by those they are desperate to befriend? Pinkie chases her friends all over in Party Of One when she is afraid that they are rejecting her, and the same applies to when she chases Cranky Doodle Donkey in A Friend In Deed. But in The Best Night Ever, Fluttershy acts in a similar obsessive manner towards the animals in the Canterlot gardens.

edited 5th Feb '13 2:46:44 PM by Rainbow

There's also the Japanese dub to look forward to if your an anime fan. Season 3 may be ending for us, but season 1 is just beginning for the Bronies in Japan.

Hey guys? What will you all do post show?

Will you remain here, or slip away?

I'll see when it happens. No sense in worrying about that now.

edited 5th Feb '13 2:40:04 PM by Lopiny

@ dark

I forgot about that too!

@Apple: I don't know, I guess it depends how much fan material is still being produced.

I don't think I'll last that long. I'm on a knife's edge here. Every episode I watch, I'm wondering to myself: Will this be the one? Will this be the episode that ticks me off enough to renounce ponies forever?

Oh, wait, you mean actually leaving? Because I'm pretty sure that'll never happen. I'ma keep watching the show so I can complain about it properly.

:P

As long as I still have at least one friend in the fandom, I don't think I could leave it.

Now that's an expression I've never seen before.

@ story

Stolen from Bender the robot.

And it pleases me to see that some of you will stay here. If the fandom stays active, there will still be stuff to do.

Heh, the time when the show ends is probably when the artists will start on the big projects. The really big ones.

This season break will be interesting as we'll have Expanded Universe stuff coming out to help tide us over. Official and fan-content! The best of both worlds!

Thank god we won't have the drought we had last time.

Yeah, once a fandom gets to be this size it doesn't just go away, at least not for quite a few years. It will shrink, certainly, but there will still be plenty of folks about.