Mlp: Make Your Mark (Mlp MYM)

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Chapter five is out, and it's amazing so far! I've only seen 3 episodes, but it is so magical and mysterious.

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WHOA GUYS THE OTHER EPISODES AFTER THE TWO PARTER ARE CRAZY
Spoooiiiils

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Sooooo....
Father of the Bridlewood or whatever it's called, is a pretty reference filled episode. A painting of Shining Armor, Glopaz from the last episode, mentioning the changeling attack during Shining Armor and Cadence's wedding, and Elder Flower's Great Great Great Great-something aunt being Moondancer! Who probably passed down the old stories that were eventually told to Elder Flower. was telling. She also had a lot of mysterious stuff to say, which definitely means something.

Also... SECRET SUBPLOT!? These specials trees that are connected together? One for earth ponies, one for unicorns, one for pegasi, and Opaline's is for alicorns probably?!
Dude... I totally forgot about the tree Sparky grew and didn't connect the powering up and or opening of that one tree in the two parter, and then the episode before it with Misty's tree. BUT OKAY OMG. I guess two of the trees were close together, which yeah maybe it should've been spaces apart more but it worked fine for me. My theory is that the trees have some connection to the tree of harmony and the student/young six's epic thing that they did is related to the tree of harmony, but also it making these crazy magical harmony/unity trees as well or something? Probably not, the trees could just be unrelated to the student six. Smelody episode definitely up to date, because stuff like -internet trends even though seemingly negative are actually great for your business. Also, dragons?!

Dragons somehow got a magical powerup off-camera? They somehow gained way more magic than what they had before, at least the show's been acting like it- maybe Sparky is just a very special dragon, but maybe other creatures also got magical powerups as well.

And there's going to be some epic showdown with Opaline in the dragonlands apparently. Speaking of Opaline, she just casually STOLE A CUTIEMARK in the last episode! She has enough magic to do that and knows how, but she did grow up alongside Celestia and Luna in their old Alicorn Kingdom. So she may have studied it and maybe even done it before. She's planning on stealing all the Cutie Mark magic to... Become powerful and rule Equestria and get revenge I guess. Anyways, some really cool magic stuff going on, oh yeah and then she somehow just casually STICKS A CUTIE MARK ONTO A LEAF like okay omg. NO. One does not simply grab a Cutie Mark from some girl's flank and STICK IT ON A LEAF. 😂😂😂 Well, I suppose Opaline taking a cutie mark is kind of hinting towards Secrets of Starlight being about Starlight Glimmer, but maybe this is just a red herring or misleading and a coincidence.

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Guys!!! Apparently Elder Flower's mystery Dawn story might have been figured out?! Spoiler alert!!!

Proceleon on YouTube wrote:
"A long time ago there was a magical bat named Dawn." - Elder Flower literally says the bat was named Dawn, openly implying that Luster Dawn did, at some point, become an alicorn for unknown reasons.
"She was surrounded by other bats like her." - I don't think Skyros is involved in this story at all. Being 'surrounded' by other alicorns could very easily be a gathering of Dawn, Twilight, the Sisters, Cadence and Flurry Heart, be it for a family/successor meeting, royal celebration or another occasion.
"But one of the bats refused to get along with the others." - This is Opaline, I think that one's pretty well spelled out.
"This bat wanted to fly around and eat all the fruit for herself." - Ditto.
"So Dawn spoke to a spider who wove a beautiful web to keep the mean greedy bat away." - I think this is likely Twilight and her Invisibubble spell covering Equestria to keep Opaline away, which was alluded to at a few points.
"In the end, Dawn was able to protect their nest." - A little odd mentioning a nest at this point, but that might be either their home or another point at this being a family matter. Not much of substance otherwise.
"Yet the greedy bat continues to this day to try to break the web." - Again, Opaline trying to break through Twilight's Invisibubble.
"Which is why some bats eat fruit and some bats eat insects." - Obviously a curveball line meant as a joke, but it could be a metaphor for gaining magic naturally - the fruit - and taking magic from others - the insects. That makes Opaline the insect-eater in this scenario.

This so epic!!!

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I didn't quite know where to put this news, and I forgot to report it here previously...
But the new My Little Pony G5 - Outright Games game "A Zephyr Heights Mystery" is going to release in about nine days on the 17th of May.
It has been two years since the first/previous game in that series released (A Maretime Bay Adventure), and I can't believe it's been that long already! (I did play it when it first came out... I think)

But since this new game is coming out, Maretime Bay Adventure is on sale for 60% off, so it's 15.99 USD on Steam right now.
The sale price is a better price to get the game at, since there honestly wasn't as much in the first one as there should've been.

I don't think that Zephyr Heights Mystery is going to have that much more than Maretime Bay Adventure did, and I'm not sure how long it's storyline will be-
But they are saying* that you can actually play as all the characters (including Misty) in the overworld in this game, and I'll believe it only because this game has different developers.
I won't discount the possibility that this will be more interesting than the previous game, but don't expect there to be too much more new stuff like I said. I don't know how much of Zephyr Heights will be explorable in this game, and it doesn't look like they're making new minigames for this, which is disappointing for a game that is very much about playing the minigames after you've finished the story.
But there's no doubt that you will be able to explore Zephyr Heights to some extent, and Misty is in this game. They seem to be advertising that the adventure is for "one to two ponies" so maybe you can play 2P multiplayer in the story mode now? Pretty sure there wasn't multiplayer outside of the minigames at all last time, which I am really hoping that there will be in this game.

*The trailers do show that you can play as all of the characters in the overworld of Zephyr Heights, so hey, maybe they are actually doing it this time :'P

Anyway, that's coming out soon, so that'll be exciting for those who are interested.
I recommend doing your own research, checking out the trailer, and all that stuff for yourself if you care, and we should probably wait until YouTubers post gameplays of it to know for sure what is actually in the game and if it's worth buying to us or not.