Anyway a recent email from Daniel Ingram has me and a few others confused...
As I posted a few days ago, his resume says 26 episodes, but the Topdraw Animation website still lists 24. Parallel Logic emailed him asking about this, and the response is pretty mysterious to say the least...
Full Email after the break.
Parallel Logic's Initial Question: Mr. Ingram,
I have a question regarding the résumé posted on your website:
http://danielingrammusic.com/
Under your current work is listed season 2: My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic, specifically that season 2 has 26 episodes. Fans of the show have been somewhat confused if this means there will be 26 episodes in the next season or if there will be 24 episodes as indicated by Top Draw Animation:
http://topdrawanimation.com/
It has been speculated that the season 2 details in your résumé may have been copied from season 1 without change, resulting in both seasons listed as having 26 episodes. However some have also postulated you may be closer to production than the source at Top Gun and know more about current production plans.
If you could help clarify this discrepancy, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time,
A Fan
Daniel Ingrams Response: The Top Draw statistic is accurate, but so is my resume. Go figure.
Daniel
Parallel Logic's Second Question:-:Mr. Ingram,
Thank you for your reply, however I am still somewhat confused. Do you mean to say that season two has both 24 and 26 episodes? I'm afraid I don't see how this can be. Does this mean the number of episodes has not been determined yet? Or there are conflicting sources? Or there are two double-length episodes like the first two episodes of season one?
Thank you,
A Fan
Daniel Ingram's Response: Hahah... there's a solution to the riddle, and what I said in my original reply is entirely true. So keep guessing... see what the fan base comes up with.
Now... the Ravenous Pony fiend in me is filled with all sorts of dreams and wishes. Some more... bold than others (The ultimate being a Continuous 24 episode season 2 side series! How amazing that would be!)
But it could also mean several other things.
Mr. Ingram wants us to speculate, and if there is anything this fandom is good at, it's speculating the crap out of things.
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24 episodes are worked on by Top Draw and the other 2 are animated entirely in-house(likely the season 2's first 2 episodes).
VastaKustutaNot that hard to figure out.
I am guessing there might be a hour long episode special.
VastaKustuta25
VastaKustutaWell, the answer to this here riddle is quite simple. The answer is that there will be twenty-four episodes on tv, and then two special releases. Speaking of special releases, has anyone heard anything about the special release that apparently happened in Australia?
VastaKustutaIt must mean two 2-parters... Awesome!
VastaKustutaTwo 2-part episodes? Neh, that would be too simple... Certainly puzzling...
VastaKustutaIf he is correct that there is 26 episodes while they are correct that there is 24...
VastaKustutaMy guess, there is a three parter in that season.
EXTREMELY BITTER SPECULATOR EMMITERS ACTIVATING...
VastaKustutaYeah, I'm calling two two-parters.
VastaKustutaWhich, just by the way, would be fucking epic.
HE IS IMPLYING THERE IS A THIRD SEASON!!!!!!!!!
VastaKustutaIt's probably just that Top Draw isn't animating very single episode of season 2.
VastaKustutaA three episode long tv movie thing, like 'Bender's Big Score'
VastaKustutaI really hope I'm right
Maybe we'll be lucky! They might add 24 and 26 together, the we'll have 50 episodes!!!!
VastaKustutaThat probably won't happen though...
Unless...Muahahahahaha!
Christmas Special? I wouldn't mind seeing the mane cast hanging out with Santa.
VastaKustuta42! ... Its always the answer.
VastaKustutaDISPENSING OPINIONS...
VastaKustutaOH GOD THE TOPDRAW ANIMATION WEBSITE MAKES ME WANT TO CRY
VastaKustuta@Tex
VastaKustutaBUT THAT WOULD IMPLY THAT HE'S NOT GONNA WORK ON THE THIRD SEASON
There are 26 episodes in all. 24 episodes can go into 26. :-/
VastaKustutaMaybe Top Draw (Top Gun lol) makes 24 episodes, while the other studio the remaining 2.
VastaKustutaThe show is made from multiple studios isn´t it?
Or they make 2 secret episodes only for us fans.
Ever heard of schrodinger's cat? Somewhere at Topdraw there's a writer in a box. If certain circumstances are met, he or she will create 26 episodes. If not, only 24. Since we have no way of knowing if the criteria has been achieved, there must be two universes, one in which each outcome is the correct one.
VastaKustutaProbably two-part episodes and hour-long specials being categorized differently.
VastaKustutaAnother vote for Top Draw isn't working on every episode.
VastaKustutai'm voting for 50 episodes.
VastaKustutawell, hoping, anyway.
What if two episodes were made then scrapped? Could it be that certain episodes are not meant to be aired
VastaKustutaNew theory:
VastaKustuta24 full episodes animated by Top Draw.
Two shorts drawn in a flipbook by Chris-Chan.
There might just be 26 episodes. Everyone knows that 24 is within 26. Therefor, both are correct.
VastaKustutaAssuming I'm doing this logic thing correctly?
naw guys i got it, his resume says that he did 26 episode of 22 min each.
VastaKustutain truth he did 24 episodes of 24 min each!
it all makes so much sense now! =)
@Anonymous
VastaKustutaNo. It';s corerct that TopDraw working on more episodes, but Studio B stil has plenty to work on. And it is NOT just 2, definitely. Besides, TopDraw gettting animatics for all episdoes, so, they do know corerct number. Perhaps, they didn't get animatics for those 2 bonus episdoes...
The final two episodes now exist in a state called superposition, in which they simultaneously do and do not exist. They are quantum episodes, Schrodinger's episodes, they exist in potentia.
VastaKustutaAlternatively, 26 episodes will be produced but only 24 will be aired as part of season 2. The remaining two will languish in the vaults of Hasbro, waiting to be released some time midsummer to revitalize the waning fandom.
Two episodes with reboot buttons that make it so they never happened?
VastaKustutaOne episode is an episode within an episode.
VastaKustutaThere are both 24 and 26 episodes until the season is observed.
VastaKustutaSchrödinger's pony.
this hole thing is LOL
VastaKustuta2 flashback eps, if you want a horrible thought
VastaKustuta*clear through*
VastaKustutaMares and stallions, there will be a two part Christmas special....(I hope)
-Moose
>if you have 26 episodes, you also have 24 episodes, and then two more
VastaKustutaherpaderp
Quite the questionable conundrum catered to curious crusaders questing for cantering cartoons!
VastaKustuta...In other words, whatever those two episodes are, they're a big deal, one way or another.
Two internet-only exclusive episodes?
VastaKustutaMaybe the two extra episodes are actually holiday episodes (Christmas and Halloween?), and thus aren't considered part of the TV series per se, since they'll only be used once a year at certain times?
VastaKustutaThe only thing that crashes a few theories is the fact that it's listed as:
VastaKustuta24x22min
26x22min
Unless the minute part is wrong for one of them, this can only point to TopDrawn not working on 2 of the episodes.
@Anonymous
VastaKustutaYo dawg, I heard you want episodes...
By default I would've thought two two-part episodes, but both sources say "x22 mins" so that wouldn't make sense. I don't know what else to think so here's my stupid guess:
VastaKustutaTop Draw Animation says completion date Dec 2011, so maybe the last two episodes will air separately a couple of months later in 2012, but will still be officially part of season 2?
Season 2 has 24 episodes.
VastaKustutaSeason 3 has 26 episodes.
One of them is a typo.
... Is what I would say in a perfect world. :,(
HMMMM...
VastaKustutaOne of the 24 episodes is actually two 11-minute shorts.
OH HEY I SOLVED THE PROBLEM!
Maybe two 2-part episodes that don't really qualify as part of Season 2? Maybe Season 2 is starting later than we though 0.0 And some would say that the 2-parter is part of Season 2 whilst somepony else would say it is separate from Season 2.
VastaKustutaHmm, it could be the the idea that two episodes are going to be house episodes, but if such was the case, Daniel Ingram would have little to no reason to get us so excited about it. The more I think about it, the more I lean towards a two-part special.
VastaKustuta@Copper Token
VastaKustutaYeah, I was there. It was just a DVD of The Ticket Master.
I will love and tolerate quantum physics...I will love and tolerate quantum physics...I will love and tolerate quantum physics...
VastaKustuta@Anonymous
VastaKustutaIf this is the case, they may be CMC shorts?
More cutiemark hunting mishaps?
Or maybe an minisode revolving around the adventures of the mane 6's pets?
Gummy's Amazing Adventure!
Bronies.
VastaKustutaWe have to go deeper.
@Madfish
VastaKustutaIf by that you mean more episodes like Cutie Mark Chronicles, then I'm all up for it.
Maybe Hasbro has two episodes being hired out to a different production team of a high quality? I don't see the chances of in-between season episodes or a movie considering Ingram's Blog specifically says Season 2. This doesn't rule out a special episode mid-season though. A Christmas Special would be really nice.
@ConythePony
VastaKustutaUh... it was four parts.
I'm guessing two two-parters, too.
Oh delicious speculations how I love you !
VastaKustutaThey sure know how to pull our strings
My vote is for a three-parter TV movie!
VastaKustuta@Anonymous
VastaKustuta3:20 anon
this
A pair of two-parters, of course!
VastaKustutaThe only problem to having episodes in superposition is when you try to observe them, you'll collapse the probability wave...
VastaKustutaSo you could end up with either no episodes, one or both. Do you feel lucky?
http://dei.discovery.com/media/uploads/pdf/Hasbro%20One%20Sheet.pdf
VastaKustuta52 x 30, which to me sounds like 26 episodes for season 2. Mystery solved?
From what I heard some time ago (bear with me, the memory is pretty fuzzy), B Studios has been assigned on animating the second season of Pound Puppies (another show shown in The Hub) than animating the second season of MLP:FiM. While Top Draw will take on the task on animating the episodes fully, B Studios will remain drawing animatics (instructions on the scenes will go by paper, with drawings).
VastaKustutaAssuming that I hear from you guys that Top Draw animates better than B Studios (compare Top Draw's Winter Wrap Up episode to B Studio's first two episodes, or the last episodes of the season), this would be beneficial on having more quality on the animation. This will leave B Studios on animating two episodes.
Feel free to correct this, again - my memory's fuzzy.
If that doesn't work, an alternative explanation would be this: both studios (B Studios, Top Draw) are working on the episodes for separate seasons. Season 2 for Top Draw, Season 3 for B Studios.
I'M CALLING ONE SEASON 2 WITH AWESOME INGRAM AND A SECOND, SUPRISE SEASON 2 BY MS FAUST <3
VastaKustuta(sorry cruise-control but i had that thought and it made me happy so i screamed it...FROM A MOUNTAINTOP)
Well obviously Daniel Ingram is a Time Lord, and has to get a message to a brony in the future, so he got a job with Hasbro and is secretly working on a 2 part MLP:FiM DVD Special which will only be sold in 1 store as a test of the non-internet market, and only 1 will be bought before he barges in claiming someone replaced them with porn.
VastaKustutaThus, future brony will get his message and we will never see the episodes, thus leaving us with 24, while there are still 26 in existence.
I'm going to say that there's going to be 26 episodes, because more it better!
VastaKustutaToo many comments, so if someone says it before me forget it, but what if there are 2-parters? Think about it. Technically a two-part episode is one episode, and technically it is two episodes. See what I mean? Perhaps that is the answer to it all.
VastaKustutaEither two 2 Parters or Two episodes are composed of 11 minute shorts. 2nd one is more like it.
VastaKustutaIt's quite simple.
VastaKustutaThere are 26 episodes in the season. Because of this, there are also 24 episodes in the season, and 2 more. Just like that trick question/riddle:
Q: How many months have 28 days?
A: All of them.
@Anonymous
VastaKustutaHas this already been up and everyone has collectively decided it doesn't mean anything?
Top Draw Commencement date: April 2011
VastaKustutaCompletion date: December 2011
All of S2 has already been written (Lauren Faust's work as Consulting Producer, which ramped down through the process of S2 writing, is done).
Quite a bit of VA has probably already been done.
Studio B are very, very busy, they are doing animatics internally (7 were done as of a few weeks ago) but Top Draw are doing the animation.
This actually suggests to me that they're planning on Studio B animating the LAST two of S2 in-house (as they will be done with Pound Puppies by then, and the crew for animatics and earlier layout parts will be free).
I don't think there will be 2-parters: Hasbro prefer them bite-size. Unless, that is, the introduction of the villains takes up more time than we expected?
Confound those ponies, they drive me to clueless speculation!
Quantum mechanics. Season 2 will have both 24 and 26 episodes until we actually watch the series in which the quantum state will collapse into one of the two possibilities.
VastaKustutaThat, or maybe 2 online-only episodes?
I, for one, think it's obvious what's happening here.
VastaKustuta...Trollestia's just messing with us all.
24, but one of them is an opera, which requires three times the standard amount of music.
VastaKustutaMy guess: episode 25 and 26 are special midnight episodes for adult bronies (episode 25: Cupcakes/ episode 26: Scootatrap)
VastaKustutaOne more possibility:
VastaKustutaTop Draw is making 24 episodes, but it's possible that they are not the exclusive contractor for Season 2. Another studio could be animating the remaining two episodes to put the episode count up to 26.
@Copper Token
VastaKustutaThe Australia event thing (Toys 'R' Us Playdate event) had an "exclusive" episode that was just the Ticket Master (ep3) -- nothing special and certainly not anything new
"My guess: episode 25 and 26 are special midnight episodes for adult bronies (episode 25: Cupcakes/ episode 26: Scootatrap)"
VastaKustutaAt $250,000 per episode, +/- $50,000, there is no way that this is going to happen.
My guess is there are two extra episodes they accidentally made by accident, so they will hide them until season 2 is over, then show them a week later.
VastaKustutaThere are 26 episodes, but like the two first ones of season 1 continues each other making one big episode. So I would assume that season 2 has four episodes which are directly linked. So there are 2 episodes split in 4 episodes making for confusion. So the two first and last episodes are probably continues of each other. Part 1, Part 2
VastaKustutaSo there are 26 episodes, but 24 stories you might say
@Anonymous
VastaKustutaBut that doesn't explain why both don't simply say 26. My money's on 2-parters.
Maybe the two episodes are crossovers, counting either as MLPFiM episodes or as episodes of the other show(s), depending on the point of view?
VastaKustuta2-part first episode and a 2-part finale?
VastaKustutaor maybe they're going to release 2 episodes halfway through the season break, just to tide us over, which would kinda be in limbo. Hence 24 episodes in the season, but 26 animated (2 season 1.5 episodes.
Or, I pray this isn't it, but maybe a three-part finale, as MLP is getting canceled after 2 seasons.
The second season of My Little Pony exists in a quantum superposition of both 24 and 26 episodes. With a show this amazing, I guess it was only a matter of time before it warped space-time as we know it.
VastaKustuta/discussion
BWAAAAH. BWAAAAH.
VastaKustutaSo, are we gonna become the Steam forums of ponies in terms of speculating/doing Sherlock Holmes' stuff?
VastaKustuta2 of the episodes may be the pilot episodes of a potential CMC series, and technically covered as a portion of Season 2 while not necessarily being so.
VastaKustutaAlso, unlikely but possible is that 26 episodes will be made, and two may be discarded entirely.
This is kinda like that "how many months have 28 days" riddle. All of them. February just stops at 28.
VastaKustutaHow many episodes will there be this season? 26. There'll be 1 episode, there'll be 14 episodes, there'll be 24 episodes.
Well if the season has 26 episodes. Then at that point we have also seen 24 episodes. Cus you know. You cant get to 26 without going past 24 episodes. So it has 26 and 24 episodes. Because by having 26 you also by default have 24.
VastaKustutaEveryone else already guessed some cool stuff, so I'll throw in something random:
VastaKustuta26 episodes for season 2
24 episodes also for season 2
26 + 24 = 50!!! 50 episodes for season 2!
Okay, I'm done bein' stupid now XD
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VastaKustutaSo the main running theories are thus:
VastaKustuta1) There are 26 22min episodes written. 24 are stand alone episodes while four of the episodes will be two parters. Top Draw animates the two parters as one long episode each, this creates the animated episode count of 24.
(This is the theory that most people are leaning towards and the one I prefer too, as two parters mean more epic level adventures. But part of me does not believe it will happen as Hasbro prefers episodic episodes that make it easier for new viewers to jump on board in the middle of the show without having to worry about continuity. Although Lauren did manage to squeeze some continuity into season 1, so who knows.)
2) There are 26 episodes, 23 are stand alone and 3 are pat of a three-parter.
(Same comment as Theory 1.)
3) There are 26 episodes. 24 episodes will be animated by TopDraw and 2 (most likely the last 2) will be animated by StudioB. StudioB is still doing the animated story boards for MLP. StudioB took over animation duties for Pound Puppies. When they finnish with that they will be able to shift staff back over to MLP.
(This is the most likely explanation.)
4) THere are 24 main episodes being made with 2 episodes extra that will stand separate as holiday specials or be direct to DVD releases.
(This would still indicate that TopDraw is not animating all the episodes. Like Theory 3 StudioB will be animating the extra two episodes.)
Which ever Theory proves true Ingram is doing the whole "How many months have 28 days?" riddle/joke to throw us off, and give us something to talk about until the fall.
if they do 26 episodes there is 24 in 26
VastaKustutaWhat if they outsourced 2 episodes to one of those Japanese animation studios, you know, to produce something similar to the ever so popular anime spin-off craze?
VastaKustutaEasy.
VastaKustuta2 episodes are not for release. They are being made specifically for bronies and will include the return of Trixie, Nightmare Moon's revenge, canon Pinkie/Dash, and a magic battle between Celestia and Twilight
@Anonymous I think our friend here has it. Give him/her a bushel of apples. 24 episodes by Top Draw, 2 episodes done entirely in-house. Makes perfect sense.
VastaKustutaTIME TO GET SOME QUANTAM ENTANGLEMENT UP IN THIS BITCH
VastaKustutaThe last three episodes are considered to be "Episode 24"
VastaKustutasimple. In the production field, two part episodes can count as 1 (one) episode, so we have 24 story lines, but 26 fridays filled with ponies. This means we get two, two part-ers!
VastaKustutaDang, Daniel says we still haven't guessed correctly (as of 2 hours ago) on his Twitter. Hmm, what could the answer be?
VastaKustutahttp://twitter.com/#!/dannyimusic
Do we really care that much? I mean seriously, it's few month till new season and we will get around 2x episodes anyway. The answer does not changes much and I see no reason to waste time on simple guessing.
VastaKustutaWe still must find a way to survive thru hiatus.
@Kein
VastaKustutaMeh, it is just something fun to do while we wait.:p Speculation is one of the things fandoms do while we wait for more episodes, games, books, ect.
I think what this means is that there's going to be 24 TV episodes and 2 holiday specials - probably one for Christmas and one for Halloween.
VastaKustuta2 non-canon episodes?
VastaKustuta"2 episodes are not for release. They are being made specifically for bronies and will include the return of Trixie, Nightmare Moon's revenge, canon Pinkie/Dash, and a magic battle between Celestia and Twilight."
VastaKustutaAt a cost of $400,000 to $600,000 for this endeavor, there is absolutely no way this is going to happen.
I KNOW.
VastaKustutamaybe 2 episodes are MOVIES?
FiM REALLY needs a movie in the future.
I've got it... 24=26! That also explains why days have been feeling a little longer recently...
VastaKustutaThis is full of so much win.
VastaKustutai don't know if anyone else mentioned this yet but what if we have a CMC spinoff series based on season 2 with 24 episodes and then 26 season 2 episodes based on the main 6? both being in their own time slots so we get... 22 minutes X 50 episodes total amount of ponies
VastaKustutaYou're all getting it backwards. The facts we have are this:
VastaKustutaIngram has 26 episodes on his resume.
The series has 24 episodes.
The logical conclusions are
1.) 2 of the episodes got cut.
2.) 2 episodes are special-release.
3.) one of the episodes (the finale?) is, in fact, one 3-part super episode.
There are two episodes that together make a special that counts as neither season 2 nor season 3.
VastaKustuta24 regular episodes, plus two specials made for bronies that won't air on TV. Nah just kidding, it's either 22 regulars plus two two-parters or 23 regulars and a three-part special.
VastaKustutaPONY MOVIE!!
VastaKustutaI think two of the twenty-six episodes are not being produced by Top Draw. We know all of the Top Draw
VastaKustutaFurthermore, Ms. Faust has said there will be a Big Bad this season that all six ponies will defeat working together. Whether it's an old enemy from Season 1 or from a previous generation of MLP is anypony's guess!
These two episodes could be a two-parter, or each is an hour-long special. (Technically 44-minute special.) Or even more awesome, a two-part show, each 44 minutes long. (88 minutes of pony goodness! TV Movie! XD)
I'm going bring myself back to earth for a moment. I'm going to expect that the two episodes not being made by Top Draw are only 22 minute long episodes that are NOT two-parters... While a TV movie would be AWESOME, I'm not going to expect that. I am happy to get ponies at all, but I don't want to set myself up for disappointment. :)
Though if it's eventually proven true...OMG.
Hmmm a very perplexing conundrum indeed.
VastaKustutaI'm geuessing 24+ 2 specials, but I'm hoping 24+ 2 2-parters.
But if Mr. Ingram is still saying none of the above..I'm stumped.
Bear in mind that even with a 2-parter, each part still counts as its own episode. Season one had 26 episodes, with one two-parter (the pilot). The pilot was episode 1 and 2.
VastaKustuta@Anonymous
VastaKustuta~We have to go deeper.
Take the red pill! Go into... the magiks!
I've been giving this some thought... I'm hoping it's not "24 is a subset of 26" line of reasoning as I don't see how that would have arisen in the first place - I don't see why Top Draw would list anything other than what is currently in production.
What I actually think is happening is that season 2 has 24 episodes and then there are two pilot episodes for season 3. I feel this makes more sense since season 3 isn't a sure bet like season 2 was, so why not put the best hoof forward and leave us with some cliff hangers after season 2 is over and incentivize the series to continue? Also this would address the "riddle" since 24 episodes would be technically part of season 2, but two episodes would be technically part of season 3, should it be made, but would be made while season 2 is in production.
My guess at the riddle:
If there's no season 3, then there's 26 episodes in season 2; if there is a season 3, there's 24 episodes in season 2.
It could also be the case that they made three alternative versions of an ep for fans to vote on and two will be scrapped similar to the voting with how Rainbow Dash got her cutie mark in the first season.
VastaKustuta@Anonymous
VastaKustutaWell then...
The only reasonable explanation is that those 2 episodes was "cut" from s01 and, actually, being a part of s01 episode set but will be playing a role of ep01-02 in s02.
Summary:
-> s02 "officially" has 24 episodes
-> 2 episodes was added from s01 later (after those 26 was finished)
-> s02 not has 26 episodes, 24 "official" and 2 from s01/bonus
Fix:
VastaKustuta> s02 NOW has 26 episodes, 24 "official" and 2 from s01/bonus
Friendship seems exciting when you're still searching for it. It's only when you have it that you realize: dude, we're just a bunch of ponies.
VastaKustutaI just wanted to say that; the actual news itself doesn't make any difference to me. 24 episodes vs. 26, does it really matter? I'm not going to get my hopes up for some epic conclusion, either (not saying it won't happen, though, I just want to be pleasantly surprised :D)
I think this is painfully obvious.
VastaKustuta24 stories over 26 episodes (2 two-parters)
I think the only logical explanation is that come season 2, everything we thought we knew about maths will be proven wrong, and the MLP team will completely revolutionize maths, and with that every science that uses maths. Lauren Faust, Daniel Ingram and the rest of the team will go on to win every Nobel Prize there is, and then ascend to Godhood and turn us all into ponies.
VastaKustutaI hope I'll get to be a pegasus!
Remember, my little fillies, the simplest explanation, all other things being equal, is probably the correct one.
VastaKustutaSome of the episodes are shorter, and lumped together.
VastaKustutaOr he just felt like being cryptic and terrorizing us, and the real answer is both 24 and 26 are right because:
VastaKustutaif there is 26 episodes, then yeah there IS 24, there is also 2, and 5, and 26.
2 episodes will be about Doctor Whoof, and they will be maded by some british studio,
VastaKustuta@Anonymous
VastaKustutaanonymous takes the fun out of speculating...
A lot of you are STILL getting it backwards. "Some other company is doing 2 of the episodes" doesn't work. It would if Ingram said he worked on 24 and the other place said they had 26 episodes, but it's the other way around.
VastaKustutabarring the triple-length movie-episode (which would be awesome) I think it's either holiday specials, episodes cut from season 1, or season 3's pilots.
I REALLY hope it's season 3's pilots, to be honest.
Info we have to work with: There are multiple sources, giving conflicting data. One source says 24 episodes, and the other says 26.
VastaKustutaWhat we know: Both sources list ALL episodes as being 22 minutes long. That means that Daniel Ingram is referring to 572 minutes worth of content, while Top Draw is only listing 528 minutes.
IN NO WAY can this info be taken to mean multi-episode stories, because THE AMOUNT OF TIME is different.
The only logical conclusion here is that these 2 episodes ARE IN NO WAY related to Top Draw's work on Season 2.
I see 2 possible solutions:
1) First 2 / Last 2 episodes of Season 2 are produced in-house.
2) Two episodes will air OUTSIDE of Season 2. I.E. late this summer, while Season 2 Proper will start again around December.
There's no reason to think it starts in December. So far the estimates have been October.
VastaKustutaI'm hoping for season 3 pilots.
Daniel Ingram's Facebook: "So how can Top Draw say they are doing 24 episodes this year for Season 2 of FiM, and my credit list say 26, and BOTH be accurate? Because 2 episodes for season 2 were animated in 2010 as part of the Season 1 package. They are now sitting on a shelf deep in Hasbro Studios waiting patiently for the other 24 to join them."
VastaKustutaam i the first to notice something that has 26 episodes also has 24 episodes? MLPs1 has 24 episodes, it just happned to have two more then that as well
VastaKustutaCould the be a story for the main cast and another for Luna? (They did say she was coming back)
VastaKustutaNote he said he's "working on" 26 episodes, as Top draw said for their 24. I'm guessing that they're doing work on just 24 of them, and he is as well, but is also doing two without Top Draw.
VastaKustutaWhy do people let the internet think for the rest of the population? It scares me. We come up with the wackiest things.
VastaKustutathe last 3 are maybe or not seson 3 pilots but they havent chosen yet
VastaKustutaTop Draw says there will be 24 episodes next season.
VastaKustuta24 is inside of 26.
Thus, Daniel is correct: although there will be 26 episodes next season, there's also 24.
There /are/ both 24 and 26 episodes, because there can't be 26 episodes if there aren't 24.
Eeyup.
This one is obvious to me. He created different versions of some with alternate storylines; three or four were created(and therefor appear in his resume), but only one or two are actually going to be released as episode. Hopefully, the two alternate episodes will be released as bonus features on the DVD set.
VastaKustutaThe most logical answer is that there will be two episodes that will be two parters, like the 1st/2nd episode with Discord. That means, there was 24 episodes written, but 26 episodes will be broadcast. :3
VastaKustutaWell, now that we've seen that the first two episodes released with Season 2 retained the opening from Season 1, then perhaps those two episodes could be considered both a part of and not a part of Season 2, resulting in Season 2 totals of both 26 and 24 episodes.
VastaKustuta