UK PonyCon this year may be rather emotional

All being well, I'll be going to my sixth UK PonyCon next month. It runs over the weekend of 12th and 13th October. Originally, we thought that this would be the weekend before the show ended for good – but Discovery Family recently sprang a surprise by announcing that three episodes would be shown on the final day. And that means that the end will come on... 12th October.

Now, it's true that thanks to the leaks, quite a few people will have seen the final episodes before they head off to Nottingham. DF is showing them in US primetime, in any case, which will be in the wee small hours over here. Not ideal when you want to be up early on the Sunday! And of course a lot of us will have been spoiled on at least some of the episodes' content.

But even so... UK PonyCon is the only MLP convention in the world that has run as a standalone event every single year of the G4 era.* Even though it's a multi-generation con, that special status means that some attendees will have been following the fortunes of Friendship is Magic since it was first announced, long before 4chan coined the word "brony". It's going to be quite something.
* My Little Pony Fair in the US was subsumed into Hascon for 2017, although it returned the following year.

Naturally, that multi-gen status also means that there's likely to be plenty of looking ahead to what G5 may bring in a year or two's time. It'll be interesting to find out what the general mood of the convention is about that, but my hunch is that optimism will be the order of the day. After all, when it started in 2004, the G3 toyline was only a year into its life and A Very Minty Christmas still lay in the future!

I always report back from UKPC, as longer-time readers of this blog will know all too well, and I shall be inflicting my ramblings on you again this year. I suspect I may be rather emotional too. After all, Friendship is Magic and G4 in general have changed my life, and overwhelmingly for the better. Knowing we're finally leaving that era behind is going to be quite something.