I am well aware that I have still not put up my post about "Frenemies". It is coming, and once more I am going to commit to a date. It will be up by the end of 11th October, a week hence. You bet I am going to get to the end of Season 9!
Also, as the subject line says, the usual UK PonyCon convention report will be up after the con. It's later than usual this year, so that won't be until November, but – as the meme says – it's happening!
Not content with bringing us both Tabitha St. Germain and Andrea Libman, UK PonyCon 2026 will also feature a very welcome returnee from last year: none other than Imalou! She was extremely popular with attendees in Birmingham in 2025, and was very complimentary about UKPC itself in her closing ceremony speech. That rounds out an incredibly strong trio of guests of honour!
UK PonyCon has announced guests for this year's convention at the end of October: both Andrea Libman, who has been at UKPC before, and Tabitha St. Germain, who hasn't. The latter was announced in the past but had to pull out due to work commitments. Let's hope lightning doesn't strike twice where that is concerned! Unsurprisingly, there was a great deal of excitement when the identities of the guests were concerned. Very impressive work by the UK PonyCon team!
As for my title? Well, if Tabitha St. Germain does indeed make it, she adds Rarity to the existing UKPC alumni: Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie (Andrea Libman), Applejack and Rainbow Dash (Ashleigh Ball), and Twilight (Rebecca Shoichet). Six out of six! And as Ghost Mike pointed out, you can also add Spike owing to Tabitha St. Germain voicing him in Pony Life. A full house!
The world's longest-running My Little Pony convention continues on, heading for its fourth generation of MLP toys since its launch in 2004. And as usually happens these days, the con has now sold out of Saturday and Weekend tickets thanks to reaching capacity. As the Leicester venue is a new one for UKPC, I'm not sure what capacity actually is, but in the recent past the convention has generally seen about 1,000 attendees, er, attending.
Tickets for the Friday night concert and for Sunday of the main event are still on sale, but for how much longer? If you want to attend either/both of these days and haven't yet bought your ticket, I suggest you get in soon!
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S9E07: "She's All Yak"
11 May 2019My original rating: ★★
IMDb score: 7.0
The one with sproutsThoughts: Looking back, people had very mixed reactions to this episode, but I came down on the more negative side and still do. The YonaBar (friend)ship comes out of nowhere, but it's fine in itself, while the American pronunciation of "fete" merely needs getting used to. A bigger problem is that the whole "fitting right in" thing involves a yak being told she needs to be more, well, pony despite the whole point of the renamed Amity Ball being to include other creatures. This is pretty uncomfortable stuff, all the more for this show, and Rarity written as supporting it is deeply disappointing. It's a relief that the moral returns to not trying to be something you aren't. The song is rather dull and uninteresting to the extent I've already forgotten it again. A few amusing moments, such as Spike's DJ act, but very predictable stuff and I can't see a reason to change the two-star rating.
Choice quote: Rarity: "By Celestia, I think she's got it."
New rating: ★★
Next up will be "Frenemies"! This episode was widely seen as a highlight of S9 back in 2019, but will it hold up now that we know how the storyline ends? We'll see!
...and "She's All Yak" is still on the list. I hope at some point in the future I can look back at the last few months and think to myself, "Sheesh, Logan, you had a rough patch there!" But unless I literally say "The rewatch reviews won't happen" then they will happen. In fact, I'm making a commitment now. Short of impossible conditions such as significant illness or family emergencies...
...the "She's All Yak" rewatch will be up within one week from this post.
Yes, I wrote it in bold. That means it has to happen! :P
I'm not sure what to make of the very limited announcements so far, but that's not surprising really. Until we get a bit more public information – or some leaks – then there's not a lot to say. One big question is whether G6 will do a G5 and be explicitly in the same continuity as Friendship is Magic. I'm one of the people who would prefer a fresh start, with perhaps the odd Easter Egg reference (see the way G1 was used in most of FiM), but Hasbro will be doing what they think will sell toys. I know, shocking, isn't it? But still: new Pony is coming!
