Should My Little Pony have aired on Nick in the 2010s?

[FlipDisk]

Nickelodeon in the early–mid 2010s was everywhere. SpongeBob, Fairly OddParents, iCarly, Avatar reruns popping up like Discord in a serious moment. If MLP had been sandwiched between SpongeBob and TMNT, could it have reached an even bigger audience? Imagine kids tuning in “by accident” and staying because the pastel ponies suddenly started dropping character arcs, continuity, and surprisingly good songs. Boom: accidental brony origin story. And it's a more famous channel so more people will hear about FIM.

Also, Nick had Massive international reac and aggressive marketing (slime > cupcakes, sorry Pinkie).

MLP already blew up without that level of exposure. With Nick’s platform? We might’ve been looking at Friendship Is Magic: The Cultural Event, featuring MLP becoming the most iconic cartoon of the decade and becoming more famous than Spongebob

 

[Neo Ultra Mike]

Yeah that's a big NO for a few reasons.

1. The whole point of the rebranding of Discovery Kids to The Hub was due to the fact Hasbro for the first time ever did have a fairly big share of a full major network of their own and thus were able to focus all of their biggest and most well known properties into having revivals to try and generate younger audience to get into their IPs with big takes on old favorites. So they weren't ever going to sell those ideas to any other networks at all. I mean a big reason Transformers Animated ended on CN was because of The Hub being created and new Transformers series now being made for it, they wouldn't have one of their new made for that network series especially if it became popular now go to another network and soak up attention there.

2. Even if it for some reason they were looking to share that kind of success around to other networks... what would make you think Nickelodeon would be one of them? I guess I can see them being more interested in that cross section between young girls yet an older male demographic then even say Cartoon Network when it came to certain series but it still had to be under a certain aesthetic. I mean there's a reason Nick went something more for Winx Club as i feel they wouldn't want their super youngest into something like FIM as it's not really a part of their brand.

3. What makes you even think MLP:FIM would do well On Nick? It blew up because the Hub was such a young network with only a few original series to it's name to generate an audience and that was one of the big ones at the time to cross a fanbase. With Nick though it would still be in their "eh maybe it gets another season if it does only slightly below the sponge which we are still marketting like crap." There are some shows that break forward but on Nick MLP;FIM wouldn't fit enough to be one of them.

Could go on but yeah Nick wouldn't have been a good fit for this series, plain and simple.

 

[Stumpos]

Definitely not, it'd just get canned after a season or two and get banished to Nicktoons.

If there was gonna be an alternate network for MLP outside of The Hub, Cartoon Network would've been a better fit.

 

[zakawer2]

In some markets, it did air on Nickelodeon and/or Nick Jr.

And besides, Transformers (if we're still talking about Hasbro properties) is still a better fit for Nickelodeon anyway. I mean, there's this Transformers: EarthSpark cartoon that's on Nickelodeon.

 

[Stumpos]

In some markets, it did air on Nickelodeon and/or Nick Jr.

And besides, Transformers (if we're still talking about Hasbro properties) is still a better fit for Nickelodeon anyway. I mean, there's this Transformers: EarthSpark cartoon that's on Nickelodeon.

Nickelodeon's never been very good with actions cartoons though.