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> I'm not sure if the fandom will maintain its current level, I'm not sure if one of the piller sights will shut down
but if you look at this philosophically speaking, it´s another challenge to face that this fanbase has never had. 2010 is almost (not completely but almost) like the year zero for this phenomenon and this post gen 4 era stands as one of those questions that we will have to solve until gen 5 arrives. 

> but I tell you, if the tiny pre-gen4 adult fandom could maintain too forums with daily postings to this day then somewhere out there our fandom will survive. 
this community loves claiming its own doom. If fandoms had to compete in a championship of announcing its own death, bronies would be disqualified for being too good at this game. But I agree, fans of MLP have always existed since 1986.

> Another thing, I sort of played this song and dance before, with the one other fandom I felt attached to as a community... Bioicle. It ended, well, I think nearly 10 years ago and to this very day their are still fan projects being made, from 3 hour stop motion movies to revivals of old bioicle games.
> Even had a questionable short lived reboot. If that fandom can still be making stuff then our fandom certainly will!
yeah, it´s certainly comforting to hear that. I didn´t reply to this post  >>/4478/ but 

> was clearly dumbed down a bit and was trying to keep a youger demographic in mind. 
> many fans were upset because they themselves had been hooked when they where I was because of the impressive depth of the world.
> fans were a bit too hard on it, because whatever final product wouldn't be their taste, but at the same time I don't think lego was able to recapture Bionicle's success with the simplification when what had caused it it was it's immersive world and relative exotic sty
reading these lines also show the challenge that both the company behind gen 5 and the fans will unavoidably face in a couple of years. 

Anyway, have you stopped and checked how the Bionicle fans are going these days?

> I remember around season 6 seeing FlimFlamFilosphy (guy who made rainbow dash presents and Mentally Advanced Series) shocked the show got renewed.
I also believed that season 6 was going to be the last, claiming as if The Crystalling  aired as the last opener. Honestly, it´s wonderful to check how far this show has gone and nobody in the past expected to reach such limits of this level...and that was in 2016. Wow!

> a fic about all of us leaving on the spaceship to the real equestria and people attitude that "it sure be awesome if the show could last that long!" And it did.
didn´t My Little Dashie predict this? I also saw old posts of Reddit claiming ironically that this show would air with 9 seasons. The funniest part of those speculations from passionate fans is that they have become the actual truth in the end.

> God bless L23, live long and prosper, because we got past that mark!
same to you Bridgefag. Well played folks. It´s been a great pleasure to share this ride and even surpass our own expectations.....and we are here, living a new day after the 4th gen´s closure.

> Oh man, I remember hearing of a few back in 2013...Yes certainly.
they would have been proud and celebrated this event like the rest of us. It was a harsh message to remind but it encourages the optimism and the relief of accomplishing the only requirement for enjoying this franchise. We have had the fortune to live and get the full gen 4 experience defined during all this decade.