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The official My Little Pony Youtube channel just posted a new season 5 teaser. Nothing too new in the teaser itself except that the video title confirms that season 5 will release in spring of 2015. Which places the start of this season somewhere between March and June of next year.

At least 4 more months of hiatus.... yay?

You can all watch the teaser below the break. Thanks to everyone that send it in.

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27 years ago today, WWF holds a legends battle royal at the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

This is unusual for the WWF at the time (even now, these days), as the WWF rarely acknowledges accomplishments that took place outside their company. The battle royal is won by 72-year old Lou Thesz. Other participants were Nick Bockwinkel, Art Thomas, Bobo Brazil, Jay Strongbow, Gino Brito, Arnold Skaaland, Eduardo Carpenter, Baron Scicluna, Al Costello, Pat O'Connor, The Crusher, Pedro Morales, Dominic DeNucci, Killer Kowalski, Tony Garea, Gene Kinski, and Rene Goulet.

22 years ago today, The Sandman defeats Don Muraco to win the NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Championship for the second time.

20 years ago today, WCW presented Clash of the Champions XXIX (WWE Network link) from the Jacksonville Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida.

• Stars And Stripes (Marcus Alexander Bagwell & The Patriot) defeated Pretty Wonderful (Paul Orndorff & Paul Roma) to retain the WCW World Tag Team Championship.
• Johnny B. Badd defeated The Honky Tonk Man by disqualification to retain the WCW World Television Championship.
• Harlem Heat (Booker T & Stevie Ray) defeated The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs & Jerry Sags).
• Vader defeated Dustin Rhodes.
• Hacksaw Jim Duggan defeated Stunning Steve Austin by disqualification to retain the WCW United States Championship. Vader ran in less than a minute into the match and attacked Duggan, causing the disqualification.
• Dave Sullivan, Hulk Hogan and Sting defeated The Three Faces Of Fear (Avalanche, Kevin Sullivan & The Butcher). Mr. T was the special referee.

18 years ago today, ECW presented November to Remember from the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of note, just before the ECW world title match, Taz called out Sabu. Vowing not to leave the ring until he met Sabu face to face, Sabu came out, and just as they locked up, the lights of the ECW Arena went out. When they came back on, they were gone.

• Big Stevie Cool defeated Davey Morton Tyler Jericho. This bout featured the debut of the Blue World Order.
• Axl Rotten defeated Hack Myers.
• Buh Buh Ray Dudley defeated D-Von Dudley.
• Rob Van Dam & Sabu versus The Eliminators (John Kronus & Perry Saturn) went to a time limit draw in a #1 contender's match for the ECW World Tag Team Championship. Commissioner Tod Gordon named both teams co-#1 contenders for the tag titles and would face the champions in a three-way dance later.
• Chris Candido defeated Mikey Whipwreck.
• The Gangstas (Mustafa & New Jack) defeated Rob Van Dam & Sabu and The Eliminators (John Kronus & Perry Saturn) in a 3-Way Dance to retain the ECW World Tag Team Championship. The Eliminators defeated Sabu and Rob Van Dam, only to be defeated seven seconds later by The Gangstas.
• Too Cold Scorpio defeated Devon Storm in a Loser Leaves Town match in just one minute.
• Too Cold Scorpio defeated JT Smith in a Loser Leaves Town match in just 32 seconds.
• Too Cold Scorpio defeated Hack Myers in a Loser Leaves Town match in just 75 seconds.
• Louie Spicolli defeated Too Cold Scorpio in a Loser Leaves Town match in just over two minutes. This was the final ECW bout for 2 Cold Scorpio, as he was leaving for the WWF.
• The Sandman defeated Raven to retain the ECW World Heavyweight Championship.
• Terry Funk & Tommy Dreamer defeated Brian Lee & Shane Douglas.

18 years ago today, WWF held their Hall of Fame induction ceremony from the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The 1996 class included Captain Lou Albano, Killer Kowalski, Baron Mikel Scicluna, Johnny Valiant, Jimmy Valiant, Johnny Rodz, Pat Patterson, Vincent J. McMahon, and Jimmy Snuka. This would be the last Hall of Fame ceremony for the company until just before Wrestlemania XX in 2004.

16 years ago today on Nitro from Wichita, Kansas, Juventud Guerrera defeated Billy Kidman to win the WCW Cruiserweight Championship for the third time.

14 years ago today in Oberhausen, Germany, General Rection and Alex Wright defeated The Natural Born Thrillers (Mark Jindrak & Sean O'Haire) to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship.

11 years ago today, WWE presented Survivor Series from the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. 13,487 were in attendance, with 450,000 homes watching on PPV. That's up from 340,000 for the 2002 edition. Sole survivors are in bold for Survivor Series matches.

• In a preshow Sunday Night Heat match, Tajiri defeated Jamie Noble to retain the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.
• Team Angle (Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, John Cena, Hardcore Holly, and Bradshaw) defeated Team Lesnar (Brock Lesnar, The Big Show, Matt Morgan, Nathan Jones and A-Train) 5-3 in a Survivor Series match.
• Molly Holly defeated Lita to retain the WWE Women's Championship.
• Kane defeated Shane McMahon in an ambulance match.
• The Basham Brothers (Doug and Danny) defeated Los Guerreros (Eddie and Chavo) to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship.
• Team Bischoff (Chris Jericho, Christian, Randy Orton, Scott Steiner and Mark Henry) defeated Team Austin (Shawn Michaels, Rob Van Dam, Booker T, Bubba Ray Dudley, and D-Von Dudley) 5-4 in a Survivor Series match. As a result of the win for Team Bischoff, Stone Cold Steve Austin lost his position as co-general manager of RAW.
• Vince McMahon defeated The Undertaker in a Buried Alive match. This would be the Undertaker's last match until Wrestlemania XX the following March.
• Goldberg defeated Triple H to retain the World Heavyweight Championship.

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10 years ago today at a Smackdown taping in Dayton, Ohio, John Cena defeated Carlito Caribbean Cool in just 25 seconds to win the WWE United States Championship.

8 years ago today, TNA Impact its official debut in primetime with a two-hour special.

• Samoa Joe defeated Jay Lethal in under two minutes.
• The Naturals (Andy Douglas & Chase Stevens) defeated Team 3D (Brother Devon & Brother Ray) in a tag team tables match.
• Christian Cage defeated Rhino in a barbed wire six sides of steel cage match.
• Christopher Daniels defeated AJ Styles and Chris Sabin in a three way match to win the TNA X Division Championship.
• Kurt Angle defeated Abyss.

6 years ago today in Las Vegas, Nevada, Brock Lesnar defeated Randy Couture by TKO in the second round to win the UFC Heavyweight Championship at UFC 91. The win made Lesnar the first man to win heavyweight championships in the NCAA, WWE, New Japan, and UFC.

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31 years and a day ago today in Allentown, Pennsylvania, The Soul Patrol (Tony Atlas & Rocky Johnson) defeat The Wild Samoans (Afa & Sika) to win the WWF Tag Team Championship. Despite the title change, The Wild Samoans defended the titles on the house show circuit until the title change airs on December 9.

25 years and a day ago today, NWA presented Clash of the Champions IX: New York Knockout (WWE Network link) from the RPI Fieldhouse in Troy, New York.

• The Fabulous Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin & Michael Hayes) defeated The Road Warriors (Road Warrior Animal & Road Warrior Hawk) by disqualification.
• Doom (Butch Reed & Ron Simmons) (w/ Woman) defeated Eddie Gilbert & Tommy Rich.
• The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton & Stan Lane) defeated The Dynamic Dudes (Johnny Ace & Shane Douglas)
• Steve Williams defeated The Super Destroyer.
• The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner) defeated The Skyscrapers (Dan Spivey & Sid Vicious) by disqualification.
• Lex Luger defeated Flyin 'Brian to retain the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship.
• Ric Flair defeated Terry Funk to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in a "I Quit" match. The bout was rated five stars by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, but only finished fourth in the Match of the Year category by the same publication. The Steamboat-Flair trilogy got the top three spots. Flair vs. Funk did win Feud of the Year.

16 years ago and a day ago today, WWF presented Survivor Series (WWE Network link) from the Kiel Center in St. Louis, Missouri. 19,322 were in attendance, with 478,000 homes watching on PPV. That's not only nearly double the 1997 edition (250,000 buys), it's more than the 1997 and 1996 editions combined (449,000 buys). Though there were no traditional Survivor Series bouts, this edition put a different spin on the survival aspect: survive and advance, as this show focused on a one-night tournament to crown a new WWF Champion, something that had not been done since Wrestlemania IV. The title was vacated back in September at Breakdown following a double pin on Steve Austin by The Undertaker and Kane. There was an attempt to fill the vacancy at Judgment Day, but the bout between Undertaker and Kane went to a no contest. The Undertaker and Kane were given first round byes, but would face each other in the quarterfinals, a la Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant back at Wrestlemania IV.

• Sunday Night Heat
  • Too Much (Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor) defeated The Hardy Boys (Matt and Jeff Hardy).
  • Bob Holly and Scorpio defeated The Legion Of Doom (Hawk and Animal).
  • Val Venis defeated Tiger Ali Singh.
  • Gangrel defeated Steve Blackman.

• First Round
  • Mankind defeated Duane Gill in just 30 seconds.
  • Al Snow defeated Jeff Jarrett.
  • Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated Big Boss Man by disqualification.
  • X-Pac and Steven Regal fought to a double countout, giving Austin a bye to the semifinals.
  • Ken Shamrock defeated Goldust.
  • The Rock defeated Big Boss Man in just four seconds. Triple H was the original opponent for The Rock, but he was injured prior to the event. The four-second win is the fastest in WWF history, a mark that still stands to this day and may likely never be broken.

• Quarterfinals
  • The Undertaker defeated Kane.
  • Mankind defeated Al Snow.
  • The Rock defeated Ken Shamrock.

• Sable defeated Jacqueline to win the WWF Womens Championship.

• Semifinals
  • Mankind defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin.
  • The Rock defeated The Undertaker by disqualification.

• The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg & Billy Gunn) defeated The Nation (D-Lo Brown & Mark Henry) and The Headbangers (Mosh & Thrasher) in a triple threat match to retain the WWF Tag Team Championship.

• Final
  • The Rock defeated Mankind "by submission" to win the vacant WWF Championship. The win made The Rock the youngest WWF Champion in history. In an exact replication of the previous year's events, The Rock hooked Mankind in the Sharpshooter and Vince McMahon quickly called for the bell. It turned out that was an elaborate ruse concocted by The McMahons to get the championship on The Rock.

10 years and a day ago today on RAW from Indianapolis, Indiana, William Regal & Eugene defeat La Resistance and Rhyno & Tajiri in a three way dance to win the World Tag Team Championship.

9 years and a day ago today, Nunzio defeated Juventud in Rome, Italy to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.

5 years and a day ago today, TNA presented Turning Point from the Impact Zone at Universal Orlando.

• The Amazing Red defeated Homicide to retain the TNA X-Division Championship.
• ODB , Sarita and Taylor Wilde defeated The Beautiful People (Lacey Von Erich, Madison Rayne & Velvet Sky). Both the TNA Knockouts singles and tag team championships were on the line in this match, with the champions retaining.
• The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus & Doug Williams) defeated Beer Money Inc. (James Storm & Robert Roode) and The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin) to retain the TNA World Tag Team Championships in a triple threat match .
• Tara defeated Awesome Kong in a steel cage match.
• Rhino & Team 3D (Brother Devon & Brother Ray) defeated D'Angelo Dinero, Hernandez & Matt Morgan.
• Scott Steiner defeated Bobby Lashley in a falls count anywhere match.
• Kurt Angle defeated Desmond Wolfe.
• AJ Styles defeated Daniels and Samoa Joe in a three-way match to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.

4 years and a day ago today, WWE presented its first ever Old School RAW special from the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. WWE legends appeared and the set was modified to look like a 1993 episode of RAW, complete with the old RAW letters replacing the minitron.

• Dolph Ziggler defeated "Sexual Chocolate" Mark Henry.
• Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel defeated The Hart Dynasty (David Hart Smith & Tyson Kidd). Post-match, Tyson turned on David.
• Ezekiel Jackson defeated The Brooklyn Brawler in just 50 seconds.
• John Cena defeated Alex Riley.
• Santino Marella & Vladimir Kozlov defeated The Uso Brothers (Jimmy & Jey).
• Kofi Kingston defeated David Otunga.
• Wade Barrett defeated R-Truth.
• Alberto Del Rio defeated Sgt. Slaughter.
• Mae Young defeated Michelle McCool & Layla in a 1 on 2 handicap no disqualification match in just 54 seconds. The win made Mae, at age 77, the oldest person to win a match in WWE history.
• Daniel Bryan defeated Jack Swagger.

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These three really are the best of friends! Wouldn't a spin off with them either as they are or as grown ups be awesome?

Morning guys! Start of the work week so I hope you all are well!

Pinć

In-development concept by Cordon is an iPhone case that can convert into a mobile VR headset and interactive environment. The video below illustrates their idea of the interface and should not be considered how it will look:

Cordon is pleased to announce Pinć (pronounced PINCH), a mobile VR platform and smartphone case unfolding into VR glasses allowing users to maximize on the power of their iPhone 6. Pinć is available for preorder starting October 1st, 2014 with orders shipping in Spring of 2015.

The Pinć team has developed a patent pending prototype for the only pocket sized mobile platform bringing VR headsets out of the gaming world and into the mainstream. The device is controlled by optical control rings worn on index fingers that pinch to click with users’ hands. Pinć is a groundbreaking iOS platform built on the concept of spatial computing, turning browsing, multitasking and shopping into an immersive virtual reality experience.

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This one has popped up and gone down a few times these last few days, and the page for it seems a little bit on the buggy side. Over on Amazon, we have a new book slated for a May 5th 2015 release date titled "Sunset Shimmer's Time to Shine".  The weird point though is the reviews, with 28 people supposedly already putting throw two cents in on it. It's looking like one of the older Equestria Girls books may have been accidentally replaced with this one, but kept it's reviews on the page.

Either way, we most likely have another book on the way next year starring Sunset here in the EG universe.

You can pre-order it over here.

Thanks to Reece for the heads up!

For weeks leading up to the election, all we heard from the right was that President Obama wasn’t doing enough to stop Ebola. After the election, they’ve suddenly decided that he’s trying to do too much to stop it and they’re demanding that Congress refuse to fund a bill that would help address the problem at its source.

Betsy McCaughey, the conservative columnist behind the “death panel” smear of Obamacare, derided the administration’s latest proposal, which she calls “Ebolacare,” to help build a stronger health care system in West African countries as “a typical Obama administration spread-the-wealth scheme kicked up a notch to redistribute American resources to poor countries.” Writing in her syndicated column yesterday, McCaughey lamented that the potential “shifting [of] resources to Africa” is “twice what we give Israel.”

McCaughey previously accused the Centers for Disease Control of “lying” about the ways people can contract Ebola and said Obama was putting American lives “at risk for the sake of political correctness.”

George Russell of Fox News writes today that conservatives fear “the crisis is being used to jam a massive dose of spending through the lame-duck Congress.” He interviews Dr. Tom Stossel of the American Enterprise Institute, who says that the plan to fight Ebola is just an excuse for “throwing money at various government agencies.”

Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly, who warned last month said Obama was “letting these diseased people into this country to infect our own people” in order to make the U.S. more like Africa, urged Republicans to resist bipartisanship and refuse to fund the proposed measures to fight Ebola.

It’s the same thing we’ve seen for six years now: If Obama is fer it, I’m agin it.

Something for all you wow nerds trucking away at it like me here. At the end of one of the quest lines in the new expansion, I (and several others of you if the submit box is any indication) ran into this drake with the name "Raindash". Blizzard's pony references have always been pretty subtle, with Pink Poeny (below)  passing out sweets in the last expansion.While it could be a coincidence, considering this thing changes to all sorts of rainbowy colors, It's probably legit.

Heres to hoping more pony appears! 

Now back to grinding this warrior up. 

Similar to the Celestia and Luna Hot Topic Exlusive music vinyls from a few weeks ago, it looks like Comixology has confirmed the release of a vinyl for the music of the Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks movie.  The exact description:

Canterlot High is hosting a musical showcase, and Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy are going to be performing with their new back in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks, the sequel to My Little Pony Equestria Girls. Released on vinyl for the first time, the deluxe LP package includes a full color gatefold jacket and a bonus 12' x 24' full color poster insert.

It can be found over here! 

Thanks to Benjamin for the heads up.