In a recent conference, Hasbro admitted that the reason why next MLP season will consist in only 13 episodes is that they want to spend less money on it while living on its success (even if they tried to cover it with a ridiculous story of children tendency of watching the same thing over and over again.) They sure do know how to milk their cows. For the full story, see http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/10/hasbro-conference-call-reveals-possible.html