Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-10390252-20151110102526/@comment-4531340-20151110222924

Although I'm pretty sure those shows feature hand-drawn animation, while FiM uses flash vectors for animation. I would guess the time for completion of an FiM episode (going from script to voice recording to all the stages of animation and so on) would be shorter, so from 6-9 months sounds reasonable to me.