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On 2014-11-10 at 8:44 AM, The Mint Pone said:

No I dont think so. My 2 year old brother watches things like Thomas the tank engine and that is a preschool show! FIM has a lot more to it than the 2-dimensional characters (not literally) or the extremely simple plot (if you can call trains taking cargo from A to B plot!) of preschool shows I've seen.

You’ve got to see some of the early Thomas seasons, they’re amazing. There are even two episodes where one train saves another from scrap.

Because the Mane 6 are not bucking teenagers.

Let’s not forget that G4 has things like arcade games, colour photography, film, the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 and Jet Set’s cutie mark of three aeroplanes.

UPDATE: I've been emailed this one from a collector in Mexico.

The Wave 25 blind bag cards I’ve seen have been strange. For example, Trixie and Mosely Orange’s cards perfectly mirror the show, but Peachy Sweet’s Care depicts her with Applejack’s mane. What I’d like to know is whether Chance-A-Lot’s card depicts Caramel’s vector or something else. That way, we may get that small step closer to knowing whether Chance-A-Lot and Caramel are the same pony, or whether Chance-A-Lot is the name of the Caramel-style Big Macintosh recolour in the intro.

On 9/20/2017 at 10:42 PM, Pathfinder said:

Yeah; all six are related to MLP in some sort. I also have a Spyro plush, though that one is in the closet due to it's somewhat BIG size.

My point was, for you, cute things have to have backstory behind them. But the toys from Fluttershy’s hideout looked like she just had them for the sake of their cuteness alone.

13 minutes ago, Quinch said:

I think some differences are inevitable, especially when it comes to the exaggerated style MLP:PL seems to be using. There's also technical reasons, as some details may be difficult when it comes to mass production. For example, I've heard the reason just about everyone in Equestria Girls is wearing giant boots has to do with the toy manufacturing process, so things like fetlocks might not be compatible with the systems Hasbro is using to produce the toys.

I just remembered the toys and show have fetlocks but the toy packaging doesn’t.

You may have seen a good amount of the merchandise planned for next year which many equate to the show coming out at that same time - Pony Life. But I have noticed two major differences - the toys are lankier and have unshorn fetlocks. They even have box art that looks nothing like PL. Just look at this.

Don’t you get it? She knew Gilda as a child but only met Pinkie once she moved to Ponyville, so that made her extra loyal.

They probably heard somewhere that FiM was being cancelled and decided to capitalise on the pony/unicorn market.

And then when they’re side by side...

Put them in their twenties.

On 2/22/2019 at 6:08 PM, Senko said:

So it was I misheard it.

The problem with the Thunderlane picture is that horse hooves as I understand it look like this

in real life and the pony ones don't regardless of whether your dealing with the fringe of ponies like Thunderlane or the all one colour of Thunderlane the bottom of the hoof is all one colour and structure.

and that doesn't even touch on their ability to do things with them so however you want to argue it Equestrian ponies don't have the same hoof set up as a regular horse of fur down to the coronet band and then hoof. Though its been awhile since I dealt with horses I vaguely recall the fur near that band can be very short compared to the rest of their coat too so it'd be less affected by wind.

EDIT

There's also on thinking about it ones like Sunburst who have a different coloured hooves but a clear dividing line rather than the fringe as well so 3 different fur/hoof combinations there.

But how did Big Mac and Rockhoof's hooves actually change colour?

4 hours ago, Senko said:

True but that doesn't actually contradict my theory we see that some stallions like Rockhoof have that fringe and then a different coloured hoof which can be accounted for by referring to it as the Clydesdale fur line mentioned by flim and flam as a semi-equivilent to baldness without actually meaning their hooves aren't coloured. Light blue in Rockhoof's case, purple in Twilights or white in Rarities.

Of course this doesn't really answer why pony hooves are coloured in the first place but hmmm hoof polish maybe? We know that there doesn't seem to be much stigma associated with visiting the spa Dash notwithsatanding as we see a wide range of male and female ponies visiting it.

Look at my picture of Thunderlane above. Also, it was fur BLIGHT, not fur LINE.

13 hours ago, Senko said:

Sounds like baldness to me or maybe that Clydesdale furline Flim and Flam mention during the mriacle tonic episode. A sudden rapid loss of fur over the hooves over a rapid period same as his growth spurt and look at the face in that picture. Tell me thats not the face of a man discovering he's going bald.

Nice theory, but pony hooves have been treated like real, furless ones sometimes, like when Rarity said hers were 'cracked and dry from working in the field'.

2 hours ago, Senko said:

 

Considering how popular the spa is I just assumed most of them dye'd their hooves like a lot of girls today have painted nails, that or this like mane loss is something that affects some stallions.

But Rockhoof's just appeared on him out of nowhere, remember?

On 2/2/2019 at 11:05 AM, Venomous said:

I can’t necessarily speak for hoof color but the feathered feet is used to indicate the breed of that horse (I know that they are ponies but hear me out). Horses, such as shires, clydesdales, gypsys, and fresians have feathered feet. It’s obvious that Trouble Shoes is based off of a clydesdale. I can’t say what Big Macintosh is supposed to be but the reason his feathers were absent as a child is because most feathering in horses don’t appear for awhile.

What if the reason Trouble Shoes' hooves were whiter and didn't have an outline drawn around the fetlocks as a colt was because he actually painted them to look tough, tired of being teased for his bad luck?

On 2/4/2019 at 6:36 PM, BlinkZ said:

Yeah i think they base some of the ponies off certian horse breeds. My one example i can think of right now, while not a stallion, is that one pony who had the flower luggage

What episode did she appear in?

I think this image might confirm that even on hooves that are the same colour as the body, even though it may be a visual representation of Rarity's exaggeration about how rustic she's become, in which case it may still show that the concept of 'cracked and dry' hooves is not unknown to Equestria's ponies, indicating that they are not surrounded by furry skin.

It gets even stranger when you look at Rockhoof.

Funnily enough, in today's science class (🤓), we were talking about body heat, which may well have some bearing here. After all, Trouble Shoes did grow up in a much hotter climate than Big Mac.

It would certainly help to know if these were chips of hoof or simply strands of fur.

On 2/4/2019 at 8:36 AM, R.D.Dash said:

An art style? Or they didn't shave it

I don't think their fur would wrap so neatly around the bottoms of their hooves simply by shagging down from their fetlocks.

16 hours ago, R.D.Dash said:

I thought that just the "guy thing" that only stalions do since we never seen feathered hooves on mares

Well, how about Thunderlane? Doctor Whooves? Mr. Cake? Cheese Sandwich? Sunburst? Huh?

Has anyone else ever wondered why some stallions, such as Big Macintosh and Shining Armor, have hooves coloured differently to the rest of their bodies, yet most others don't? And even more strangely, Big Mac's hooves were the same colour as the rest of his body as a colt, yet Trouble Shoes' were even whiter than they are today?

Theory 1: Blood Pressure

The reason that some heavy stallions have coloured hooves may be their higher level of blood pressure. This may also explain why Trouble Shoes had whiter hooves when he was shown as a colt in the rodeo, as his apparent higher level of activity would have increased his blood pressure, thus increasing the whiteness of his hooves. Big Mac, on the other hoof (literally), grew up with much slower-paced activity.

But what about ponies like Gladmane, who appear the same weight as the likes of Big Mac, you may ask? They're just a different type.

Then again, I'm no scientist. Maybe Trouble Shoes' hooves simply got browner the same way my Converse shoes have (even though they're only two weeks old). They didn't get much whiter when he came back into the rodeo as a stallion. Or maybe it just differs from pony to pony.

Theory 2: Skin Loss

This theory suggests that while all stallions are born with furry skin around their hooves, there is one kind that loses that skin with weight. The reason Trouble Shoes lost his hoof skin at an earlier age than Big Macintosh may simply be that he had weaker skin.

As for if mares can have coloured hooves, I just can't say.

On 4/21/2016 at 10:57 PM, Wind Chaser said:

I'd believe that the Mane 6 are in their late teens, somewhere between 17 and 20 now, given their mental age and maturity through the seasons. They started in the mid-teens.

 

As for why characters with mental ages in the teens can be in adult roles, consider that high school has never been depicted in Equestria, aside from the canonically dubious comics. Also consider the real world: high school in Western society didn't always exist. In the pre-industrial and early industrial era, teenagers learned trades and became apprentices. Only with the onset of mandatory schooling in the early 20th century did high school become a big part of our culture, and teenage culture in and of itself didn't distinguish itself from that of kids and adults until after WWII.

 

Young adults become independent at later ages with each passing generation for reasons such as social systems and economics. These days, it's pretty much unreasonable to expect an American young adult to leave his parents' house until he's about 25.

 

In this case, it's better to imagine Equestria as a pre-industrial society. Any suggestions that it's more advanced are merely for the writers' convenience.

 

There were two valley girls in "Putting Your Hoof Down", and interestingly enough, they share the adult pony model.

 

 

You could say Big Mac isn't even that much older than Applejack here. He has a uniquely large build, similar to how Fluttershy was taller and skinnier as a foal.

Aren't valley girls also in their 'twennehz'?

Also, about your pre-industrial thing, there's this.