Think I expected more out of this episode than they were willing to deliver... no Apple parents in sight sadly. Still, Diamond Tiara is obviously not born yet, so maybe Apple Bloom isn't either? Could still be alive in that flashback, but it's kinda baffling to me why they'd even do an episode like this if they're just going to cut out stuff like that. I mean, the episode had plenty of cool easter eggs at least, but not every egg we want seems to be able to be in the basket, turning what would have been an otherwise decent/run of the mill episode into something rather disappointing, to me anyway.
Or maybe I'm just thinking about what could have been too much, otherwise I found the episode to be a pretty fun romp.