spoiler The IGN review is right about one thing

[blackstarraven 142]

Something I keep trying to explain to ponies is this simple point.

 

The movie started to be made in the middle of season 5.....

A lot of the character that where missing.. Simply where not things at the time.

 

The question that keep getting asked about cannon status is simple.. Its going to be cannon and not mentioned, because that's how most everything is done in this show. The reason we didn't end up with Changelings, Dragons, Yaks, Hippogriffs, Gryphons and a collection of the most powerful... things in the setting is simple.

 

Most of them where not present in when the script was done.

 

Even the cameos we get of ponies like trixie and starlight are just that... Cameos... Because they where added late in the production.

 

This is a no starter point with me, and I always knew it was going to be a problem. because the show does not do its story line that far ahead of time. (Actually at all in a lot of cases)