My Little Pony Friendship is Magic

Favourite pony out of the main bunch?

  • Twilight Sparkle

    Votes: 26 16.8%

  • Pinkie Pie

    Votes: 30 19.4%

  • Applejack

    Votes: 15 9.7%

  • Rainbow Dash

    Votes: 30 19.4%

  • Rarity

    Votes: 18 11.6%

  • Fluttershy

    Votes: 36 23.2%
  • Total voters
    155
Toad Eightyfive said:
Traits such as horns and wings are determined by specific alleles. Each allele codes for a specific trait (i.e., "H" means no horn, "h" means horn). In order to have a horn, since "Baby Cakes" proved that horns and wings are both recessive traits, you'd need two little h's and no big H's. Meaning that Twilight's genotype was previously hhWW or hhWw, and a pegasus would have Hhww or HHww. An alicorn, having both a horn and wings, would be hhww.
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not that i actually believe my little ponies have anything like real world genetics, but if they DID, the idea of complex structures like unicorn horns and pegasus wings following simple mendelian patterns of inheritance is pretty much inconceivable

not least because this would mean that any unicorn with the genotype hhWw successfully mating with any pegasus with the genotype Hhww would have a 1 in 4 chance of producing an alicorn child, which isn't in line with the extreme rarity of alicorns in the setting at all

i know he gave up on this discussion but i didnt feel like i could let this pass without comment
 
Just posting two videos that I saw today that sums up at least alot of why I love Magical Mystery Cure so much and also Alicorn Twilight. The first video of which does it in less then 5 minutes. While the other is a full 10 minutes long but definitely makes some point against the most common complaints about Alicorn Twilight. And makes a point using particular detail from a prior episode I loved so much to make it have much more sense.


 
I feel bad, I've been watching Paleo less and less... I've been getting more into DigiBrony's stuff, and BronyCurious.
 
Come on folks, Double Rainboom is out. I came to this thread for some over-critical TLDR posts about it, now where are they?
 
Animation was pretty darn good. Everything else was.... it was alright.

sorry mason, i'm just not a super critical person
 
Carlos said:
Come on folks, Double Rainboom is out. I came to this thread for some over-critical TLDR posts about it, now where are they?
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Yeah, heard about that. Not all that gun-ho about seeing it. The "first fan-made episode" doesn't really look like show quality, and thus in my mind, it's just an extended fan animation rather than a "fan-made". Not that it's a bad thing, but I think there's too much hype behind it.
 
BTW, I'm trying to get caught up on Digibrony's stuff, and I just watched this, and it's pretty relevant to the discussion... that's now a few days old and a few posts back.

 
Haven't posted here in like forever...
Ok REALLY late on this, but I liked the season 3 finale. I just wish the problem wasn't resolved so quickly. :p
I found the songs really good and catchy though. Especially the "My cutie mark is telling me" & "A true true friend" songs. XD

For the Cutie Mark swappings, I found them interesting. For example, Rarity hates getting wet and the cold and now she suddenly has to control weather. Fluttershy hates performing in front of others, now she has to entertain. Pinkie Pie loves parties and having fun and then she has chores to do. Applejack hates formal attire and now has to make dresses. And Rainbow Dash has only had Tank for her pet so she lacks knowledge of animals compared to the mane 6. XP

I don't think Twilight becoming an alicorn will ruin the show; I actually think it'll be very interesting. =P

Also, I love these versions of "My cutie mark is telling me" songs:
This one sounds creepy but the inverted color has some cool looking effects: AJ looks like a Colt, the waterchute now looks like it has blood (Sweet Apple Massacre has opened...) and Rarity looks like she's bringing hell to Ponyville. XP

Colt version of this sounds awesome. And I can actually imagine the Mane 6 looking & sounding like this if they were Colts lol

I actually like the Colt versions of most songs, you guys should check them out. =P