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Wild Mass Guessing for My Little Pony in general.

Guesses for specific generations or series:


Humans are the source of all evil!
Or, more specifically, humans are the source of the "villainous" entities in the Ponyverse. The Talesverse lacks both humans and the frequent assaults of said villainous entities. As both continuities are set in an explicitly magical universe, it could be argued that humans somehow subconsciously generate the evils when in an area with magic. In fact, one could conceivably do some Arc Welding and say that at some point between the two series, humans were barred from Ponyland specifically because of this trait....
  • Actually, compound that: Some humans (mostly female) did not want to leave. So, they consented to being turned into ponies themselves! Morphic Resonance allowed them to manipulate objects with their forehoofs...
    • That's plausible, after all, Ponyville was founded by Earth Ponies, and everypony in My Little Pony Tales is an Earth Pony.
      • Though unicorns appeared in "Up, Up, and Away". And in the slumber party episode, they tell a story which is not only implied to be true all along, but seems to take place during the G1 cartoon.

If Hasbro creates a new My Little Pony movie, it will be a Human-Focused Adaptation due to Executive Meddling
The human involved would either be Megan from the G1 cartoons or an Expy thereof.
  • Hasbro plans to release a MLP movie in 2017. It has yet to be revealed whether or not a human character would be featured.
    • If a human character does show up, I hope it's Megan.
  • All of the above has been Jossed. It's a movie set in the Friendship is Magic continuity.

The different generations are set in a series of alternate worlds similar to the The Legend of Zelda timeline
The fourth generation is what would have happened if Firefly had never found Megan in the human world in the first generation pilot. Subsequently, Tales is what would have happened if My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic's Mane Six had failed to defeat Discord in the second season. The third generation is what will happen if the Mane Six fail to stop Starlight Glimmer in the upcoming fifth season premier.

All generations are in the same continuity and together form one long timeline.
After the events of the original specials and series, tensions started to grow among the three sub-species of ponies, leading to the earth ponies splitting up from the unicorns and pegasi and forming a new society inspired by Megan's descriptions of her own world, overtime building a new nation in the image of what human's would recognize as a modern town with knowledge of magic and the other tribes eventually turning into legend and their members being seen as "alien" by the earth ponies. This was the world of My Little Pony Tales.

But unfortunately, an unknown disaster struck that drove the earth ponies, unicorns, and pegasi out of their old homes and lead to them having to colonize a new area with the survivors of the mysterious disaster briefly crossing paths for first time in ages, only to once again part ways and set up three settlements and different parts of this new land, just far enough away for them develop over a few generations while still remaining more or less isolated from each other, until they finally started to regular contact with each other again for the first time since Dream Valley, throughout the event of My Little Pony (G3), beginning a new era of unity.

This new unity would sadly not last however, as another series of misfortunes struck that lead to the unicorns having to devote most of their magical energy into keeping the very Sun and Moon into orbit and the pegasi had to become increasingly militant to protect this new civilization from outside threats while the earth ponies were stuck with doing most of the minimal labor. Over the years this new system would create increasing gaps of inequality with both unicorn and pegasi beginning to see themselves as superior to the others thanks to their role in insuring the survival of their species, while seeing the earth ponies as little more than peasants to do the jobs that weren't worth their involvement. This lead to rapidly growing resentment of among the three tribes, leading to the events of the first Hearts Warming where Windigos, fuel by the ponies' own hatered for each other drove the ponies out of their home, forcing them to learn how to work together for their survival and founding Equestria on the principles of kindness, generosity, loyalty, honest, laughter, magic, and most of all, friendship.

Equestria is Tambelon.

Supposedly the land now called Equestria was ruled by "Grogar" until "Gusty the Great" and her band of unicorns defeated him and stole his bell. Grogar was a G1 villain who used his bell to bring the dimension in which Tambelon resided close enough to Ponyland to conquer the latter. The first clue that Tambelon approached was that the unicorns that "winked out" in Ponyland "winked in" in Tambelon. Ringing the large bell found in Tambelon would defeat Grogar and return Tambelon to its proper place. So it is likely that Gusty (the name of a G1 unicorn) and her band crossed over to Tambelon and used Grogar's bell to bring the dimensions close enough for the other ponies to cross over. This explains a number of quirks that arise when comparing the G1 Ponyland to the G4 Equestria.

  • Tambelon was known as a 'realm of darkness'. The reason why unicorns had to raise and lower the sun and moon, and the reason why their spring event had more to do with making spring happen than celebrating that spring had arrived (as was done in Ponyland) is because the Ponies are terraforming Tambelon.

  • Both Ponyland and Tambelon have magic, but they are likely different sorts of magic. As new unicorns were born in Equestria, they likely had to change in order to draw their magic through their new realm. This would explain why the unicorn-specific magic in G1 was teleportation, but is telekinesis in G4.

  • Flutterponies needed a very specific environment in which to thrive in Ponyland. They may have been utterly unable to find such a place in Equestria and, as a result, devolved into a tiny species not even able to survive on their own - the Breezies. The reason why the Ponies are so patient to create the right environment to allow Breezies to continue to exist (whether they are still taught this or not) is the debt of gratitude accumulated from all the times that the Flutterponies saved their butts.

  • Most locations have their own versions of one thing or another. For instance, each continent of Earth has its own primary Big Cat species, which are similar to each other because they occupy a similar ecological niche. Equestria has the "Buffalo", designed with a strong Native American vibe and a sense that they occupied the land first. They are probably the native hooved-sentient-animal species of Tambelon. This also explains why we are missing several Ponyland species such as the Bushwoolies, the Furbobs, the Stonebacks, even the Moochick; they stayed behind. Meanwhile, new species that didn't appear in the G1 series are probably native to this new realm.

  • Going back to the idea of magic changing from Ponyland to Equestria/Tambelon, it is most likely that the Elements of Harmony came about from the Ponies attempting to adapt the Rainbow of Light to Tambelon's magical system. Both items use the rainbow coloring/theme, and both are clearly stated in their respective series' to be, specifically, important magical defensive systems for the ponies' realm. It could be that the entire idea of MLP:FIM comes from Celestia theorizing how to utilize the Rainbow of Light in its new, confusing, color-specific form and thus recover an important artifact of their native realm.

  • This even explains why any realm with humans is accessed through a more complicated means than "the other side of the rainbow" and why we don't have a G4 "Megan"; Tambelon as a dimension is further away from Earth, and so the convenient rainbow pathway does not exist.

Of course, unanswered questions include why the Ponies crossed over, how many of them crossed over, and whether this was a colonial expansion or a refugee flight. Unless we gain any clues as to what happened to Ponyland, these questions must become potent fuel for fanfiction.


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