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I’m really curious about this… Is it just artistic representation of the unicorns, pegasi and earth ponies getting the crystals, or were these actually ponies picked by Twilight to watch over their respective crystal?

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Background Pony #704A
Does this image ever show up in the movie? If so, does anyone have the timestamp? I can only find the scene in the movie where the Pegasus and Unicorn are shown, but not the Earth Pony.
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Silver Dis-Astḗr
Vamponies(flutterbat) and bat ponies(thestrals) are not the same. Lauren or Meghan actually had a back story for them; something to do with Luna meeting them in the Canterlot mountains. I remember looking into it years back.
Larson also wrote out a scene for them in the hundredth episode but had to cut it do too time constraints. Not to mention there numerous appearances in the comics that I’m aware aren’t canon but considering all of that including there popularity in the fandom I strongly suspect “Bat ponies” to make an appearance in G5 to some compacitity.
One of the main themes of G5 is exploring and reuniting Equestria while dashing prejudices and Bat Ponies would make the perfect edgy species that everyone would be unanimously creeped out over right next to the Changelings, and Dragons which would be terrorizing than creepy.
Many of Faust´s ideas were rejected by HASBRO (or even worse, micromanaged through executive medling); the song “Art of the Dress” in S1E14 was in part a disguised “protest” against this interference & was mainly the reason she stepped down from her “creative” position for season 2.
Larson had to quickly “replace” Amy Keating Rogers in the task of making a new script for the 100th after her original proposal (a “Tour of Ponyville”, rather than a wedding) was discarded entirely; since she HAD to take her days of vacations right then or lose them, she was “unavailable” to redo it again.
Instead they switched places, with her doing his scheduled script for “The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone” [S1E08] since it required more time anyways to develop all the aditional griffon puppets & specific Flash assets.
He had less than 2 weeks to “do the research” on the “famous” background ponies (by rewatching many episodes) & to think how to include some of the fandom references [going by the notes of Rogers].
-> The director Jim Miller and/or the “animatics supervisor” removed some scenes with any ideas that were already rejected previously (extending other scenes to complete the runtime, like the one of Vinyl & Octavia making a song); since Larson had no prior knowledge of this “conversations” with the HASBRO´s liasons (handled previously by Faust, Rogers & Rob Renzetti].
For G5 it is likely the case that non_pony races would not even appear for the first 2 seasons (already scheduled for production by Atomic Cartoons); so having “variants” of pegasus ponies that actually DO follow some of the “bad stereotypes” (agressive & “ugly”, but not actually violent or monstrous) would be interesting.
The New Pony

Im ah Beeeeaaast
Vamponies(flutterbat) and bat ponies(thestrals) are not the same. Lauren or Meghan actually had a back story for them; something to do with Luna meeting them in the Canterlot mountains. I remember looking into it years back.
Larson also wrote out a scene for them in the hundredth episode but had to cut it do too time constraints. Not to mention there numerous appearances in the comics that I’m aware aren’t canon but considering all of that including there popularity in the fandom I strongly suspect “Bat ponies” to make an appearance in G5 to some compacitity.
One of the main themes of G5 is exploring and reuniting Equestria while dashing prejudices and Bat Ponies would make the perfect edgy species that everyone would be unanimously creeped out over right next to the Changelings, and Dragons which would be terrorizing than creepy.
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@Argamis
What of the Bat ponies? Or are you only counting the confirmed “pony” races?
The “batponies” on the first Nightmare Night episode (“Luna Eclipsed” [FiM_S2E04]) were just ilusions/shapeshifting.
-> Just like Princess Luna herself looked like Nightmare Moon near the end of that same episode.
The “Flutterbat” (“Bats!” [FiM_S4E07]) is an artificial magical chimera (like the magical beasts kept on Tartarus); it was made through the combination of Arcana & (whatever_non_magical) “psychic” power THE STARE is (Angel Bunny could talk & fly with Fluttershy´s pony body + cutiemark, but still did not had this “hypernatural skill”).
-> Flutterbat did not had an unique, distinct “type” of magic like the other “pony races”; but rather her ability to “corrupt” apple trees was a combination/fusion of the “pegasi” weather_magic (flying/cloud_walking) & the “vampire” hunger (lifeforce_draining); similar to how “alicorn magic” is made from 3 (¿4?) types of pony magic (rather than being its own distinctive “thing”).
Background Pony #CB47
Does the angles of the sparkle around the gems kinda look almost….familiar to anyone?
Iron Storm

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I’m guessing there Twilights friends that she passed the gems too. The Earth Pony reminds me if a female Big Mac. They could be the descendants of her friends or even the CMC’s.
The New Pony

Im ah Beeeeaaast
why where all the magic of these ponies contained in these crystals?
 
@neo4812  
@Shimmering Spectacle
yeah but why? what happened in the past that made her want to contain all pony magic in 3 crystals?
 
Actually it was confirmed in one of there presentation articles that the G5 movie takes place in a different region of Equestria not explored in G4.
 
A bigger question to me is why does Sunny’s father have so much information and so many artifacts dating back to G4’s time which at this point is ancient history most of the pony population is oblivious too. HE HAS ONE OF TWILIGHT’S FEATHERS and that’s just crazy!
 
We have a Netflix Special and 2 seasons with 26 episodes a piece on the way to find out.
 
According to a Russian licensing expo from 2019 but becuase of the pan D plans could have changed.
 
2021 - Theatrical Movie[Now Netflix]
 
2022 First Half - 44 minute Netflix Special
 
2022 Second Half - Season 1 [1-13 Episodes]
 
2023 First Half - Season 1 [14-26]
 
2023 Second Half - Season 2 [1-13]
 
2024 First Half - Season 2 [14-26]
 
Yea there going full throttle this Generation with the plans. G4s success caught them off guard years back but they’ve gotten serious this go around.😅