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I think of the episode this way: It was a concept they came up with waaaaay back in Season 1 before they'd cemented Spike's characterization. Rather than just scrapping it, though, they just wound up pushing it waaaaaay futher along like they did with Magic Duel, only unlike Magic Duel it wound playing in a season where it really didn't make much sense.


 
So if we take the show's sort of anachronistic episode order for Seasons 1 through 3 into account, I just assume that this particular adventure took place quite a bit earlier into earlier into Spike and Twilight's stay in Ponyville, before the kid became the Hero of the Crystal Empire. That's my head canon and I'm sticking to it.

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I think of the episode this way: It was a concept they came up with waaaaay back in Season 1 before they'd cemented Spike's characterization. Rather than just scrapping it, though, they just wound up pushing it waaaaaay futher along like they did with Magic Duel, only unlike Magic Duel it wound playing in a season where it really didn't make much sense.

So if we take the show's sort of anachronistic episode order for Seasons 1 through 3 into account, I just assume that this particular adventure took place quite a bit earlier into earlier into Spike and Twilight's stay in Ponyville, before the kid became the Hero of the Crystal Empire. That's my head canon and I'm sticking to it.