Celestia is tired of sending her student to fix things. Now it's time to get personal.

edited 7th Feb '13 11:41:48 AM by Blissey1

I want to know how to make plishies. I imagine it's deceptively simple when you know how to properly make a pattern.

Pony plushies would be interesting, but I also kinda want to make one that looks like Riki.

Making a plushie is pretty simple, if time consuming. Now making a plushie look GOOD, on the other hand...

There's a reason some of them sold for 3000+ dollars.

And that ones that aren't one-of-a-kind can still go for $1000-1500.

edited 7th Feb '13 12:13:59 PM by KuroiTsubasaTenshi

Three...thousand?

I'm never gonna get a good custom plushie, am I?

Syd: Over 3000 are the one-of-a-kind novelty ones like the 49" Dashie. If you look hard enough, there's people willing to make pretty good looking ones for 200-300. 500-600 will net you a main six from White Dove, although she always has a bit of a queue. There's also Pony Plushies, which do bulk from a custom pattern for 85 (the catch is the bulk part makes their stock have a rotation of availability, and they only do two of the main six at a time). Not the best out there, but still quality.

I'm not surprised White Dove has a waiting list. Her plushies are amazing.

Hi people!

Do you think Celestia have changed? I mean, a thousand years ago, she turned Discord into stone and banished Luna to the moon. This time she got softened and tries to reform villains and such. Kind of "Celestia from New Testament".

Nah I'm sure she'd still do the old stuff. If Luna didn't reform I don't doubt it that Celestia would send her back to the moon. If Discord didn't reform he was going to be a statue again. I figure she's pretty much the same.

Edit: She even gambled the wellbeing of the Mane Six and the Crystal Empire just to teach Twilight a lesson.

edited 7th Feb '13 12:40:24 PM by Badwolfwho

there's a fic based on that premise that involves modern Celestia getting replaced by Discord era Celestia, who is a lot more Good Is Not Nice

edited 7th Feb '13 12:42:46 PM by Blissey1

Maybe.

But they have a chance of doing a flashback episode showing a "hardboiled Celestia" and how she become more "human" along the past 1000 years... because of loneliness.

edited 7th Feb '13 12:42:05 PM by osias

@Bad You sure? I mean, just look at Luna. Her social skills were in stasis for 1000 years, and when she came back she was doing everything that she knew royalty was supposed to do back before she was banished. Presumably, Celestia would have had a similar public persona back then.

edited 7th Feb '13 12:42:59 PM by PerpetualLurker

I'm still trying to figure out what about this upload would lead some (anonymous, of course) poster to call me a d**k.

My sister and I once made a plushie for our mother back when we were young. It wasn't the most symmetrical thing, but it was functional. Of course, it was a rabbit and pretty flat.

@EDIT: We know that the sisters have changed a lot. They don't even lookl the same. And yeah, Luna was acting as was expected of her in her time. Honestly, I think that Celestia was still an adolescent when she banished Luna.

edited 7th Feb '13 12:51:57 PM by Sereg

It's really open to interpretation because there's hardly any evidence one way or the other.

I do like to think that, when Nightmare Moon first showed up, Celestia wanted to redeem her from the get-go, but didn't have enough power to purify NMM while wielding all the Elements of Harmony herself. Banishing NMM was purely a plan B. Even then, "After 1000 years, the stars will aid in her escape" was a deliberate part of Celestia's spell—the entire banishment was a long gambit on Celestia's part to find new Element-Bearers and redeem her sister.

@ Lurker: I'm not saying she'd have the same persona. I'm saying I think she's still keeping the same line. If Luna didn't reform I don't she'd sit there and say, "Welp tried my best here's Equestria". She'd try and send her to the moon or whatever. If Discord didn't reform he was going immediately back to a statue.

I think it would be nice to see the mane six shocked in discovering a past "mean celestia"

I like my "I'm usually quite nice, but don't *bleep* with me" Celestia.

-is skimming through the thread, sees prices plushies go for-

You know... I've always wanted to learn to sew...

Making some of the custom plushies definitely takes talent. I'm not sure if I have the coordination for it, and I would certainly need to know a lot more than I do now, given that I don't even know how to knit.

I'd be surprised if the Apples didn't use them, and I could see it being a thing for drifters and adventurers — at the very least, those carrying a decent amount of gear.

While it's probably Coconut Effect, it's not that far out of the question anyway. A normal unshod hoof looks like this.◊ Unless the horse is heavy enough (and ponies are a good deal smaller) or the ground soft enough to press the entire hoof in, an outer wall imprint will still look vaguely like horseshoes.

As for Celestia, my favorite interpretation is the one from Ambassador's Son: that Celestia used to be a stereotypical ruler, but thinks Nightmare Moon happened because she personally overdid it (and might be correct, though it's never elaborated). Her current propriety and approachability comes from guilt over that, and over time resulted in a surprisingly recent golden age in Equestria.

edited 7th Feb '13 1:02:10 PM by Pykrete

It just occurred to me, if you could go and touch a pony's coat, would it be like a normal horse's? I mean would it be a bit soft and stiff like a normal horse, or more fur like? Also, would a pegasus have softer and lighter coats? Ignoring the fact they shouldn't be able to fly in real life, they could have a hollow bone structure similar to birds with featherlike hair to help get themselves off the ground. Eh, I'm taking this too scientifically, they're magical multicolored talking ponies.

I like to think these ponies have softer, silkier fur. Because hugs.

Well, the size of a pegasi's wings isn't even really enough for them to glide, let alone fly, and they're far too resilient to be hollow-boned(That said, Dash remains the only pony we've seen thus far to have any real injuries - Twilight's wheelchair doesn't count because she was out of it inside a day). Personally I think they just use magic to fly. Whether or not that would affect their fur... I mean in theory, once you're i nthe air you still have to take into account aerodynamics. Perhaps they would be be-plumaged. Beyond that, I can't see any reason why a pony's coat would be any different from a horses... except perhaps for the use of coat-care products changing it. I dunno, do real horses ever get a good shampooing?

Regular horses are totally good for hugs◊

edited 7th Feb '13 1:29:23 PM by kegisak