understanding unicorns

[Crowning_Glory13]

Watching FIM Season 1 with my hubbie...yes he is a bronie. But he made an observation. Unicorns can move things with their horns...but why cant they move their own body. They can create force bubbles...but not fly or float. Yes they can wink/appear in another spot but no floating or flying....why?

[aellos]

Only Lilpip can do that. Hehe. I really don't know. Seems kinda impossible when you think of the physics of it.

[Tropical_Sunset]

Pumpkin Cake floats with her unicorn magic, actually!  I'm going to assume that some adult unicorns can do the same.

[Crowning_Glory13]

I totally have to re-watch that episode:) so is it like the scootaloo deal ehen some peguses cant fly?

[lemontwist]

I would assume it is just a difficult bit of magic to do. You can tell some "spells" require a lot of effort so it's probably like that. It must be doubly hard for ponies whose special talent isn't ALL magic, lol.

[Dragonflitter]

The Trixie episode, where Spike is making a list of the different spells Twilight can do, seems to imply most regular unicorns only have one or two particular talents (which reminds me a lot of the G1 unicorns, who each had only one special power, like making bubbles or making the wind blow or speaking mind-to-mind... well except for the ability to wink in and out, which they all seemed to be able to do). It was said that Twilight is a particularly powerful unicorn, so she can do a bunch of different things.

There's probably some unicorns out there where floating is their 'specialty'

Edit: It's super late at night and I'm half asleep, I hope I'm remembering the episode right lol

[Flickerswift]

They can float, if they've got enough magic power. Twilight Sparkle does it several times in the series. But she's like, the badest of the bad when it comes to magic. Most unicorns, like Dragonflitter said, are not that awesome and only get magic related to their talent. Except, they all get mage hand, apparently.

 

[sd_dreamcrystal]

The Trixie episode, where Spike is making a list of the different spells Twilight can do, seems to imply most regular unicorns only have one or two particular talents (which reminds me a lot of the G1 unicorns, who each had only one special power, like making bubbles or making the wind blow or speaking mind-to-mind... well except for the ability to wink in and out, which they all seemed to be able to do). It was said that Twilight is a particularly powerful unicorn, so she can do a bunch of different things.

There's probably some unicorns out there where floating is their 'specialty'

Edit: It's super late at night and I'm half asleep, I hope I'm remembering the episode right lol

Considering Twilight's special trait is magic, it's kind of given she can do more than normal unicorns.. I think. Rarity, like most, has an ability to control objects and make them float but she has gem finding magic which we've only seen her do. Sweetie Belle seems to be in the same boat as Scootaloo... we haven't seen her use magic yet (We have seen evidence for Scoot that she really can't fly, seeing in the Gabby Gums episode )

Pretty much I think it depends on Skill Level with the magic bit.

[mlpfan]

in episode 2 season 2 of friendship is magic(the return of harmony) twilight sparkle creates a bubble shield around the main 6 and floats them to the ground to protect them,

see this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI-bNEffdkw&feature=fvsr
posted the first one i found, please excuse the extra music.

Post Merge: April 20, 2012, 05:40:14 AM

The Trixie episode, where Spike is making a list of the different spells Twilight can do, seems to imply most regular unicorns only have one or two particular talents (which reminds me a lot of the G1 unicorns, who each had only one special power, like making bubbles or making the wind blow or speaking mind-to-mind... well except for the ability to wink in and out, which they all seemed to be able to do). It was said that Twilight is a particularly powerful unicorn, so she can do a bunch of different things.

There's probably some unicorns out there where floating is their 'specialty'

Edit: It's super late at night and I'm half asleep, I hope I'm remembering the episode right lol

Considering Twilight's special trait is magic, it's kind of given she can do more than normal unicorns.. I think. Rarity, like most, has an ability to control objects and make them float but she has gem finding magic which we've only seen her do. Sweetie Belle seems to be in the same boat as Scootaloo... we haven't seen her use magic yet (We have seen evidence for Scoot that she really can't fly, seeing in the Gabby Gums episode )

Pretty much I think it depends on Skill Level with the magic bit.

not true! in the rock dogs episode twilight sparkle showed she could find gems also, she said that rarity had showed her how she does it.

[KarentheUnicorn]

In the original G1 My Little Pony cartoon, Unicorns could wink out (disappear) and reappear somewhere else. This was sort of they're main magic power on the original show.

And I think Twilight Sparkle has disappeared and reappeared in an episode if i remember rightly?

In the original cartoon I think I remember a unicorn having trouble winking out. So MLP Unicorn's do have a history of being able to disappear and reappear. Maybe some Unicorns are just better at it than others.

[mlpfan]

In the original G1 My Little Pony cartoon, Unicorns could wink out (disappear) and reappear somewhere else. This was sort of they're main magic power on the original show.

And I think Twilight Sparkle has disappeared and reappeared in an episode if i remember rightly?

In the original cartoon I think I remember a unicorn having trouble winking out. So MLP Unicorn's do have a history of being able to disappear and reappear. Maybe some Unicorns are just better at it than others.

yes twilight sparkle can teleport herself, and with difficulty herself and spike as seen in different episodes.

[Dragonflitter]

I literally squealed out loud the first time Twilight did that, and shouted "G4 Winking!"

[Ivy]

In the original G1 My Little Pony cartoon, Unicorns could wink out (disappear) and reappear somewhere else. This was sort of they're main magic power on the original show.

And I think Twilight Sparkle has disappeared and reappeared in an episode if i remember rightly?

In the original cartoon I think I remember a unicorn having trouble winking out. So MLP Unicorn's do have a history of being able to disappear and reappear. Maybe some Unicorns are just better at it than others.

In the orginal show - and it depends on how far you go back the Unicorns had one talent like Fizzy and her bubbles and the ability to wink in and out - which was limited - they could wink only short distances - and only across open space.  Baby Ribbon was the unicorn that had trouble winking - and that was only winking back in - sometimes only part of her would appear, while the rest remained invisible.

In the pilot episode -- only Twilight demonstrated the ability to wink in and out and for that she had to say "I wish, I wish, I wish" however she seemed to be able to take objects with her like the rainbow of darkness, where in the show the unicorns couldn't carry anything while winking.

On the backcards, comics and books, however the unicorns had quite a bit more magic. Moondancer cast a spell on Cotton Candy to put her to sleep until winter because she ate her bluegrass and wildflowers, she also has the ability to glow at night.

Of course, in the books, comics and backards even some earth ponies can do magic - like Toosie making lollipops appear whenever she mixes up her words...

Unicorns show related abilities
Buttons - power to levitate things
Gusty - power to blow gusts of wind from her horn
Ribbon- Telepethy
Fizzy- Bubbles
Galaxy - can make her horn glow

[sd_dreamcrystal]

not true! in the rock dogs episode twilight sparkle showed she could find gems also, she said that rarity had showed her how she does it.

It's been a while since I seen that episode so I forgot about that It wasn't one of my favorite episodes anyway

[Filthy]

To me it seems that Twilight keeps learning new stuff as the series goes on. In the first season I think I remember her saying something about the 'winking' that she wasn't sure she could actually do it when she 'winked' herself and Spike somewhere. In season 2 she winks all of the mane 6 + Spike without any problems. She also mentions how Rarity taught her the gem finding thing. She keeps getting better at magic all the time.