Before Alicorn, what did you call the mash-up of a Pegasus and a Unicorn?

[HelloGoodbye]

I only really use alicorn in relation to FiM.  Since we were really little, my friends and I have had a "system" for categorizing unicorn pegasus hybrids.  If it's horn is more prominent than the wings, it is a Unipeg.  If the wings are more prominent than the horn, then it is a Pegacorn.  Pegacorns tend to be more common 

[True]

As a kid I called them fakies because real Hasbro ponies did only have a horn OR wings.
Till this day, I still don't like them that much.

Kinda feel the same way lol, theyre fun to draw, but I feel like its a bit much? xD like you can fly AND use magic?

[OLumeVaSti]

A winged unicorn. I actually never really thought about it.

[sd_dreamcrystal]

80s kids. Anyone remember a picture book, featuring a winged unicorn named Whisper?
Think that was the name. I had several of them from my school's book fairs.

Whisper was partly the reason why I used the term Winged Unicorn

Post Merge: May 04, 2014, 09:12:38 PM

As a kid I called them fakies because real Hasbro ponies did only have a horn OR wings.
Till this day, I still don't like them that much.

Kinda feel the same way lol, theyre fun to draw, but I feel like its a bit much? xD like you can fly AND use magic?

Well technically speaking, while Hasbro's has magic.. who says that non-Hasbro ones have magic It might just be used like other animal horns in fighting/defense without the magic part

[True]

Thats true SD. I think for me its just that MY personal experience with unicorns has always had some magical property attached to their horns xD. to me the horn kinda is like a wand i suppose? that might be a little silly rofl. also my whole harry potter love sort of backed it up, since they used unicorn hair in wands. rofl even though that was the hair and not the horn but whatever rofl xD

[ponycake]

They're all pretty awkward to me, I'd stick with pegasus and not distinguish that it had a horn. Alicorn works though, so now that.

[Rachel-Eyes]

I like the word pegacorn best. I think it's cute!

[Beldarna]

I called them unipegs.

[kellyponyfeathers]

I used "winged unicorn" too, and still prefer it.  I was always a little confused about the term "alicorn."  I'd heard it refer to both a unicorn's horn and a winged unicorn.  (Not that I heard it very often.)  So I wasn't sure which was the correct meaning.

Yes, I remember Whisper the Winged Unicorn and still have my childhood books; great series for kids!  There's also a FANTASTIC book called Catwitch that refers to unicorn horns as alicorns.  It's actually kind of a big deal in this book; alicorn is supposed to be the key ingredient in a spell, but no one knows what it is.  Great book if you can find a copy:  witches, wizards, cats, unicorns, fairies, gypsies, great story and AMAZING illustrations; what more could you want?

And I remember buying a little ceramic winged unicorn whose tag said "Pegacorn."  I thought it was cute, so I continued to use the name for that little figure.

[Ice Crystal]

I wasn't involved in any MLP communities pre-G4 and hadn't heard the term alicorn until I started collecting, so I think when I saw an alicorn depicted in art and such I just called it a unicorn haha. Unless it was called something else, like what you mentioned with Pegasus in Sailor Moon. Pegasus was always a name to me until MLP, not a species, so horses with wings were just flying horses.

[moonflower]

Before FiM I used to call them unipegs.

[DemureGirl]

Pegacorns of Alicorns but mostly winged unicorns. I used to modrate an online horse game where you could breed pegasus and unicorns (but not unicorns of the winged variety). Can't remember the first time I heard the name Alicorn but it was a long time before FIM.

[Rhubarbpie]

Winged unicorn and I also prefer winged horse over Pegasus and Pegasus was a specific winged horse. *shrugs*

THANK YOU!!!! Yes Pegasus was the name of the flying horse in the Greek legends. If he'd been called Bob would we have called them Bob's as a species???

Back on topic, I think of them as winged unicorns or Alicorns, Twilight Sparkle and Cadence are Winged Unicorns. Celestia and Luna are alicorns.

[Zapper]

I have always called unicorns with wings "alicorns" and so did other people I know. I was kinda baffled most people here weren't aware of this habit and thought FiM invented the term.

[Roseprincess1]

I called them winged unicorns..or "Swift winds" because that was the name of She-ra's horse.. and he was the only winged  unicorn id ever seen before mlp 4