
| Anonymous #7249 1 year ago |
Oh god why the hell are people pestering Faust with this? As much as she appreciates the attention, people sperging out of over stupid details (that we shouldn't expect young girls to keep such consistent track of) is going to have her understandably more bitter. |
| Anonymous #7261 1 year ago |
That rely wasn't a good answer. So what dose the engine DO? And why doesn't she like trains? |
| -Eli- #7262 1 year ago |
Wait can someone ask her about the ponies' diets? In the latest episode "over the barrel" Pinkie-Pie says that they were vegetarians, but in "fall weather friends" she mentioned how she likes her hot dogs… |
| Anonymous #7266 1 year ago |
Basically This: Hi, question for Ms. Bellamy. In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Poor Faust, she's a champ to answer it though. |
| Anonymous #7268 1 year ago |
Gotta make the money somehow and dealing with creeps is number one. That and DA! Hello! |
| Anonymous #7271 1 year ago |
@eli
you can make hot dogs with soy |
| Anonymous #7282 1 year ago |
If she didn't want to answer the question, she could have ignored it. She's CHOOSING to answer these questions, and it's really nice of her to do so.
That said, I'm totally cool with having ponies pull the train because it made me laugh, just a little. |
| -Eli- #7294 1 year ago |
@anon 5
Oh yea… O.o (throws up) |
| Anonymous #7299 1 year ago |
The train was just a visual gag and another part of the show's schizo-tech. You might as well ask how Twilight had a ghostbusters mind-reading helmet and a computer hooked up to Pinkie, or why they sometimes use candles and other times are clearly using electric lights. |
| Anonymous #7309 1 year ago |
Anon 3 you got that quote perfect i think that says something about you |
| -Eli- #7317 1 year ago |
Blah |
| Anonymous #7349 1 year ago |
But if they are soy hot dogs, then why raise pigs (Show Stoppers)?
Also, how was Rainbow Dash holding the candle? With hooves? I think not. |
| Anonymous #7369 1 year ago |
The engine gets the train moving initially and also for braking; the ponies themselves pull it once there's enough momentum. Simple enough, really.. |
| Anonymous #7395 1 year ago |
Just stick with the MST3K Mantra (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MST3KMantra) and if anyone still demands explanation for all the weird details, just say a wizard did it. |
| Anonymous #7398 1 year ago |
>>3593 |
| Anonymous #7517 1 year ago |
Four Horse Power Engine.
Explained, now shut up and enjoy your dang ponies. |
| Anonymous #7521 1 year ago |
Guy who asked the question here - I didn't ask this to pester her about a small detail, but because I like hearing the thought process that goes behind things like these |
| Anonymous #7634 1 year ago |
Obviously they found the rusted-out hulk of an ancient human locomotive, asked Princess Celestia what it was for, the answer being "Transportation!" But then, not knowing how to make a working steam engine, they just pull it with ponies. |
| Anonymous #7719 1 year ago |
Looking for logic, continuity, and sense in a show about magic talking ponies....that's nerds for ya. |
| Anonymous #7903 1 year ago |
Yep! There's no engineer and no smoke coming from the stack, thus nothing being burned in the main chamber. But there's still steam coming from the whistle.
Want an explanation? Someone found pictures of an old-West train (also explaining the Old West town designs and styles of speaking, plus the verbal anachronisms). The engine's there because the pictures show it's there, even though no one knows how a steam engine actually works or what it's for. ALSO THE ENTIRE WORLD IS POST-APOC AND THAT'S WHY THEY USE MAGIC TO REGULATE THE ENTIRE ECOLOGY AND CAN'T DEAL WITH CLOUDS AND ANIMALS AND TREES THAT MANAGE THEMSELVES PANT PANT PANT FROTH -XD |
| Anonymous #11204 1 year ago |
I read an idea about this, basicly after megan came into the world, humans kinda force themselves in, tried to conquer the land and settled, destroyed paradise estate and were eventually driven out by the ponies after a long time. The physics of the place made transistor based technology difficult and such a pastiche of ancient and modern technology was created by the human settlers, which when they were forced out just left behind, leaving the ponies with a bunch of technology they didn't understand. Also, human messed up the sky and the current sky was made by Celestia to keep the ponies alive. Thus, a war with the humans kills most males (making the population recovery of them difficult and long), reduces the sky to smog (making celestia need to use her magic to make an artificial sky), leaves a bunch of random non-transistor technology lying about (leaving the ponies to use or misuse what they left) and finally eliminate all references to humans, even if clearly human elements are present (the saddles, the cups with handles, etc.)
There more to it, but I don't know where the rest is...... |
| Anonymous #28114 1 year ago |
dudes It's a kids tv show, don't over-analyse it!, just enjoy it and you all are gonna live longer.
totally agree with anon12 and anon16 |
| Anonymous #107424 1 year ago |
i think the engine provides the electricity of the train or something :P |