Technology in Pony Life
It's no secret that presence of modern technology is kind of a big and intentional change between FiM and Pony Life. While the first Equestria Girls movie had Twilight puzzling over how to use a vending machine, a computer, and a copy machine, (all difficult tasks to a creature who only recently discovered how fingers work, I'm sure) Pony Life is very different. The Mane 6 can regularly be spotted playing around on tablets and smart phones, taking selfies, and laughing at friends posts on social media.
If Applejack's fantasy's are any indication in the recent episode 'How Applejack Got Her Hat Back' then technology may be even further advanced in Pony Life than FiM beyond mere personal computing devices. She's shown flying an airplane, driving a fire truck, and implied to have taken a rocket ship to outer space!
The most advanced forms of transportation in FiM were typically trains (usually coal-fires but occasionally pulled by a team of stallions) and airships (Usually powered by magic, but also coal fired in the case of the Storm Kong's fleet). Most other travel was accomplished with wagons and carriages pulled by ponies or old fashioned sail boats (though more modern ships were seen in Manehatten). There was never anything like a car let alone a rocket ship, and most air travel was by some kind of balloon. This was because FiM was very much a fantasy setting with more modern elements creeping into the story when some place needed to seem more cosmopolitan than a 'little town' like Ponyville.
Pony Life seems to be very different and have a level of technology not just analogous with modern human technology but possibly entirely synonymous with it. It's unclear how much of Pony Life technology is magical versus electrical/battery powered as of yet, however. As noted, FiM had steam engines and probably internal combustion engines in larger cities, but while electricity was evident in some episodes others had the ponies living life by candlelight.
How advanced the infrastructure of Equestria was seems to have depended on who was writing a given episode. Pony Life On the other hand has television, and Pinkie Pie seems to comment on her preparations for her reality tv appearances every episode.
Do you like the more advanced level of technology in Pony Life? Does it make the situations and characters more relatable? Do you miss the 'fantasy but with modern flair' level of technology that FiM has? Or were airships and wagons just too archaic for you to enjoy and ruin your immersion?
Submitted July 02, 2020 at 10:39AM by TheKnackerman
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