Flash Sentry, meet your (possible) ancestor. This is Flash Magnus.
 
Flash Sentry: HOLY SHIT!!! This BADASS is my ancestor!?! Man, I need to step up my game here! Fast!
 
Good luck. You’ll need it…

Dat animation.

@Philweasel
 
le gasp :P

@Background Pony #A75F 
I try hard to resist, but sometimes the temptation to be a giant duck is just so strong…
 
…yes, yes you will. You will have to buy all of them, even the terrible one about the dragons. Do it, do it now.

@Background Pony #A75F 
You don’t need to. The comics are kinda like the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for the show. :j

so now i have to read shitty comics to understand what is going on in the show ? WTF ?

@RIG  
Ah, okay.
 
I’m just happy we get to see more of this guy. I like him. Of course, I like most of the main stallions and quite a few of the background ones, but that’s neither here nor there.

@Philweasel 

 
Strong male characters! 
Not enough of them in this show.
 
Though, this scene is giving me flashbacks to Shadowgate on the NES where you have to get yourself away from a dragon.

@Anon-a-Miss 

 
I must be spending too much time on youtube, I went to up-vote this comment and found the buttons non-existent. Super excited to see Flash Magnus in an episode!

@RIG 
Right, also the internal development stuffs. :3

@Revenant Wings 
No, they had season 7 scripts and wrote stories based on that, that means these characters were created for the show first, but appeared to the public in idw first. Basically a sneak preview for the show and not idw’s originals.

@Revenant Wings 
There was that thingie at the end of the Shadow Lock arc many assume will have an in-show appearance.
 
Obviously, most of the FiM references the comics make are rather brief and often fall through the cracks, which is just a part of being story elements from the comic, lel.
 
Though, I’d say that mostly applies to future in-show references, comics set after an episode go a bit farther into their references from the respective episodes, which is also something the comics do; build upon the established premises derived from the show; obviously with mixed results. X3

Is… is IDW becoming canon?

@Anon-a-Miss
 

@thps48 

 
She does. I’m really looking forward to her comic now. I wonder if it will come out before the episode?

The Egyptian chick looks cool too. :3

The most important question right now is: Will he be voiced by Vincent Tong?

I really like Flash Magnus. Sure, he’s not super exiting, nor endearingly flawed like Rockhoof, but it’s nice to see a brave, intelligent male solider with a heart of gold, kicking ass and rescuing cute baby griffons.

@cheezedoodle 
It’s a curse

I’m uploading it to Youtube, but processing is stuck and I don’t know why.

@LadyTheRainicorn 
It’s not a leak. It’s a new – OFFICIAL – Discovery Family promo.

@MuttonBash 
A leak

Seriosuly where is op getting all these high quality screenshots?