Tesla would be proud.

Celestia’s chocolate! Do not touch!

Star Swirl: Try it. Can’t hurt.  
He says while holding a potion that says ’Hyde formula.”

Miracle of Sound?

@Sjogre
 
After reading the comic, I’m convinced that Starswirl was inspired by a lot of the stuff he saw or the people (or ponies) he met to develop his wide repertoire of spells and so took some things back with him to stuff them at his leisure.
 
Once he was gone, the knowledge of how most of the stuff he brought back with him worked likely died with him. So you have a demoralised Celestia (who may not want to be reminded of things) and a no-longer-alive Starswirl (and his sealed library), and a bunch of stuff the ponies can use, but have no idea how to make themselves.
 
Kind of like the Imperium of Man in Warhammer 40000. They know how to use their tanks and what-not, but generally not how to actually build some of them. Probably took years to reverse engineer some of them.

@Background Pony #6C30
 
I see what you did there

@Symos  
So Starswirl invented a chameleon circuit?
 
Wonder if he had something against dragons, would explain dog!spike.

I knew that was her FAVORITE KIND OF MAGIC

@Background Pony #42BB
 
Actually I think some may have. My headcannon is Starswirl decided stealth was better so he designed the second mirror to change the traveler into something resembling a native. Probably put the 30 moons thing to prevent a relationship from devoleping too far.

@Background Pony #FD02  
And you use a reference to make this complaint.

I still haven’t read any of the comics, but I just finished fullviewing every image with the “Andy you magnificent bastard” tag and I’m convinced they must be a good thing.

Abuse of the Mirror!

So they didn’t have grapes, penicillin, chocolate, cameras, and phonographs before, but they had the techology/magic for a dimensional portal?
 
Does this mean ponies evolve very poorly? They had devices that took humans roughly little over a hundred years to devices that are much more compact, while it took them over a thousand years to make objects most countries saw roughly in the early 2000’s.
 
Something tells me that just because you like Bioshock Infinite and Fringe, doesn’t mean you should make a story out of it.

So, no one in these other dimensions wondered about the talking Unicorns?

Interesting…

@Sjogre  
again: TRAUMA

@RIG  
I… What?
 
My comment was directed towards Celestia not exploring the portal mirror that she still has.

@Sjogre  
maybe the heavy trauma of losing contact with “him” made her never return to that place? until she figured out how turn off Starwill’s spell (or maybe it broke itself), then she thought: “just like we capture our version of “him” in ice and he returned centuries later…maybe our evil selves also capture “him” and he returned too!”

@Mad Black  
nope. this was after discord. if it was before then the elements could nto work.
 
during these decades itseems celsetia and luna had that rift developing, the entire time too.

ha, the hide formula gives unintentional fuel for the discord is Star Swirl theory. :D

@PonyPon  
not likel.y this was a thousnd years ago. also all we are seeing is some steam punk like tech here anyway.
 
more than likely they got knowledge there rather than actual physical technology. though they used the knowledge to better udnerstand the universe and thus find easier ways to rape physics.

@Lawful Girly  
comics canon, though up ti interpretation i guess.
 
i tend to ignore the references……….. i feel that the references function a lot like songs in the episode. nondigetic i believe is the term. the references only exist for us to see.  
basically instead of the golden gun and dc references, they would simply be artifacts they found exploring another world.

@Background Pony #E0C6  
nope. perhpas a large part but you are not getting videogames and electronics like bases from 1920 fairs.  
this could explain why the tecnologh has a tendency for being ecletic. they get it from several soruces. yet they likely devloped a lot of it themselves, such as Bases, the pary canon, and airships.

@RIG  
Yes? That’s kinda my point. Celestia hasn’t used that time to continue what she was doing in this scene.

@Sjogre  
this happened centuries ago…