This chart should have used hands since that’s how you measure horses at the withers. Celestia is a hair over 12.1 hands tall according to this (normal ponies being just under 6.1 hh—that’s mini horse size for sure).

By measuring Angel’s height, Celestia IS 4ft 10. I am about 5 ft 8 right now and I’m still growing which means when I’m an adult… I WILL DWARF CELESTIA BY OVER A FOOT. KEHEHEHEH! TREMBLE B4 MEE CELESSTEEA! I WILL ROOL OLL UV EQUESTREEA AND BEEYAWND THE PLAN8 IT IZ AWN! KEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE!

oh, nice try. I missed this one.
 
but the parallel black lines should be aligned with the candy cane’s tilt, not horizontal. they should be tilted counter-clockwise somewhat, making the white line shorter than you measured.
 
thus making the ponies bigger than your estimate.

@Homfrog  
Thats also assuming that their measurement for feet is the same as ours, which considering they are from a different world is also a huge assumption to be making, given their hoof sizes may drastically differentiate from that of human feet.

@TenchiFreak5  
Twilight said it’s eight feet tall.

@Jack-o-Lantern  
Ponies evolved in the time between the end of G1 and the beginning of G4.

safe to assume they are blowjob height

What if she meant 8 feet along the curve?

One would think that since MLP: FiM is Flash animated that it would be as simple as asking one of the actual animators how big they are.

I’ve seen a few of these height charts, but what of width and length? How much would they weigh?

@Mattatta  
I wasn’t paying attention to the chart but now looking at it again it seems G4 ponies close to G1 height like my headcanon.

Some people are clearly not reading the results correctly.
 
As explained in the infographic, the real-life way of measuring a horse or pony’s height is to measure from the hoof to the withers, which is the equivalent to a shoulder. This measurement completely ignores the neck and head.
 
This means that Celestia’s height, if measured like horses are measured in real life, is around 4ft.
 
However, if she were to be measured from the top of her head all the way down to the bottom of her forehooves, similar to how humans are measured from head to toe, then Celestia’s height totals in at 6’3” tall.
 
I’m 5’11”, which means I’d be looking up at her if we were meeting face-to face. 5’11” is also a very average height, so a lot of you would be dwarfed by her, too.
 
I don’t know the average size of an full-grown horse, but I’d guess it would be over 6ft if measured from head to forehooves.
 
All in all, the person who worked on this did great with the calculations, and it was good of them to actually point out the flaws in their own calculations - too many people neglect to include any possible margin of error these, because they want to be right all the time.

Celestia’s the size of a small horse, and we round ponies down from there because she is like super tall.

@Obsessive Rarity Fan  
But the chart says that the main six are 3’8” and Celestia is 6’3”

As long as I don’t need to stand on a bucket to do ‘you know what’ with them I really don’t care.

i agree with the crazy rarity fan. i would think that maybe the people who make the show would be able to answer the question. instead of math used on an animated show. just cause numbers dont lie doesnt mean they have there own voice either.

no way, never, I refuse to accept that Celestia is not at least the height of a normal horse, and the mane six being less than 3’6”

I now know more.  
But srsly, celestia only 4 ft? That’s freakin short

I think somepony had said it was 8ft tall.  
However:  
Do we know how much of that 8ft is buried?

I always just assumed that their lenght from crotch to eyes is the same as humans’.

Assuming that the candy cane is 8 feet tall is a pretty god damn big assumption when the entire standard of comparison is based off of it. Is there any reason to assume that other than to come to a predetermined point?

We shall measure the ponies in Plank Length!

Not changing my headcanon.  

“This chart uses the metric system because it’s more convenient”
 
Yes, but we don’t use millimeters to measure things that are bigger than millimeters. :-)

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