@Cyan Lightning Pony #1DE6”:/images/709974#comment_3588078  
It almost true that celestia is a regular horse

very nice

Celestia and Twilight seem confused by the naked white guy, with colored ribbons tied around him, just standing there.

@Narlepoax III  
There is no official thing that indicated them as a pony nor a horse, it’s up to you and your headcanon if you wants to call them a horse or whatever you want, i am calling them including Celestia a horse because they are a lot larger than average pony there.

@CyanLightning  
That they look different is not a good train to jump to the conclusion that they are actual horses.

@Narlepoax III  
Well it’s like saying that human and chimpanzee is the same because we have some similarity with chimpanzee.

@CyanLightning  
It was never mentioned or implied that the Saddle Arabians are a different species to ponies.

Well this is a horse.  
 
and this also a horse.  
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Is this implying Celestia is a horse?

@aperture_tech
 
That pic is comparing a foal neck down to a foal standing with neck straight up.
 
That’ll skew the end results, the ponies will be a tad shorter then they would normally be.

@aperture_tech  
What’s that say about you?

Thanks based mods, keeping the plebs in the discussion and the patricians out.

@thiscommentthread
 
Meanwhile on derpibooru.

@Narlepoax III  
Holy shit, I was angry when I wrote that.

@Dragonmage  
Oh, for god’s sake. Why is the most popular defense for battered headcanons also the laziest, most contrived one possible?
 
“You don’t know! It’s a fantasy world!”
 
Shut your mouth or offer an alternative. Comparing our realty to theirs is literally all we can do. It’s not a stretch in any way to make the assumption that one foot equals one foot.
 
And by the way, the concept of small ponies was popularized by the title of the show, not some piece of mediocre fanfiction.

@aperture_tech  
The fact that most measurements come out to this, and the consistency between different ways of creating measurements has convinced me long ago that those are their approximate heights.

@Dragonmage  
Lol MLD was fucking trash, only reason it got popular in the fandom was it was an earlier fic.  
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this is where people get the correct idea, this puts all arguments to rest.  
#BTFO

@Dragonmage  
Well it’s better than trying to make them the height of actual horses, and given how agile they are, and how they don’t break things due to their massive weight, it’s a safe assumption they’re small, that and the name of the show is my LITTLE pony (ponies are already inherently smaller than other horses, so to be a little pony is really small) Lets face it, aside from their cartoon strength on occasion, do they seem horse sized? Have you ever seen a horse accelerate as quickly as they do? NO, because a horse has far more inertia. Do they seem afraid of severely hurting each other by accidentally stepping on each other? No, because they don’t weigh 1,100 lbs! on average.
 
Also, they’re speaking english, all their words mean the same things, a foot (unit length) has a definition regardless of language anyway, it’s already safe to assume an equestrian foot is an earth foot. Would it satisfy you if Twilight said that 1 meter was one 299792458th the distance light travels in one second?
 
 
@PonyPon  
I know right?

@Dragonmage  
Pretty sure some measurements were calculate before that.
 
And c’mon, Little Ponies? Isn’t that a clue right there?

@Narlepoax III  
@aperture_tech  
What are they using as a matching point though? The assumption that human feet and an Equestrian foot are the same? A passing estimation by Twilight about a candy cane? The overactive imagination of some party pony with the assumption that the numbers on the wall must correspond only to a certain measuring unit?
 
Unfortunately I believe many of the people who do these charts are carried away by the notion of tiny ponies–made popular by My Little Dashie.

@Techy Pony  
It seems most size charts that actually rely on math, rather than gross estimations and vague conjecture, puts them at around a meter.

@bigladiesman  
I did a size chart once and it came to about that height (the chart involved actual numbers from a ruler in the show!), which matched my personal headcanon which involved a bit of proportion scaling (head size) and selective measurements…due to ulterior motives though.

@Techy Pony  
About 1 m. tall (Between 91 and 110 cm. to be exact) more or less using metric system… A medium sized-large dog. My headcanon matches this.