horses be spooking

0:05 Oh HEY, you’re back from the sky survey, I see! Did you witness the Aurora Borealis explosion along your way there??

0:06 YEP, seems like we STILL got some important friendship pact making work to do. Whaddya, Princess?? Shall we enact the first edict of Equestria for today??

[without activity] Ponies/horses have a lesser dehydration rate than humans thanks to the fur (that limits passive heat dissipation through the skin by sweat).
My theory is that he had enough luck of floating under some rain after one or two days, drinking as much as he could & keeping some of the rainwater inside the “box” where the baloons were stored [ponies can turn around their heads & touch their backs with the muzzle, so he could drink from it].

@Background Pony #C7F3
It could simply be that it’s been so long, anypony who was alive back then is long gone and the history has been lost. That happens, especially when history is written with a very clear bias as is the case in the movie. Nopony remembers the station because nopony was alive when it was in use - it’s more accurate to say they simply never knew of it at all. Nopony remembers how they lost their magic because they weren’t alive when it happened, it’s simply always been gone.

Scream!

@ichiban iceychan 1517  

 
I’m pretty sure that’s for food. People can only survive without water a few days.
 
Not positive about little ponies though.

I’m so happy no balloons were popped in the movie =^.=

“He survived, but not intact. He has clearly lost his mind”

@ichiban iceychan 1517  
Woah, we can survive that long without water? I mean I know we can without food but water? I always thought it would be shorter.
 
Ponies are generally smaller than us so they probably don’t need as much as we do. It’s still fortunate that he survived, like the balloons didn’t get popped by sharp rocks or get stuck somewhere. :P

@Wayneponeth  
well according to studies t says that the average person is able to survive at least somewhere between 8 to 21 days without food or water.
 
But PONIES on the other hand…  
IDK if they can last that long x3

@ichiban iceychan 1517  
Oh no, I hope he at least had something to eat and to drink, and had some sleep. Good thing he survived. XD

#perfectlycutscreams

Moments before disaster.

@WyrmSpawN  
Considering the insurmountable number of characters and species throughout the franchise as a whole, we have no way of knowing until the continuation of G5.

@Background Pony #C7F3  
Maybe you should[believe in coincidences], this property is not as smart as i thought or you might believe currently.
 
Sometimes a spade is just a spade.
 
Years of speculating has taught me that much.

@WyrmSpawN  

 
No one believes in coincidences when it comes to movies where disasters and epoch-making events in advance remain unexplained. It is thus very strange that this bell - which by the way seems to be more visible than most others - appears at the beginning of the movie.
 
And at the end of the movie, we realized that it was not hatred, but fear that had made the ponies separate. Grogar`s magic is based on fear and hopelessness. The ponies simply had not fought each other or been in open conflict, when Alphabittle, Queen Haven and Phyllis are confronted with the loss of magic and the fact that they did not know about each other, they looked like they were waking up from a bad dream. Everyone had been obsessed with the idea of ​​fearing each other.
 
There are very, very few who are so magically strong that they can rival most experienced alicorns in knowledge and power - and we can rule out Discord. And even fewer who want fear from their enemies as subjects. Grogar is at the top of the list of suspects because it has become clear that there was collective memory loss along with loss of magic up to just a couple of generations before Sunny was born, perhaps even when Argyle was very young.
 
The loss of magic just happened. It does not happen naturally or as a result of the ponies’ own actions. So the bell can be very important.

@Background Pony #C7F3  
Because it was a prop in g4 and the movie has a whole room dedicated to such things?

@WyrmSpawN  

 
Why do we find Grogar`s bell in the movie …?

Generation 3 fans waking up from a coma be like

@QuirkyCapricorn  
I agree, he’s only credited as “Balloon Pony” at the end but at least Ivory Cedar is a real name!

Ivory’s voice actually sounds pretty dang adorable here now that he’s saying something aside from screaming. I hope he appears in the series, whether canon gives him a different name or not.
 
(I honestly hope they go with Ivory Cedar, that seems to be gaining steam in the fandom already, the crew of FiM made fan nicknames canon in the past, and I think it suits him.)

@Background Pony #C7F3  
Who’s this supposedly big villain, then?

@Glimenade  

 
The hidden station hall in Zephyr Heights and other places indicates that the ponies had not lived long with the loss of magic, because it is clear that a collective memory loss had occurred.
 
No one could remember how the magic disappeared, no one remembered that they had lived together until Argyle retrieved it, and no one remembered the localities that symbolized the community as something as simple as an airport for the use of airships. More and more evidence suggests that it had not been long, a couple of centuries at most. Not only had the ponies lost their magic, it seems that everything based on their magic as the pets and magical constructions had disappeared. With the possible exception of the crystals in Bridlewood - and the three crystals.
 
Technological developments show that the G5 Equestria may be one thousand years after the end of the G4 show. The earth ponies and unicorns probably had as advanced technology as the pegasi, but without knowledge and industrial capacity - possibly because the pegasi could take over the trade network after the old Equestria and “the Friendship Empire”, Equus`s response to the UN from the days of Twilight Sparkle - this will weaken. During the automatic testing, it turned out that the earth ponies have advanced remote control technology, but not communication technology.
 
There are strong indications that it was a hostile attack that broke up Equestria, and far more directly than previously thought. There are not many who could have as much magical power and knowledge needed to create a spell, and a clue in the lighthouse possibly identified the culprit. Perhaps more powerful than even the Twilight Sparkle that may have lived on until quite recently.

Now, if only they’d explain how and why they got split up in the first place.

@Background Pony #9BED  
Balkanization, am I right.