Pony Topic Alert: Where does the land of "Equestria" take place?

[Atmos Duality]

I feel as though some unspeakable force kicked my brain over the rainbow.

What the nelly...

 

[Gigatoast]

All I know is that it's near rolling distance of a place called "Filly-delphia". And I have a feeling pony reproduction involves some form of stork-man.

 

[Aidinthel]

Unless other countries have Gods. What if there is a neighboring country with the Clockwork King? Where all the technology comes from? That would make much more sense, as the idea of a tech nation has been used in fiction for a while now.

That's certainly a possibility, and would go pretty far towards addressing the balance of power. But still, the Sun. Maybe each nation could have its own deity that takes over for a specified section of the world's orbit, or something.

All I know is that it's near rolling distance of a place called "Filly-delphia". And I have a feeling pony reproduction involves some form of stork-man.

I'm pretty sure Fillydelphia is just a city within Equestria. And re: pony reproduction, see the excerpt from Lauren Faust's DeviantArt comments that I posted higher up the page.

 

[merck88]

*snip*

That. was. awesome.

Welcome to the Escapist. And, possibly, the Herd.

Thanks and thanks! Glad you enjoyed it (I had a brief moment of inspiration).

Now as far as reproduction, while the creators imply that it's through the usual method...there does seem to be several instances of clones in the background.

So anything is possible...

 

[hotsauceman]

It all takes place in either
A: Lauren Fausts mind
B: A pony raiser who got Bonked in the head OR
C: ITS CARTOON SHOW!!!!!! THATS LIKE ASKING WHERE LAND BEFORE TIME TOOK PLACE.
sorry.

 

[Aidinthel]

ITS CARTOON SHOW!!!!!! THATS LIKE ASKING WHERE LAND BEFORE TIME TOOK PLACE.

A) It's fun to speculate.
B)I had originally planned to respond with the directions Littlefoot's mother provides to the Great Valley, but then I found the Land Before Time Wiki (of course there's a wiki *rolls eyes*) which has this to say: "One popular theory holds that the location of the Great Valley is in Northeast Utah, in a place now known as Ashley Valley."

So, um, yeah...

Since the thread has been necro'd I'm editing the Escapist FIM user group link into these old posts:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/MLP-Friendship-is-Magic
I recommend that anyone who joins turn chat notifications off when prompted as group chat tends to be quite active.

 

[Jessta]

I like the Doctor whooves take on it personally (youtube doctor whooves and assistant if you haven't seen it, it really is quite good)
An alternate universe where instead of bipedal humanoid the basic shape for intelligence was quadruped Equine.

 

[PureIrony]

No offense, but I kind of stopped trying to deconstruct the magical land of Equestria when I realized they had door handles.

Door handles.

 

[Aidinthel]

No offense, but I kind of stopped trying to deconstruct the magical land of Equestria when I realized they had door handles.

Door handles.

Funny. That's when I started to deconstruct it. To quote my earlier (much earlier, in fact, since this thread was necro'd) post:

I'm inclined to say post-apocalyptic Earth. That's why so much of the technology is hoof-unfriendly: the ponies are imitating the relics of human civilization without fully comprehending them. Also the thing with the train being pulled by a team of ponies; the locomotive is probably non-functional because they just copied the form. Like those cargo cults that were created on some small Pacific islands during WW2 and built replicas of aircraft from bamboo.