From my calculations of the size of this image it seems princess Twilight is 1.125x taller than Rainbow Dash.

@Background Pony #0C09  
…Breast? Oh, pony chest. Not boobs. Okay.

these two ponies are almost the such same height! Twilight Sparkle is higher… think about mane higher. and breast are a little thicker…

@James Rye  
If you’re referring to the episode where Twilight hatches Spike from his egg, it just looked like Princess Celestia was just walking by when she sees Spike pop out of the tower.
 
Also, that short exchange doesn’t really reveal anything about Princess Celestia’s plans for anyone. The only time you get an idea about what the Princess’ plans are is nearly 30 episodes later in the season 3 opener. And even then, it’s painfully vague. Nothing is developed until the last 5-10 minutes of the finale.
 
Take a step back and you’ll see that it’s not very good story telling.

Status quote is always preferable to a change for the worse.
 
We don’t know whether Twilight being an alicorn will make the show better or worse, but since for me it already feels like the show’s quality is declining as if Season 3, I don’t really see how it’s going to make things better. At best it’s an arbitrary change that does not address the problems I had with Season 3, and at worst, it will harm the dynamics of the main cast in a way that can’t be repaired.

@The Smiling Pony  
I’m sure Poland welcomed all the changes it got in 1939
 
… wow, that was really harsh. Still gunna post it because it proves my point, but I do acknowledge that that was a dick move on my part

I’ll never really be able to look at Twilight Sparkle as the adorkable bookworm when she towers over her friends. Making her physically bigger just seems out of character for her.

@Millennial Dan
 
Didn´t Celestia said so? And Lauren as well?  
Remember that Lauren told us that Twi´s dragon egg hatching test was ONLY for her to do and NO OTHER entry for the academy. So Celestia already knew before the avatar accident of Twi´s possible talents before she got ehr Cm. Why else would she be close-by, ready to jump in, etc?
 
And we also heard from the Writers that S4 will cover Twi´s fears and worries and how she works out being an alicorn and princess. Se final had 21:26 minutes:seconds total and had to do two stories with the Cm change/return and Twi´s alicornfication and coronation under ONE episode.  
And for that they did really very well. It was highly fast-paced and two episodes with same amount of songs but more dialog would have been nice, but they did made it work to have a red string as well as lots of continuity as well as some long-awaited fanservice for us. Cramped into less than 22 minutes, and yet, the huge majority did not hate, instead many liked or even loved it.
 
So yeah, i don´t think that was bad or poorly writing. Just good time management while trying to maintain the first 1/3 of a triple episode.

@Millennial Dan
 
Then you haven´t read how much about how many people critized season 3 13 episodes and glorified S2 (while compeltley forgetting that season´s weak episodes^^).  
So yeah, maybe not stalement but people already seemed to got bored with some stuff. They want continutiy but also change, like some liked Shy forgetting she can fly in Wb academy episode and others were disappointed that she didn´t followed her own lesson and could have saved one of her friends.

So RD is the little spoon now? :3

At least she still has her rounded muzzle. Egad! She did have a growth spurt.
 
Compare with this unicorn Twi.
 
>>47035

You know what would have been really great? If they had actually established the fact that Celestia had some crazy plan to make an alicorn Princess out of Twilight. Twilight herself seemed to have no idea this was coming. How lame is that? Don’t just flash a little book at us and then 12 episodes later say “Surprise, you’re a princess!”
 
We could have seen Twilight struggle with the idea, decide to accept it, and then work on becoming all of that. But no, it just comes straight out of left field for seemingly no good reason. Incredibly poor writing is what that is.

:shruf:  
Four seasons of slice of life with only millimetric character progression is a bit “eh” for me. This represents a sudden jump, a “change things up or else” scenario. Basically I’ll likely be happy if the writers acknowledge that some serious changes just happened and adapt to it.
 
There are only so many times Applejack can have problems on the farm, Fluttershy needs to get over her insecurities or Rainbow Dash feels the need to go fast. We weren’t really at that point yet, but this hopefully means we won’t because they change things up.

I still think the change is a bit soon for Twilight and the show itself but we are all going to have to wait for season 4.

@ClownDicks  
not always but when a show goes back to status quo after every episode it CAN get stale  
I say atleast wait until around 8-10 episodes of Season 4 are out before saying it is ruined.

@The Smiling Pony  
Not all changes are for the better. Besides, the show was nowhere near becoming stale.

@ClownDicks
 
I see that it avoids a problem of having a show go nowhere literally. I think there are problems that comes with the sort of direction MLP is going, but whatever. I’ll take TSP’s word for it.

@The Smiling Pony  
Change is good by definition?

@FlutterLove  
Good point.

@The Smiling Pony  
Simpsons being a glaring example

I, for one, welcome this development. Change is good and status quo is what drives most long-standing shows into mediocrity.

>>248739 I noticed as well.

I think the added size is to show the Earth Pony part of being a alicorn

@Millennial Dan  
I think it looks kinda like a bathrobe.  
At least from the front.

Did I mention I hate that dress?