How the hell do you walk on hooves, with these bendy legs?!
Those bendy legs are known as 'fetlocks'. The forehooves can rotate further than the human arm and have more turning joints than the human arm. This is how ponies on the show pick objects up with their hooves. The back hooves work more like a human leg, about the same amount of turning joints but still rotate further than the human arm.
2078660 Now let's see you drastically change how you walk and move, and turn it from a two-legged gait into one for four legs, no feet, and way more points of rotation than should be possible for an equine?
2078761 Well, actually... real horses have almost no range of motion outside of that which is required for moving place to place. The MLP equines have a very different leg set up from actual horses and other equines. In fact, the actual reasoning for their range of motion (especially Pinkie's) is entirely fanon. It could be extra joints, more flexibility to the joints that are already there, flexible bones that magically 'lock' into a configuration if needed to provide support for something, a 'no joints, just limbs made entirely of muscle) set-up, or simply that they are actually modified versions of bipedal limbs, changed by magic into something designed for walking on and supporting one's weight with. The options are varied and often not looked into at all.
As for me, it changes story to story, but my most common one is simply that the joints are way more flexible, with arcane nerves running along the joints to allow them to stand stiffer if needed for walking, lifting, etc.
Also, I know what fetlocks are, my Aunt lives on a ranch and breeds horses. I may not remember all the terms, but I can keep up with most of them. And they don't usually work that way.
Anywho, I'm running on no hours of sleep, so sorry if this seems snippy. Not my intent, just trying to be informative.
Those bendy legs are known as 'fetlocks'. The forehooves can rotate further than the human arm and have more turning joints than the human arm. This is how ponies on the show pick objects up with their hooves. The back hooves work more like a human leg, about the same amount of turning joints but still rotate further than the human arm.
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Now let's see you drastically change how you walk and move, and turn it from a two-legged gait into one for four legs, no feet, and way more points of rotation than should be possible for an equine?
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I never opposed the idea, I was only telling you how Equines fetlocks work.
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Well, actually... real horses have almost no range of motion outside of that which is required for moving place to place. The MLP equines have a very different leg set up from actual horses and other equines. In fact, the actual reasoning for their range of motion (especially Pinkie's) is entirely fanon. It could be extra joints, more flexibility to the joints that are already there, flexible bones that magically 'lock' into a configuration if needed to provide support for something, a 'no joints, just limbs made entirely of muscle) set-up, or simply that they are actually modified versions of bipedal limbs, changed by magic into something designed for walking on and supporting one's weight with. The options are varied and often not looked into at all.
As for me, it changes story to story, but my most common one is simply that the joints are way more flexible, with arcane nerves running along the joints to allow them to stand stiffer if needed for walking, lifting, etc.
Also, I know what fetlocks are, my Aunt lives on a ranch and breeds horses. I may not remember all the terms, but I can keep up with most of them. And they don't usually work that way.
Anywho, I'm running on no hours of sleep, so sorry if this seems snippy. Not my intent, just trying to be informative.