Luna, your leg is now a truncated cone weighing about 6.5 kilograms. Plusminus. Or something. · 3:20am Sep 23rd, 2016
If you've spent enough time in this fandom, you'll probably know about the existence of those many attempts to put numbers to how little them ponies actually are. You'll probably have heard about pixel-counting and the infamous eight-foot candy cane.
As far as I've seen, results seem to vary around a height of 50-75cm height at the withers for the most common body type, which is shared by all of the main six. Except Twilight, that super special alicorn-shaped snowflake.
So, being the massive nitpick and petty tinhead that I am, I just spent two solid hours trying to work out how much a pony weighs.
Of course, the easy way would be rescaling a known equine of similar size, but if you are a massive nitpick and petty tinhead like I am, you will soon notice that our little ponies have different proportions. (*cough*, massive heads, *cough*)
No, I had to try and estimate body parts using basic geometric shapes to get some kind of total volume from which we can derive some kind of total weight.
Sound stupid?
Don't worry, it totally is.
These really stupid, really rough calculations give me a weight of about 30-100kg for those mini candy equines.
Figures on the Falabella, a type of miniature horse that is of very similar size, which can be looked up in five minutes, give us weights of less than 50kg.
If you ask me, it's that big watermelon head. Seriously. It's really big.
The point of all this? Well, there is no point. After being a massive nitpick and petty tinhead for several hours, I just feel like I have wasted some perfectly good time doing substandard work that's unusable for about anything.
So I wanted to share a little bit of that feeling with you.
Thank you for letting me waste some of your time.
No cats were harmed in the making of this rant.
Have a nice day.
