Talk:Hearth's Warming Eve/@comment-84.194.42.17-20130508123352/@comment-5288784-20130508124213

I think, that it's not necessarely a continuity error.

In a show, a current flag of Equestria was probably used, possibly because the flag design from that time has been forgotten.

There are probably other simplification in the show. Like: do you seriously think, that each ruler would go searching for a new land itself with only one pony to accompany them? A more likely would be, if a whole tribe, or at least a significant parts of them would go, but you can't honestly expect such mass scale exodus to be fully represented in a theatre, so a metaphore has been used.