Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls/@comment-26973802-20141001165708/@comment-26973802-20141207041140

I think I can answer my own question here. Merchandise of the ponies "anthro" forms was released first, and since Hasbro's merchandise staff consists of monkeys, they screwed it up, and of course the animators had to go with it. I'm pretty sure it was actually supposed to be tails, because Applejack and Rainbow Dash refer to them as such in Rainbow Rocks, as does the book