Talk:Sunset Shimmer/@comment-24208499-20131207110722/@comment-4589864-20140120212222

Still, who/what would build it that way? It would be next to useless! Was performing an arcane ritual, reciting a password, or using some kind of magical key system out of style or something? And this can't just be some physics-breaking anomaly that's triggered by moonlight/starlight, either. Both ends of the portal (the mirror and the statue) were constructed, and thus artifical. It was deliberately made that way. That is, so that whoever used it was at risk of being stranded on the other side for an extended period of time.

It makes me wonder why Princess Celestia would let anypony, even her star student, anywhere near the mirror! That thing's practically a death-trap for unicorns! And if Twilight Sparkle's any indication, then even alicorns aren't immune to the transformations caused by the portal. So what magic user in Equestria could possibly find any use travelling to the human world, where magic doesn't exist? Why would Princess Celestia even allow that thing to exist, let alone in her own palace, except to be used as some kind of Phantom Zone-esque prison for unruly magic users?