Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-27162776-20160318033956/@comment-4531340-20160322023251

@Ben: Perhaps that is just how ponies look when they're newly born, and they look like the Cake twins do (or how that one foal in The Mysterious Mare Do Well looks) only after being born for a little while. I mean, look at the image on Applejack's birth certificate in The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows, and compare it to her appearance in Apple Family Reunion.

Or they could've just decided they didn't like the old baby design, and so except for the Cake twins (who already had flash assets built and everything), the design seen on Applejack's birth certificate and Flurry Heart is what will be used going forward.