Talk:My Little Pony The Movie/@comment-25139993-20180708164308/@comment-29981995-20180712192046

Real-world, we need to make a movie reasons aside...

Twilight has always struggled with perfectionism, and tends to zero in on one idea to the exclusion of all else. Those other festivals were much smaller scale that the Festival of Friendship is implied to be; it apparently involved ponies from all over Equestria. It's also hardly surprising that she felt overwhelmed by the threat of the Storm King, seeing as how his commander rapidly disabled Celestia, Luna, and Cadance leaving Twilight the only princess still capable of acting. She also has the greatest trust-at times misplaced-in Celestia's judgement, and Celestia's idea was "find the Queen of the Hippogriffs." As such, Twilight decided that doing so was the best course of action.

Could Twilight have gone to the Tree of Harmony and gotten the Elements? Maybe, but that's assuming that the Storm Creatures were only in Canterlot and hadn't invaded other areas of Equestria as well. As for the Pillars, they were presumably wandering all over Equestria, and who knows how long it would have taken to find them or even if they'd have been any more effective against the Storm Creatures. As for the whole transformation thing, it was only accomplished previously due to the chest that produced Twilight's castle; whether it's even possible for them to do so again has not yet been touched upon.