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It makes perfect sense! One of the Time Lords was experimenting with a new kind of TARDIS. He built a remote control which would operate it. He did this hoping to merge his original TARDIS with this one in order to hide from the other Time Lords, because no one would ever thiink to look for him inside a rainbow! But he was killed by the Doctor before he could complete his work, and right when he was just about to test it. The handheld controller he made for it was lost and the prototype Rainbow TARDIS was left open. The last known setting he had put it on was set for Ponyland.
Hear me out on this one. The current, Sugar Bowl niceness of Dream Valley is actually a relatively recent change made by the ponies, themselves. Predating that, the various evil overlords, demons, and other borderline Eldritch Abomination monstrousities were in complete control. In fact, them and their empires were the population. The primary source of sports and reaction were constant wars of Evil Versus Evil. They usually held them on Tuesdays.
So this is why the ponies have to deal with so many villains all the time.
According to Hydia, the matriarch of the witches of the Volcano of Gloom, the sugary-sweet goodness that is modern Ponyland is a fairly recent development brought on by the ponies. Given how many Eldritch Abominations and other horrors hide under the surface, that makes perfect sense. The setting used to be a place where evil overlords ruled the land for centuries. Thus, we can conclude that Dream Valley was built over the site of ruined Mordor. The ponies migrated from wherever they lived originally, needed a plot of land to call their own, bought Mordor cheap from the Gondorians, and settled. I defy anyone to come up with a better explanation.
Each time she or one of the ponies passes through the dimensional rift between present day Earth and Ponyland, it allows dark creatures to cross into Ponyland. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.
- So where did Tirac come from? Firefly only crossed the rift for help to stop him.
- Unlikely, these villains have always lived in the world where Ponyland is. However, it does seem like a new evil always appear after the previous one is defeated.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
Despite what that one song might tell you, it is not a small world after all. If the ponies, glo friends, moondreamers, and potato head kids were all just in different places on the same map, it would certainly explain a lot.
- If it was another planet, then wouldn't that be Earth?...
- It leads to another planet FROM Earth and Dream Valley is on this other planet, namely Eternia.
The Baby Ponies are clones of their mothers (though Ember, Cuddles, Tiddly Winks, and Half Note were probably orphans), but Milkweed and Tumbleweed look so similar to Posey and Sniffles and Shnookums look so similar to Lickety Split. Maybe once the Big Brother Ponies returned, two of them mated with Posey and Lickety Split (yes, they are Big Brother ponies, but I don't think all of the ponies are siblings, I will think of another theory for this).
- Or, Slugger mated with Buttons to have Sniffles and Snookums, due to the Ship Tease they had in Somnambula. Lickety-Split and Tex could've had Milkweed and Tumbleweed together instead.
- This may be another reason Baby Lickety Split is jealous of the twins, because her mother gave birth to two of them while she was just a clone and wasn't raised as a newborn.
But not all of them. Like for example, Truly could be a little sister to one or more of the big brothers but not the rest.
Megan once mentioned she had parents, but they are never seen and don't seem to care about her going on dangerous adventures or having sleepovers in another world. Either they are very accepting of her other life, or are extremely neglectful and don't really care much about her well-being.
- Why would the Moochick let his own children be abused? Wouldn't he show complicated emotion when told about the witches and the Smooze, if the witches were his ex and daughters? He is absent-minded, but he's not stupid or evil. Precisely because he isn't evil, Hydia would not have mated with him. The only way he could be the father is if he were to have switched sides, which would explain the daughters not moving in with him — as they would probably have been told he was dead if he did so, but it's still a stretch. And because the Moochick and Hydia are the same size, the daughters are too tall to have much genetic possibility of being both of their daughters, especially Draggle. Even with recessive genes and mutations, Megan's size would be about as tall as Draggle could be. Besides which, there are other humanoids around Dream Valley, and there is nothing indicating Reeka and Draggle's father is still nearby or even alive.