Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 22:55     Subject: Re:Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
No wings. Just ice cream and rainbows.



Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 22:33     Subject: Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
Of course
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 22:32     Subject: Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
Anonymous wrote:Just a moment. Why does the offspring of a unicorn and a pegasus have both a horn and wings? I believe if you apply the logic of Mendel and his peas, only 1/4 of the offspring would have both. Half would have some combo, and 1/4 would look like (gasp) a normal...dare I say it? equine.

Unless, of course, there was some averaging, so you could have 1/2 of the foals with tiny horns and tiny wings...

Do we know if either the horn or the wing gene is recessive? That would further complicate things.


Ooh, hello, fellow geneticist.
This discussion is getting interesting.
I believe Unicorns, being mythical creatures, do not have Mendelian genetics.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 22:13     Subject: Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
Just a moment. Why does the offspring of a unicorn and a pegasus have both a horn and wings? I believe if you apply the logic of Mendel and his peas, only 1/4 of the offspring would have both. Half would have some combo, and 1/4 would look like (gasp) a normal...dare I say it? equine.

Unless, of course, there was some averaging, so you could have 1/2 of the foals with tiny horns and tiny wings...

Do we know if either the horn or the wing gene is recessive? That would further complicate things.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 22:11     Subject: Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
Anonymous wrote:I say yes...


How do you know unicorns have wings as no one has ever seen one.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 22:06     Subject: Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
Anonymous wrote:But Cadence is a princess... I think all the royalty are alicorn (Cadence, Celestia).

Twilight was just a unicorn until she became a princess and then she got her wings. My girls would know for sure but they are both asleep.

I also want to add that I've watched way too much My Little Pony.


Where is the PhD of unicorns when we need answers?
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 22:01     Subject: Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
But Cadence is a princess... I think all the royalty are alicorn (Cadence, Celestia).

Twilight was just a unicorn until she became a princess and then she got her wings. My girls would know for sure but they are both asleep.

I also want to add that I've watched way too much My Little Pony.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 21:47     Subject: Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think the question should be, can you have a unicorn costume WITH wings? Unicorns don't have wings.


This. No wings on a unicorn


Well now here's the problem. Princess Cadence has wings. So maybe most don't, but the most well known to kids that age does have wings.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 21:46     Subject: Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A unicorn with wings is an Alicorn, able to harness unicorn magic and the flight of the Pegasi. So a unicorn costume cannot have wings.


So my daughter taught me from My Little Pony...


I also learned this from My Little Pony. My daughter thought I was an idiot when I asked her why Twilight Sparkle had wings now. I also have extensive knowledge of the Pixie Hollow fairies and how Elena got out of Sofia's amulet.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 21:38     Subject: Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
Anonymous wrote:A unicorn with wings is an Alicorn, able to harness unicorn magic and the flight of the Pegasi. So a unicorn costume cannot have wings.


So my daughter taught me from My Little Pony...
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 21:37     Subject: Re:Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
Anonymous wrote:Having several thousand unicorn posters in my room as a child of the 80's, (and I could draw a mean one, as well), I consider myself a bit of a unicorn expert.

Unicorns do not have wings.

A Pegasus has wings.

As PP stated, a unicorn with wings would be a hybrid of the two.

I will be available for further questions if need be.


Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 21:35     Subject: Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
Anonymous wrote:A unicorn with wings is an Alicorn, able to harness unicorn magic and the flight of the Pegasi. So a unicorn costume cannot have wings.


This is the correct answer.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 21:32     Subject: Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
A unicorn with wings is an Alicorn, able to harness unicorn magic and the flight of the Pegasi. So a unicorn costume cannot have wings.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 21:08     Subject: Re:Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
I had a unicorn Trapper Keeper and I traced it over and over again. Definitely no wings.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2017 20:49     Subject: Re:Settle this Halloween debate: Can you have a unicorn (be a unicorn) costume without wings?
Anonymous wrote:Having several thousand unicorn posters in my room as a child of the 80's, (and I could draw a mean one, as well), I consider myself a bit of a unicorn expert.

Unicorns do not have wings.

A Pegasus has wings.

As PP stated, a unicorn with wings would be a hybrid of the two.

I will be available for further questions if need be.


Your expertise is greatly appreciated, PhD in unicorn studies