The magic trick is revealed to be practice in anticipation of Princess Celestia's visit with delegates from Saddle Arabia, and Twilight is in charge of the entertainment. The animals happily fly around in the air in the shape of an infinity symbol, and safely land on the ground. The animals glow with Twilight's magic and fly in the air while Fluttershy starts biting her hooves. Twilight assures Fluttershy that it will be okay and uses her magic to lift the animals. However, the animals appear to be excited about helping Twilight with her trick. Spike tries to calm the yellow pegasus, but she is frantic about the safety of her animal friends. Some of Fluttershy's animal friends are there, and Fluttershy tries to tell them not to be scared but gives Twilight a sudden warning if anything happens to them. In Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle and Spike are over at Fluttershy's cottage. When Rainbow starts to panic, then it's an emergency. The mare walks slowly to the amulet and an evil smile is reflected onto the glass dome.

' Would you like that gift-wrapped?' - Shopkeeper When she indicates that this is what she's looking for, he warns her that the amulet is far too dangerous, but is quickly convinced to sell when she tosses a big bag of gold bits onto the counter. The shopkeeper identifies it as the ' Alicorn Amulet', describing it as one of the most mysterious and powerful magic charms. Stepping behind the counter, he surmises that something powerful drew the customer to his shop she points to an amulet inlaid with a crimson gem kept under glass on the shelf behind him. A stallion, who is the shopkeeper, comes out and asks if he can help her. She begins to rummage around the shop until a small candle is lit. One rainy night, a hooded mare gallops into an empty marketplace and enters a darkened curio shop.

This section may require copy editing for grammar and editorializing. Larson mentions in an interview that a few of his jokes were cut from the episode, for example Trixie asks to see the 'revenge section' of the curio shop and the shopkeeper replies 'oh, right over here.' Holly Giesbrecht wrote on Twitter that 'a few' of her layout scenes were cut. A scene including the line 'Stop that' spoken by Mayor Mare was cut from the episode despite not having a speaking role in the final version of the episode, the Mayor is still listed in its credits. Material cut from the episodeДЄt one point, Rarity had the line 'Madness!' after Trixie turned her dress a combination of army green and neon yellow before Pinkie Pie ushered Rarity away like James Brown. When the episode's writer was asked about the origin of the name 'Alicorn Amulet', he replied that it was called the 'Unicharm' in all of the episode's scripts, but 'someone somewhere along the way changed it to Alicorn'. The post was taken down from the blog within a few days after the episode aired.ДЄt the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International, Hasbro Studios' vice president of development Michael Vogel hinted that Trixie would be returning in the third season, saying, 'I think we're not allowed to say, but I can tell you that I would expect, uh, come season three, we'll maybe see some great and powerful stuff' in answer to a question about Trixie and Gilda. The file name of the alley sketch identifies them as being part of Canterlot. In early 2012, a blog titled 'phils portfolio' posted production art of the alley and curio shop, each in both sketched and finished forms. While the location of the alley and curio shop introduced at the beginning of the episode is not specified in the show, one of the show's layout artists who worked on the episode recalls the script identifying it as Canterlot.

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