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I have a theory that Spike will now stay smaller than other dragons his age longer than a normally developing dragon would. In this episode his accelerated growth was triggered by his dragon greed, a situation which was reversed when he then psychologically blocked his own greed impulses in order to stay with his pony friends. Thus as long as he continues to live with the ponies he cares so strongly for his growth rate will be drastically reduced, though not halted completely. Herculine (talk) 05:09, March 25, 2016 (UTC)

An interesting theory. Of course we know next to nothing about how dragon aging works-judging by the one from Dragonshy we know that they live for a really long time, but little else. I mean, Spike is apparently considered a baby despite being fully capable of speech and taking care of himself to some degree-makes you wonder what scale they judge on. Also, anyone else curious why we haven't really seen Spike's adult form or a similar design used since?--Voltron23 (talk) 23:24, May 24, 2017 (UTC)

fifteen and fifty[]

I assume the latter measurement derives from the former title "Attack of the 50 Foot Dragon" though we might consider perhaps one reason that title was abandoned as they thought Spike was a different height than that? ...

However we also have a section called "Attack of the fifteen-foot dragon" ... plus the image there has a caption reading "Spike already fifteen feet tall."

The only reference I can find to that number in the transcript is AJ's "Come on Spike! You've already thanked me fifteen times!" which I don't think has anything to do with his height.

I can't find any terms in the transcript like "feet" or "foot" or "ft" while the only "tall" is Spike saying "totally delicious".

I'm worried that this use of 15 might be non-canon fancruft?

Probably chosen for the alliterative appeal and then taken too seriously?

Transcripts/Secret_of_My_Excess does not include this (transcripts on this wiki seem to focus mostly on dialogue and not narrating unspoken details) but I did notice that prior to Spike saying "so sorry" in this Neoseeker version is this note:

[seeing his cupcake flying through the air he extends his tongue several feet in front of himself to catch it, then notices Cheerilee sitting on the ground with her groceries scattered about]

This makes me wonder where that "several feet" measurement comes from: did a fan make it up, or is this possible an official transcript from authors that holds some kind of authority? Tycio (talk) 19:22, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

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