Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for February 02, 2013

Unicorns on roller skates. My day is now complete.

You just know they’re pink with sparkly laces, too. :)

Yes Pheebs that’s a roller SKATE not those fancy new Inline Blade deals you’re used to. Marigold may be as old as the heavens and the stars and the Earth its self but her heart is in the 60s by the time you have grand kids she’ll be blading when they are hovering. Though a skate for a hoof is in its self a wounder I suppose so Maybe she’s not out of date as much as she is just not human, but your giving that the same look you gave the Jazz record. In a way it’s better Vasily this way, as an Ice skate would not have been as fun to wounder at (or draw) Next Question though, Is Marigold in to rinks with music and organized paned activity or is she more of an outdoor, do things your own way , skate on whatever you find in your environment type?

Also now I want to see her Surf, Ice skate, ride a bike, hula hoop on her horn, skate board, hang glide, scuba dive, ride a segway,hacki-sack,fly a kite,play hockey, ride a unicycle, dress like a flying ace,ride a scooter,drive a go-kart,and teach Phoebe the unicorn invention of ridding in side a bubble.

I would never have though to imagine what a unicorn’s roller skates would look like. I love this strip.

That’s an interesting design. It won’t handle uneven surfaces very well and what does she use for brakes? She could use her butt or tail I suppose. Those are fetlocks and pasterns ujean. The ankle on a horse is called the hock, its the angled joint halfway up the leg. Equines run around on the very tips of there fingers and toes and have extremly long foot and hand bones. Those joints just above the hoof corrospond to your finger and toe joints. The wrist is located where you expect the knee to be halfway up the front leg.

Now there’s something you just don’t see everyday; a unicorn on roller skates.

I’m interested in how she’ll move in them.

Then have fun unicorn!

I’d like to know how she ties the laces.

Ok I can scratch “See a Unicorn in roller skates” of my bucket list

Probably bought them somewhere is Diagon Alley.

When I was a kid rollerskates and skate boards had metal wheels mounted on ball bearings. They made a terrible racket on pavement with a lot of vibration, and had an appalling tendancy to stop dead when any crack or bump was encountered. I was never able to stay upright long enough to master it, not to mention all the jeans I tore up from the frequent crashes.

how does she tie all those laces?

Ha! When I was a kid, ball bearings on roller skates were fancy-shmancy hi-tech.

Fasten eight? Unless she grows more legs she can only fasten four.

Hmm… Erich Kästner had a roller skating talking horse – Negro Caballo, yes, he was black, yes, very original name ;p – in The 35th of May