@ScootsRiver  
Well they’re better than Thorax’s new look at least.

I like these designs.
 
Come at me.

@PonyPon  
Hungry like a vampire,feeding like a parasite.

@Magic Man  
Wait so did some them actually lose powers? Sucks to be them, I guess.

@Background Pony #8861  
The throne was only in the castle, it wouldn’t have helped them capture the others.
 
@OneOverTwo  
I’m calling them Litelings.

@Magic Man  
intersting. maybe their forms are in a sense more chaotic?
 
would personally think they are STILL shapeshifters. wouldn’t make sense for that to just go away.
 
also i am SO god damn glad they gave a reason to how beings like celestia, luna, tiwlight, and cadance oculd be just captured like this. the throne

@PonyPon  
I don’t think they really did, mostly I was guessing.  
If they did lose their ability to shapshift they’d better come up with a new name fast. Weird for a species to still be called “changelings” if they can’t change.

@OneOverTwo  
did they say they had more?
 
And its not like anything else about them made sense.

@PonyPon  
Well I don’t see why they would lose powers if they have more energy than they had before. That’d be weird.

Fangs gone… and butt wings??

I think that I can get used to the new changeling designs, but thorax’s redesign is just god awful.

@OneOverTwo  
Are they even still shape shifters, what point would there be to it now?

Reading people’s complaints gave me an idea for an OC.  
Like one of the Changelings is dissatisfied with their new look & takes advantage of the fact that they’re shapshifters to look like the old form.
 
_{So how soon are we going to name all of these visibly different from each other changelings?}

HAH!! CALLED IT!!!. CHANGELINGS DO HAVE A THIRD PHASE AFTER LARVA AND IMAGO!!!

@PonyPon  
I prefer the better dark changelings. They had more mystery and creepyness, let aside their good background. This… Eww! Looks too vomit-inducing, in a hilari-bad way.
 
It’s kinda sad I’m now enjoying this show by snarking at it rather than when I fully enjoyed it. At least Season 5 I still enjoyed the episode for what they were.

@northern haste  
What about the two without horns?

@PonyPon
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiqej4lGgoY

@soundtea  
Like any other thing that lives?
 
I’m being dismissive on purpose.

@PonyPon  
I’d take that over being hungry forever.

@Magic Man  
Oh great, they even have their overall abilities diminished.
 
This is the kind of ‘upgrade’ that would be unpopular in a game.

Do you guys notice how some don’t have wings or a horn.
 
Oh my god, Unicorn, Earth and Pegasus Changelings! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

@Tomson  
Glimmerwing Ponies - in honor of the pony who helped them.
 
King Thorax Glimmerwing. Kinda has a ring to it.

@Joshua  
Ah, we’ll live.

I think the other changelings look rather cute. Can’t say the same for Thorax, but I can’t really complain much since they don’t even get much screentime. Much like the Mane6’s rainbow power forms from the season 4 finale.

Changelings are colorful and have gems in them now. …yeah, fudge it, why not?