Quick rundown on the Flim Flam brothers:
 
>Fancy Pants bows to Flim Flam brothers  
>In contact with EqG world  
>Possess immeasurable charm and quicktalk abilities  
>Control Equestria with an iron but fair hoof  
>Own castles and banks kingdom-wide  
>Direct descendants of the ancient alicorn bloodline  
>Will bankroll the first cities on the moon (Flimflamgrad will be the first city)  
>Own 99% of tonic research facilities in Equestria  
>First designer foals will in all likelihood be Flim Flam foals  
>Both brothers are said to have 215+ IQ, such intelligence in Equestria has only existed deep within magic monasteries and forbidden library wings  
>Ancient zebra scriptures tell of two ponies who will descend upon Equestria and will bring an era of enlightenment and unprecedented technological process with them  
>They own technology R&D labs around the world  
>You are likely using a Flim Flam patent right now  
>The Flim Flam brothers are in regular communication with the Windigos, forwarding the word of harmony to the Royal Castle. Who do you think set up the meeting of the Elements of Harmony and Nightmare Moon (first meeting between the two parties in over 1000 years) and arranged the ascension of the Elements’ leader to alicorn status just a short time later?  
>They learned fluent Prench in under a week  
>Nation states entrust their gold reserves to the brothers. There’s no gold in Ft. Knyx, only Ft. Flim Flam  
>The brothers are about 7 decades old, from the space-time reference point of the base pony currently accepted by our society  
>In reality, they are timeless beings existing in all points of time and space from the Big Bang to the end of the universe. We don’t know their ultimate plans yet. We hope they’re benevolent beings.