Never-produced G1 playset - Flutter Hideaway

[Mainsail]

Here's the thread from a couple of months ago: http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,380943.0.html

The pictures in that thread are such a tease!

  the "yarny" ponies in that last photo look so awesome!!!!!!! curse you hasbro !!!!

Oh my gosh, FURBOBS!! I've always wanted those to be made into figures because I thought they were so cute in Return to Flutter Valley, but I was very sad that they weren't made! Well, at least they were considered, I guess......

And a Seapony tub/fountain?? That would've been cute.

Looking at all the other stuff they had planned, wow, it's like a whole nother world for G1s! A world that will never get seen.......

[Leave a Whisper]

I wonder what it looked like on the inside.

[sd_dreamcrystal]

I wonder what it looked like on the inside.

Ruth posted the concept drawings on a topic in a FB group, though I don't believe I'm allowed to link to that post

[Leave a Whisper]

I wonder what it looked like on the inside.

Ruth posted the concept drawings on a topic in a FB group, though I don't believe I'm allowed to link to that post

oh. i don't do facebook. what did it look like? i'm thinking i'd like to get a big, blank birdhouse making kit and decorate it to create my own flutter hideaway

[sd_dreamcrystal]

I wonder what it looked like on the inside.

Ruth posted the concept drawings on a topic in a FB group, though I don't believe I'm allowed to link to that post

oh. i don't do facebook. what did it look like? i'm thinking i'd like to get a big, blank birdhouse making kit and decorate it to create my own flutter hideaway

the concept sadly wasn't very detailed and and being the images are about 30 years old

[Leave a Whisper]

I wonder what it looked like on the inside.

Ruth posted the concept drawings on a topic in a FB group, though I don't believe I'm allowed to link to that post

oh. i don't do facebook. what did it look like? i'm thinking i'd like to get a big, blank birdhouse making kit and decorate it to create my own flutter hideaway

the concept sadly wasn't very detailed and and being the images are about 30 years old

touche'

[Haruna]

You know, I feel like when they find Flutter Valley in MLP: The Movie the flutter ponies emerge from houses vaguely like this one. It's been forever since I've seen that movie, though!

[northstar3184]

You know, I feel like when they find Flutter Valley in MLP: The Movie the flutter ponies emerge from houses vaguely like this one. It's been forever since I've seen that movie, though!

I keep telling myself I need to re-watch the movie, as I haven't seen it in probably 20 years. This gives me another reason to do so.

[Carrehz]

You know, I feel like when they find Flutter Valley in MLP: The Movie the flutter ponies emerge from houses vaguely like this one. It's been forever since I've seen that movie, though!

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[Haruna]

Ah, yes, Carrehz! That's what I was thinking of. I guess the play set is still a bit different, but there's a little similarity.

[BlushingBlue]

How charming to see that picture is still making its way around the internet. Getting the chance to view the "behind-the-scenes" artwork and prototypes and hear the designers' stories is the best part of the Fair for me. It seems like whatever they bring to share is always met with a chorus of "I WANT IT!" Even the stuff that was scrapped is gold to collectors!

[Lilja]

The flutter houses shown in the movie are in a vaguely similar style to the prototype. Maybe the background artists were shown concept sketches of it. If the playset was to be released and was fully designed I'm sure it would have been shown in the movie, just like the other playsets. But it seems like the flutter pony toys themselves weren't quite finalized when the movie was being made. Only Rosedust and Morning Glory appear in it (we see flutters that use the color schemes of the released toys, but they are all symbolless). So it's hard to say within which timeframe this playset was designed and scrapped.

By the time "The End of Flutter Valley" was being made, the playset had certainly been canceled, otherwise I'm sure it would have been showcased in some form in this episode. Speaking of which, I'm wondering if the furbobs were designed to be made into toys, or if that idea came later. (With the bushwoolies I'm pretty sure they started out as cartoon-only characters until Hasbro decided to make toys of them)