Large-eyed flutters

[TWILIGHTCOOKIE]

All these pictures are making me fall in love with Flutters. Now I have to check mine and see what version mine are.

[LadyMoondancer]

This is completely fascinating to me.  Hasbro makes two flutter pony molds in large-eye / small-eye versions and then, one year later, makes two different versions AGAIN for the second set of flutters!

I'm just trying to imagine how / why this happened.  I guess someone has to sculpt the molds before they're used . . . Maybe two people were on the job and they each had their individual preferences, or . . . ?

I just don't know, but wow.

[hathorcat]

It kind of throws for a loop any previous explanations to do with simple progress on a manufacture year out the window. 3 clear versions/moulds of the first set was already awkward enough but now 2 versions for the second set is awesome! It must have been different factories - perhaps for when they were manufacturing for the two main different US and non US markets.

[Gizmo]

I wonder if all 4 flutter poses were sculpted and prepared together but two were kept aside for the year after? That could explain why both sets had the same variations.

[hathorcat]

Not all of the first year flutters however got a second year release (although they come in both variations) and both of the second year poses were only released in the same year. If they were released side by side a year to year difference is possible.