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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: daffodil101 on November 26, 2016, 01:48:40 AM
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Did anyone else see this? Someone on the MLP facebook group posted it. It was designed by Ruth Bush, who worked for Hasbro, and she also posted some of her original artwork and designs for the playset from 30 years ago. I'd never heard of it before!
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Here's the link!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1242308942479772&set=gm.916792798451554&type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1242308942479772&set=gm.916792798451554&type=3&theater)
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Oh my gosh. That would have been amazing! It super cute!
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I never heard of this either, but I bet it was to cash in on either the movie or the sequel. I wonder if it got scrapped because Paradise Estate was already so expensive for families to buy, or whether it was more in the lines of how easily flutters broke (and putting them inside a building is not going to help with that).
It's super cute either way :)
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I saw this in a thread a while back. I heard that it and a lot of other ideas from that time got scrapped because of what was happening to the economy at the time. No point making all these toys when people wouldn't be able to afford to buy them.
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Oh my gosh, that is so cute!! :lovey: Now I wish that they never scrapped it...... :sad: I would've loved to own one!
It's so much fun finding out about stuff like this though!!
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I never heard of this either, but I bet it was to cash in on either the movie or the sequel. I wonder if it got scrapped because Paradise Estate was already so expensive for families to buy, or whether it was more in the lines of how easily flutters broke (and putting them inside a building is not going to help with that).
It's super cute either way :)
I saw this in a thread a while back. I heard that it and a lot of other ideas from that time got scrapped because of what was happening to the economy at the time. No point making all these toys when people wouldn't be able to afford to buy them.
Ruth thought it was possibly due to Hasbro deciding there was too many playsets and canceled it. Apparently the basic house was to be used for Fairytails as well. Of course there was likely several reasons for it not to be made
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I saw it in a pony fair thread! I would love to have something similar or a repro!
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OMG!! I love it!! :lovey: :lovey: :lovey:
That would have been very adorable...such a shame it wasn't made. :sad:
I would've loved to have had that for the flutter ponies...and a movie sequel, for that matter...
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Here's the thread from a couple of months ago: http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,380943.0.html
What's the name of the facebook group? It seems I can't access the link unless I'm a member of it, and I'm wondering if anything I haven't seen was posted. :)
One reason it was cancelled was probably as people have said, there were already enough playsets as it was. Also I think Hasbro might originally have planned for the Flutter Ponies to be a bigger thing than what turned out. They were heavily promoted in the movie, and the animation shows a huge swarm of them. But they turned out to be fragile, and probably didn't sell as well as Hasbro had expected (since there was only four new flutters the year after their release before they disappeared entirely).
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Here's the thread from a couple of months ago: http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,380943.0.html
What's the name of the facebook group? It seems I can't access the link unless I'm a member of it, and I'm wondering if anything I haven't seen was posted. :)
One reason it was cancelled was probably as people have said, there were already enough playsets as it was. Also I think Hasbro might originally have planned for the Flutter Ponies to be a bigger thing than what turned out. They were heavily promoted in the movie, and the animation shows a huge swarm of them. But they turned out to be fragile, and probably didn't sell as well as Hasbro had expected (since there was only four new flutters the year after their release before they disappeared entirely).
Good points. But don't you mean seven new Flutters?
The second set, plus the birthday party, slumber party and mo? Or am I confusing the dates they were released?
Ah well, makes em easier to collect anyway.
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You are correct! I forgot the slumber party gift pack! Hollywood and the birthday pack I believe were released during year 4 (although they may have been available during year 5 too).
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I love this, so cute.Shame it was never released.
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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!
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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!
:dropjaw: the "yarny" ponies in that last photo look so awesome!!!!!!! curse you hasbro !!!!
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I just liked her Facebook page :)
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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!
:dropjaw: 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...... :sad:
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....... :cry:
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I wonder what it looked like on the inside.
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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 :(
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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
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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 XD
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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 XD
touche'
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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!" :lol: Even the stuff that was scrapped is gold to collectors!
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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)