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Quote from: Deep Purple Crystal on August 16, 2016, 11:14:57 PM I also question why the Flutter Hideaway was denied being put into productionBecause the economic downturn that year (1987 I think) meant that parents would be tightening their purse strings on non-necessary purchases, and it wouldn't have made sense to put a glut of playsets on the market.
I also question why the Flutter Hideaway was denied being put into production
!!! I didn't notice this!! aaaaahh I want to see the full version so much ;__; I've always loved those prototype dolls.
Love seeing some of the images again. Seeing all of Ruth's artwork and hearing her stories were one of the highlights of my Fair experience this year. Such beautiful and detailed pieces (and creative) that were produced (and not produced). There were a lot of the Flutter Hideaway posters so I wonder if they will be sold again next year. I was so busy with my booth I regret not having a poster autographed. >.<
Quote from: Carrehz on August 28, 2016, 03:40:42 PM!!! I didn't notice this!! aaaaahh I want to see the full version so much ;__; I've always loved those prototype dolls.They must have been really close to release before they were cancelled. The actual backcard looks like they edited out the human companions at the last minute, and even left in Baby Sundance (and apparently Spunky and Kingsley switched places): http://mylittlewiki.org/w/images/c/c4/ZigZagBackcard.jpgSo sad we missed out on these!
Yes, Ruth Bush brought them to the recent Fair, along with a bunch of other cool stuff! They were pretty neat, and she let me hold them! She brought photographs of the Flutter Hideaway prototype and the detailed drawings used to make it... "mechanicals" I think she called them? Plus the illustrations for the sheets of stickers that would have been applied. She didn't have an actual prototype of it, but she said that one might still exist somewhere in "the vault" at Hasbro. (Yeah...) She also had drawings of the Fairy Tail bird playset that was going to be a remake of the Flutter Pony Hideaway mold, because of course Hasbro loves to reuse their playsets -- even playsets that get scrapped! I took some pictures, but I don't have them uploaded anywhere. Plus they're just cellphone snaps in a dim room, so not the greatest. (Honestly, the lighting and set-up in the pavilion were awful for such an interesting presentation. The lighting was better at the paid talk but you didn't get to peer through all her nifty mementos because there was 1) no room to spread them out and 2) other presentations sandwiched on either side of the time slot. ) Hopefully someone with a proper camera got some good pictures of all her wonderful unproduced items and will share them! Seriously, so much good stuff... Princess pony jewelry! A sink to go with the Scrub-a-Dub tub! Weird "baby flutter pony" winger prototypes! A set of patchwork(??) ponies! It really felt like the hundreds of things that actually got produced were just the tip of the crazy pony iceberg.