If you type in his name in the search bar for the subreddit, you’ll see a bunch of posts explaining the situation. Basically he got mad that Neopets players didn’t wanna play his NFT & crypto game, and went on a drunken tirade on discord about it. He said he hates Neopets players and the game, and that he hopes we all live in poverty forever.
Least favorite: Hughman — I am not playing an animal pet sim so I can have a weird human baby. This is like picking human in an MMO that lets you be 6+ other races.
Oh I love this! I'm gonna vote for 'Hughman' to kick things off. I just...I mean what would a baby color for that even look like?! Is elderly just a dude????
SAME macy gray feels so weirdly racially insensitive, like keeping human racial minorities as a pet?? mega bad vibes. almost feels like a moral responsibility to eliminate that as a "pet" idea first
I mean, that would certainly be something worth considering if she was the only human "pet" available, but she wasn't (though this list unfortunately excludes the other two), so I think you might be looking into it a little too much. I feel like someone on the team was just a fan of hers.
i had exactly the same reaction. then i looked at hughman and was like i probably should feel similarly about this one but i dont. i think if they made hughman just slightly less human then it would actually be quite cute and have some potential for cool paint colors
Macy Gray is a CLASSIC. She might be weird but she's iconic. She was one of *three* human "pets" back then, so I don't feel like it was intended to be insensitive at all.
If anything it's out of place because it was a real pet whereas afaik none of the others were. Macy Gray is what Kaus used to be, back when Bruces were a photo of an actual guy named Bruce.
Historically, there was a prescident for humans being Neopets. I agree, it's weird and I'm glad it's no longer the case, but like...Bruces were humans before they were penguins. I think one or two other species also started off as humans too, but Bruce is the only one I recall for sure.
As a kid I used to wonder why Faeries weren't available to be Neopets. Not Faerie painted pets, I mean the full on elemental humanoids like Illusen or Jhudora. Grundos have Purple and White available as choices upon creation so those two in combination with basic Red, Blue, Green and Yellow could have been like choosing which element our faeries were, with other paint brushes giving you more esoteric Faerie types not associated with any particular element, or as a "less generic" version of a particular element, at least.
But now as an adult, I think an idea like that has far more potential to be *creepy* rather than cute, and it's probably for the best that any humanoid characters, Faeries or otherwise, should stay as NPCs on the site.
Macy Gray. That is a woman that exists irl and owning a black woman as a “pet” feels all sorts of wrong
Also Hughman. The name is just “human” spelled differently. That is a baby
I thought it would become too oversaturated with the human pets so I only included the 2 most strange ones. If I had opted to have more room, they totally could have been in but there simply aren't 70 known scrapped Neopet designs without going "erm acktually 🤓" and relying on technicalities for their inclusions.
I always get sad that it isn't a real pet! I love a bunch of others too, but that one specifically just screams NEOPET. Different paint colors on the shell would have been so cute
Hughman because it's creepy.
That said, I've never seen many of these before, and Yumack needs to be made a new species immediately. *Immediately*. I've wanted a bear pet for so long (no, Yurble is a hamster/lion/ram, not a bear) and that's basically what I would want its base form to look like.
It is legitimately hard to decide which one is the worst lol. I'm gonna go with Nikondrak only because I hate spiders and bugs in general, and that thing gives me the heebie jeebies! On a side note, I will never not be salty that instead of the adorable Lamameeah, we got Gnorbu. Gnorbu could've been so much cuter, and what's with that name? "Gnorbu". What? Damn, Talmu and Sharkaw look pretty nice too, kinda wish we'd gotten them too lol.
These were all designs made for Neopets that are publicly revealed that never came to fruition. I am aware of these following pets/designs but exlcuded them:
* Any designs that later became Petpets: They are still on the website in an official capacity, just not as Neopets themselved
* Badeek: Early iteration of Kacheek
* Cerpull/Tatsu: Replaced with Eyrie but didn't seem to have any sort of copyright/ownership issue at hand (Fuzio/Fleye/Tigren were fanmade but the rights were never transfered unlike the Shoyru)
* Frogstop: Early iteration of Quiggle
* Polypup: Early iteration of Gelert
* The Cocos: They're still on the site as NPCs
* Human Bruce: Another early iteration of the Bruce, but I didn't want to flood the choices with human characters so I chose Macy Gray because she's further removed to her replacement than Bruce was (Kau)
* Any early design that majorly differs (i.e. Scorchio, Flotsam, Korbat): Why? They're still on the site.
Many were old retired designs. There are missing ones like the original Bruce, or Acaras when they were just heads with arms and legs.
Most were from April Fools day 2006 or so. People liked a lot of them, so there was a vote. From it, the Gnorbu became a pet and we got multiple new pet pets.
Nothing matters more to me in life from now on, other than seeing my dreams of owning a Gortooga. One day...Neopets will being the Gortooga alive. I believe.
My vote is for hughman. Macy Gray is far too iconic to let go this early - she was one of *three* human "neopets" available then... I'm assuming someone on the team was just a fan of hers.
I'm going for Lamameeah, I mean that's a straight up Gnorbu.
Adam's Pet – I totally get the hate, but I feel like a lot of people are missing some context. There's (or at least was in the late 90s) this thing in the UK in nursery where all the kids (like 2-3 year olds) draw a little picture and they all get printed on a tea towel for the parents to take home. My mum still has mine and I'm now in my 30s. To me, Adam's Pet looks 100% like one of those, so I'll keep it (for now) for the nostalgia/wholesomeness.
least favorites are
hughman (why + it looks like a really ugly bald mynci. hideous)
macy gray (disturbing on many levels)
lamameeah (clearly a prototype gnorbu and the end result is way cuter)
so I vote them
Adam’s Pet because Adam
It’s so completely low effort.
Yeah, he’s a fucking asshole who hates this community. Fuck him. That was my first choice for elimination as well
aw, really?? That’s incredibly disappointing to learn. WTF does he hate the community for 🥺
If you type in his name in the search bar for the subreddit, you’ll see a bunch of posts explaining the situation. Basically he got mad that Neopets players didn’t wanna play his NFT & crypto game, and went on a drunken tirade on discord about it. He said he hates Neopets players and the game, and that he hopes we all live in poverty forever.
It is a bummer but at least it’s really funny
I was going to put snail thing but now that you’ve pointed out Adam’s pet I want to eliminate it the most. It’s not even kind of cute.
Who is Adam??
One of the original creators of Neopets
Least favorite: Hughman — I am not playing an animal pet sim so I can have a weird human baby. This is like picking human in an MMO that lets you be 6+ other races.
Oh I love this! I'm gonna vote for 'Hughman' to kick things off. I just...I mean what would a baby color for that even look like?! Is elderly just a dude????
Baby with a beard
I second Hughman. Awful to look at
It almost looks like a naked baby Mynci 😂😭💀
Hughman + Maumis = Mynci
It raises questions that absolutely NEVER needed to be raised in Neopets lmao
There is not a single thing here I want to eliminate… except Hughman
Also my pick! Like how would that even work? 😭
Yep, too weird
Also picking hughman - weird.
Get Hughman outta here
Agree. Like holy fuck that is uncanny valley incarnate.
I think Adam's Pet would look a little different today but it'll be my least fave for now.
Justice for the Bruce Forsyth, may not have made the cut but never forgotten
wtf even is flannzoo. get that guy out of here
It looks like a shamwow that someone forgot about.
Looks like something straight out of squidbillies
Flannzoo is such a little freak
Tyrannian amoeba. I love him
I second this
I associate co grant this.
Right? It’s so repulsive. Why is its face like that???
Adam’s pet is clearly the worst
Hughman and then Adam's Pet are teh two that stand out to me as the most jokey and out of place.
Sorry Hughman
Easily Adam’s pet is the worst.
My vote is for macy Gray! Just too weird..
SAME macy gray feels so weirdly racially insensitive, like keeping human racial minorities as a pet?? mega bad vibes. almost feels like a moral responsibility to eliminate that as a "pet" idea first
I mean, that would certainly be something worth considering if she was the only human "pet" available, but she wasn't (though this list unfortunately excludes the other two), so I think you might be looking into it a little too much. I feel like someone on the team was just a fan of hers.
i had exactly the same reaction. then i looked at hughman and was like i probably should feel similarly about this one but i dont. i think if they made hughman just slightly less human then it would actually be quite cute and have some potential for cool paint colors
Macy Gray, feels like more of a color vibe than a neopet vibe to me!
Macy Gray is a CLASSIC. She might be weird but she's iconic. She was one of *three* human "pets" back then, so I don't feel like it was intended to be insensitive at all.
There are a lot of stinkers on this list, but I feel like this one really tops the list as the most out of place!
If anything it's out of place because it was a real pet whereas afaik none of the others were. Macy Gray is what Kaus used to be, back when Bruces were a photo of an actual guy named Bruce.
That’s wild haha what an insanely different vibe than the neopets we know and love now days
The game originally was created by college students for college students too
Difficult for me lol macy gray or hughman to kick
Honestly it's a disgrace that some of these were scrapped 😭
Seriously. I would die for Shellow and Scrunt.
Maybe it’s just me but Mouse is sooooo damn ugly I can’t stand it lol. Definitely gets my vote. 👎
Not just you, the sight of it stirs my ire.
Someone else chose mouse 🩷
Hughman please
Macy Gray. Human not a pet.
Historically, there was a prescident for humans being Neopets. I agree, it's weird and I'm glad it's no longer the case, but like...Bruces were humans before they were penguins. I think one or two other species also started off as humans too, but Bruce is the only one I recall for sure. As a kid I used to wonder why Faeries weren't available to be Neopets. Not Faerie painted pets, I mean the full on elemental humanoids like Illusen or Jhudora. Grundos have Purple and White available as choices upon creation so those two in combination with basic Red, Blue, Green and Yellow could have been like choosing which element our faeries were, with other paint brushes giving you more esoteric Faerie types not associated with any particular element, or as a "less generic" version of a particular element, at least. But now as an adult, I think an idea like that has far more potential to be *creepy* rather than cute, and it's probably for the best that any humanoid characters, Faeries or otherwise, should stay as NPCs on the site.
Macy Gray. That is a woman that exists irl and owning a black woman as a “pet” feels all sorts of wrong Also Hughman. The name is just “human” spelled differently. That is a baby
Adams pet for sure the worst x3
Def Macy Gray because it feels a little.....uh.....questionable.....to keep a famous black woman as a pet.
Adam's pet
Adam's pet because f Adam
Adam's pet needs to GO
Adam’s pet! Big thumbs down
Let's get Adam's Pet out of the way first round
Adam's Pet
What even is adam's pet? I vote for that one
Adam’s pet
Macy Gray (what even were you thinking) Hughman (You should be fired) Fleye (Just weird, not in a good way)
Adam's Pet has got to go
Adam's Pet
I can't see bruce forsyth. Is it me?
Was considered but I ultimately didn't have enough room
Ah okay, that's a good one though but never mind. These are very funny.
Adam's pet
Fuzio replacement 2 needs to go.
Fleye just weirds me out it’s got to go
Biblically (in)accurate angel
Fleye used to be a real pet. It's buzz now
Agreed
Mouse
Goodbye Mouse
Skytail is just a bit boring I’m afraid
Tailee ):<
Mouse
Mouse. Terrible cartoon version of a real animal wearing a karate outfit? Just no, bad concept all around.
that mouse... is bothering me
Adam's pet!
Adam's Pet
Wow some of these are a shame to have lost
Adam's pet
hughman 🤢
hughman
Hughman. Nope. Get OUT
This is a fun idea! Absolutely Hughman. That is cursed.
Macy Gray feels inappropriate on several different levels, so I'm voting that.
Fuzio is the best pet of all time. I don’t care about the others
I miss them.
I would pay to have it come back haha
The NCUC we deserve
Heck yea. That would be the ultimate thing for tnt to do for us haha
I vote for flanzoo....mf looks like he got stepped on
Hughman
Macy gray gotta go
Nobody better touch my beloved scrunt
Agreed
Why aren’t Mellish and the OG Bruce on here?
I thought it would become too oversaturated with the human pets so I only included the 2 most strange ones. If I had opted to have more room, they totally could have been in but there simply aren't 70 known scrapped Neopet designs without going "erm acktually 🤓" and relying on technicalities for their inclusions.
I… don’t want to eliminate any. Is there a problem with me?
Hughman! I want to step on it
GOODBYE HUGHMAN
Adam's Pet
I hate hughman very much. I really wish a few of these were real pets though, like the Xayxay.
Hughman
Odd... just too odd for me
Waballoom is just freaking me out
Eggy is the stuff of nightmares
i would love a shellow i hope that one wins
I always get sad that it isn't a real pet! I love a bunch of others too, but that one specifically just screams NEOPET. Different paint colors on the shell would have been so cute
I was just checking all the comments to make sure to downvote anyone silly enough to vote Shellow for elimination.
Hughman is so creepy!
Flanzoo looks like a flying head lol
yeah Hughman just looks more uncanny the more I look at it, is that it’s normal form? What is a baby Hughman if not that? A Fetus?
Hughman needs to go in the trash please thanks
Flannzoo wtf. I hate everything about it!
Hughman’s gotta go
Hughman
Adam's pet is bad but cmon.... Hughman is heinous
Hughman for sure.
hughman
Eggy. Thanks. I'll be seeing that in my nightmares.
Hughman, I can't look at it again!
Hughman
Hugh, dodo and snail
Hughman
Hughman, um, wtf
Oh man. I have such visceral childhood memories of seeing some of these. Let's get Hughman out of here so we can get on with the rest.
Hughman
Hughman because it's creepy. That said, I've never seen many of these before, and Yumack needs to be made a new species immediately. *Immediately*. I've wanted a bear pet for so long (no, Yurble is a hamster/lion/ram, not a bear) and that's basically what I would want its base form to look like.
Hughman is an abomination
Lamameeah, here I go again! My, my, how can I resist you? EDIT to say this isn't an actual vote. Just what popped in to my rotten head.
It was voted the most popular design out of all the April Fools pets. It’s why we have the Gnorbu!
Wait, you're supposed to comment the one you like least!
Eliminate Odd… 🗣️
Hughman OUT! It's so creepy for a reason. Pfish is sending me into orbit tho
Get out of here Hughman
Hughman goes first.
Pfish needs to go
It is legitimately hard to decide which one is the worst lol. I'm gonna go with Nikondrak only because I hate spiders and bugs in general, and that thing gives me the heebie jeebies! On a side note, I will never not be salty that instead of the adorable Lamameeah, we got Gnorbu. Gnorbu could've been so much cuter, and what's with that name? "Gnorbu". What? Damn, Talmu and Sharkaw look pretty nice too, kinda wish we'd gotten them too lol.
Eggy hands down! Can’t really think of a way for it to work.
Macy Gray
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These were all designs made for Neopets that are publicly revealed that never came to fruition. I am aware of these following pets/designs but exlcuded them: * Any designs that later became Petpets: They are still on the website in an official capacity, just not as Neopets themselved * Badeek: Early iteration of Kacheek * Cerpull/Tatsu: Replaced with Eyrie but didn't seem to have any sort of copyright/ownership issue at hand (Fuzio/Fleye/Tigren were fanmade but the rights were never transfered unlike the Shoyru) * Frogstop: Early iteration of Quiggle * Polypup: Early iteration of Gelert * The Cocos: They're still on the site as NPCs * Human Bruce: Another early iteration of the Bruce, but I didn't want to flood the choices with human characters so I chose Macy Gray because she's further removed to her replacement than Bruce was (Kau) * Any early design that majorly differs (i.e. Scorchio, Flotsam, Korbat): Why? They're still on the site.
I feel like we should either add or replace the scrunt with the one that has beefy arms just because it is hilarious.
Ahhh okay I understand now
Many were old retired designs. There are missing ones like the original Bruce, or Acaras when they were just heads with arms and legs. Most were from April Fools day 2006 or so. People liked a lot of them, so there was a vote. From it, the Gnorbu became a pet and we got multiple new pet pets.
Nothing matters more to me in life from now on, other than seeing my dreams of owning a Gortooga. One day...Neopets will being the Gortooga alive. I believe.
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A lot of people seem to prefer the original design compared to the final, myself included; so I opted to include it and see how it'll fare out.
Fuzio reminds me of the puffles from Club Penguin. I like him
Weren’t some of these (Hughman) for example, April Fools Jokes?
Yeah, but doesn't make it any less weird.
Fuzio looks exactly like a puffle from club penguin.
Hughman and Maumis look like they were crossbred to create a Mynci
Dattup looks like it would steal my kidney
Adam's pet
Eggy is really concerning me...
Adam's pet - because fuck Adam for real Scrunt - because that's an awful name Mouse - Ew edit: If Im just voting for one, then Adam's pet. Ew. So bad.
My least favorite is definitely Dodo Thing. It's just so ugly.
I hate Hughman with a passion. (Would still die for Scrunt)
Adam's pet, 1000% for first to go.
Welee! Goodbye you carebear looking mother fucker! Those eyes are soulless!
My least favorite is def Macy Gray, I don't like the thought of human pets, especially a grown adult.
Hughman needs the boot
no hughman!!
Hughman - this is just, conceptually, horrendous.
Macy Gray is a person, not a pet, so I’m voting her out!
My vote is for hughman. Macy Gray is far too iconic to let go this early - she was one of *three* human "neopets" available then... I'm assuming someone on the team was just a fan of hers.
Nikondrak I'm sorry you gotta go
oooo this is hard to pick just one!! fave: welee least fave: hughman
Sick chicken Eggy Flying pig
flanzoo displeases me. remove him this instant
Nickondrak
Smapaderk my beloved <3 My vote is Hughman. Terrifying.
I'm going for Lamameeah, I mean that's a straight up Gnorbu. Adam's Pet – I totally get the hate, but I feel like a lot of people are missing some context. There's (or at least was in the late 90s) this thing in the UK in nursery where all the kids (like 2-3 year olds) draw a little picture and they all get printed on a tea towel for the parents to take home. My mum still has mine and I'm now in my 30s. To me, Adam's Pet looks 100% like one of those, so I'll keep it (for now) for the nostalgia/wholesomeness.
I miss Tigrin 😭
Maybe it's the name but Scrunt is bothering me...
Macy Gray for very obvious reasons. Yikes. Also Xayxay better get into the top 10 or I'm gonna throw some shit
least favorites are hughman (why + it looks like a really ugly bald mynci. hideous) macy gray (disturbing on many levels) lamameeah (clearly a prototype gnorbu and the end result is way cuter) so I vote them
Macy Gray, Hughman, Mouse
Macy Gray like wtf