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I was going through my folder of neopets images and suddenly realized that the vast majority of it can no longer be found anywhere on the internet, so I thought I'd upload this little treasure trove to my webspace and share with you some of the strangeness you may have long forgotten or missed out on entirely.

Feel free to post your own old stuff if it isn't too easy to find.



-When Mystery Island was first introduced, a poll was held to determine a new species. The Kougra wound up winning, and this great little cricket/cockroach came in last. It was later reworked into the bug brothers event.



...As well as an unreleased battledome opponent. They changed a lot for Smug Bug Smite.



-This other bug was the original garden shop keeper. It was once quite normal for shopkeepers to be non-neopets. There was speculation that this would become a new species for a while, but it was replaced by a neopet in only a few days.




-These creative weirdos were listed as "tyrannian" pets and selectable as shopkeepers, long before Tyrannian became an actual pet color.





-The second mushroom creature here was once the shopkeeper of the Apothecary, a retired Haunted Woods shop that only sold magic mushrooms. The other, fatter one existed only on this card.



-Marvel as how crappy the gallery of evil used to be. I miss the daddy grub. This was back when there were only a dozen food items, the wriggling grub was one of the only "gross" ones and the handful of monsters you could encounter were a much bigger deal.



-The original Gwontek melon. Changed for reasons that should be obvious.




-The FREAKING AWESOME unreleased version of the Mutant Aisha. I still want this pet so. badly.





-The similarly awesome unreleased Mutant Bruce, which was deleted from the server about two years before they finally uploaded the current version. I like both, but would have loved to own this one as a replacement for the original mutant chia, which I talk about in length HERE.



-Unreleased mutant korbat. Not sure what the artist was going for with its shaggy canine-like body, but I once again found it much more interesting than what was ultimately released.



-The only unreleased mutant that I think was a good decision. This would have actually been our mutant scorchio, and the demonic appearance really doesn't scream "mutant" to me. I'm not sure if the current mutant scorchio does either, though.



-This old mutant actually WAS released, the original mutant Usul...a wonderful one-eyed, one-eared bag pestilent flesh. I sorely wish I had saved the rest of its poses, as they were very nicely done. You can tell it's the same artist as the unreleased bruce.



-This is the only other image I can find of the mutant usul at all. In the top left you can also see the old mutant Kiko.



-Why was it a big-chinned, devil-eared tadpole with gloves? Who knows, but it had a fair number of fans. Wish they'd bring it back in petpet form, or something.



-A "joke" option from the Gelert revamp poll. I'd love one of these as well.



-Some of you may remember when the Darigan Korbat enjoyed a very brief period of resembling Lord Darigan himself.




-These three very closely resembled popular video game enemies until they were subtly changed. Subtly, except for the chompark.




-This monstrosity was once the robot acara. Back then, the Acara was just a head with legs.




-The cool-looking "tomb monster" from a site promotion. For signing up with one of neo's sponsors, you would receive a key to open one door in a "tomb," finding either prizes or the monster.







-These images were shown on the short-lived "Virtupets.com," which introduced Dr. Sloth and promised us all that we could sign up and start adopting their pets. Unfortunately, it was a bit of a prank concocted by Neopets as part of their space plot. The regular mutant grundo wound up the only "virtupet" we would ever get to own. My favorite here is the red slug thing.



-This image was used in the news page when they first released the Haunted Woods and I believe it was a shopkeeper for a while. Does anyone have any of the other haunted woods characters, like the mole man and the spiders?




-Unreleased mutant faellie and blobagus.



-The fake "preview image" of a new neopet species. I think it wound up being the xweetok or yurble.



-Yet another non-pet shopkeeper, a creature called "sludgy" before we ever had a petpet of the same name.



-An image posted in the news and featuring two unreleased, unnamed petpets. I love the spider-faced one.



-Before it was released, the ghost chia had a case of fuzzy warts. I guess they thought this wasn't a ghost-like trait, but I thought it was neat. It added some nice ghoulishness. Sadly, I lost my only image of the unreleased ghost Jetsam, which for some reason had wavy grey hair on its head.



-Finally, the revamped purple Grarrl, colored like a certain famous purple dinosaur for just a day or two as a bit of a joke.

This is okay to find. Not too easy though:







The first three caption contests. The first one is soooo bad. It was probablly done in Paint! (no offense Neopets)

EDIT: Most of the links he had in his post appear to be dead, so I can't post any of his pictures. Here is the thread he made if you're curious: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=27099

I don't know who that is but certainly you should!

I will edit my post with what he posted. I find it interesting when people make these threads, fun to see some Neo-history

Ooh, that's very interesting. I've seen a lot of old Neopets stuff, but none of what you Scythemantis posted. Thanks!

I wish I had saved more of the shopkeepers we used to have. They include TONS of aliens, monsters, robots and silly things that weren't neopets or petpets. My favorite was an eyeball with fishlike fins.

And the original Maraquan Chef was a pink shrimp creature instead of a Flotsam.

There were also, as I mentioned, a bunch of monsters you could visit at the Haunted Woods. A mummy, vampire, wolfman, mole man (he looked more like a green warthog on its hind legs) giant spiders and even a mutant chia before they were ever released as a color.




I've ranted enough about the old mutant chia that you should all know it by now, if you don't, here it is. Still my favorite thing ever on neopets and I still hate the new one with the fire of a thousand suns. WHY they changed such a perfect, distinctive and cool mutant design I will never comprehend. If they didn't think it looked chia-like enough they could have easily just made it more gumdrop-shaped and kept everything else about it.

It was a mutant chia like this that used to be visible peeking out behind the Brain Tree. If you hovered your mouse over it, it would wave. This is what the explore page originally meant by "beware the beast that lurks behind the tree!" but they forgot to change this text after they took the chia off the map. When newer players asked the NT what this meant, they created this neopedia article as a whole new story behind the phrase. A pretty cool story too, if you haven't read it, and that shadowy picture looks almost like the mutant chia, so, maybe one of them still exists and isn't happy about the revamp either :p

The Apocathary mushroom is my hero.



Made with a cheap animation program that fails, but you get the picture.

I recognize one or two of those pictures. However, most of the old images I remember aren't on my computer, seeing as I only started playing neo in 2004 and I didn't know how to get the pictures onto my computer until like 2006. XD


^ Here's the original mushroom.

http://www.neopets.com/games/wardrobe/neowardrobe.html
^ an old old attempt at neopets customisation XD

http://www.neopets.com/faerieland/colouring.phtml
^ an old attempt at... who knows what. XDDD

http://images.neopets.com/items/adam_asparagus.swf
^ something TNT put on the about us page for adam's birthday one year


^ Just... what? XD

And I'm mostly out of stuff, excluding images from the old layout, because my computer died and I lost a few links.

I'll end this post on a happy note.

And you're my hero for appreciating the apothecary mushroom enough to save him!

I wish TNT wasn't so heartless with their "canon"...imagine the uproar if they permanently revamped any of the Pokemon, changed Spiderman's costume to the statue of liberty or replaced the Simpsons with 3-d computer generated versions, then went back and made these changes to every single piece of artwork through franchise history and pretended the original just never existed.

Art updates I have always accepted, even if the new version looks too fat, too skinny, too dopey or generally lazy, but design changes, like the mutant Chia or the Darigan draik, are just uncalled for. They can AT LEAST use the old versions as permanent characters *somewhere*...petpets, battledome villains, anything.