Btw, in a Reddit AMA, Donna said that the Ogrin was something she handed in just before leaving - she intentionally made it awful in order to make the new owners of the site look bad. Sneaky. 😂
Varwolf and Sharkaw, definitely. Those were designs that ran the line between cute and cool well. Gotta disagree with you on some of the designs, though. I rather like the way that the art direction for Neopets came out-- it's nice and consistent, and generally erring towards cute and weird but not too weird. Certainly would be a rather different Neopia if the other designs were chosen.
The Varwolf has gotten a lot of love from my commenters across different sites! It would have made a wildly popular Neopet. There are definitely ways to take weird designs and make them stylistically consistent with the rest of the art (shading, line size, standardized skeleton basics). I'm just saying that I think it would be interesting to have a greater variety of species on the site. Thank you so much for sharing your perspective, Cielo! I really appreciate your comment.
Out of the April fools pets, I would have loved to see the Mornato (the donkey guy with long floppy ears and a long tail), the Quaturchin (The fluffy purple sea otter guy with a fish tail), and the Furzurt (Green furry dinosaur looking thing.)
I wish we would have seen more of the April Fool's pets get developed. There were a lot of interesting concepts that could have been fleshed out and made into pets.
Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying my videos. Feel free to watch the ones not about Neopets too! I spend about the same amount of effort, if not more, on the other games I cover.
Technically, I believe they still fall under copyright protections. But whether or not they would pursue them is a different matter. The established virtual pet game, Leopets, uses many of these designs.
When I was little and my brother got me a Neopets account, I didn't really know how to work stuff since I was so young. At the time the only online game I really ever played was Webkinz and a bit of Ruinscape (I didn't like it much since I was a young giro who didn't like hurting things). I remember seeing the Varwolf and clicking on it rapidly and asking my brother why it wouldn't let me get it. I still have that account with the pony thing with the wings and horn, and red version of it (sorry I'm not good with the names). Ah, I can't remember what I put for my birthday so I can't access it unfortunately. I remember why I quit in the first place was because the day after I made my account it was frozen for YEARS.
Ahh I would’ve loved having a caramiller as a pet, not a petpet! So cute! Also I prefer the original gnorbu art, the current art is more expressive but the old art is much softer-looking and cuter!
That's a hyena, not a panther (interestingly, there isn't actually any animal called a Panther -- a "black panther" is actually a melanistic Leopard or Jaguar) just for the record :) Also, you are SO ADORABLE! I'm so addicted to your videos, and even started playing Neo again after finding your channel last year.
We got no choice about Tigren and Fly changes, btw. It was just done for "legal reasons" and the original design of the Acara was hot garbage. Look it up, it's ugly. Also the Cerple.. there was once a book called "Cerple Rain".
Julie, i doubt you read comments on your old videos, i just wanted to say your outfit here is awesome and I've been binge watching your older stuff because theres not much new neo content these days. hope youre well!
@@RosesTeaAndASD Except for that. Well, I do have lots of fun with Hasee Bounce and Armada. I think the only games I have a problem with are the old games (My browser is horrible at running old flash games so I decided to download one that actually uses technologies that convert flash into a more modern format, but I got an error while downloading. Go figure.)
I would have liked the Sharkaw, the blue lynx thing, to have been made into a pet. I think that was the one I voted for to be a new Neopet species waaay back when. Can't even remember the year.
Honestly this video plus the current “rereleasing UCs” drama makes me feel like Neopets should have its own system like Flight Rising’s “Ancient Breeds.” Like release some new pets even if they can’t wear all the clothes a regular pet can, but you can still use backgrounds and trinkets and stuff, just like a UC. Anyway justice for the Sharkaw and Yumack. They’re good Neopets, brent.
I wish Neopets had actual evolutions like pokemon but maybe optional or something all of which viable in the battledome but with different pros and cons probably dumb but I would love it. So glad polypop(sp?) got redone into the Gelert as he/she was always one of my favs looking like a cool dog fun fact:if i could get a dog in unnatural colors, green blue etcetera i would buy an island and 100 multicolor dogs and that would be my life, might do anyway. Also it seems like the art quality is so random but I am assuming those were not final draft and there NEEDS to be a unicorn paintbrush how is that not a thing. A side note thank you for being child friendly as I mostly play with my 5 yr old stepdaughter and I like showing her these videos and watching together AND i think I commented before that you are super adorable and i'm kind of dying to glam you up it would be a KNOCKOUT
the ogrin would actually be okay though if it had more neck floof/a bigger neck and like, maybe had smaller more scattered stripes along with smaller paws. Its a really good concept, just bad execution. To be exact, the skinny neck makes it look skinny overall when combined with all the other loud contrasting design features. Like, I can tell its not a skinny neopet but whenever i look at the neck then everything else I feel like the creature is just frail. Hell, even just fixing the neck and leaving everything else the same would help Ogrins Neopia over with bullying. Have it be like an Eevee's neck floof or what the redesign that pops up when you google ogrin does. Except maybe not cause legal reasons but still. ps theyre like a cross between zebras, giraffes, and lions and i love them for that
Whenever they fully changed a Neopet by name and illustration, they made all the previous versions update to the new version. For instance, all the Macy Gray pets became Kaus.
I love the Tatsu, I'd totally have one now if they were still around... Shame the design changed so radically, not that I *hate* the Eyrie or anything, but having at least one big dragon would have been cool. I guess we've got the Skeith but I consider them more of a gargoyle than a dragon really. I looked up the advent calendar animation with him and he was adorable, no idea why they scrapped him. :(
I have to disagree in that I really like the Ogrin! It isn't readily identifiable like many Neopets... you can see bits of tiger or zebra, lion, and horse, and even dog, but it really reminds me of an okapi, and I think okapis are really neat, so of course I would like the Ogrin. Can't say I'm crazy about the name, though.
Ive never played Neopets, why am I here? I guess its just interesting to hear someone talk about something I have no connection to. Also, laughed at the DreamWorks part.
Canine Neopet i wish they added Varwolf Bear neopet i wish they added Codyber or Yumack Feline Neopet Meechee or a Polaflint or a Sharkaw or a Leofinn (damn i wish there were Lions) oh and i found out that the spiky kangaroo is called skamp
Hmm, now that I think of it, is it just me, or is the pokémon, flygon really reminiscent of the modern buzz? I wonder if the person who designed it had ever seen one before.
Bruh, this womans voice is so fucking calming. Finna hire her to read me some stories before my afternoon nap. These video are like crack. I don't even like neopets, lol
Not that it's really important but... I noticed that Neopets has a snake pet called the Quetzal: i.imgur.com/58uf7Go.jpg And Furvilla has a village called "Quetzal Palace" in which buildings ride the back of a snake. I thought it interesting that both petsites had interpreted the Quetzal (Which is a birb) to be a snake. (Although, to be fair, the birb looks like a snake) Do you think this is at all linked, or just complete coincidence?
I know this is a very late response and you probably forgot about this comment, but Quetzal comes from the mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl, which was a feathered serpent. So, all three of the examples you mentioned (including the bird) probably come from the serpent deity, which would make the interpretations make sense.
a lot of those april fools neopets kinda remind me of petpets in a way? Also, such a same they didn't really do anything with all those neopets... must have been an effort designing all of them, anyway, I would have loved the Furzurt :D
seeing all these april fools neopets makes me so mad. ALL OF THESE BEAR DESIGNS AND THE BEST WE HAVE FOR REAL IS YURBLE !!! dont get me wrong. i love yurble but it really doesn't come close to the likes of yumack. It's sad because i know I'll never have another new neopet to satisfy my bear needs :'(
0:35 What. What the? I'M SO CONFUSED. A WATER KITTY?! ok nevermind I just find the way she called that neopet was really weird. edit: she told me it was like an aquatic kitten so now I get it.
I mostly remember Neopets as fast food toys. They were still cool though. Anyway I’ve got a reading suggestion. Acts from the Bible. Just a suggestion and in the end you decide what you do
Btw, in a Reddit AMA, Donna said that the Ogrin was something she handed in just before leaving - she intentionally made it awful in order to make the new owners of the site look bad. Sneaky. 😂
That does not surprise me! I don't understand anything that's happening with the Ogrin.
Same with the Xweetok, but that one clearly backfired.
Samantha Port oh no, ive always thought they were so cute!
They're cute though
But I love the ogrin :(
Yo what is up with that baby looking neopet called "hughman"? That's so good.
a human baby nothing else i think
Varwolf and Sharkaw, definitely. Those were designs that ran the line between cute and cool well.
Gotta disagree with you on some of the designs, though. I rather like the way that the art direction for Neopets came out-- it's nice and consistent, and generally erring towards cute and weird but not too weird. Certainly would be a rather different Neopia if the other designs were chosen.
The Varwolf has gotten a lot of love from my commenters across different sites! It would have made a wildly popular Neopet.
There are definitely ways to take weird designs and make them stylistically consistent with the rest of the art (shading, line size, standardized skeleton basics). I'm just saying that I think it would be interesting to have a greater variety of species on the site. Thank you so much for sharing your perspective, Cielo! I really appreciate your comment.
Out of the April fools pets, I would have loved to see the Mornato (the donkey guy with long floppy ears and a long tail), the Quaturchin (The fluffy purple sea otter guy with a fish tail), and the Furzurt (Green furry dinosaur looking thing.)
I wish we would have seen more of the April Fool's pets get developed. There were a lot of interesting concepts that could have been fleshed out and made into pets.
I started played Neopets in 2000 so this is super nostalgic. :) I used to have a unicorn Usul.
I'm glad I could serve you a dose of nostalgia! The unicorn color is too funny, I wish it could have remained.
I'm personally sad they released the gnorbu instead of that other one, the hughmann.
Fun fact: Some more famous redesign contest pets are
Fursuit Kougra (Kougra #3) and a very whacky mynci (Mynci #6)
Why am I watching these videos I don't even like neopets. These videos are just so addictive though.
Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying my videos. Feel free to watch the ones not about Neopets too! I spend about the same amount of effort, if not more, on the other games I cover.
If these were abandoned, are they still protected by copyright? Would there be legal problems if I were to create species similar to these?
Technically, I believe they still fall under copyright protections. But whether or not they would pursue them is a different matter. The established virtual pet game, Leopets, uses many of these designs.
I don't know a whole lot of Neopets but I did join YEARSSSS ago and I just played for the side games.
Those flash games are very cute!
When I was little and my brother got me a Neopets account, I didn't really know how to work stuff since I was so young. At the time the only online game I really ever played was Webkinz and a bit of Ruinscape (I didn't like it much since I was a young giro who didn't like hurting things). I remember seeing the Varwolf and clicking on it rapidly and asking my brother why it wouldn't let me get it. I still have that account with the pony thing with the wings and horn, and red version of it (sorry I'm not good with the names). Ah, I can't remember what I put for my birthday so I can't access it unfortunately. I remember why I quit in the first place was because the day after I made my account it was frozen for YEARS.
I was never too into neopets but I think the Oregrin(?) is kinda cute ;v; I understand why people might not like him though. Cool video!
Sorry for the Ogrin hate! Thanks for watching! :)
Ahh I would’ve loved having a caramiller as a pet, not a petpet! So cute! Also I prefer the original gnorbu art, the current art is more expressive but the old art is much softer-looking and cuter!
I miss seeing all of the old shop fronts people would create. I remember glittery dolls and stuff. Weird.
That's a hyena, not a panther (interestingly, there isn't actually any animal called a Panther -- a "black panther" is actually a melanistic Leopard or Jaguar) just for the record :)
Also, you are SO ADORABLE! I'm so addicted to your videos, and even started playing Neo again after finding your channel last year.
I love the Carmariller because it reminds me of Illusen! Cute! ❤
Im so happy to see people talk about the design
I actually see more Shoyru in the Tatzu than Eerie!
This was my childhood
Same here! Neopets was great when I was a kid.
whaaaattt how can you not like ogrins? ;_;
vidoxi
Ayy, mystic messenger ^^
i always thought they looked kinda like an ugly zebra :/
I love ogrins!
We got no choice about Tigren and Fly changes, btw. It was just done for "legal reasons" and the original design of the Acara was hot garbage. Look it up, it's ugly. Also the Cerple.. there was once a book called "Cerple Rain".
Julie, i doubt you read comments on your old videos, i just wanted to say your outfit here is awesome and I've been binge watching your older stuff because theres not much new neo content these days. hope youre well!
I found you through Reddit and loooooooove your video!! Please keep on doing them!!
Thank you, Beatriz! I will try to keep making more Neopets videos like this.
Its sad remembering how much fun Neopets once was :(
It’s still fun, but the site would be even better if it wasn’t left a crumbling mess by Jumpstart
@@ShadeATV 90% of the games don't work because Flash is gone.
@@RosesTeaAndASD Except for that. Well, I do have lots of fun with Hasee Bounce and Armada. I think the only games I have a problem with are the old games (My browser is horrible at running old flash games so I decided to download one that actually uses technologies that convert flash into a more modern format, but I got an error while downloading. Go figure.)
I love information preservation. Thank you! c:
I would have liked the Sharkaw, the blue lynx thing, to have been made into a pet. I think that was the one I voted for to be a new Neopet species waaay back when. Can't even remember the year.
A Neopets parody game, Leopets, has the Sharkaw as a pet. I like the design too!
Pet Simmer Julie Ah yes, I have heard of Leopets. Glad it's over there!
hey, I used to play neopets!! :) Was my favourite game in 2000 to 2004
Honestly this video plus the current “rereleasing UCs” drama makes me feel like Neopets should have its own system like Flight Rising’s “Ancient Breeds.” Like release some new pets even if they can’t wear all the clothes a regular pet can, but you can still use backgrounds and trinkets and stuff, just like a UC.
Anyway justice for the Sharkaw and Yumack. They’re good Neopets, brent.
If only Neopets was open to outside-the-box problem solving like Flight Rising!
7:34 the Vermee in the background is so cute!! :O I would kill for that neopet!
I wish Neopets had actual evolutions like pokemon but maybe optional or something all of which viable in the battledome but with different pros and cons probably dumb but I would love it. So glad polypop(sp?) got redone into the Gelert as he/she was always one of my favs looking like a cool dog fun fact:if i could get a dog in unnatural colors, green blue etcetera i would buy an island and 100 multicolor dogs and that would be my life, might do anyway. Also it seems like the art quality is so random but I am assuming those were not final draft and there NEEDS to be a unicorn paintbrush how is that not a thing. A side note thank you for being child friendly as I mostly play with my 5 yr old stepdaughter and I like showing her these videos and watching together AND i think I commented before that you are super adorable and i'm kind of dying to glam you up it would be a KNOCKOUT
the ogrin would actually be okay though if it had more neck floof/a bigger neck and like, maybe had smaller more scattered stripes along with smaller paws. Its a really good concept, just bad execution.
To be exact, the skinny neck makes it look skinny overall when combined with all the other loud contrasting design features. Like, I can tell its not a skinny neopet but whenever i look at the neck then everything else I feel like the creature is just frail. Hell, even just fixing the neck and leaving everything else the same would help Ogrins Neopia over with bullying. Have it be like an Eevee's neck floof or what the redesign that pops up when you google ogrin does. Except maybe not cause legal reasons but still.
ps theyre like a cross between zebras, giraffes, and lions and i love them for that
Actually it's supposed to be ugly. Donna stated that herself
Ogrins are one of the better ones imo...
PhoenixKev I keep seeing MSMtubers everywhere.
so what happened if someone had a neopet that stopped existing? :^?
Whenever they fully changed a Neopet by name and illustration, they made all the previous versions update to the new version. For instance, all the Macy Gray pets became Kaus.
Pet Simmer Julie so there were never any that didnt have a replacement version?
Varwolf is cool! I would like to see it as a real neopet
I think you should make a video about Neopet colors
Thank you, Galaxy Berries! I think I'll add it to my to-do list. :)
do a video of neopet hackings and why they were so common. havent been the same sine mine was taken
I love the Tatsu, I'd totally have one now if they were still around... Shame the design changed so radically, not that I *hate* the Eyrie or anything, but having at least one big dragon would have been cool. I guess we've got the Skeith but I consider them more of a gargoyle than a dragon really. I looked up the advent calendar animation with him and he was adorable, no idea why they scrapped him. :(
The Polaflint, Sharkwar, and maybe the Gwelle are ones I’d like to see
As an Ogrin lover, I am offended
why am I here? I guess I miss neopets. cool video.
I have to disagree in that I really like the Ogrin! It isn't readily identifiable like many Neopets... you can see bits of tiger or zebra, lion, and horse, and even dog, but it really reminds me of an okapi, and I think okapis are really neat, so of course I would like the Ogrin. Can't say I'm crazy about the name, though.
I've explored this page on Jellyneo website!
It's a fun rabbit hole to go down!
I loved Polaflint from the Aprl Fools pets.
Fuzzio reminds me a lot of Rayman. XD
Ive never played Neopets, why am I here?
I guess its just interesting to hear someone talk about something I have no connection to.
Also, laughed at the DreamWorks part.
I have a transparent ogrin and she is a hipster queen thank you very much.
btw love your vids
such an interesting video! i just came back playing neopets jeje :3
Vandagyre was released. It’s an owl looking Neopet.
Canine Neopet i wish they added
Varwolf
Bear neopet i wish they added
Codyber or Yumack
Feline Neopet
Meechee or a Polaflint or a Sharkaw or a Leofinn (damn i wish there were Lions)
oh and i found out that the spiky kangaroo is called skamp
Hmm, now that I think of it, is it just me, or is the pokémon, flygon really reminiscent of the modern buzz? I wonder if the person who designed it had ever seen one before.
Bruh, this womans voice is so fucking calming. Finna hire her to read me some stories before my afternoon nap. These video are like crack. I don't even like neopets, lol
I really want the spikey kangaroo (skamp?), i love it
Any one remember the old mutant kiko? He was my fav... So much better then what they replaced him with.
So many of the Unconverted mutant pets had amazing art that was left behind.
Not that it's really important but...
I noticed that Neopets has a snake pet called the Quetzal: i.imgur.com/58uf7Go.jpg
And Furvilla has a village called "Quetzal Palace" in which buildings ride the back of a snake.
I thought it interesting that both petsites had interpreted the Quetzal (Which is a birb) to be a snake. (Although, to be fair, the birb looks like a snake)
Do you think this is at all linked, or just complete coincidence?
I know this is a very late response and you probably forgot about this comment, but Quetzal comes from the mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl, which was a feathered serpent. So, all three of the examples you mentioned (including the bird) probably come from the serpent deity, which would make the interpretations make sense.
Anyone else see the neopet called "Hughman" that looks like a human baby? The implications of that would've been interesting.
Omg I had a tatsu!
I remember voting on the erie
I had the fusio tooo
I know this video is super old, but Ogrin is one of my favorite Neopets, why you have to do them like that ;.;
That is a spotted hyena. A "panther" is literally just a black leopard.
I loved the tatsu and have kind of always resented the eyrie for replacing it 😂
Am I the only one who likes the Ogrin?
a lot of those april fools neopets kinda remind me of petpets in a way? Also, such a same they didn't really do anything with all those neopets... must have been an effort designing all of them, anyway, I would have loved the Furzurt :D
Yo the red furball looks like rayman
Hughman release when?
I like the neopets colors should happened video idea
Thank you for your input!
seeing all these april fools neopets makes me so mad. ALL OF THESE BEAR DESIGNS AND THE BEST WE HAVE FOR REAL IS YURBLE !!! dont get me wrong. i love yurble but it really doesn't come close to the likes of yumack. It's sad because i know I'll never have another new neopet to satisfy my bear needs :'(
the tygrin could have be repurposed as a petpet
That gortooga looked sweet
bless your sweet soul
I need all the blessings I can get! Thank you
Neocolours have a good part. I was around when the Bruce was a human. you should check out the old Zafara.
you might like Subeta. it's a pet site as well.
Guh-lert? I thought it was Jell-ert?
tatsu became the Eyrie...and I LOVE EYRIES so much. Thanks Tatsu for being so damn fugly lol
jk jk jk
Tatsu is adorable how dare you
THEY SHOULD'VE NEVER GOTTEN RID OF THE FLEYE, NAME A BIGGER DOWNGRADE
I know, I screenshotted the art for tattoo inspo 😅
:( ... I love the Ogrin.
SAD FAAAACE.
0:35
What.
What the?
I'M SO CONFUSED.
A WATER KITTY?!
ok nevermind I just find the way she called that neopet was really weird.
edit: she told me it was like an aquatic kitten so now I get it.
Hey Corrine! :) Acaras are like aquatic felines.
Pet Simmer Julie oh ok. thank ya.
sorry about the use of offensive language.
I always swear. :P
well have a nice day.
Great video! Very informative and interesting! The fuzio looks similar to the petpets (??) in club penguin. m.imgur.com/a/I3qmo
Hey Julia! You're right, it does. But the petpet looks like it is only fuzzy on the top. Great spotting!
I would totally have the original fly lol
Hey don’t trash the Ogrin, they’re one of my favorite species
Hughman
Why didn't they add them? #JusticeForHughman
I though Akara was a ram!
Haha, I never considered the Acara to be a ram! That's a really great perspective.
Thank you for this video
Thank you! If you're interest, feel free to check out my other Neopets videos. :)
+Pet Simmer Julie I will
Smapaderk looks like a drowzee!!! Want
3:26 bary bee beson is under shrek
both shreak and the bee movie are memes
memes sounds lie bees
that means
sheak is real
you look so happy xD
Thank you! I am!
What’s with the out of place trigger warning joke?
You should make a video about grundo gym and how they got rid off it because it was making pets way to overpowered.
I'll consider looking into it, thank you for the recommendation. :)
I love ogrins! :(
Hey, that's good! Different people like different things and I'm glad you have something you enjoy!
i like xayxay
Maybe you can start some commotion on the neoboards and have them bring in Xayxay.
hello
Hi! Thanks for watching. :)
I mostly remember Neopets as fast food toys. They were still cool though. Anyway I’ve got a reading suggestion. Acts from the Bible. Just a suggestion and in the end you decide what you do
0:01 o_o
O_O
How are you so innocent in 2018?
I published this video in 2016, so who's to say I still am? 😂
Pet Simmer Julie 👀on yeah? 😏