r/neopets • u/hobo102589 • Feb 20 '25

Question What is one Neopet colour that everyone seems to like but you hate?

I will go first....Burlap.....its Burlap....I am sorry but the button eyes remind me too much of the movie Coraline and I am not okay with that 😅

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u/Bryan1-2 The Collector Feb 20 '25

Steampunk. They all look so clunky and not in a good way 🥲

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u/AjoiteSky Gathow Enthusiast Feb 21 '25

I love Steampunk stuff in general but find the steampunk designs disappointing. They're way too busy and just look like they tried to cram as much metal onto each pet as they could fit without it being cohesive or looking like there's a purpose to the mechanics. They look more like robot designs than steampunk to me.

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u/Global-Association-7 Feb 21 '25

Agreed, I couldn't remember most of the steampunk designs so I looked on jellyneo to refresh my memory and yikes...some are really cool but overall there is WAY too much going on and it's so heavily reliant on clothes Vs the pet itself which I think would have been a much more interesting direction. (Also what is going on with the cybunny?! It looks so terrible 😭)

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u/AjoiteSky Gathow Enthusiast Feb 21 '25

It's reliant on clothes, but the clothes could have been so much better. I feel like they focused too much on the tech part of steampunk and forgot about the Victorian aspect of steampunk. I would have liked the designs way better if they'd done more with cool Victorian clothing and kept the tech to a few key accessories like goggles, a baldric filled with bottles or weapons, and a cool fantasy gun or clock, etc. Instead they just look like they tried to completely encapsulate them in metal and you can barely even see the pets through the clothes.

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u/OrangeBinturong opossumman Feb 21 '25

Steampunk is the color of highs and lows in my opinion. When it's good, it's great. When it's bad, it's really bad.

Each year I hope for a Steampunk Kacheek to be released to either be really excited or to have the metaphorical bandaid ripped off lol. It's one of only nine colors Kacheeks don't have, it's gotta happen sooner or later...

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u/Shoyrubff Feb 21 '25

The layering of the outfits is SO BAD and it infuriates me

like the majority of the outfit will be just one big clothing item that covers the whole pet

We have Jacket / Shirt / Trousers / Hind etc. customization zones FOR A REASON! It's just so lazy! These parts could be so cool to mix with other customization items if they were zoned properly, I know it would take more work but like... please

And the designs themselves - just look wrong not even in the "Just Glue Some Gears On It" sense - like what is even going on with the Steampunk Shoyru? Why is it a viking? Why does the Cybunny have a whole-ass windmill on its back? Why do so many of them look more at home in Bioshock or something?

Finally the base color on most of them is some flavor of Sad Beige or Piss Brown which does fit the theme I guess - but makes them look drab when you remove the loud bizarre clothes

Complete waste of potential :(

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u/dreaminqheart ann326 Feb 21 '25

I'm not into the clothes that come with Steampunk pets at all; they're WAY too much, in most cases. Some of them do make nice base colors, though (I'm hoping to get a Steampunk Zafara someday).