Question(s): Drawing the Line on Animals

[doug]

I was searching Animobil the other day for animal bones, so I would like to see them there.  ...whether that translates  to "should" is another matter.

If the troll shouldn't go up, then you should pull the foil-bag dragons, IMO.  Those critters are way more humanoid than any other playmo dragons.  (Although, I was happy you had them for my reference.)  They are like "draconions" from the pulpy Dragonlance books:  some type of lizardy people.....
If you are keeping the dragon people, by all means, add the troll.  Ditto for the Black Colossus.

[Rhalius]

Might as well keep it to a fantasy animals section. Dragons, Unicorns and such seem to belong there as well, and we can only assume that they will add more fantasy animals in the future.

Griffins, Ogre's, Goblins, Centaurs, Harpies, Minotaurs, Cyclopses, etc. Never know what they may add.

[bonniebeth]

I lean towards the "include them all" line of thinking. I would definitely include the bones, in their own section, at least big identifiable ones. The swan princess boat, I would like to see included for the size comparison and all, especially since it can be used in animal-themed projects.

But with the aliens and trolls and such, I don't know. That is a hard line. I guess you could use whether it talks or not as a guideline. If it speaks in real life or in common mythology it's a clicky, if it doesn't it's an animal. So aliens would be clickys, but chimps wouldn't.

[Tiermann]

Thanks again for all the thoughtful comments. There are a number of ways to look at the ideas here. One that I have used is to ask 'if someone had this and didn't know where it was from would they go to Animobil to look it up?' So the swan boat goes in I think because in a few years if you didn't know what theme it was from and found it in a mixed batch off eBay I think it would be something you would definitely expect to find out about on a site like Animobil. Likewise the dragon klickies since they do look like klickies but they are not people and if they had no accessories on they would maybe look like a random unknown animal. They aren't after all made with regular klicky parts in any way but all special ones.

So the troll/ogre. Not a klicky certainly. If I went to PlaymoDB I wouldn't expect to find it in the klicky lookup feature. I checked and Heather has it categorized as Humanoid along with the skeleton, snowmen, scarecrows, and busts. I wouldn't include any of those other things. If you picked one up and didn't know what set it was from or what it was supposed to be, would you go to animobil and expect to find it?

[Birdie]

Following Bonnie's way of thinking, I have the idea that trolls can talk (sort of  ), so I wouldn't see them as an animal.
I don't think I'd go to animobil first to look it up.

[doug]

I would look for the troll on Animobil.

If talking excludes a critter from the list, the dragons got to go too.

  Maybe not the wyverns,  maybe not the  old-school googly-eyed dragons,  but  Black Dread can talk, for sure.

 Smaug's got nuthin' on Black Dread.

The new Green Mama looks like a talker too...

With mythical creatures, sentience should not keep them off your list, Tim.

[Rhalius]

Parrots can talk too though, and in many tales Dragons can talk as well.  And when you look at most cartoons, pretty much any animal talks. 

Or maybe I am just trolling now. 

[Tiermann]

Or maybe I am just trolling now. 

I see what you did there 

[Rasputin]

I bet the bunny people dont just murmur and squeal.

[Pynedor]

I bet the bunny people dont just murmur and squeal.

I need to find one of those at some point, mainly so that when I see it I'll think of all the hilarious conversations about them here.