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That Draik looks amazing.

I submitted the Anniversary Draik Male no PB clothing UT I don't think the PB clothing has been activated yet because it doesn't show up on him

So whoever gets that email, I'm not insane.

Manifesting some Wheel of Celebration avatar luck for me and everyone reading this

Really love the colour of the Draik!

The consistency of the art quality leaves a lot to be desired......

The star placement on the Grundo is completely flat. So lazy.

So the bows on the Grundo and Draik are nice.. But then you look at the Eyrie’s bow and wonder why they hate them.

I am surprised they decided to release not only one or two, but four. So that’s nice, for those that like the colors.

Aside from some of the clothing items, I personally don’t care for the color on most of them. (Not saying they’re bad, some are cute, just not a color that I’d probably go running to the rainbow pool to paint immediately.) They’re like a branch of the starry color to me. Though I am fond of the Kougra, only because my family got me a plush blind box, and that was my first one. So that’s a nice memory.

These are cute for the most part... I like the contrast of the stars and the color schemes and accessories. But.

The bow on the Grundo is missing an outline on the upper left and clips the outline of the Grundo itself though, and the bow, like with the Eyrie's, is a straight copypaste job from the individual item icon -- it's just that the bow itself in this case looks relatively normal and not like it was made in 5 minutes 20 years ago. The outlines on the bow don't match the Grundo's lineart though, which is pretty lazy/sloppy considering it's only used on the Grundo and isn't a cross-species bow.

The Cybunny star clips are so different from the Jubjub's in terms of detail and dimension? And frankly, the Jubjub's looks better because it matches the rest of the art (including line thickness) better.

It seems clear that the artists in charge of NC and the artists in charge of NP designs are completely different and the latter just doesn't care much. I'm aghast they still haven't fixed the Eyrie's bow.

idk. I guess these are a nice release after dragging their feet on this "25th" Anniversary color for so long. I've just been miffed at many inconsistencies in the quality of PB color releases lately.

The grundo doesn't have the cute little confetti dots and the star pattern is jutting onto its toenails. And I realize that grundos have a bit of a chin but the bow doesn't look like it's partially sitting under under their chin, it looks like it's layered incorrectly.

I like most of the new colours! The only think that I see as a bit annoying is the weird placement of the balloons that the grundo is carrying.

Ah, and the bow is clipping... Anniversary eyrie situation again? hope it gets fixed!

I've wanted the anniversary draik to be released so bad since we got the token last year, the colors on it were my favorite out of all the anniversary designs. I'm disappointed to see the colors on the paintbrush version are more muted than the token. It still looks nice but the colors on the token are nicer, much more vibrant and blue/turquoise toned. The paintbrush version is greener and duller. I'd been planning to paint my draik when this was released but I'm no longer sure I want to now.

Is nobody gonna mention that there were supposed to be 25th Anniversary Varwolf and Techos supposed to release

The Wheel of Celebration is giving me the worthless 25k NP space -so much-. Sorry, I needed to rant.

The jubjub looks kinda cute TwT

Ah, cute unreachable 26th anniversary goodie bags. The botters ain't gonna waste time

TNT once again showing how little they care about jubjubs. Look at that quality drop...

Wish the colors were more vibrant on these.
Also I agree with others about the celebration wheel, it's so bad lol.

But where is the techo that was supposed to come with these? And the varwolf.

Draik looks good, but Grundo looks unfinished (clipping issues, no dots, the bow), Cybunny has no stars on the far half, and Jubjub wings and stars are drastically different quality.

Just realised the Jubjub wings have no shading. That's what's off about them. I was just thinking they looked like lazy copypastes from the individual item art, but it's both that and the lack of shading, just gradient colors. I don't think the wings should have complex shading (style would clash too much), but a simple flat layer of shading would really tie it together.

Sometimes I feel like I'm too nitpicky about the art, but it seems obvious that the artist rushed these and/or whoever made these has no sense of artistic cohesion/consistency. It's a bummer.

@problematicperiplum - Maybe they're going to release the 25th Anniversary Techo for next Techo Day?

gotta love that star placement right on the groindo

I'm with everyone else, the celebration wheel is so underwhelming. It's supposed to be something exciting but most of the prizes are so garbage. I've had several days when I've gotten the same thing on both spins, too, which only doubles the frustration.

Ah I was really hoping for 25th Anni Varwolf

Did my 10 kitchen quests and a couple of Esophagor quests hoping to win one of the new goodie bags (yes I know the odds are tiny lol but you never know) No luck! Very curious to see what's inside.

I think the prizes on the celebration wheel are amazing!
Stamps, gourmets, retired avatars! Wonderful!
Now if only we would actually win any of them instead of always getting 25k and NC discount codes...

*whispers into an abandoned cave far from prying ears* 25th Anniversary is a dumb color *vanishes*

JN Is back1

It's.... back again?

Okay, I thought the Anniversary Jubjub paint job looked a bit different than the Pet Style aside from the pose.

So, I put the Style on my jubjub and YES the wings and the star accessory on the Style have MUCH better shading on the Pet Style than on the actual paint brush pic!

My jubjub is Kaluinel in case someone wants to check out the difference. Think I might just stick with the Pet Style instead of painting her.

I liked the muted color on the 25th anniversary Korbat because my Korbat skulks in the darkness so he chooses to wear dark backgrounds. This makes it easier to hide when he is up to no good at Jhudora's request.

I like the tertiary colors of these particular 25ths, but maybe that's just me. Some neopets when they are in their basic colors are saturated, so maybe this is why these got/seem muted?

...did TNT even look at the lowest middle star on the swimsuit area of the grundo?

Golden shimmer makeup from the NC slot on the wheel

Painted my Draik and his bow is missing

@biediep - that's the whole point of why some of us think the prizes are underwhelming. You can claim that such and such and so and so is being given away on the wheel all you want, but if nobody can land on those squares because 99% of them are garbage and the odds of landing on one of the good prize squares are vanishingly rare, then for all intents and purposes they might as well not put anything good on the wheel at all, and save us all a lot of disappointment and frustration.

I think that TNT often get a lot of credit for 'making things available' that actually aren't functionally very available at all.

ough the grundo's bow clipping with the linework *and* the star... and the balloon string for the yellow balloon is on top of some of the fingers... the way they just pasted a flat star pattern over it and erased the parts outside the lines instead of trying to make them look like they were actually on the body in any way.... sighhhs. i hope they fix it, but even if/when they do i always feel so bummed out when they don't even bother to check these things over before pushing them to the site.

i wonder if the person doing this round of converted designs has their monitor's color calibrated funny, they all seem desaturated compared to the pet styles!

respectfully, did they fire people from the art team?

The Grundo looks like it has a bad sunburn ...

Well, 3 days of the goodie bag being available, and me never seeing it in the shop because it gets sucked up by the bots... so disappointing.