Kenjiro wrote:
How is that a flawed idea? It's based on a place, like lots of others have (as well as people being excited about paint brushes based on the newer places). There haven't been any real images of pets painted that color except for the Island Lutari, and that one doesn't look that bad (compared to lots of others since the revamp).
In my opinion the lutari island paintbrush is a flawed idea. Sure, it's a paintbrush based off of a place, but it's also based off of a place that 99% of the general public doesn't have access to. Places with paintbrushes (The Lost Desert, Mystery Island, Tyrannia, ect) have entire worlds with characters and places and plots and things that make them worth a paintbrush. Lutari Island is a gimmick for Neopets to make money off of you while you're away from your computer. Plus the island (and the paintbrush) is named after a pet. Personally, I would not spend any great amount of neopoints to buy a paintbrush that would turn my lutari into a 'Lutari Island Lutari'.
Perhaps if they changed the name of the paintbrush to Tribal, it wouldn't be so bad. But again, I feel like the paintbrush idea itself is flawed. If TNT made a poll that let users choose between Tribal (Lutari Island/whatever) and let's say Altadorian.. I would seriously eat my socks if Tribal won. When people start talking about paintbrush colors they want, nothing close to the apparent Lutari Island design (if we judge by the released shop keepers) ever really comes up because the islandy need is already met with the Mystery Island Paint brush. ANd no one seems really interested in paying the millions of neopoints for extra feathers and face paint.
And I think the Lutari you're referring to is actually the Island Lutari..which isn't painted with the Lutari Island brush at all.