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HI TUMBLR LBP FACT TIME

Larry was going to be called “Dave Inchi” that’s why he looks at a D in “Let’s get you match fit” and recognises his name from that.

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There’s a typo in lbp3 where a sugar cube is spelled ‘suger cube’

fun fact about me

little big planet taught me how to mask. I had no clue how to use emotions properly and I used to get super frustrated when people thought I was feeling one way by how I looked but I was actually feeling another. Then I played through LBP and it helped me learn when i should use what expressions. Thanks little big planet.

I don’t have any good fact ideas today, so here’s what remains from Mona in the game!! She was going to be an AI accomplice to Avalon but she was eventually scrapped.

Quick fire round!! facts too short to write a big paragraph on.

- Higginbothams beta name was Hillary

- Negativatron was originally pink

- Avalon was originally an orange amplifier with blonde hair and the words ‘the man’ faintly across his speaker

- Eves asylum used to have whales in it, likely because a lot of Gustav Klimt’s art depicted a lot of sea life

- Copernicus was made quite late in development, there was a lot of different concepts before they decided on Copernicus one of which can be seen in the level profile pic.

- Eves eyes change colour depending on mood (not about the beta but just not very well known because she doesn’t show a lot of different emotions in game)

- A lot of concept art was drawn in crayon!

- There was going to be a lot more types of robotic enemies you could interact with. E.g a Metal Robot you could wind up.

Ask me if you have any LBP2 questions, I’ll probably be able to answer them. ^^

Hold on I have another fact 💀

The beta version of the factory of a better tomorrow was called the popov factory. This was likely a placeholder name however the popov was an early version of the meanie and it would have been a pink strange creature that possessed and took over sackpeoples minds, or in other concepts simply masqueraded as sack people. The closest thing we have to this in game that shows this is the creature stingers and horns, although recently people have found a ‘popov dog’ which was seen in some of the concept art so it is likely it was scrapped during the early to mid development stages.

Oh! And one more fact for today.

The scientist guy seen just before the wheel actually appeared in really early LBP2 concept art with an apple labelled Eve. This idea likely stemmed into having Eve as we know today :)

Sorry I’ve missed a few days, I’m really inconsistent and I’ve been a bit ill lately but here’s todays LBP fact:

The negativatron was originally going to be called ‘The sucker’ and the story would have had a plot twist where when you got to Avalons place he turns on you, along with the help of his assistant ‘Mona’ who I am pretty sure was actually a cyborg version of the Mona Lisa!! This is just speculation but I’m quite sure that the story would have had you teaming up with the alliance to fight Avalons army and eventually destroy the sucker.

Clive’s fun LBP fact of the day:

this one is a bit more obvious, but casual players may not know this!!

Eves asylum is heavily inspired by Gustav Klimt’s work, specifically his golden age!! A lot of the original concepts were a kind of futuristic greenhouse style thing and they looked super cool!! I’m still glad we got the eves asylum we did, it’s so beautifully done. I presume they deemed the futuristic idea a little too similar to Henry’s garage, which eventually became Avalonia.