Fun fact! Cushion is the only G1 pet to get a redesign for g2.
Most of the time if a G1 pet appeared in G2 it’d just be the same design right down to the mold used.
This is likely due to G2’s incredibly short development window. They likely lacked the time (or the interest) in reworking all the pet designs.
Unlike G3 which was planned out carefully for a long time, G2 was too rushed developmentally for them to waste time on stuff like the pets.
With one exception. Cushion.
Cushion of all pets got a redesign for g2! Marking her third redesign. (Going from grey/orange to pink for howleens awful texturist 13 wishes redesign)
Cushion gaining a new blue colour palette, safety pin bow, and seemingly cementing the push for cushion to be in a more bipedal stance. Overall quite cute!
But I’m not surprised by her presence and more… confused. Both for her and the g2 howleen doll she comes with. For one reason.
Howleen isn’t canon to g2’s lore. At all. In fact she was early on actively replaced. At first spiritually with Barker and then more firmly with Pawla.
G2 Clawdeen has 12 brothers and three sisters. Her sisters being pawla, packlyn, and weredith. Not howleen.
Nor do I think they were planning to introduce her. Because it’d be very redundant to do so.
The webisodes hadn’t even gotten to the point of introducing pawla yet! (They unfortunately never did.) Her first established major G2 little sister!
We only know she’s lore canon thanks to her little sister book.
If they were going to introduce a little sister of G2 clawdeens to the webisodes it’d be her.
Which makes the fact howleen not only got a doll in a g2 line with a canon g2 sibling (alivia) bizarre but also the fact it is a completely brand new mold (for her and cushion) is frankly baffling to me.
That’s a weird amount of effort for a doll of a character G2 seemingly wanted nothing to do with.
It’s kinda the perfect embodiment of g2’s doll line and its unstable identity.










