On the subject of animal packs, I know it's a mega unpopular opinion, but...Barnyard might have actually been my favorite animal pack since North America.
HEAR ME OUT. Barnyard just feels like the most seen followed through pack in terms of its vision. As much as I would have liked poultry and rabbits, I cannot in good faith look at any of those choices and honestly say they had no business in being a farm pack. I might have played around with the selected breeds but that's different from species.
I can say the same for the arid pack and look at that, the singular choices are all fine its just that putting them all together makes the pack belong in the dumbster of worst pack.
And i wouldnt say that being fine on specieslevel makes the animals of barnyard a fine addition, cause what does the species mean when they butcher the breeds so bad youd think its satire.
Most common zoo animal gets replaced by a breed so niche that in multiple language its just named "domestic goat", had 2 extremly strong choices for visually unique pig breeds that were saved by BRITISH zoos from extinction and conquered petting zoos across the world from there only to choose an obscure bacon breed, a sheep that only passes the best by looking like better options like the ouessant or merino sheep, the donkey is the closes we got to a true clone since the malayan tapir and it isnt even cloned from a particulary well implemented animal, just ask the noise department why they couldnt use the dozens of donkey sound samples on the internet, a cattle that got shrank down to the size of a pony, a chicken known for its dozen + colormorphs only to not even have its second most common one and the alpaca. See how there is only one animal without a very big and obnoxiously unnessecary issue?
It would totally have been possible to have a great pack with these species even without a rodent or second bird, but not with that dumbster fire of an execution
