Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11488613-20130914202407/@comment-24145588-20140215213921

GardenmasterXX wrote: it looks nothing like a mech/crystal. so it's obviously a new type. Yes, that's obvious.

It's also obvious that no new types are "needed" and there's a gap to be filled in the Ethereal breeding pattern. And that (as has been pointed out by others) monsters' appearances can be pretty surprising.

Keeping in mind that obvious is not necessarily the same as correct, we'll just have to wait and see.

It could be a new Special Occasion monster for April Fools' Day.

It could be the Crystal/Mech hybrid, and maybe the bit of image we've seen is the creature in a metamorphic state between "looking like Crystal" and "looking like Mech."

It could be a ninth ShugaThing, although the lack of beard argues against that...unless it's a ShugaBaby.

It could be a red herring that the BBB artists put in there to distract us from what's really coming up.

Could be darn near anything. It'll be interesting to see.