Mountain dew sohva

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Release date: 2002 (Habbo.fi)
Rare Values
Category: Unreleased items


The Mountain dew sohva (or Mountain Dew Sofa) is one of the oldest still remaining campaign furnitures on Habbo, released on Habbo.fi in 2002. Unlike the other Mountain Dew furnitures, the Mountain Dew Sofa has never been given out or sold after debranding. Both the Mountain Dew Machine (Habbo Cola Machine) and the Mountain Dew Poster (Habbo Cola Poster) were sold as rares under their same furni ID later after debranding.




Origin

The original graphics of the Mountain Dew Sofa

The Mountain Dew furnitures were released on Habbo.fi somewhere during 2002 - most likely spring time. Users could order one of the three different Mountain Dew furnitures by sending a text message using codes obtained from Mountain Dew bottles. The cost of one text message was 0,84€. One of the furnitures was a sofa looking similar to the Club Sofa featuring the Mountain Dew logo.

The Habbo Club wasn't released until December 2002 (Habbo.co.uk). Since the UK hotel didn't have the Mountain Dew Sofa, which was very popular on the Finnish hotel, similar sofa without the logo (Club Sofa) was created. The Habbo Club was released on the Finnish hotel later in April 2003 including the new Club Sofa. However, since the Mountain Dew Sofa already existed on the Finnish hotel and they were debranded only later at some point of 2004, the Club Sofa had to be created using a different furni ID. Therefore the original Mountain Dew Sofas are separate furnitures from the Club Sofas.

As a part of the debrading, the logo was removed from the Mountain Dew Sofas making it graphically identical to the Club Sofa. Name and description were also changed to Sohva, Löhöilyyn sopiva sohva (Sofa, Sofa suitable for idling). The name and description became the only way to identify them from the regular Club Sofas (Klubisohva, Vihreää viehätystä eng. Club Sofa, Green allure). The Mountain Dew Sofa is still named as Mountain dew sohva on the Habbo.com's furnidata.

Habbo Finland

Hundreds or even thousand of Mountain Dew Sofas were originally purchased. But as being discontinued for almost two decades, majority of the Mountain Dew Sofas are permanently lost to inactive and deleted accounts. It is estimated that less than 200 are still in the possession of active users, majority of them being hoarded by only few users.

Habbo UK - Scripting

It might be possible that some Mountain Dew furnitures were scripted to the Habbo.co.uk during the early years of Habbo. If that happened, some Mountain Dew Sofas could have survived and be forgotten in the hands of old scripters, users of the era or traded forward. However no examples are known.