Talk:Capper/@comment-26423071-20181107210019/@comment-29981995-20181107212538

Well, there's a few different factors that play into it. Real world speaking, having other Abyssinians in the show would require having and/or creating Flash assets for them. That requires time and money, which requires that the creatives think it be worth spending said time and money to create the assets. There's also the fact that time and money spent towards that would then restrict what else the creatives were able to do so far as adding other new elements such as creatures like the Roc, or new locations.

Within the terms of the story, it's a matter of what makes sense. Capper is literally one of a host of anthropomorphic animals who appeared in the movie in Klugetown, and we've not seen any of their like in the series either. No Parrots or Storm Creatures (What Lies Beneath illusuions notwithstanding) have appeared in the series either. It was one of the big selling points of the movie that these creatures were from "beyond Equestria", so it would kind of kill the novelty to bring them back.

The Hippogriffs are an obvious exception, but one that kind of makes sense. If you think about it, Capper and the like were lone representatives of their species; their friendship with the Mane 6 does not equal a relationship between their native lands and Equestria.The Hippogriffs, by contrast, are an entire people under a single government, and seem to have had some relationship with Equestria in the past. Going back to real-life reasons, it probably is also easier to develop Hippogriff assets than it would be for new cats, given that you could modify existing stuff from Celestia, Thorax, and other beings somewhat close in body type to the Hippogriffs and thus not have as many new assets to develop.