Giddyup Buttercup (Fallout 3)

Giddyup Buttercup was the name of a robotic toy horse manufactured by Wilson Automatoys before the Great War.

Touted as the "ultimate in equestrian robotics", it was a toy aimed at a target audience of little girls and cost $16,000. A marketing poster featuring the horse is copyrighted 2042, suggesting the toy was sold at least in that year. A single Giddyup Buttercup is located on Mothership Zeta, just above the location of the Buttercup Toy, in Engineering Core, whilst the Research Lab of the ship is filled with hundreds of robotic horses. It is implied that they would be used to take over the world.

Location
One can be found on Mothership Zeta, on the bottom floor of the Engineering Core, after the Lone Wanderer has destroyed the three generators. It is located next to the makeshift bed where Toshiro Kago usually sits. A second is also in the Engineering Core on the table next to the pre-war bed near the broken teleporter, the table is always there but the toy gets placed on it when the bed appears. A third can be found on the shelf above the unique Atomic Pulverizer. A fourth can be found inside the research lab. Find the room with full size buttercups on giant shelves. From the top lookout, looking over the shelves/rows of life size Buttercups, you can see a small toy size buttercup near the top shelf. Shoot it off and then go retrieve it.

If the player character goes through the Cargo Hold into the research lab on Mothership Zeta, they will find hundreds of these stacked all over. From the large number of full-sized Giddyup Buttercups on Mothership Zeta, it seems plausible that these were constructed by the aliens. The presence of one such Giddyup Buttercup -- surrounded by four dead "test subjects" -- could imply that these seemingly harmless toys serve a far more sinister function.

Also, above Toshiro where the first Buttercup Toy is, there is a shelf next to the stairs. On this shelf is a life size Giddyup Buttercup. Sadly you can not pick up this one.

If Paulson, Elliot Tercorien, or Somah are taken to the Buttercups in the Research Lab, they will make several comments about them.

Appearances
A large number of Giddyup Buttercups, along with its toy variant, appear in the Mothership Zeta add-on, found in the Mothership Zeta's Research Lab. An advertising poster of it is featured on Fallout 3 loading screens, and the poster also occurs in numerous buildings in the game.

Alien Captive Recorded Log 21 features Sally being taken to the recording room and noticing a Giddyup Buttercup. The aliens are described as excited, either by her recognition of it, or her happy reaction.