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. The only Giddyup Buttercup found in the game is located on Mothership Zeta, just above the location of the Buttercup Toy, in Engineering Core.

Location
It 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 allways 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. One shelf will have a Buttercup Toy.

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. Next to a teleport back to the entrance to the Cargo hold, there is also one more isolated within some sort of tube or chamber surrounded by dead test subjects.

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.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of the life-size robot horses in the Mothership's Research Lab. There is also a tiny Buttercup Toy in the Research lab. 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. The Aliens have even managed to make one work, with its eyes flashing. Ominously, the working robot is surrounded by the bloody corpses of Test Subjects.

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

Appearances
A Giddyup Buttercup, along with it's toy variant, appears in the Mothership Zeta add-on. 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 Recording 21 has the recording of Sally, being taken to the recording room, and presented a giddyup buttercup. The aliens are described as excited, either by her recognition of it, or her happy reaction. This reaction is probably because it did not end like the 'test subjects' mentioned above.