Greenies, and the Second Life Primative Museum

Greenies were large 'little green men' sculptures. They were displayed in settings that resembled giant's houses. If you teleported into one of the settings, you would feel as if you had shrunk to mouse-size.

My first Greenie sighting - One is removing the cap from a bottle of Coke. Saucer in the background.

I came to Second Life too late to see the original Greenie regions, but I saw the first Greenie sculpture at Simple's Zoo. He had several sculptures on display. Simple's Zoo is no more, but you can see several Greenies on display at the Primitive Museum in Ritchie.

Apparently the Greenies were the creation of a group called Rezzable, which I read at one point had 40 regions (sims) in Second Life. They had one region which simulated a giant kitchen, and next to it a region which represented the adjacent back yard. Avatars who visited felt they had been shrunk in size. In this giant environment the Greenie sculptures depicted the Greenies in various pursuits.  Some people got a Greenie avatar and joined in.

In June 2010 Rezzable pulled up roots and moved to OpenSim, but I have been unable to find any further information about them. Their old blog has either been taken over by a new company, or else they expunged any mention of Greenies in a rebranding. The OpenSim log lists their place in OpenSim as inactive.

I found several blog entries and YouTube videos about the Greenies, just google "Greenies, Second Life".

Greenies at the Second Life Primative Museum. created by Xerses Goff.

The Second Life Primative Museum also has a display showing one of the original teleport hubs, information about Yadni Monde, early Second Life controversies, and much more!

I also found this interesting comment about a product Rezzable produced called 'Builderbot'. Apparently the idea created quite a bit of controversy. I think the idea of the utility was that you could copy everything on your entire region and keep it in storage or transfer it to another virtual world platform. The problem was, it didn't check permissions, and a lot of people were afraid it would be used for illegal purposes.

Currently Lankarian Lock is currently offering copies of a dozen of Light Waves' Greenie sculptures on the Marketplace for free. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Greenies-Collection-by-Light-Waves/2810153.  Remember, these are BIG - open them in a sandbox!