UPDATE:We reached out to EA regarding the status of this rumor, and a representative for The Sims Studio (Maxis) has officially stated that these are “all old assets that were used to create the custom Andrew Wilson image a couple years back”.
It’s no secret that toddler-like textures and files have been in the game for quite some time, but the most recent dabbles by modders over at Sims 4 Studio and Inabadromance on Tumblr, have players hoping these are more than just some unused game files.
From DreamTeamSims: There’s a toddler texture in the game since January 2015, but recently max20 at Sims4Studio also found a Model that could be for toddlers since it’s bigger and more detailed than the babies Model. Then the awesome inabadromance put them together and it’s a toddler that it looks A LOT like that toddler from the that baby render. So I shared this information on a Brazilian sims group I’m part of and the user Nathaly even added the clothes and the hair and yeah it’s the toddler from the render as you can see:
Recent textures and models show a larger version of this “baby” – Image by max20
Unlike The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 Base Games, the Toddler life stage was not launched with the release of The Sims 4 Base Game, and Maxis has yet to give a straight answer on whether or not they would return. When a commemorative renderwas gifted to EA’s “first family”, The Sims Studio was quick to debunk it as nothing more than “unique art”.