Woah, that's a great association! Golden Plushy with a golden dragon.
Regarding the Saint-Saens Medley--what I mean is, we never got to see the "final" version he was planning--the 2-quad, more backloaded version. From what I recall, he wanted to bring that to Europeans and Worlds before his back gave out on him. ;_; We did get three versions that were good in their own ways: test skate with quad salchow, Japan Open with 2 quads, and the Russian Nationals version. But they all weren't the "ideal" skates that they could've been had Plush been uninjured: test skate was still a "work in progress," Japan Open had mistakes (but I don't blame Evgeni too much... that was the same competition where Patrick Chan fell four times
), and Russian Nationals was close to perfect except for the lutz combo, but I shallowly wished he'd kept the black-and-white swan outfit.
I really like the Russian Nationals version, of course, and I'm grateful we got that. I'm just rather attached to this program since it's my favourite of the recent programs; I'm just a bit sad we never saw it at its full potential because of Plush's injuries.
Of course, my complaints must seem quite minor to those who saw the discarded Romeo and Juliet program. At least we got three decent versions of Saint-Saens, while that one is lost forever.