They may be nothing but flights of fancy jotted down on sketches and concept art, but the small details the Hyrule Historia reveals are telling. It seems that most are from Skyward Sword's early development, before things like Skyloft being the only town-like island in the sky, and all of its residents were set in stone.
Of particular interest, especially given how the hub nature of Skyloft echoes that of Clock Town in Majora's Mask, is a wee note on a sketch of "Lumpy Pumpkin Customer 1/Older Regular Customer 4." The note reads as follows: "He has taken a liking to the Lumpy Pumpkin and shows up at least once a day" (36).
As I wrote, it's not much, but it suggests that there might have been a town schedule for all of Skyloft's residents, as there was for Clock Town's in Majora's Mask. Perhaps, as is often the case with elements of Zelda games that disappear through development, such a scheduled world center will appear again in Zelda Wii U. Who knows, maybe we'll even hear about it in just over a month's time at E3.
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