World of Warcraft 5.0 - Panda Mania!

World of Warcraft 5.0 - Panda Mania!
In the latest Patch 4.1 PTR Build, two new halloween masks textures have been added to the game files:

Helm_MaskHalloween_PaF.blp
Helm_MaskHalloween_PaM.blp

They seem to be early-alpha texture but according to what happened with the datamining/leak of the Cataclysm races 2 years ago, it looks like Pandarens will be the race of the next expansion! The name of texture for any piece of headset always ends with the first 2 character of the name of the race (Pa) and the gender (M/F), according to how the textures look it's really easy to conclude what the new race is.

More datamining reveals that the expansion is apparently named Panda Mania! and also uncovered a possible trailer ....

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Published on 2011-04-01 03:59 AM

401 Comments

398 Comments

blaqkmagick - 2011-04-01

I saw this at 2:30 in the morning and totally forgot what day it was...

kel - 2011-04-01

meh wasnt the best was still ok tho

Stikpillen - 2011-04-01

Nice April fool... But really cool they got Jack Black to voice-over the Pandaren!

Geckomayhem - 2011-04-01

Only one?! Don't they normally do three. Or is this Bibi's own little idea? I haven't read any of the comments here, but as soon as I saw the news post I remembered what date it is today. I assume - and it's just a wild guess here - but I assume that the first few responses were... somewhat emotional? Let me check after I post this.

Going in blind!

Arrowstormen - 2011-04-01

the question is, is it Bibis Joke, or Blizzard joke?
i guess this is Bibis joke, when you consider the trailer (not blizzard work), the masks that somewhat looks familiar, and the name of the expansion.
but hey, i didnt even consider it was a joke before i saw comments, woo!

i guess Blizzard havent released their joke yet.