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 ....

This article was originally published in forum thread: World of Warcraft 5.0 - Panda Mania! started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. goozen's Avatar
    I agree, todays jokes aren't believable or even funny. It would be funny if blizzard actually announced a real dungeon today so people did not believe them. What has happened to peoples sense of humor? :-(
    April fools jokes will never be that good as they will always be expected.
  1. Sanctioned's Avatar
    Yea sorry, this just wasn't even that good of a joke either.
  1. ciggy's Avatar
    No charge for awesome, that trailer was funny as hell.
  1. Callace's Avatar
    You had me going for a second Boubouille. I only knew it was a joke when there was no second race datamined. Well played.
  1. Koriinne's Avatar
    LOL... i kinda almost fell for it... but then was like... doh!!! Aprils fool... and i kinda find it funnier or more to fall for... than the ones from earlier years...(hero class a guitar playerr??)
  1. Jhaalu's Avatar
    I saw 5.0 and panda faces as i was scrolling down and i was like "OMG", then i looked at it for a half a second and remembered what day it was. I think you could have taken this idea a little furthur and made it less obvious and it would have been hilarious.
  1. Cairm's Avatar
    This looks shopped!
  1. richiecqc's Avatar
    All I ask is why not? What a perfect time to have something they are going to do on a day thats filled with lies.
  1. Ken_Silver's Avatar
    Good shop work on the mask. They do look like what an Alpha model of Pandaren would/should look like.

    However, I'm going to ROFLcopter all over the internet if we do get Pandaren in the next expansion by some strange fate of the Blizzard gods. XD
  1. Eaker's Avatar
    WTH ever geez you guys have no funny bone but then again I only liked the vid it was hilarious
  1. Anaeska's Avatar
    I liked the moar dots part
  1. RodneyStanger's Avatar
    Haha that seagull was completely full of awesome. Hey, it's obvious, but aren't all wow-related april's fools? I mean Blizzard's 'class changes' got tons of great feedback despite being the appifany of obvious.
  1. Sternrage's Avatar
    eh, this is an ok joke, but the tauren marines were better. hell addem to hots (heart of the swarm)
  1. Spartanoble's Avatar
    wish this wasnt april fools
  1. wakeskater's Avatar
    when am i getting my panda?
  1. Cablecow's Avatar
    lol people in warcraft take them selfs way to seriously , if you cant take jokes about a GAME!!
  1. KarmaBad's Avatar
    You know what's hilarious? People are like "This april fools sucks! Way too obvious!". You know, last time I checked, there hasn't bee ONE blizzard april fools that could be marked as anything NEAR legit. People just be mad because Blizz now shows to you guys what they think of pandaren. Jokes on you.

    ---------- Post added 2011-04-02 at 01:32 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by gnomemonster View Post
    I agree, todays jokes aren't believable or even funny. It would be funny if blizzard actually announced a real dungeon today so people did not believe them. What has happened to peoples sense of humor? :-(
    What would happen is 600k people would believe them so hard, that when it's announced as april fools, everyone rages and stops paying because nerds rage way too hard. That doesn't sound like making money.
  1. Callace's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by KarmaBad View Post
    You know what's hilarious? People are like "This april fools sucks! Way too obvious!". You know, last time I checked, there hasn't bee ONE blizzard april fools that could be marked as anything NEAR legit. People just be mad because Blizz now shows to you guys what they think of pandaren. Jokes on you.

    ---------- Post added 2011-04-02 at 01:32 AM ----------



    What would happen is 600k people would believe them so hard, that when it's announced as april fools, everyone rages and stops paying because nerds rage way too hard. That doesn't sound like making money.
    WoWnerds are too touchy for good April Fools pranks, hahah!
    That's the truth
  1. Crembrole's Avatar
    Yay. April Fools. Except I actually want Pandarans.
  1. Horza's Avatar
    Made me very happy. Sounded like the panda is gonna be played by Jack Black... not so good ^^

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