Blizzard surprises the World of Warcraft players every year with new April Fools. An April Fool’s joke from 2009 even really made it into play with Lorenhall.
What kind of April Fool’s joke is that? In 2009, Blizzard brought an April joke that later did not turn out to be so absurd. The “Pimp My Mount” joke promised that players can individually adjust their mounts at NPCs such as Enzo and Haugstern-from spikes to flame strips, you should be able to set many details on your own vehicle (via Buffed).
The idea of the then popular US TV show “Pimp My Ride” took the idea (via Wikipedia). In 2024, The War Within and the update “Undermine (D)”, the concept of adapting mobile mounts (which had already been prepared by dragon-flight dragon flight) was expanded in this direction, because new goblin cars came into play as new mounts.
Players from WoW can now modify the vehicles to make them faster or more agile, which puts the original joke idea from 2009 into reality. In keeping with April 1st, this also noticed the players.
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How do the players find that? On Reddit, the players discovered these parallel parallels in line with April 1, 2025. The community finds this funny, but wants the implementation of further April Fools as new features in the MMORPG.
Adventurous_topic202 on Reddit suggests the 2008 April Fool’s joke: “I’m just waiting for the April Foolers to be a thing around the bard/guitar hero class”. Back then Blizzard presented the bard as a new hero class, inspired by Guitar Hero. Equipped with musical instruments, the bard fought with skills such as “Epic Solo” and “I am Murloc” while supporting the group with buffs.
Malt_link, meanwhile, wonders on Reddit, where the second part of the 2009 April Fool’s joke remains: “Interior: ‘Tanzstudio Wann’ comments”. At that time, Blizzard presented the “Dance Battle System”, in which PvP was to become “dancer vs. dancer”. Players should register with NPC dance masters and compete against each other in a dance competition.
According to the April Gazard, Kael’Tha’s Sunstrider would have built a dance temple in which dance maneuvers should replace the usual skills. Rewards such as striking outfits or the mount “The Soul Train” should wait for the winners. A joke that brought a mixture of dance and fight, but was never integrated into the real game.
Was that the first April joke that made it into play? No, the Pandaren as a playable breed were originally an April joke from 2002. Blizzard presented it as the “fifth breed” for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (via Wowpedia.fandom.com). This joke showed the Pandaren as a mystical, warlike nation, which was driven out of their homeland by the Centaurs.
Although the pandaras were originally only fun, many of the concepts were later taken over to the official “World of Warcraft” lore. In 2012, with the Mists of Pandaria expansion, the Pandaren actually came into play as a playable breed, which transformed the April Fool’s joke from 2002 into a significant part of WoW history.
Blizzard has often proven that April Fairs can become real features. At MeinMMO, too, we allowed ourselves a joke this year and led you behind the light. You can find our April Fool’s joke here: video games are becoming more expensive-publisher agree on “1 for 1” system