Are you in it?
[Update:Come to find out, I actuallywaspart of the diorama, the database just didn’t catch it. My Blood Elf Demon Hunter made it in, and a Blizzard employee handed the figure to me after the closing ceremonies for a closer look. Upon inspection, this looks likea near 1:1 re-creation of my character. The horns are exact, the shoulder pads are the same, it has the same bandana/mask, and the same belt. That’s…dedication!]
To celebrate the newWorld of WarcraftexpansionBattle for Azeroth, Blizzard nonchalantly built “the largest videogame diorama ever,” as per the Guinness Book of World Records. Why they didn’t announce this during the keynote is anyone’s guess, as I randomly just happened upon it while wandering the showfloor after theHeroes of the StormHGC semi-finals.
But it’s not just a re-creation of the Battle for Lordaeron with random figures colored blue for the Alliance and red for Horde — it featuresactual player charactersbased onWorld of Warcraftusers. If you’re an attendee you can see if your character is one of the 10,000 includedright here(I wasn’t chosen, sadly), and what zone of the diorama you’re in.
Yeah, this is a hell of a way to promote an expansion, and a decidedly Blizzard thing to do.
