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by Eliah Hecht 
Jun 9th 2009 at 4:00PM
Mountain Dew Game Fuel, WoW-themed flavors of the popular beverage in red and blue (for the Horde and Alliance, respectively), is out in the wild, and at least one of our writers is already a big fan. To show how much they love you (or rather, to try to get you to buy their soda), Mountain Dew will give you a free in-game Battle Bot pet, just for clicking a button on their web site! The button is towards the lower-right, and it'll redirect you to log in to your Battle.net account. Don't worry, it's safe - you can tell by the Battle.net URL. He's a cute little guy. You can see a few screenshots I took in the gallery below.
Apparently you get in-game fuel for your pet, again in red or blue, and when you fuel them up, they will fight opposite colors. If you give your pet blue fuel and the guy next to you gives it red, expect some robot-on-robot fighting action. I'm not sure if you have to get the appropriate fuel for your faction, since it seems you can only get one in-game item per day, and I already got my battle bot. I'll try it tomorrow and see how it goes.
Edit: It looks like we've killed the Mountain Dew website. Keep trying though, it's bound to come back up sometime...
Edit 2: The pet is mailed to all of your characters, so you don't have to decide which one gets it.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 6)
AyaJulia Jun 9th 2009 10:53PM
@Janaa: Comforting to know I wasn't the only thing thinking that about the iPhone plug.
Orcess Jun 9th 2009 4:09PM
I got into the site when I stopped trying Mozilla and used Internet Explorer.
TheChao Jun 9th 2009 4:12PM
RIP Mountain Dew Game Fuel website.
maybe ill try tomorrow
elstor Jun 9th 2009 4:44PM
But that means one less day of getting Battle-bot fuel! And god knows one day could be the difference between loosing and winning a battle-bot tournament with your friends!
Quidamtyra Jun 9th 2009 4:11PM
once again, wow.com kills a website
Barinthus Jun 9th 2009 4:13PM
Yeah...leave it to WoW Insider to obliterate another website's server.
flawless Jun 9th 2009 4:13PM
Any idea if theres a workaround to get these in the EU?
Tremelizzer Jun 9th 2009 7:54PM
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?sid=1&topicId=9521024780
Sedirex Jun 9th 2009 4:14PM
Looks like their site's getting smashed. You would think they would plan for 12 million people hitting their site when they release a free product appealing to 12 million people. Well, hopefully it'll be open for a while.
Zalvi Jun 9th 2009 4:18PM
12 million? get your math right, its only for US residents, i highly doubt that the US has over 6 million people playing WoW
Barinthos Jun 9th 2009 4:25PM
Still doesn't change the fact that they dropped the ball hard on it. A couple million people are blasting the site at the same time. Lack of planning ftl.
Sedirex Jun 9th 2009 4:26PM
That changes the fact that they didn't predict the demand and their site's unavailable completely.
Sedirex Jun 9th 2009 4:27PM
Barinthos beat me to it.
Eric Jun 9th 2009 4:28PM
Who are also all simultaneously trying to obtain their battle bot pet. But the site is pretty much swamped down with traffic..
Daemonsadi Jun 9th 2009 4:34PM
the battle bot pet is not only limited to US residents. you don't have to log in to the Game Fuel site to redeem the pet, just have to go to the site and click on the link to get it. it takes you to the Battle.net site, log in and you get the pet.
so it looks like the battle bot pet is available anywhere you can get a battle.net account.
Kody Jun 9th 2009 4:18PM
Site is getting demolished at the moment. Less flash, more bandwidth Mountain Dew!
Brian Boitano Jun 9th 2009 4:19PM
Luckily I got mine seconds before the site went down :P
AishaLove Jun 9th 2009 4:20PM
I have a separate battle net account, but have not yet merged them, I suppose I have to merge in order to claim the bot?
Dreadskull Jun 9th 2009 4:20PM
And down goes the Mountain Dew site.
*sigh*
Remen Jun 9th 2009 4:27PM
I just got mine. Try using IE rather than Firefox.