Around Azeroth: Drop bear!
One of Australia's many unusually large and dangerous (and fictitious) animals, the drop bear, has begun showing up in Azeroth. "I was just minding my business, enjoying my newly obtained epic flight form, then BAM! Drop bear from above!" writes Dexi of Raids Without Pants on Steamwheedle Cartel (US-A). "I'd heard rumors about such flying bears but had never witnessed one before in the wild! It was quite thrilling ... until he landed on me, anyway." Or perhaps it's just Dexi's husband Foxyfoxy surprising her.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Noogie Apr 27th 2011 10:12AM
We're not in Australroth anymore.
Noogie Apr 27th 2011 10:15AM
o wait
Mep Apr 27th 2011 10:24AM
Lol, Jason Ellis
Hydrakara Apr 27th 2011 10:31AM
Well actually, they're called koalas and they have been known to drop out of trees onto people
BenMS Apr 27th 2011 11:10AM
Ha ha ha ha no. Drop Bears are completely fictional. And the only koalas that drop out of their trees are dead koalas.
Groth Apr 27th 2011 12:20PM
Drop bears are a carnivorous sub-species of Koalas. Far less dangerous than Hoop Snakes ofc, as they are slow moving, and as long as they don't drop directly on you, are relatively easily out-paced.
Jeff (Not that one ^ ) Apr 27th 2011 10:40AM
This is the first Around Azeroth to amuse me. Kudos koalas.
Aspirisis Apr 27th 2011 10:50AM
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a...omfg a bear? Next thing you know they'll be putting rockets on their backs and attacking airships.
gewalt Apr 27th 2011 11:05AM
you misspelled butt.
Robert Apr 27th 2011 11:18AM
This brings back memories of EV Nova. When you were travelling through Auroran empire any time you landed you had a small chance of getting hit by a drop bear, which automatically put you in the hospital for two weeks, at which point you would go out and buy drop bear repellent.
Baba Apr 27th 2011 11:20AM
Any Discworld reference is a good discworld reference.
Amy Schley Apr 27th 2011 11:25AM
While Sir Terry is awesome, drop bears are not actually his invention. Drop bears are a mythical Australian animal that are used to scare gullible tourists, much like new drivers are told they should check their blinker fluid.
chris Apr 27th 2011 1:26PM
Only way to repell a drop bear it to squirt it with toothpaste and wear old icecream containers on your head (my step dad had me and my sister doing exactly that walking through a forest when we were youngens)
PrincessRosario Apr 27th 2011 1:53PM
lol omg Shofie, I love you.
(How many times has our guild been on Around Azeroth, now?)
shotiechan Apr 27th 2011 4:08PM
6-7, I believe. :D
Lissanna Apr 27th 2011 4:21PM
You got Rawr-bombed.
Marcosius Apr 27th 2011 4:28PM
Didn't know CCP Dropbear played WoW.
Worldworstretadin Apr 27th 2011 5:25PM
Damn it! We still had years of getting tourists to wear heavy jackets and helmets in summer, putting vegemite behind their ears, wearing ice cream containers on their heads, wearing mirrored sunglasses (remembering to always look up when walking under a tree).
At least we can mess with apprentices by sending them to the store to buy a new spirit level bubble, a long weight (wait), left-handed screwdriver or a skyhook.