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Calpain: Someone sent us the above screencap of a NPC from the new WoW expansion who happens to have an unusual last name. Not only that but he’s a brewer that deals with cider as well! Pony reference or not? You decide! After all, pony references have already been made in Diablo 3 which is also from Blizzard.

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Gocker

I’m less worried about the possible pony reference to how you got the minimap to be in the right place with Spartan U.I…
Solitrain
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Well every expansion adds one or more skills to every class. Sooner or later the skillbars will implode on themselves and leave you with 1 button to mash.
 
You still have to play the piano for now tho.
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Cheeki Breeki
Probably not a pony reference. The Panderans are big time brew fanatics, and apple cider is just one of the drinks that they make. Considering that Applebloom is a regular apple term, and that the character picks them, I personally think it makes logical sense. for them to choose that name. Plus, it’s a male instead of a female here.
 
And Whimsyshire was just supposed to be a throwback to the Secret Cow Level, except with a little alteration with generic unicorns and rainbows.
Solitrain
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Just to clarify:  
Whimsyshire elite mobs are named after MLP characters (with some changes due to copyrights).
 
And now this pandaren jimmy rustler…
 
Those guys were asian equivalents from the dawn of time (Warcraft 3 that is).
 
So a pandaren named Applebloom is no big deal… he could have been named cherryblossom and it still would fit just as well.
 
However since his quest is about Apple Cider…
 
I’d say it’s a reference but kept in the lines of worldbuilding (suprising since WoW is usually somewhat blunt in that regard AKA the Techbot)
Prof.NightJack
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@JasonTheHuman  
>Those have been around longer than MLP  
Dude…. do you know haw stupid you just made yourself look…  
If you mean FiM then you half right, Diablo III was in development before it BUT Whimsyshire very late in the development, like after FiM, but if you mean MLP then heck no, there wasn’t even the first Diablo when MLP started.
JasonTheHuman

I thought that Whimsyshire was just a generic rainbows-and-unicorns reference. Those have been around longer than MLP and Diablo III was in development for a long time.