Gotta thank my friend Mike for this one. Apparently on the World of Warcraft forums, someone was complaining that the appearance of the Malestrom area in their upcoming Cataclysm expansion didn’t look “epic enough”.

Well, when lead designer Alex Afrasiabi read that, he responded with the following:

Maybe I missed the memo on levels of “epicosity” or something, but I’m pretty sure the Maelstrom is a CLASS 10 epic zone. Though I guess it is missing sharks with laser beams patrolling the waters and Arthur Fonzarelli jumping across it with water skis. And dinosaurs.

Eventually Afrasiabi responded with the following:

What you’re seeing is Epicus Maximus, a shark being ridden by a dinosaur riding a rocket and manning a laser beam, which in turn is being ridden by an undead mage.

I totally love when geeks show off their sense of humor in creative ways like this. You can read all about this over on Wow.com.