April Fools in media

Silly Cow · Post by **Silly Cow** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:13 pm

What April fools have you seen in different media?

http://www.ntfa.net/ had a news that Hasbro would release an exclusive mini-con team for the Nordic countries, The Arctic Team.

A finnish gaming magazine released a news on their website that there will be a third Fallout game, which would be a time travelling adventure with a lot of old school Lucasarts feeling.
Damn it sounded very good.

There's usually an April fool in every newspaper here in Finland but I haven't read any newspapers today so I don't know what's in them.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:22 pm

http://transfans2.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/008125.html

Bombshell · Post by **Bombshell** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:28 pm

Originally posted by Cliffjumper
http://transfans2.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/008125.html

Cyberstrike nTo · Post by **Cyberstrike nTo** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 5:58 pm

The End of Transformers

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:07 pm

He probably shouldn't have had the URL as April fools, though... direct it to something relatively named with "dumass" and a hit count on it...

Shrapnel Clone · Post by **Shrapnel Clone** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:09 pm

In the news here: "Prime minister Balkenende to star in third Harry Potter movie".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1990000/i ... er_300.jpg

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:12 pm

Brilliant.

Bombshell · Post by **Bombshell** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:31 pm

Internet Exclusive G1 Soundwave Reissue

I almost believed it...till I remembered that the Soundwave mold was wrecked...and the story itself is pure ****...

:rolleyes:

Sir Auros · Post by **Sir Auros** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:40 pm

Greatest April Fool's internet joke EVER!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

And for those of you not "in the know" Sharereactor + eDonkey > ALL.

Capt · Post by **Capt** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:10 pm

although not gospel, I had heard on ATT that the soundwave mold is not totally wrecked, and is being repaired...

Leader-1 · Post by **Leader-1** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 1:25 am

Wizard Magazine's april ish.42 jokes/untrue news items.

Blues Clues · Post by **Blues Clues** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:26 am

Originally posted by Sir Auros
Greatest April Fool's internet joke EVER!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

And for those of you not "in the know" Sharereactor + eDonkey > ALL.

Joke as in you're able to get the movie so early or that its just a renamed file?

Sir Auros · Post by **Sir Auros** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 8:38 am

Originally posted by Blues Clues
Joke as in you're able to get the movie so early or that its just a renamed file?

It's just a renamed file, which is something they never do and that's why it was funny instead of infuriating...plus I got the .nfo in less than a minute and it said something like, "What day is this? April 1st. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA," so that was a dead giveaway. If the site didn't release ONLY verified files, I'd be a bit pissed.