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World of Warcraft’s Robin Williams Tribute Unveiled

World of Warcraft users have located the Robin Williams tribute planted in the game after the […]

Kotaku reports:

One Wowhead reader said they found the above genie on an island near Talador in the beta for WoW’s next expansion, Warlords of Draenor. It’s pretty much perfect. Says Wowhead: “You can summon Robin by rubbing the Ever-Burning Lamp. When first summoned, he exclaims ‘INFINITE COSMIC POWER’ and then shrinks and waves goodbye, saying ‘itty bitty living space.’”

While the lines themselves are a reference to Williams’s famed character in Aladdin, the genie doesn’t look enough like him for Disney to be likely to become upset.

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Williams himself was a player in World of Warcraft, to which he sometimes joked that was addicted. Hours after the news of Williams’ death, one World of Warcraft player began petitioning the games’ publisher, Activision-Blizzard, via Change.org to memorialize Williams with an in-game NPC.

The response from Blizzard, saying that they were working on it, was almost immediate and made headlines around the world.