Randy Pitchford wasn't the only one teasing Borderlands 4, because another Gearbox developer basically spoiled the reveal trailer 2 years ago
Aug. 26, 2024“I could teleport a moon”
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Randy Pitchford wasn’t the only person to tease Borderlands 4 - that honor also goes to a Borderlands 3 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands writer who hinted at the reveal trailer two years ago.
TheBorderlands 4 reveal trailershows, among other things, a heavenly body appearing in an alien sky, smashing through some kind of barrier as it goes. Eagle-eyed fans think that planet is actually a moon, Elpis, on which the events of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel took place. That, in turn, has turned up some pretty gnarlyBorderlands 4 fan theories(only some of whichhave been squashed by Randy Pitchford).
“I’m floored by the response to Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands and the writing team’s efforts,” Winkler said 2.5 years ago, extending his congratulations to his colleagues. He closed his tweet, however, by suggesting that “I’m so excited I could teleport a moon.”
Now, that’s not really a common turn of phrase, but everyone seemed to overlook that fact at the time. Winkler, however, appears to have known exactly what he was doing, returning to that post to tweet “long game” in the hours after theBorderlands 4reveal. In case you’d lost track, that trailer saw what, with the benefit of hindsight, is clearly a moon that’s been teleported from one place into another.
You might argue that Pitchford had already been hinting at another major Borderlands project before this, but I would suggest that it would take him another couple of yearsbefore he really started to let the cat out of the bag in the wake of the Borderlands movie.I’d posit, then, that this was the first time that Gearbox staff actually spoke about Borderlands 4, a full 30 or so months before its eventual appearance.
Putting the Borderlands 4 reveal just 2 weeks after the Borderlands movie’s $90m flop is being hailed as Randy Pitchford’s ultimate “big brain move.”
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