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[AladdinsGenie]

I wish we could do a Q&A with the series writers to ask. I think we only have Tad Stones as far as series creators left since Alan Zaslove died in 2019.

They're so annoying I love them

[AladdinsGenie]

https://www.broadway.com/buzz/203918/take-a-magic-carpet-ride-through-alan-menkens-aladdin-score-for-its-10th-anniversary-on-broadway/

10 minute interview with alan about aladdin for the 10th anniversary of the broadway musical this week!

[Meesh]

I got a little emotional when he said something like "I was afraid for my career, and then the first song I wrote with (not Howard) was 'A Whole New World.'"
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[AladdinsGenie]

https://dapsmagic.com/2024/03/wishes-come-true-as-disney-aladdin-celebrates-10-years-of-broadway-magic/

Summary of the broadway celebration

[AladdinsGenie]

Didn't realize Aladdin has a bird pose

[zitagirl]

So uhm... my friends just told me that we are getting Aladdin in Smite 2 (sequel to the original moba Smite) and I was like wtf.

Will be interesting where they will lean to him with him. I kinda hope both the genie of the ring and the genie of the lamp will be utilised for him.
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[AladdinsGenie]

What is smite?

[zitagirl]

So Smite is an MOBA and has all kinds of mythological beings and creatures as playable characters from accross the world. It's more than a 10 year old game at this point and recently got announced that we get its sequel, with the alpha starting this May.

Here's a trailer for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1PHxmPq5o4&ab_channel=SMITEbyTitanForgeGames Just to see what's really is in short

Now the first game has 130 playable characters, with Nut (Egypitan god of the sky) being the last addition, with everything else being put in Smite 2 over the years (including all the old gods from the first game) and so far both from official and dataming it got confirmed that the upcoming 3 characters for Smite 2 will be Hecate, Mordred and now Aladdin.

Now the reason I was shocked about Aladdin is that... the closest we had such release was... probably Chtulhu and the Arthurian pantheon in a sense, that they aren't exactly mythologies (Lovecraftian being very new) but also quite old tales too. People also compared this to Mulan's release too, since she also has similar origin.

And well... I didn't really expect to play Smite 2 in alpha yet, given the only gods I reguarly play from the current roaster of Smite 2 is Anubis and Kukulkan (sue me, I'm a filthy mage main ) so when my friends pinged about this, my interest spiked to say the least.

Not much known atm as the alpha only starts in May, but will see where they lean with him into. Most thinks he will be closer to the Disney version because that1s what most people are similar with, but I hope they will add their own spin on it instead. I also don't know if he's going to be add an already existing pantheon, or they will create a new one, since he doesn't exactly belong to any of the current ones (my best bet was Babylonian actually, just because how in the Smite lore they are).

Anyway, here's the current list of gods just to see how they do these in terms of design. I think they do an overall good job with them so I do expect them to not disappoint with this one either. Rip my dream of Gilgamesh getting an Aladdin skin though haha.

https://www.smitegame.com/gods/
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You know your sanity is long gone when your favourites are a boy genius, a wacky genie, a mad man with a box and a deathberry

[Meesh]

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[zitagirl]

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