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Well, operating a hair salon is a surprising career change after having held various CTO positions since 2005. 
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It is kind of surprising that is not that rare to find a business that contains the word "Rayman" in its name. Sometime ago I found a page about cutting tools and machinery.
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I made a rather weird discovery tonight: "Rayman Rocket" is a thing, has been a thing since 2004, and no one knew.
The domain name raymanrocket.com was registered by Ubisoft in 2004. It is the only Rayman-related domain name for which it is unknown what exactly it is referring to.
Like rayman2.com and rayman3.com, www.raymanrocket.com now redirects to www.ubisoft.com .
But "raymanrocket.com", without the "www" is a different story. This one redirects to the Rayman Legends website, much like the other Rayman domain names that were registered later, such as raymanorigins.com and raymanlegends.com . It is also on the same DNS server as websites for Rayman Origins, Rayman Fiesta Run, Rayman Legends Beatbox and Rayman Adventures.
It almost seems as if they had the idea for this title a long time ago and wanted to go back to it in recent years, just like with the title "Rayman Adventures".
What is Rayman Rocket? Why does it (not) exist? Was the Rayman story going to the moon? Is Rayman canonically a rocket?
Now that Michel Ancel is gone, the world might never know.
The domain name raymanrocket.com was registered by Ubisoft in 2004. It is the only Rayman-related domain name for which it is unknown what exactly it is referring to.
Like rayman2.com and rayman3.com, www.raymanrocket.com now redirects to www.ubisoft.com .
But "raymanrocket.com", without the "www" is a different story. This one redirects to the Rayman Legends website, much like the other Rayman domain names that were registered later, such as raymanorigins.com and raymanlegends.com . It is also on the same DNS server as websites for Rayman Origins, Rayman Fiesta Run, Rayman Legends Beatbox and Rayman Adventures.
It almost seems as if they had the idea for this title a long time ago and wanted to go back to it in recent years, just like with the title "Rayman Adventures".
What is Rayman Rocket? Why does it (not) exist? Was the Rayman story going to the moon? Is Rayman canonically a rocket?
Now that Michel Ancel is gone, the world might never know.
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I wonder if that has something to do with the Rayman's Dream Team promotional VHS video, that features a game named "Rocket: Robot on Wheels", however that was from 1999.
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A curious find indeed, Droolie! And in this one case, I doubt we'll ever learn anything about it.
Still a better story than Rayman Origins.
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Now that's a community manager that knows how to trigger some reactions. 
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They had more on it here, just interesting that someone is actually named "Ray Mann". 
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Uh yeah, there's no kidding.
I don't have live TV so I didn't see it being broadcast but I do have an ITV hub account so I was able to check it out there. The funny thing as well is that this isn't the first time a contestant on an ITV game show has a video game related name - about a year ago there was someone on Catchphrase who was called Chansey. You can imagine the amount of Pokemon gifs that were thrown out over Twitter that evening.
I don't have live TV so I didn't see it being broadcast but I do have an ITV hub account so I was able to check it out there. The funny thing as well is that this isn't the first time a contestant on an ITV game show has a video game related name - about a year ago there was someone on Catchphrase who was called Chansey. You can imagine the amount of Pokemon gifs that were thrown out over Twitter that evening.
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It's pretty interesting though how the owner of the page not only understood the reference to Rayman, but also mentioned Smash. Pretty interesting stuff if I must say. The one named Chansey though, that's something I've never heard of when it comes to a person's name. What are the Chansey's of that? 
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There's no thread for this, so I'll just share this here.
I found some tidbits about Phoenix Studio's Rayman 4.
Gaël Chaize was an art director & 3D modeling artist at Phoenix Studio. He shows a render of a 3D environment on his website with the caption "Rayman prototype":
I also found the person who presumably animated the "Rayman Sings Sex Bomb" video and the Rayman 4 teaser where he gets called by Ubisoft on the beach: Damien Pougheon. He linked 2 Rayman videos on his website, though the videos themselves are long gone (maybe someone should ask him if he still has them?). I think the "Disco party" video might be "Rayman Sings Sex Bomb", but from the thumbnail the other one looks like it's rendered in-engine?
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He posted this in April 2006, when the game was already cancelled, and he explains he made these during preproduction the year before.
Lastly, evidence of two cancelled Rayman games. Pascal Cammisotto was a game designer at Phoenix Studio. On his resume:
I found some tidbits about Phoenix Studio's Rayman 4.
Gaël Chaize was an art director & 3D modeling artist at Phoenix Studio. He shows a render of a 3D environment on his website with the caption "Rayman prototype":
I also found the person who presumably animated the "Rayman Sings Sex Bomb" video and the Rayman 4 teaser where he gets called by Ubisoft on the beach: Damien Pougheon. He linked 2 Rayman videos on his website, though the videos themselves are long gone (maybe someone should ask him if he still has them?). I think the "Disco party" video might be "Rayman Sings Sex Bomb", but from the thumbnail the other one looks like it's rendered in-engine?
Disco Party !!!
Une animation test marrante pour prendre en main le personnage ( Rayman pour les non-initiés), faite l'année dernière durant la preprod du j...
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Tests d'animations / Animation tests
Après la disco party, voici quelques autres tests d'animation... After the disco party, here's a bunch of test animations... (Cliquez sur l'...
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Lastly, evidence of two cancelled Rayman games. Pascal Cammisotto was a game designer at Phoenix Studio. On his resume:
It seems that the Phoenix Studio game was for Xbox 360/PS3/PC, and either they also had a separate project for a PSP version, or he was transferred to a PSP game afterwards -- which would explain early listings of a PSP version of RRR floating around the internet.
