Rayman himself

[Hunchman801]

Well, operating a hair salon is a surprising career change after having held various CTO positions since 2005.

[Elite Piranha]

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.

[Droolie]

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.

[Elite Piranha]

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.

[PluMGMK]

If I had to guess, I'd say it might have been a spinoff of the Missile Command minigame from Rayman 3. That was pretty addictive…

[Hunchman801]

A curious find indeed, Droolie! And in this one case, I doubt we'll ever learn anything about it.

Is Rayman canonically a rocket?

Still a better story than Rayman Origins.

[Nve]

Interesting find. I wonder what they were planning. But perhaps the future will reveal more clues.

[Steo]

Apparently the UK Who Wants to be a Millionaire page referenced Rayman being in Smash.

https://twitter.com/MillionaireUK/statu ... 61796?s=19

[PluMGMK]

Funny, I seem to recall having a weird dream involving Jeremy Clarkson last night...

[Hunchman801]

Now that's a community manager that knows how to trigger some reactions.

[Steo]

They had more on it here, just interesting that someone is actually named "Ray Mann".

https://twitter.com/i/events/1363599297711857664

[PluMGMK]

I see, the episodes we get on Virgin Media One must be a week behind, since Bhupinder Kaler had only just started on the one I saw last night. Well, that's something to "look forward to"

[Steo]

I wasn't even really aware that it had been rebooted, I just used to watch it when it was hosted by Chris Tarrant many years ago.

[PluMGMK]

Jeremy's great at hosting it, even if we know the only reason he's there is that he got kicked off the BBC

[Cairnie]

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.

[Steo]

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?

Yeah my puns are terrible...

[Fifo]

What are the Chansey's of that?

I see what you did there