Weird and mysterious Rayman Legends' wallpaper

[Greengoop]

Heh you’re right, I was just doing it to beat my pyramid record

You did this KNOWING it was going to be hard for people on phones to read?
Perhaps we need to start making punishments for these too....

*NERVOUS SWEATING*

[Dumbo TV]

There are people who go on RayPC on phone !? I thought forums were a PC thing... anyway I don't like to come here with my phone

[Greengoop]

It’s good to log in on my phone when walking to school when my friends are being annoying sometimes

[Dumbo TV]

What are your boring friends talking about ? FORTNI-

[Greengoop]

Either that, basketball, trying to argue with me and other things

[Dumbo TV]

Maybe we should go to Off Topic to continue discussing

[Greengoop]

Or a new thread altogether? I must say, drifting off topic is like our #1 talent

[Dumbo TV]

It is true that we go off topic quite often but the mods are much too strict, a disscussion or a debate must necessarily drift to obtain a result

But it is true that the off topic is our greatest talent

[Greengoop]

Yeah, it’s bizarre my most active forum is rayman

[WPTheModder]

Whilst searching for different Rayman wallpapers I came across this topic.

This interests me alot, so I'm going to try and dig. Through inspection of the messages here, I can probably just tell you this is promotional art for legends/adventures whatever. But, I'm still going to research anyways for the hell of it.

Firstly, I'm going to try to reverse search it!

(I started with Tineye, the first site that pops up when you search "reverse image search")

(Also, don't go to any of these sketchy websites. I'm only doing it because i'm bored and have nothing else to do.)

I started by using the fuller version:

Tineye found 0 results! Okay, weird. Let's try this version.

3 results to 3 websites? Okay.

I proceeded to open all 3 in seperate tabs. They're all broken and abandoned wallpaper sites that are now scam websites...

Okay, let's try another then.

With Google Image Search I found this post on pinterest. https://za.pinterest.com/pin/490540584430887578/

It's the fuller version except.. expanded at the top? Possibly an alternate phone version? The post is in russian... so, lets translate it.

Okay, this is for Rayman Legends it seems. Cool. Atleast we know which game it's from. When also searching with Google Lens we get a scam wallpaper website that wants you to really badly install their adblock for chrome.

With also also also searching with google lens you get a website named WallpaperCave. In the top right corner there's a watermark that says ultrad.com.br. I shoved it into my search bar and it's another broken and abandoned website. But, it's full url is ultradownloads.com.br. So I went to the Wayback machine.

Now, I seem kind of crazy for obsessing over this, but it's actually a really deep rabbithole. Anyways, it's some portuguese website that allows you to download A LOT of crap. I went back to it's most popular year which was 2014, and went to the wallpapers section. This website is SUUPER dodgy. When you search Rayman into the search bar they have for the wallpapers... it hasn't been archived. I could try some other years, however I'm too lazy and probably will do it tommorrow, or whenever I feel like it

[Greengoop]

You’re definitely right in the sense that it is pretty safe to assume it’s either concept art or a promotional image, but who would’ve thought there would be this much of a rabbit hole behind this? Very interesting, thank you for this!

[Fifo]

I went back to it's most popular year which was 2014

Just because the Wayback Machine has more data from 2014 doesn’t necessarily mean it was the site’s ‘most popular’ year. The Wayback Machine’s results are based on how often the site was archived.

[WPTheModder]

Just because the Wayback Machine has more data from 2014 doesn’t necessarily mean it was the site’s ‘most popular’ year. The Wayback Machine’s results are based on how often the site was archived.

Ah, okay. Thank you lol, I don't very often use the Wayback Machine

You’re definitely right in the sense that it is pretty safe to assume it’s either concept art or a promotional image, but who would’ve thought there would be this much of a rabbit hole behind this? Very interesting, thank you for this!

Yeah, it's actually pretty weird. I don't think I'll be able to find the origin per se, but I might get somewhat close enough. I'll try my hand at researching more later today and see what comes up!

[WPTheModder]

Not even a full hour later (at the time of writing lmao), we have a new discovery.

I went back to 2016 on the wayback machine for that ultradownloads.com website and I found both wallpapers posted on it.

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The author who has posted them is named vgwallpapers and when you google it, their DA pops up!

I looked at the dude's gallery and they have only 1 RL wallpaper and it's just this one:

I clicked on the post and apparently he has a broken website for wallpapers. Again. So... back to the wayback machine, I guess.

The Rayman wallpapers have not been archived. Awesome. But they have a twitter page. Let's go there.

I think I've been searching this guys page for around 10 or so minutes. No Rayman. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if some guy just took the renders from the official boxart and mashed them up into this wallpaper. I'm starting to think I may be going crazy over this.

I'm going to end it here for now

[Greengoop]

Well, isn’t that a reasonable ending?

[EdgyRabbid]

I guess? But i must say, making a collage like that takes talent!

[Greengoop]

A collage? What do you mean?

[WPTheModder]

A collage? What do you mean?

Edge is talking about my thoughts of maybe someone just strung this together using official promotional artworks to make a wallpaper

[EdgyRabbid]

Yeah, i spotted Ursula like 3 times..

[WPTheModder]

Yeah, i spotted Ursula like 3 times..

That wallpaper is actually official material lol, here's the official art in all of its glory:

(this is actually one of the different versions, the actual one is so large I can't attach it )

Also, I was referring to the weird wallpaper this topic is based around... , not this one