Cloud

Clouds are platforms found in all worlds of the original Rayman game, except for the Dream Forest. Clouds return in Rayman Designer and its spin-offs where they can be used in all of the worlds. There are many kinds of clouds. Some of them are static, and others follow various trajectories. Among static clouds, there are rebounding and trampoline clouds, the latter allowing Rayman to jump higher with the correct timing. The are also also vanishing clouds, which disappear once Rayman steps on them, or at regular intervals. During the battle against Mr Stone, moving vanishing clouds appear, but these occur nowhere else.

Rayman jumping on clouds.

In the Atari Jaguar version of the original game, vanishing clouds have eyes, which snap open to reveal a malevolent face an instant before they disappear from under Rayman's feet. These eyed clouds, however, do not open their eyes in any other version of the game, but they do still appear to have closed eyes. They make a reappearance in Rayman 3's 2D Madness minigame, where they are larger, and bounce Rayman into the air rather than vanishing when he steps on them.

Certain vanishing clouds will disappear once Rayman lands on them.

An eyed cloud in the Atari Jaguar version.

Oversized eyed clouds appear in Rayman 3's 2D Madness minigame, where they are bouncy and do not vanish when stepped on.