Yes, as you probably guessed, the R2DA Jacksplot Celebration was an April Fools. So was the wikia theme designs. Some of you probably thought the lightsaber skins for the Bat was also a fake. As well as the MLP Blue Skin.
But Did You Know...
The R2DA Easter Event 2020 was also part of the April Fools?
Wait what, how did you do it?
Well, the Easter part was simple. Convince PlaceRebuilder to post some vaguely "leak" on his Twitter Feed and tell him to talk Easter stuff on the R2DA Discord, 3 days before April Fools. We knew we couldn't make anything different from the Easter Events we had, otherwise it would look kinda suspicious that it was a prank, so close to April Fools. Hence why we went with the Bunny Race from R2D.
PlaceRebuilder is, of course, too busy working on other features and doesn't have enough time for the Easter event. He did say so last year.
So why did you do all the other stuff?
Again, that part was simple. We were expected to do an April Fools Joke. Of course we were, we've done it for two straight years, of course everyone expects a third.
The R2DA Jacksplot Celebration was again, a no-brainier. We knew 99.9% would not fall for it, due to King Cheese last year. We also knew we had to change things up slightly, otherwise people will question whether anything else was also fake. Two repeat Celebrations in a row looked suspicious, right?
Hence why I nuked out the wiki. Distracts everyone from the subtle jokes. We were seen as progressing the joke, while in reality, it was merely a smokescreen.
Also a smokescreen was the whole fact that the Jasksplot pages were incomplete. If they looked incomplete, of course people would easily see through the joke. Hence why we never had any in-game images and why we put in filler sounds and templates for the pages. making them look real would lead some people to think that the April Fools was same as last year, and they would begin to question whether if that was it, or if there was more.
(BTW, the only thing about the Jacksplot Celebration that was 100% on us was the Jacksplot itself. Y'all just used your imaginations to create some other fantastical stuff. Don't look at us for that.)
Ok, why the lightsaber skins and MLP skins?
The MLP Blue skin was just a test. A test whether you lot would be convinced at something that looks official. Dr_Greedy originally posted it, PlaceRebuilder looked like he commented on it. We also threw in LITTLEROBBY11 questioning if the M1 Garand was coming cause we knew he created the model last year. It all looked official, and nobody questioned it.
Hence why we could squeeze in another joke, the lightsaber skins. Of course, this was planned, we posted a poll on it on 31st March, then elaborated the joke on April 1st. Honestly, I'm surprised not many people fell for it, Nothing ever goes through the works in R2DA that quickly. We just photoshopped some photos to make it look real.
Anyways, Happy April Fools, and stay safe in these turbulent times!