New things to spend moolah on.

[Holyssa]

Celestial Steed: http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100000942 ($25 US)

Just to confirm peoples' BoA fears:

Mount Features:

After you purchase the Celestial Steed, you'll receive a code that can then be redeemed on any North American World of Warcraft license via Battle.net Account Management. North American licenses include realms serving players in United States, Canada, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. This mount code can be emailed to a friend as a gift, or—if you would rather redeem the pet code yourself—automatically filled in for you in Battle.net Account Management.

Once activated, this World of Warcraft in-game mount code applies to all present and future characters on a single World of Warcraft license. If you wish to purchase the pet for multiple different World of Warcraft licenses merged with the same Battle.net account, you will need to buy a separate pet for each World of Warcraft license individually.

Now your alts can have a pink putzy pony too!

Lil' XT: http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100000943 (10$ US)

Beware - if you're gonna buy these, there's a queue (yes, a queue) before you can redeem your prize. So don't take a nap and miss the 15-minute confirmation gap.

So yeaaaah...about that Hard Mode LK-25 horse. /gigglesnort

Edited April 15, 2010 by Holyssa

[Skywatcher]

It's sad, I know, but I will almost certainly get both of those. I'd probably have purchased them as soon as I saw they were available, but I don't bring my authenticator to work.

[Waldonnis]

Unsurprisingly, I got both. I like the mount quite a bit, although won't actually call the steed on a few characters (just doesn't 'fit'). Folks are already posting lots of complaints about the emote sounds from Lil' XT on the forums, so beware of getting spammed by sounds in Dalaran. On his own and away from the "let's annoy the crap out of anyone around" crowd in Dalaran, he's not very vocal at all (only when calling him or when he randomly gets tired).

Side note: he smashes train sets and kills many of the little toys sold in the Toy Shop, which is pretty funny. Doing either will trigger an additional sound emote and animation (train sets make him go into ground pound tantrum mode!).

[Kailand]

Rejoice, no more Lil'XT sounds!

A hotfix was recently applied, which temporarily disabled some of the sounds Lil’ XT makes.

The issue was that some of his sounds were flagged in such a way that they play for everyone around him and not just the player that owns the pet, an annoying problem to be sure. We can’t alter volume or who the sounds play for through a hotfix so the temporary workaround is to disable them completely right now until the proper fix can be patched in later.

[Orcala]

So when my corehound pet makes noise noone else can hear it?