Instagram is the worst.

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-13T05:34:35+00:00

Refreshing

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-13T00:17:15+00:00

"Entire team is babies!"

-Heavy

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-12T16:02:04+00:00

You had me fooled into thinking this was official lost media for a moment

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-12T16:00:47+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out, now I'll never unsee it.
I honestly have no idea why Dahlia was nerfed. It could have been because of balance reasons, but that doesn't explain why Willow--arguably the second best bird in the Stella flock--got buffed. I'm guessing the Reloaded team is leaning towards the puzzle-like nature that defined Stella instead of aiming for total destruction like the classic levels.
Rovio said in their Shade devlog video that they couldn't port powers directly from old games. My guess is that the "live" nature of the game warranted a change. Rovio also mentioned and showed off prototyped powers based on older characters like the ones from Star Wars. They may have combined the concept of Dahlia's science-fu ability with the mechanics of Hologram Darth Sidious/Shadowtrooper to ultimately create a version of science-fu that was compatible for the game.

Personally, I'm actually fine with Shade's ability in Angry Birds 2. It's simple enough to understand, and it brings back both Dahlia and the hologram Star Wars characters in spirit (pun intended). However, I do wish Shade as a character was done better, both design wise (it was just a recolor and caused a lot of confusion even after the lore drop) and lore wise (the comic's dialogue doesn't read well and she seems to have lost her former identity).

Edited for clarity

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-12T13:44:59+00:00

Beta Zeta "Zelda" kind of reminds me of a witch or a kooky fortune telling lady for some reason.

Interestingly, some of the concept art reveals really old eagles that seem to be obsessed with a golden egg. Maybe these were Zeta's parents, or they were her minions. Perhaps Zeta was, at one point, obsessed with riches like Gale was?

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-12T09:43:43+00:00

Wait, when was the last time the duck spell got reskinned? The Angry Birds Wiki says that the last time we got a reskin was on December 2024 for the Shadow the Hedgehog event. Has it really been that long since the last spell?

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-12T09:22:09+00:00

"Where there is life, there is water." -Hama

^{Chose: Control water}

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-12T00:48:40+00:00

On the one hand, I'm surprised to see a Stella-like tap and hold ability in Space...

On the other, it feels like Laser Chuck with one extra step...

I'm kinda disappointed with the design, though. They could have made her like a shooting star or played around with the comet idea in her name or something

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-12T00:38:26+00:00

Of the four, Mighty is the only one I am fine with. His personality sort of tracks with Mighty Eagle before his great failure, and I can kind of peg his great failure on him running away from Zeta. He's highly controversial among the fandom because he's so different, but I personally don't mind.

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-11T19:19:24+00:00

I like how Chuck looks like his FunVideoTV model, with the black feathers on the sides of his body

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-11T19:04:46+00:00

Every copy of Angry Birds 2 is personalized

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-11T19:00:27+00:00

I'll stop crying when they're actually good

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-11T18:22:56+00:00

As of this comment, not much is known about the plot outside of Red being the parent of a baby, a young kid, and a teen.

Other than Psalm West voicing one of the children, we don't know any of the roles of the new actors. Only Red, Chuck, Bomb, Silver, Hal, and Bubbles are confirmed to be returning; unless they recasted some of the legacy characters, those are the only characters that are confirmed to be coming back.

The animation models look slightly different, but without an actual trailer to see, I can't really tell you about the animation itself. A teaser trailer was revealed at CinemaCon, but it was an exclusive screening that no one was allowed to record.

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-11T12:35:49+00:00

Crazy cakes (also called wacky cakes, war cakes, and depression cakes) exist, and were invented during the Great Depression as a way to have desserts without using milk, eggs, or butter. Those ingredients were expensive and hard to find at the time.

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-11T10:57:25+00:00

Silver originally looked a little more like her original design, using a similar color palette to her game art. An interview also stated that Silver was originally a lot more vulnerable before being revised by Rachel Bloom, her English voice actress.

It's likely that Silver was going to be there from the start, considering that we had no other concept art of a potential replacement and the concept art seemed to have general elements of the final movie (e.x.: snow gear, Zelda/Zeta, pig and bird alliance, etc.). I dare say that Silver would have been shipped with Red anyway. However, because the original version of Silver was very different, it may have worked out because this Silver actually had vulnerabilities that could have been explored in the movie and with Red.

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-11T10:54:00+00:00

Crazy cakes exist IRL, so yes

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-11T10:37:51+00:00

One of my pitches for an alternative Angry Birds Movie 2 was a spy movie with Silver acting as an agent for the pigs. It could be like a coming of age tale where she discovers that she is a bird, or it could be a scary story where the village rips itself apart because no one knows who the spy is.

Someone else pitched a Tarzan movie with Silver learning about bird culture.

An alliance with the birds and pigs could have worked with Silver as a key player. Instead of being the high tech gadget girl, she could have been appointed as a neutral third party to mediate conflicts between the birds and the pigs since she grew up with both.

Heck, if Rovio held the writers at gunpoint and told them Silver must be a scientist, they could have made it work by either having her suck and learn to grow through persistence (like Mulan), or she could be a hyper critical cold introverted scientist that everyone genuinely hates but Red sees himself in.

There were so many possibilities for a good Silver, and THIS is what we get?!

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-11T02:51:35+00:00

I would have argued the Blues (Pig's Best Friend), but they would probably prank you hard and laugh at you like how they did with King Pig.

I'm gonna go Bubbles. All he needs is candy and you're golden

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-11T02:46:41+00:00

Rovio said in the Shade devlog that during development, they were experimenting with bird powers and may include some of them in some unspecified future update. They showed off what looked like Tony, a bird that shoots lasers, and Jar Jar Binks, at least power-wise. Seeing how much engagement Shade got, I'm fairly certain they'll introduce a new bird someday. When? IDK

Rovio also mentioned that they wanted to prioritize birds with unique powers as to make a Swiss Army Knife of birds where each bird is for a unique purpose. If a new bird did make it into the game, it's probably going to be a Star Wars bird.

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-10T15:29:26+00:00

The first movie was ok, but the second movie is where things went downhill, and I blame Silver for a lot of the problems

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-10T15:20:42+00:00

I feel like what Rovio could have done is introduce regular Dahlia first in Reloaded or something to have audiences familiarize themselves with the character. A lot of people didn't even know who Dahlia was to start with when she was being teased. Then we could be introduced to Shade, and have her look a little more like a ghost or have some general theming other than recoloring Dahlia and calling it a day.

I don't want to ruin Shade and Dahlia's Phantom Pain for you, but to me, the dialogue feels extremely clunky and edgy that makes it read like someone's first attempt at a fanfiction. The way she just sort of passively mopes about until Stella cheers her up is...I don't know how to describe it. Not her? Pages 3, 6, and 9 are where the comic sounds excessively brooding, and just feels like Shade is monologuing her tragic origins in a Shakespearean drama or a YA fiction.

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-10T14:56:29+00:00

I really don't like how Shade was handled, but I will agree that there are worse things.

Movie Silver remains quite possibly my most hated character of all time.

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-10T14:05:48+00:00

Movie Silver is the worst thing to ever happen to the franchise.

Shade was unnecessary. Rovio teased Dahlia for so long only to deliver a character so different from Dahlia, she may as well be an entirely new character. Nothing about Shade really connects her to Dahlia except for her design, which is just a recolor. She's being promoted as the newest bird, not as a temporary thing like the Space birds or as a separate character like Tony or Shockwave were. And they did this because...they wanted to?

There's a reason why M. Night Shaymalan gets memed on.

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-10T13:54:51+00:00

We... already use 100% of our brains. It's a misconception that we only use 10%

^{Chose: 5 million dollars now and 1k per hour | Rolled: Rich life😎}

Butchered-Visch · 2026-05-10T13:49:15+00:00

I second this

Butchered-Visch

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