Designer Island

Designer Island is a [Blizzard] test thing.

Here is the post from AlexM in thottbot:

Designer's Island was, in fact, an island during the beta. It was beyond the water though so one had to...erm...do some exploitin' to get there.

After a few people were caught "harvesting" the items there, they all recieved 72 hour suspensions and the island was moved to an instance (thus, making it impossible to visit - anymore, they fixed one of the exploits).

What was there?

>Every type of ore, all lined up.

>Three, giant, level one squirrels - each which dropped some damn nice items (one dropped a horse and some other stuff, another dropped some test items [Bind on Pickup Test and Bind on Use Test], and the last one just dropped some shit).

>Every type of trainer, friendly to both Horde and Alliance. >Every type of mount for sale, again the NPC's were friendly to both Horde and Alliance.

>There was, of course, a forge.

>Every type of herb, all lined up like the ore.

>A human child who ran around and gave a quest...something about Mr Wilson heh.

>A working cannon.

>A huge ship (of the boat variety) flying in circles in the air.

>A cart of explosives which could be blown up.

>A high-level (don't remember exactly what level) abomination.

>Rows and rows of NPC's standing in rows (if I remember correctly, hostile mages?).

>A *HUGE* sea-shell shaped building, presumably for the Naga - completely untextured.

The place itself was just a huge field (Westfall-like textured ground) with gently rolling hills. Then there was this one little valley with a farm-like field where most of the cool stuff was.

Likely an instance now though, impossible for anyone to get into normally.

Here is the link from thottbot: http://www.thottbot.com/?z=108

Of note: Currenty, if you add a GM to your friends List, you will see that they are located at "GM Island"