In Borderlands 3 there is a clever Easter Egg from Destiny 1. It refers to a running gag from the community and the infamous poor drop rate for good gear in the early days of Destiny 1.
What Easter Egg is it? One of the missions in Borderlands 3 takes players to the area Skywell-27 to defuse a laser. If you look closely in the bottom right of the map, you will encounter an enemy named “Dinklebot”. It is a small flying robot.
You will get into a fight, and the Dinklebot will revive the enemies until you take him out yourself. As a drop, you will receive a legendary “Loot-o-Gram” from him.
Bring the Loot-o-Gram to Crazy Earl, and you will get a random reward, which usually turns out to be a rather poor white weapon.
It is possible that Dinklebot does not appear on your first visit to Skywell-27. Players have reported on Reddit that saving and reloading the game can help in this case.
You can see what it looks like in the game here. Caution, it also contains spoilers for Borderlands 3:
What is behind “Dinklebot”: This reference refers to the early days of Destiny 1. “Dinklebot” was the name players gave to their Ghost back then. The reason is that the Ghost was voiced by the actor Peter Dinklage (link goes to Wikipedia) from Game of Thrones.
His performance was occasionally somewhat stiff, leading to funny moments like the worst line from Destiny 1 and the nickname “Dinklebot”. The name stuck, even later when the voice of the Ghost was taken over by Nolan North (link goes to Wikipedia). He was, by the way, referred to as Nolanbot.
The Dinklebot’s revival of enemies obviously refers to the Ghost’s ability to revive players when they fall in battle.
What is behind the “Loot-o-Gram”: This is also a reference to the early months of Destiny 1. Veterans of the game will remember that drops from legendary and exotic engrams could be very frustrating.
It was not guaranteed that the Cryptarch would actually pull legendary gear from a legendary engram. Therefore, bitter jokes circulated in the community about the poor drop chances of the engrams.
As a result, most players receive white gear from this supposedly legendary Loot-o-Gram. However, some report that they actually received a legendary drop. The probability for that seems to be low.
This is not the only Easter Egg in Borderlands 3
