CAN'T STOP THE FEELING! both the classic and the Danceverse Prince Version
Locked out of Heaven
Love Me Land
Magic
Million Dollar Baby
Psycho both the classic and easy version
Stay both the classic and the Inflatable Version
Telephone both the classic and the Runaway Version
Top Of The World
WANNABE both the classic and easy version
Watch Out for This
Only Heat Waves, IKYWT, Numb and both the classic and alternate versions for More, Physical and Woman are missing Camera Scoring now, but that's pretty much the majority of the song list with it now (excluding the plus exclusives, minus provenza, for JD2023).
I may be a bit salty that IKYWT and Physical extreme don't have camera scoring yet but I can wait a bit longer 😭. But I've been waiting for camera scoring for he likes of Wannabe extreme and magic for a bit.
The first batch of 2024 maps is next week on 17th of February so see you then.
No matter if there's an actual lore reason for why the Just Dance team does not want the fandom to ship Jacklust, they are still overstepping by trying to police the way fans engage with their lore and game.
If Jack and Wanderlust are related - well, that might be awkward in the future, but as of now, as far as we, the fandom, know, they are not related. If they are related and that's why the team is acting like this, they should tell us.
If the dancers are uncomfortable with it - well first of all we're writing about the characters, it's not like we're writing RPF of the dancers, but also again: they should tell us that and let people make their own decisions on whether they want to continue shipping Jacklust.
Also, I feel like the Just Dance team is almost vehemently against people using anything other than the confirmed canon? Like, ok. The lore master said Jacklust isn't canon - so what? Shipping and headcanons do not care about canon. See again the point on trying to police how your fans interact with your work.
Last thing: they could have just not acknowledged it. They could have just not acknowledged it. If it makes them so annoyed or even if there's an unrevealed valid reason for why they dislike people shipping it - they could have just not acknowledged the existence of the ship.
TLDR: If there's any valid reason that makes the Just Dance team dislike the Jacklust ship - whether it is relation or the dancers being uncomfy with it - they should TELL US!!! As long as they don't tell us things like this they can't try to police what the fanbase does just based on information that the team is holding back! They should have just ignored its existence instead of what they did (which was overstepping creator-fandom boundaries).
The just dance social media team needs to stop doing this to me
Because now my brains going into conspiracy mode about jack rose being the secret child of rasputin and hot&cold who got caught in a rapunzel situation. Definitely not whats happening but that is immediately what I went to since none of these men have red hair.
This theory assumes that Gimme More (Just Dance 2024) is a sequel to Toxic (Just Dance 2023) as elaborated in this post.
Said post also contains several pieces of evidence on which i base this theory, so if you havent seen it check it out!
Part 1 - Toxic (Just Dance 2023)
In Toxic (2023) we get formerly introduced to Agent D. In the map she is on a mission - "Operation SKY"; Disguised as an Air Hostess (Stewardess) she has snuck onto a pink jet liner that is currently on an overnight flight in Sun Horizon.
The name of the airline that owns this pink jet is not confirmed, but we can assume that Mahna Mahna (JD 2015), Hey Mama (JD 2016) and Dragostea Din Tei (JD 2017) could all be related to this airline somehow.
While the actual flight attendends are distracted with a Just Dance map (Specifically the original JD2 version of Toxic) Agent D starts her rounds.
It is unclear if the original Toxic map was made by Agent D for the express purpose of distraction, or if she even is the coach for said map.
The two Air Hostesses could also just be on their break.
Because the passengers are asleep when Agent D enters the cabin, the plane must have been en route for about 8+ hours already when the map starts.
Therefore the map doesn't start with Agent D boarding the plane, but rather with her emerging from a lower deck, where the plane's staff resides.
It is unknown how long she needed to be in disguise before the events of Toxic (2023) play out.
Agent D walks through the plane's 4 economy sections and acts as a steward: waking up passengers, serving them and ensuring they are safe when they dance.
From the last economy section it can be assumed that the planes in the Just Dance universe allow (and possibly encourage) their passengers to dance while safely airborne.
It could be possible their flow is what fuels the plane most of the time, reducing the need for fossil fuel and allowing the planes to have practically no emmisions.
As she reaches the end of the economy section Agent D encounters and successfully fights off two hi-jackers, members of an unknown organisation and disguises herself as a V.I.P. upon reaching the luxury section to blend in.
The first class cabin section of the plane can be assumend to be as long as the 4 economy sections combined. It is at least significantly larger than one of the economy sections.
Upon exiting the luxury cabin, she encounters two more members of the hijackers and successfully fights them off.
The disguise Agent D uses in the V.I.P. section has no officially confirmed alias attached to it as of yet.
We can assume that it is a secret Identity that Agent D has taken on numerous times before, as none of the other V.I.P.'s question her presence - meaning it would not have been odd for this Identity to be on board with the other V.I.P.'s
My guess would be it is the Secretary from Womanizer (Just Dance 1) - this would imply that the other V.I.P.s might be several other high ranking members of the same Company that the Secretary works for.
Whether there is a real person that she is impersonating or if this Identity is 100% fake is unclear. I would argue, that the latter is the case.
Finally Agent D changes out of her disguise into her regular spy gear to traverse the luggage hold.
At this point it would seem that the Hijackers are trying to keep her from advancing further by letting the plane fly erratically causing the luggage to fly around.
As to why the planes cargo is not secured, this might also be the work of the Hijackers
The next section which features security lasers could be argued to not be part of the plane - but rather Agent D remembering her training or a different mission, using this skill to dodge the flying luggage.
(I certainly have never heard of security lazers like that on a regular passenger plane.)
Agent D fights off the remaining pair of Hijackers. She hen reaches the cockpit and frees the plane's pilot Captain Catastropha from his ropes, revealing that her aim was to stop the hijacking of the plane. She then takes the helm herself and flies the plane.
I would hazard to guess that Agent D not letting Catastropha back on the helm after freeing him, implies that she won't fly the plane to its intended destination either, but rather to her base or HQ as the plane is seen later in Gimme More, meaning she kept it after the mission.
She basically hijacked the plane from the hijackers.
Remaining Questions
What's the aim of the hijackers?
Seeing as there was a V.I.P. section to the plane maybe the enemy organisation wanted to kidnap the influental people on the plane.
They infiltrated the plane before it took off and as it was far away from the airport they took control off the plane by tying up the pilot and steering the plane off-course to their base.
The pilot, regular passengers and other staff on the plane would become additional hostages.
What was Agent D's Mission?
"Operation SKY" was about stopping the hijacking, retrieving the hostages and securing the plane.
Upon regaining control of the plane, Agent D was further tasked to fly it to her base instead so all the people on board could be asessed and taken in as witnesses.
That way any organisation memebers that were still in disguise and weren't thrown out of the plane by Agent D could be caught.
Where is the Co-Pilot?
Notably there is only Captain Catastropha in the cockpit when Agent D arrives. Despite there being 2 seats, there is no co-pilot.
I would say that Captain Catastropha's co-pilot was one of the hijackers. When the hijackers enitiated their take-over the co-pilot with the help of a collegue overpowered and restrained Catastropha in the co-pilot's chair, then took over the steering.
These two are the ones Agent D fights before reaching the cockpit. When they couldn't stop her with the luggage hold manouver they went to confront her directly (and lost).
What is the Extreme Version?
Toxic - Extreme (JD 2023) is most likely a training that Agent D had to undergo in order to become a spy/ to stay in form. She remembers this training when she has to navigate through the luggage hold of the plane in the Classic Version and it helps her succeed.
Though the map could also be a glipmse at another mission where she had to traverse actual security lasers. this is not confirmed as of yet.
It utilizes the same costume seen in the later sections of the Classic Version and confirms that this is her true appearence.
It also serves as an extended version of the section with lazers in the classic map which was inspired by the Toxic Music Video.
Further Points of Note:
Plane Layout Visualized:
The plane shown in Toxic (JD 2023) is different from the one seen in Dragostea Din Tei (JD 2017), the map Captain Catastropha originates from. The Toxic plane is fully pink, while the DDT plane is white with blue accents and the text "Just Dance Air".
As of yet it's unconfirmed weather the pink jet from Toxic belongs to the "Just Dance Air" airline, but it can be inferred from Captain Catastropha being strongly implied to have been the pilot of the plane.
Captain Catastropha bears resemblence to P2 of Mana Mahna (JD 2015) He and either one of the other Mahna Mahna coaches or P2 of Hey Mama (JD 2016) could be the parents of Catastropha.
The flight attendents in Mahna Mahna (P1 & P2) have a significantly different uniform from the one shown in Toxic. Notably the uniforms in Mahna Mahna are pink, while the Uniforms in Toxic are blue. It is the inverse of the planes' color difference between DDT and Toxic.
This could either mean that Mahna Mahna is a different airline or that the airline changed the designs of their uniforms at some point.
During Toxic the main color of Agent D's appearence goes from blue to purple to red. The purple costume being a sort of transition state between the fully disguised Agent D and the undisguised Agent D.
Seeing, how the purple costume bears resemblence to the mainly blue coach of Womanizer (JD1) this might imply that Agent D is taking on the appearence of a younger self where she was working as a secretary, and might be the reason for her hairstyle change to a bob cut in Gimme More.
The plane seen at the end of Toxic shows up during As It Was (JD 2023), the noise of it flyng over being used as a censor.
The time placement of this cameo is unclear but it does tie Hadley to the Agent D Saga.
It is most likely that this cameo takes place right after the events of Toxic, i.e. when Agent D is flying the plane to her base. Because the plane is flying very close to the ground it implies Hadley lives close to Agent D's base and might even be a fellow agent.
Another possibility would be that the cameo takes place after the events of Gimme More - i.e. after the plane launches from Agent D's Base, which carries the same implications for Hadley.
Due to "Operation SKY" being confirmed to take place in Sun Horizon, unless planes can be used to travel between Danceverses, this would put As it Was and by extention Agent D's Base in Sun Horizon aswell.
