Originally Posted by
Jeesk
Emerald Dream will not be in Lich King in any significant fashion. It's an entire continent and will be its own expansion, there is ZERO CHANCE it will pop up in Lich King. I guarantee it.
That said, the stuff you think is new was probably already there and you just hadn't seen it before. Theres quite a few fully textured areas where the minimap works too. Simply put, even if Blizzard was working on it (which they might be, but not for WotLK) they wouldn't put the zone in with the LK files. After people made map viewers, private servers, etc. and got ahold of Emerald Dream, Developer Islands, Outland, Black Morass, etc. way before TBC was even announced, Blizz learned their lesson and now only upload data for zones as they are implementing them. I'm pretty sure whatever Emerald Dream stuff is in there is still just the remnants of what they had pre-TBC. I wonder why they just don't remove all those extra zones, actually.