Time Capsule #17 - 2026 Predictions

Once a year we get to gather together and celebrate another year having come and gone. In the Marble Blast community we take this time at the start of the year to make predictions about how things will play out in our lives and in the wider world around us. A new year is upon us, let the predictions begin!

Reply to this thread with your predictions for the upcoming year. Will you set a bunch of new Personal Bests in PQ? Will you maybe even set a World Record or two? Will you improve as a gem hunter, as a pathfinder, as a player, as a person? What about your real life? Do you think you will set out to do anything special this year? What do you think will happen to you? What will the rest of the world get up to? Make your predictions, however far-fetched you think they might be! 

And for everyone who participated in last year's Time Capsule, take a look at your predictions from  last year and make a post in this years thread of looking backwards and seeing how well you did. 

I look forward to seeing everyone's guesses for how this year will go. 

Marble Blast
- Pack 9 releases and one of my levels is included.
- The game gets a native Linux port.
- I start working on my custom level series more.
- I release at least 15 custom levels this year.
- I do another collab level
- Not really about MB, but close enough: I'll get WR on Tossed About from Marble It Up! Ultra

Other Video Games
- On my 19th birthday, I get a Nintendo Switch 2. Mario Kart World then becomes the game that takes up all my free time.
- I will add at least 10 more games to my game collection. It currently includes: Mario Kart Double Dash!!, Pocketbike Racer, Sneak King, Xbox Live Arcade Compilation Disc, Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged, Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort.
- I play a ton of Mario Kart Wii custom tracks/online.
- I get back to playing Minecraft.

Personal Life/Pohleeticks™
- I actually get my driver's license.
- I'll get an actual real domain for my website now that the freedns domain I used died.
- After his party lost in the April election, Pierre Poilievre faces and fails a leadership review and someone else replaces him.
- Approval of Trump gets worse and worse, and Democrats take the House in the midterms. Maybe even the Senate if things get really bad.

Second time doing this!! (god it's been so long)

Marble Blast predictions:
- I will release a demo of Marble Blast Wildron.
- I will get 80 million overall ranking.
- I will get 35 Awesome Times in PQ.
- I will get over 95% of the ultimate times in PQ.
- I will have atleast 1 level made by me in Pack 9 (again, pack 9 hasn't been released)
- I will make 25 levels.
- I will make atleast 1 collab level.
- I think I'll get all PQ nest eggs.
- Another Vietnamese will join the community.

Not Marble Blast predictions:
- I will get a 7 in Literature on the 2nd end-term exam.
- I will play Geometry Dash and Minecraft more.

Well seeing as my 2025 predictions were 4/10, so heck let's just go off the walls with crazy predictions this year! Among the other more ordinary predictions as well. 

Marble Blast:
- Despair will remain unbeaten (ez w)
- 3 people will achieve 100% Awesome
- Someone will set a very unexpected WR
- Exactly 38 PQ World Records will be set
- Level of the Year 2026 will win in a landslide victory
- One or two major controversies will rattle the community but ultimately help bring us together
- A new person will join the community this year and become a prominent and trustworthy player rather quickly

Personal Life
- Wouldn't be a Time Capsule without Doomblah's driver's license prediction would it? I will get it this year! This is the year, I know it!
- I will read at least 16 books this year (bonus for 24+)
- I will buy/receive significantly fewer than the 112 books I got last year (under 30)
- I will start dating someone

Wider World
- A major social media company will shut down. 
- The number 61 will feature prominently in a major political scandal
- A complete brain-rot meme will take over public consciousness for a week and then be just as quickly forgotten

Third time let's do this. 

Marble Blast: 

-Platform Party MBG and Despair will remain unbeaten
-Pack 9 will be released, and I will go for 200M rating if it's released 
-One or two people will get their first World Record in the Leaderboards
-I will set at least 5 PBs in MBG levels
-I will get WRs in 35 or more different levels available in Leaderboards (including customs) 
-Someone from the Philippines will join the community
-I will make at least one level

Discord

-I will get a Discord Nitro this year 
-I will try not to say pornographic words after beating a WRR5/WRR6 time in Marble Blast Gold levels 
-I will post in "Other Discussion channels" ex. #aww (about pets)

IRL

-My auntie Marina will go home again this year, and host another outing
-I might study in college (My aunt Marina and my cousin Pristine from Canada wanted me to do this)
-Buy at least two Speed Stacks sets
-I will go to a mall that I haven't visited yet
-I will go to my aunt in law's condo once or more in a year
-I will have a buffet on Vikings at SM Megamall on my 27th birthday
- I won't go to an outing with my cousin Rowena from USA

Others

-APT will win any category at 68th Grammys
-The flood control project scandal will never end
-Rodrigo Duterte will still be in Netherlands by the end of the year 
-AM6 and DDR6 CPUs, RAM, and Motherboards will be released this year. 

Hey, this is my first time doing one of these, and also my first post on the Marble Blast forums. If I did something wrong, let me know so I can use these forums better.

Anyways, here are my 2026 predictions.

Marble Blast:
-MBG Ordeal world record will be beaten
-MBG Battlements world record will remain unbeaten
-One player will set their first MBG world record
-A notable player will announce their retirement from Marble Blast
-I will achieve a score of 300+ on MBU Sprawl

Marble it Up (yes, really):
-The total number of world records improved as of Ultra WRR1 will reach 35/117 (18/117 at the time of posting)
-The Time Capsule (Ultra) world record will be beaten
-I will achieve a time under 35 minutes in the Full Game Classic RTA category

Personal Life:
-I will buy my first house
-Something on my car will break and I will need to replace it
-I will lose enough weight to get under 100kg

Other:
-The Brisbane Lions will win the AFL 2026 Premiership to complete a set of 3 premierships in a row
-Scott Pendlebury will announce his retirement from AFL after over 20 seasons

K then lets do this again. Here's to a great year.

MBG stuff:

-Pathways 15.8 cycle is performed. (By anyone including me)

-Platform Party is beaten this year.

-I finally get WR on Spork in the Road

-Will o Wisp 9.5 or lower with the catch

- I get Tube Treasure sub-20

- #1 rank in MBG overall.

- Monster Speedway 3.8

IRL Stuff:

- Possibly find a better paying job

- Continue making more of an effort and posting on my main HappyTreeX1 YT channel.

- Continue my sobriety from alcohol.

- Possibly get a tattoo?

- Be more vulnerable. Open up a bit more about things.

Hopefully things go as good if not better than last year. See you guys in 1 year.


 

twenty twenty six

Personal Predictions (MB and not):
- I will at least semi-publicly release Fusion.
- I will give up on one project.
- I will release a level with all-Custom assets (textures, shapes, and so on).
- Maybe this year I'll meet up with a Community Member.
- I will hopefully become more involved/active when it comes to PQ Development.
- I will stream Mission "No Mods Left Behind" more often, but I will basically have dropped Marbleland streams entirely.
- I will join the development team of a new mod.
- I will start playing Traps solo and beat it.

- I will get into a relationship.
- I will hopefully have finally started HRT.
- I will hopefully have joined a political party and have gotten more involved in Romania's political life.
- Maybe I'll get bored one day and have the free-time necessary to take a quick visit to Bulgaria.
- My Uni Practice periods will go well and nothing bad will happen whatsoever.
- Maybe this will be the year when I'll visit more of Moldova - bonus points if the visit involves Chișinău.
- I will walk the Bucharest-Ilfov border at least 5 more times this year, each time in different spots.
- As a continuation of the former prediction, I will have visited every Neighborhood in Bucharest at least once (yes, even the badly famed ones) - half a point if I visit every neighborhood but chicken out of the badly famed ones.
- I will graffiti my name somewhere in Bucharest.

Non-personal Predictions:
- Fubar will be handed out to someone or a team of people which will patch whatever issues there are with its offline mode and progress there not saving, which will revive Fubar and incentivize people to speedrun it more.
- Some big community meetup will happen - which I will not attend.
- Another older community member will check-in with the community.
- Some big name will be banned from the community for whatever reason.
- Another WRR will be released.

- The Bolojan Government will fall.
- Sector 6 Mayoral elections take place. Whichever candidate is supported by Ciucu (former mayor) will win.
- The Midterms will be won overwhelmingly by the Democrats.
- Ilfov County and Bucharest will be unified in a subdivision reform that is long overdue.
- Some sort of big (100k+) protest or manifest will happen in Bucharest.