I know you want it, yes its a dam good looking mount and it will only take you approximately one month of dailies to achieve. Unless you are fortunate enough to pick up one of the same models of this mount as a rare drop from one of the associated bosses.

Reins of the Drake of the West Wind

This is what you are aiming for to pickup one of these mounts: Exalted with Tol Barad (Hellscream’s Reach or Baradin’s Warders). Then you can purchace it from one of the faction quatermasters.

Quests to level up your rep with Hellscream’s Reach or Baradin’s Warders

Goto Tol Barad and do the dailies like nothing else and you can pick up this mount.

Here is a link to the list of faction dailies that you can complete for some gold and rep towards this mount. Wow Head.

By Rikaku 18 days ago (Patch 4.0.3)

To be fair, none of the screenshots above really do it justice at just how neat this drake is. It looks much more massive then any other drake (aside from the other Wind drakes), and it’s color sets it apart from the other three.

It takes obviously 200 commendations and Exalted Rep with Tol Barad.

My hints are to participate in this battleground as much as possible. It’s possible to get Exalted rep really easily if you do. It took me much longer to get all the commendations then it did to get Exalted.

Also, in addition to the dailies on the peninsula island, there are two npcs in Baradin Hold.

One npc will offer three quests which will always involve killing crocs, leftover enemy faction npcs in the fortresses, and killing an elite.
These quests are:
A Huge Problem
Swamp Bait
The Leftovers

The other npc can be one of 3 NPCs, all of which have their own dailies. Each NPC has 3 dailies. I went ahead and listed all 9 possible dailies from these npcs.

Also, You can only turn in the 3 dailies you unlock from him when that prison is unlocked. This means that if you get the daily to kill the demons in the demon-filled prison, you will only be able to turn in that quest when that prison remains open. If your faction wins again, but a different prison is unlocked at that time, you will not be able to turn in the demon-prison dailies.

The sets of 3 quests are as follows:

Set 1: Demon Prison
Cursed Shackles
D-Block
Svarnos

Set 2: Ghost Prison
Clearing the Depths
Learning from the Past
The Imprisoned Archmage

Set 3: Warden’s Prison
Food from Below
Prison Revolt
The Warden

Finally, you obtain 3 commendations per victory.

Sandstone Drake

This is also quite a rare but awesome mount propect. Recipe: Vial of the Sands. which gives alchemists and archaeology fans a transformation into

Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial (1x5000g)
Vendor Item – “Sold only by Yasmin in Uldum”
Sands of Time (8x3000g)
Vendor Item
Truegold (12)

• Pyrium Bar (3)

  • Pyrite Ore (2) OR {Elementium Bar (4) + Volitile Earth (4) }
• Volitile Fire (10)
• Volitile Air (10)
• Volitile Water (10)

Flask of the Winds (8)

• Volatile Life (6)
• Azshara’s Veil (12)
• Whiptail (12)
• Crystal Vial

Flask of Titanic Strength (8)

• Volatile Life (6)
• Cinder Bloom (12)
• Whiptail (12)
• Crystal Vial

Deepstone Oil (8)

• Albino Cavefish (4-8)

~~~ TOTALS ~~~
Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial x1
Sands of Time x8
Albino Cavefish x6
Crystal Vial x16
Whiptail x192
Cinder Bloom x96
Azshara’s Veil x96
Volatile Life x96
Volitile Fire x120
Volitile Air x120
Volitile Water x120
Pyrite Ore x72 OR {Elementium Bar x144 + Volitile Earth x144}
29,000 Gold

*NOTE:
You need 450 Archeology to obtain the recipe, and it is extremely RNG. I have heard it was obtained with an alchemy skill as low as 225, though it requires 525 to make.
(Approximate odds)
13% Chance to get a Tol’Vir digsite in Uldum (you need 3-4 to complete a Canopic Jar)
12% Chance to be working on a Canopic Jar
10% Drop rate of the recipe out of a Canopic Jar
So assuming you get 1 Tol’Vir digsite every 30 min and about a 1.5%* chance of getting this for every 3-4 digsites.
We are talking about an average 1200** hours of archeology. This does seem a bit high, so I am hoping the rates I have are wrong. Please post if you have better data on the rates.

*.13x.12x.1=.00156
**30×3.5/.0015/60 =1166

As of build #13277, the vial costs 5k and the sand costs 3k each.
The vendor is not assigned a faction at this time so discounts are unavailable.
Vendor for these mats is Yasmin in Uldum, (26.6,7.2).
Item availability is unlimited.

So which console do you prefer? According to the sales, the Nintendo DS is coming out way ahead with 47 million sales in just the United States alone and 135 Million Total Sales.

According to Nintendo’s internal sales figures, the Nintendo DS™ family of portable video game systems has sold more than 47 million in the United States since the original model launched in November 2004. That tally makes Nintendo DS the nation’s best-selling video game system of all time.

For the second major milestone of 2010, Nintendo’s internal figures show that the Wii™ home console marked its third consecutive calendar year with U.S. sales of more than 7 million – a feat never before accomplished in the history of video games by a home console. To date, the Wii system has sold more than 34 million in the United States alone.

Heres where all the consoles rank overall

1. Nintendo DS @ 135.58 million, including DS Lite, DSi and DSi XL units (as of September 30, 2010)
2. Nintendo Wii has sold 75.9 Million consoles.
3. Worldwide: 62 million (as of September 16, 2010)
4. XBOX 360 – Worldwide: 44.6 million (as of September 30, 2010 (2010-09-30))
5. PS3 – 41.6 million (as of September 30, 2010)

The wii was always going to be popular due to the target market for this console and the new control method that is assisting people adopt this new technology, and its available out of the box.

See the PSP isnt doing so bad after all coming in at number 3, but it has been around for a little while now

The XBox 360 and PS3 are neck and neck at 44.6 million and 41.6 million respectively, give or take a couple of million.

sources:

via Gamer Stuff