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Gorilla's in the Mistvale (just north of Booty Bay)
I just found a few new ones... in the Un'Goro Crater, there's Willidan Marshall and his expedition. His wife, Hol'anyee, stands beside him.
This is, to me, a very obvious reference to the old Krofft show, Land of the Lost. The main characters in that show were Marshall, Will, and Holly (and I can hear the theme song in my head as I type their names).
One of the other people near the Marshalls is a Goblin named Spraggle Frock, clearly a Fraggle Rock joke.
This is, to me, a very obvious reference to the old Krofft show, Land of the Lost. The main characters in that show were Marshall, Will, and Holly (and I can hear the theme song in my head as I type their names).
One of the other people near the Marshalls is a Goblin named Spraggle Frock, clearly a Fraggle Rock joke.
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Naglering, a rare ring, and an obvious take on Diablo 2's Nagelring. Which sucked as an item, incidentally.
Blizzard doesn't go out of their way to do too many self-referencing things... they usually do outside references. The Nagelring is, at least, a reference to Battletech.
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The oldest and most prestigious academy in the Alliance, the Nagelring is the only Alliance training facility to graduate troops for all arms of the LAAF (Lyran Alliance Armed Forces). Once a SDLF (Star League Defense Force) training facility, House Steiner inherited the facility and its instructors after Kerensky's Exodus. Over the centuries, the Academy has grown to include massive exercise areas and live-fire ranges, sprawling across the Bremen continent on Tharkad. The central campus houses the accommodation and education facilities, including research labs and a massive simulator complex. These sit within a beautiful park that belies the Academy's martial role. Over the centuries, the Nagelring has grown to encompass conventional learning as well, teaching physics and chemistry in addition to martial skills. Accordingly the Nagelring has built a strong link with Tharkad University, allowing Cadets to take elective history as well as science courses at the famed Institute. As a result , the Nagelring has developed a reputation as a first-class institute of learning and research in addition to its military role.
I'm assuming that even the Battletech reference is referencing something much older - probably German or Nordic mythology.
Edit: Fixed a formatting error. =9_9=
[sm]Edited, Mon Jan 31 08:03:25 2005 by Nekojin
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While I haven't seen it myself, a friend was telling me about a quest he did to recieve "Lincoln's Sword of Mastery". Obviously the Master Sword from the Legend of Zelda.
Edited, Wed Feb 2 09:20:24 2005 by seebor
Edited, Wed Feb 2 09:20:24 2005 by seebor
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Just about to mention the A-me one. I also noticed in un goro that the Big gorilla's drop barrel's when killed. mmmmmm
Chasing Amy was that Kevin Smith movie about the cartoonist that fell in love with the lesbian, right? I thought it was a good movie :D
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Six Demon Bag trinket. straight from Big Trouble in Little China :)
2.5 more, in the badlands, the angor fortress looks *kinda* like jabba's palace, and then there's the goblin outside kargrath who has a robot named servo (mst3k?) who says "Someday I'll be a real boy!" like pinochio... Can't wait to see more highlevel stuff.
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and then there's the goblin outside kargrath who has a robot named servo (mst3k?) who says "Someday I'll be a real boy!" like pinochio...
His name is mst3k?!? OMG that is histerical.
MMST3K = Mystery Science Theater 3000 - for those of you that don't know. A really funny show that had robots making fun of really crappy movies.
Now I have to go find this guy!
Edited, Mon Jan 31 23:43:11 2005 by CannibalBob
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wow! with all the Diablo 2 refferences, i cant believe no one mentioned the Cow King's Hide!! i was awestruck when i saw this in WoW. so many old memories brought back ^_^
Here's another one from Un'Goro Crater. There's a quest to rescue a goblin who went to explore the volcano in the middle of the crater. The goblin's name is Ringo. The quest to escort him back home (after you've found him) is called, "A Little Help From My Friends." Any Beatles fans in the audience?
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Not sure if this applies, but:
In Ironforge,Master Mechanic Castpipe sends you to get a Prismatic Punch Card from Gnomeregan. In order to get it, you have to get 4 other cards, and they all have a pagefull of binary code on them. I translated it so here goes:
White Punch Card
Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Yellow Punch Card
If you can read this, you're standing too close
Blue Punch Card
The gnome king wears night elf underwear
Red Punch Card
Help! I'm trapped in a binary punch card factory!
Prismatic Punch Card
Message to Castpipe: your laundry's ready for pickup. :D
Laughed myself silly on the last one. The whole reason i braved death and dismemberment in the instance was to let him know his boxers were washed?!? man...
In Ironforge,Master Mechanic Castpipe sends you to get a Prismatic Punch Card from Gnomeregan. In order to get it, you have to get 4 other cards, and they all have a pagefull of binary code on them. I translated it so here goes:
White Punch Card
Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Yellow Punch Card
If you can read this, you're standing too close
Blue Punch Card
The gnome king wears night elf underwear
Red Punch Card
Help! I'm trapped in a binary punch card factory!
Prismatic Punch Card
Message to Castpipe: your laundry's ready for pickup. :D
Laughed myself silly on the last one. The whole reason i braved death and dismemberment in the instance was to let him know his boxers were washed?!? man...
Don't know if it has been mentioned, but i The Barrens, thers a quest to kill Tazan... if any of your have seen the movie Tarzan.. Well.. yeah :P
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forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=81395&p=1&tmp=1#post81395
31 pages of this thread :)
Enjoy
Should help Tuesday morning pass.
Edited, Tue Feb 1 10:02:58 2005 by kavassa
Edited, Tue Feb 1 10:03:33 2005 by kavassa
31 pages of this thread :)
Enjoy
Should help Tuesday morning pass.
Edited, Tue Feb 1 10:02:58 2005 by kavassa
Edited, Tue Feb 1 10:03:33 2005 by kavassa
Well in reply to cannibalbob... Sorry, his name is Servo, just thought it might be a refernece to mst3k (or not). But did anybody notice if you view the hearthstone animation, it looks like Ryu's fireball animation (arms fold back while casting, then extended out in front of you)
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Surprised no one has mentioned it.. Finkle's Skinner
Scholar
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When the emporer in BRD kills you...he says "Hail to the king, baby." another evil dead/army of darkness reference.....
"I caught a reference today while running through Theramore.
There's a Captain Vimes in the Building behind the practice grounds in town.
This comes straight out of Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series of books. Captain Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch is one of the main charachters. (in quite a few books, anyway.)
Highly recommended reading. Pratchett writes some really funny stuff."
He was on my morning show and his sense of observation and humor is unsurpassed.
Great thread all I love discworld too!
Edited, Tue Feb 1 15:58:12 2005 by discoern
There's a Captain Vimes in the Building behind the practice grounds in town.
This comes straight out of Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series of books. Captain Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch is one of the main charachters. (in quite a few books, anyway.)
Highly recommended reading. Pratchett writes some really funny stuff."
He was on my morning show and his sense of observation and humor is unsurpassed.
Great thread all I love discworld too!
Edited, Tue Feb 1 15:58:12 2005 by discoern
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The Dwarf male is the russian hop-dance.
Actually, the male dwarf dance is the same dance that Fonzie did in the Weezer video.
The Russians invented that dance long before the Fonze. The Fonze is just the only american cool enough to pull it off and not look stupid :)
Actually... the dance Fonze does in the video is more of a break dance, that uses a number of splits. The dwarven dance is more of the Russian dance. I have a few Russian friends I go to the clubs with quite often. Just thought I'd add my
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Here's a few more I didn't see anyone mention (but very well could have missed).
There's mention of Scooty and Sprock but no one mentions Jhordy Lapforge in Gadgetzan, the nod to Geordi LaForge from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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There are also multiple Ghostbusters references. I believe it's in Stormwind but there are a few folks walking around having a discussion about "crossing the streams" and how bad it'd be.
There is also a quest in Desolace where one must collect "Ghost-o-Plasm" by putting down this box that eminates light and attracks ghosts to it.
There's mention of Scooty and Sprock but no one mentions Jhordy Lapforge in Gadgetzan, the nod to Geordi LaForge from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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There are also multiple Ghostbusters references. I believe it's in Stormwind but there are a few folks walking around having a discussion about "crossing the streams" and how bad it'd be.
There is also a quest in Desolace where one must collect "Ghost-o-Plasm" by putting down this box that eminates light and attracks ghosts to it.
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Theres an npc in the warriors section in the undercity name algernon holding a flower based of the short story flowers for algernon. Also on the dashboard of a venture co mechanical in stv there is a picture of a zergqueen from starcraft.
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The Trolls dance is based upon the brazilian form of "fighting without fighting" Caprela(not sure on spelling) which was made from nessesity(sp) when many brazilian slaves were banned from fighting amongst their various gangs by their "owners"(not entirely sure but think thats the general "jist" of it) basically, nether opponant can hit each other, I'm totally unsure of this but would imagine that the loser would probably be the first person to hit the other, rather then the last=) Personally, I think it's a shining example of finding a peacefull way of doing things, even if they were forced!
Very true but if you speed up the dance, you can whoop ***; kinda of like flamboyant tai chi. It's only my first year in it and boy do those splits hurt!
The bankers in UC are all named 'montauge' (sp), nod to shakespear.
No-one's mentioned the King of the Troggs:
"ME GRIMLOCK, KING!" - straight out of Transformers :)
Oh my. Very very sad, but very funny.
TF
"ME GRIMLOCK, KING!" - straight out of Transformers :)
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White Punch Card
Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Yellow Punch Card
If you can read this, you're standing too close
Blue Punch Card
The gnome king wears night elf underwear
Red Punch Card
Help! I'm trapped in a binary punch card factory!
Prismatic Punch Card
Message to Castpipe: your laundry's ready for pickup. :D
Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Yellow Punch Card
If you can read this, you're standing too close
Blue Punch Card
The gnome king wears night elf underwear
Red Punch Card
Help! I'm trapped in a binary punch card factory!
Prismatic Punch Card
Message to Castpipe: your laundry's ready for pickup. :D
Oh my. Very very sad, but very funny.
TF
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