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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: While Wade is explaining what Artifacts are after he and Aech see the Gregarious 120 glove, the shot pans over a flight of stairs where there's a huge battle of characters. You can see Chun-Li, from Street Fighter game series, sprinting across and leap into the air before grabbing a hold of someone hanging from a cliff. This shortly before they are both engulfed in a large fireball. (00:06:15)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: As Wade is explaining how people lose all their stuff if they die in the OASIS, you see a shot of Sho and Daito on Planet DOOM in a sword fight with Jason Voorhees, the iconic horror/slasher film mascot of the Friday the 13th movie franchise, wielding his trademark machete and wearing the hockey mask. (00:06:50)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: On Planet DOOM, Aech kills a guy with an emoji as a head. This guy drops a weapon that Aech then picks up and it's displayed as the EM1-Rail Gun. The EM-1 Rail Gun is the weapon used by U.S. Marshal John Kruger (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) in the movie Eraser. (00:05:45)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: As Aech is going through a trench on Planet Doom with the Halo MA5D Assault Rifle, someone walks up behind her on a ledge with a rocket launcher. This is Duke Nukem in his iconic red shirt and blond flat top hair. (00:05:40)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: When we see Aech on Planet DOOM, the weapon they are using is the iconic MD5A Assault Rifle from the Halo game franchise. (00:05:40)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: Aech is on Planet DOOM who leaps through the air after killing one of the players. As Aech is up, in the slow motion shot you can see Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street leaping towards Aech before being blasted into coins. (00:05:25)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

Trivia: Wade asks the computer to locate his friend Aech, and finds that he's on the PvP planet known as Planet Doom. DOOM is the game that popularized the first person shooter genre, following on from Wolfenstein 3D which was the first ever FPS, both made by the company ID Games. (00:05:10)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: Just before asking the computer to locate his friend Aech, Wade as Parzival is walking along a bridge. Beside him you can see Hello Kitty with two of her friends, Badtemaru and Keroppi walking along with him. Hello Kitty can also be seen again once Parzival enters the Halliday Journals building the first time in the film sitting at a desk studying with someone else. In addition, there is also a Hello Kitty sticker on Art3mis' bike. (00:05:00 - 00:22:50)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: After Wade introduces his own avatar, it shows a line of people waiting by a portal. Just before Tracer shows up to the portal, you can see Sonic the Hedgehog standing towards the back of the line tapping his foot in the famous idle animation from the original game where he would tap his foot impatiently if the player left him standing still for too long. (00:04:55)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: After Wade introduces the audience to his OASIS avatar, it shows a line of people heading to a smaller portal. Tracer from the game Overwatch, and arguably the face of Overwatch, zooms up to the portal and strikes a pose before she zooms into it with her time powers. Tracer is also seen at the dance club once Parzival changes the song to a disco number, and again is seen during the final battle. (00:04:55)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: After the camera pans over Robocop coming out of the portal at the start of the movie while Wade is introducing the OASIS to the audience, Marvin the Martian from Looney Tunes runs out of the portal. (00:04:40)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: Towards the start of the film as Wade is introducing the audience to the OASIS, the classic 80's Robocop is seen exiting the portal into the OASIS and looking around. As he steps, you can even hear the iconic sound of his foot steps from the original movie. (00:04:45)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

Trivia: The Battletoads can be seen walking out of the portal in the OASIS while Wade is introducing the audience to it. As well as they are seen at the front of the charge in the final battle. (00:04:40)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

Trivia: After Wade puts on the goggles to go into the OASIS, the scene goes through a tennis ball shaped planet of sports where some hang gliders swoop down from a ledge for the Hurricane Hang Gliding and into a hurricane. Immediately you can see Dorothy's house from Wizard of Oz fly by, reenacting it being lifted into the air by the tornado in that movie. (00:03:50)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Trivia: After Wade puts on the face sensor around his neck, he sets down his glasses on a lunch box. This is a He Man Masters of the Universe Lunch Box, complete with its cup next to it. (00:02:55)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

Continuity mistake: When Wade opens up his hidden game room in a junk van, you get a clear view of the stuff inside it. It's a bit difficult to see, but on the left there is a white lamp next to the gray face sensor thing that he puts around his neck visible there. Once he turns the power on and leans that direction, it cuts to a close up of the face sensor by that white lamp and suddenly a hanging red lamp appears next to it. It was not just off in the previous shot, if you look closely it's just not there at all. As you should be able to see its red hanging structure and metal next to the other items. (00:02:40)

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13th Aug 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

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Continuity mistake: Right in the beginning, Wade hops out a window from his home and starts walking beside it to the edge to climb to the next level down. As he starts walking he passes by another window with a curtain. It then cuts to a closer angle and suddenly the window no longer has a curtain. Also a wire appears on the wall in front of him. And you can tell it is the same house, not a time jump, as the rust at the top of the window frame is exactly the same. (00:01:15)

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