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Trivia: Once Parzival enters the portal taking him to the race, the camera pans over the vehicles and you can see the A-Team van in the line up. You get a more clear view of it when the bridge comes out and connects to the street they are on. And then once again as the cars are reaching the "hotwheels" jump in the race, the van is on the DeLorean's left. (00:10:30 - 00:12:30)

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Trivia: The car that Parzival uses in the race is the DeLorean, complete with all it's customization and advances, from the Back to the Future movies. Steven Spielberg, the director of Ready Player One, was also the Executive Producer of the Back to the Future trilogy with his company Amblin Entertainment. Spielberg only allowed the DeLorean to appear as a reference and tribute to BTTF director Robert Zemeckis, rather than himself. Despite Spielberg's overwhelming impact on pop culture throughout the decades, direct Spielberg references were rather deliberately omitted from "Ready Player One" by Spielberg himself. Ironically, he intended to include references to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (Spielberg's second blockbuster after "Jaws"), but he couldn't negotiate a licensing agreement with Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. (00:11:25)

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Trivia: As Parzival is approaching Aech at the race and asks how she got there before him, there is a blue ninja walking behind Aech's monster truck. This is Sub Zero from Mortal Kombat in his latest design from Mortal Kombat X. (00:11:25)

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Trivia: In the video that Halliday left behind after his death, you see floral arrangements around his coffin that are in the shape of the Star Trek's Federation symbol and one of the Enterprise. But the really cool thing is his coffin is actually a photon torpedo, exactly like Spock was put in after his death at the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Complete with the blue Federation flag draped over the end of it. (00:08:05)

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Trivia: When Wade is talking about how when you die in the game, you lose everything you ever worked for, there is one shot of a little girl throwing her OASIS goggles off and screaming in a fit of rage. Behind her on the wall is a poster for the 1982 game, Donkey Kong Junior. Also behind her you can see a blue Care Bear plush toy on her bed, as well as some small Care Bear figurines on the shelf against the wall to the right. (00:06:10)

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Trivia: After Aech picks up the EM-1 Rail Gun, she zooms in on a fight in the distance where their friends Daito and Sho are fighting. The yellow ninja that Daito kicks in the face holding an ax is Scorpion from the Mortal Kombat game franchise. (00:05:50)

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Trivia: As Parzival tells Aech that the race is starting in 10 minutes, you can see two of the Ninja Turtles (Raphael and Leonardo) in the 2014 reboot style walking behind him. The 2014 Ninja Turtles also appear in the final battle for the last key. (00:07:05)

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Trivia: Tara Strong has gone on record stating that the ability for them to make the original Teen Titans season 6 depends on the success of this film.

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Trivia: After Wade and Aech identify the artifact on Planet DOOM, the camera pans over a hill as a rocket hits, sending people flying. It keeps panning over and on a ledge you can see the Japanese sumo wrestler from Street Fighter known as E-Honda bashing people off the ledge and striking his famous pose. (00:06:10)

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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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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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Trivia: Despite being a DC movie, Stan Lee not only makes one, but three cameos in this film. Each as a joke about his Marvel movie cameos.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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