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Worlds

A meander through the video game and movie worlds of my youth and beyond


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Plant 42

The t-Virus has a substantial and powerful effect on plants as well as animals, as this giant, aggressive, carnivorous plant proves. To defend itself, Plant 42 will whip at intruders with thorny vines or attempt to seize them around the neck and strangle them with its incredible strength.
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DS Wario Stadium

Like Mario Kart Stadium, this track feels like it was always meant to be a racetrack. There are large stands full of spectators, huge billboards and spotlights, and Mario Kart TV camera vans filming the action.
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The Lord of the Rings Calendar 1977

.R.R. Tolkien made several drawings for The Lord of the Rings, almost all in coloured pencil, using a muted palette, but it seems very likely that none of these were ever intended to be published.
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Mount Wario

Mount Wario is one of a small number of tracks in the game to be divided into three sections rather than three laps. It’s literally all downhill from when you start, a continuous track winding down a mountain.
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Crimson Heads

In Resident Evil Remake, zombies that are seemingly killed can, over time, undergo a secondary mutation and ‘resurrect’ as stronger, faster creatures called Crimson Heads. This means that when you’re backtracking through a part of the mansion you think is safe because you’ve cleared all the zombies there, it might…
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Electrodrome

Welcome to Electrodrome, an ultra-futuristic, neon-lit stadium-turned-nightclub filled with giant mirrorballs, pulsing speakers, and dancing Koopa Troopas and Shy Guys. There are even headbanging techno Piranha Plants… because why not?
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