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The 25 Coolest Easter Eggs
From the Ready Player One Trailer.
Yesterday, Warner Brothers released the latest trailer
for Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One.
The film is set for release on March 30th of next year,
and this trailer has more Easter eggs than you can shake
an overly long left leg at. (chuckles)
Since Ready Player One is about a kid from 2045
who spends his time in a virtual world
inspired by video games,
it's a natural fit that the trailer would be crammed
to the absolute brim with references to old TV shows,
movies, and games, so let's break them down.
After a little bit of monologuing
about life outside the oasis,
we finally jump into the online world
with our hero, Wade Watts.
It's not long until we see Ryu from Street Fighter
walking barefoot next to the Mach Five from Speed Racer.
Also in this shot is the Batmobile
from 1960s Adam West era Batman
and the van from the 1980s action TV show, The A-Team.
Now, if this is already more nostalgic references
than you can handle,
then you are a fitty (bleep).
Now, if this is already more nostalgic references
than you can handle,
then you are a fool that I pity (laughs).
- Let me hear you say, I pity the fool.
(Jessica laughs)
Come on, man.
- I don't give a (bleep), keep going, keep going.
- I pity the fool.
- As we continue to move through the trailer,
Wade climbs into a DeLorean
from the 1980s Michael J. Fox movie, Back to the Future,
complete with a flux capacitor.
It's worth noting that Steven Spielberg
was a producer on Back to the Future,
and he's limiting references to his own films
that he's directed in Ready Player One,
so everyone expecting a reference to
Steven Spielberg's 2012 historical film Lincoln,
you're gonna have a bad time.
We then see that Wade Watts's DeLorean
has the same light bar as the super intelligent car
KITT from Knight Rider because of course, it does.
And we get a whole section of the trailer
where Wade's avatar, which goes by the name Parzival,
walks through the digital futuristic nightclub
called The Distracted Globe in the novel.
If you thought this would be a good opportunity
to see a bunch of popular characters
enjoying some VR nightlife, you would be wrong.
Psych, they totally are.
Some highlights include Blanka from Street Fighter
ordering a drink at a neon colored bar
and someone that looks like Deathstroke
hanging out with Harley Quinn.
One thing we were excited to see in the trailer
was Wade taking Kaneda's motorcycle
from the 1989 anime Akira off of a sweet jump
while the famous monster truck Bigfoot
sits in the background.
Next up, we see King Kong
standing on the Empire State Building,
swatting at a biplane.
This is immediately followed by a shot of an army
being led into battle by the freaking Battletoads.
If this isn't a sign that Rare should make
a Battletoads sequel for the Xbox One like tomorrow,
I don't know what is.
Another '80s reference we see is
Wade lifting a boombox into the air,
like in the 1989 John Cusack movie, Say Anything...,
which he uses later in the trailer to rally the troops.
By the way, one of those troops looks a whole lot like
Sagat from Street Fighter.
So far, that's three Street Fighter characters
in this trailer, and if we see a fourth,
that's Street Fighter Bingo y'all.
At two minutes and four seconds in the trailer,
we see characters playing a game that looks a whole lot like
Dance Dance Revolution, which is immediately followed
by a shot of DC Comics's villain The Joker
hanging out with Harley Quinn.
Could this mean this film is canon in the DCEU?
The answer to that question is no.
Nary a second later, we see a group of video game characters
running into battle, including Tomb Raider's Lara Croft,
Tracer from Overwatch, and Chun-Li from Street Fighter,
yes, that's Street Fighter Bingo.
Side note, Overwatch came out in 2016,
which is well after the 2011 release of the book
that Ready Player One is based on,
so this is a good sign that Spielberg
will be straying from the source material
in his film adaptation at least a little bit.
Back to Easter eggs.
And what reference-laden battle scene is complete
without seeing Chucky from the Child's Play series
tearing up a soldier which is followed by
the big budget Hollywood movie debut of the RX-78 Gundam?
The first mobile suit Gundam anime came out in the '70s
and is amazing, so I think we might be
a little overdue on that one.
Now, the trailer ends with a shot of the Iron Giant
from the 1999 Warner Brothers film of the same name
punching the screen and then we close it out
with credits and a familiar jingle you may remember
from Back to the Future.
That's 25 Easter eggs in a two minute and 25 second trailer
which translates to one Easter egg every 5.8 seconds.
That's a lot of Easter eggs.
Though the Ready Player One source book has mixed reviews,
Spielberg is an amazing director,
and we're excited to see the finished product
when it hits theaters.
But what do you folks think?
What Easter eggs did you see?
Are you excited about the Ready Player One movie?
And do you think we're ever
going to get a sequel to Battletoads?
No, no, we should not.
Let's discuss.
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