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1!! [=LittleBigPlanet=] 1
2* After completing the Gardens for the first time in the first game, you unlock the Create Moon and [=InfoMoon=], and the Narrator tells you to [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration boldly go to them both.]]
3* A couple of the unlockable side levels within the game's story mode have referential titles:
4** [[Series/WheelOfFortune Wheel of Misfortune]]
5** [[VideoGame/LineRider Spline Rider]] [[note]]Just as its namesake, in this level you sled down a long, icy track.[[/note]]
6!! [=LittleBigPlanet=] 2
7* The boss of [[spoiler:Casa del Higginbotham]] is defeated by [[VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine squirting water into its mouth.]]
8* Amongst the sequencer instruments, one of them has a picture of a badger on it. The Weebl's Badger perhaps?
9* One the things Sackboy does when bouncing off a bounce pad is [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario's famous jump pose]].
10* "He is still part of the life coil man, he's spinning, [[Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream screaming, but he's got not mouth."]]
11* An Easter egg late in the game has you input the KonamiCode.
12* The Grabinators work like a more physics-based version of the [[VideoGame/MegaMan Super Arm]].
13* Some of the story levels names are this, including:
14** [[Film/KingKong Kling Klong.]]
15** [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers Invasion of the Body Invaders.]]
16** [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption The Sackbot Redemption]].
17** [[Film/FullMetalJacket Full Metal Rabbit]].
18** [[Music/PinkFloyd Set Controls for the Heart of the Negativitron]].
19** There's a side level in Avalonia called [[VideoGame/{{Robotron2084}} Gobotron]], and both are double stick shooters.
20* One pin is called "[[Film/Ghostbusters1984 DO Cross the Streams]]".
21* There's a pin in the Muppet Pack named "[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Pig-ard]]".
22* One of the Move Pack Pins is called "[[Music/{{Friday}} Gotta Get Down on Friday]]", and another one is called "[[Music/JustinBieber Just In Beaver]]".
23* Some of the Cross-Controller Pack Pins include [[Franchise/StarTrek "Jeffries Tubes", "Red Shirt", "Final Frontier"]] and "[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Never Tell Me The Odds.]]"
24* One of the Cross-Controller minigame levels is called [[VideoGame/SonicCD Poultry]] [[PalmtreePanic Panic]].
25* At the end of the first Lex Luthor stage in the DC Comics DLC, Luthor proclaims to the heroes that his Mecha-Lex is "[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi already quite operational]]".
26* The [[http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6160/6168511531_cd2c6f812a_m.jpg Pearl Girl costume]] is a reference to the [[Art/GirlWithAPearlEarring painting]].
27* One of the DLC costumes is [[VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon Delsin Rowe]], which isn't really a Shout-Out, but just like the real Delsin, he has a pin with the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' insignia on his jacket.
28* There's even a shout out to a few of the Creator Curators of the first game, but it's in Eve's Asylum; apparently the Negativitron doomed them to insanity ([[AndYourLittleDogToo even Don's dog!]]). By [=LittleBigPlanet=] Karting, [[UnexplainedRecovery they've come back around]].
29!! [=LittleBigPlanet=] 3
30* This quote.
31-->'''Coach Rock:''' [[Film/{{Babe}} THAT'LL DO SOCK! That'll do.]]
32* Some of the cinematic songs:
33** "[[Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon Beware The Moon, Lads...]]"
34** "[[Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly The Little, the Big, and the Ugly]]"
35** "[[Film/AFistfulOfDollars A Fistful Of Donuts]]"
36* Some of the pins and trophies as well:
37** For using all 16 layers in Create Mode, you get the pin and trophy "[[Film/{{Inception}} We have to go deeper...]]"
38** When you play as Toggle for the first time, you get the pin and trophy "[[Music/TheNotoriousBIG Biggy and Smalls.]]"
39** The trophy for completing all of the quests in the adventure is "[[Music/ATribeCalledQuest A Guy Called Quest]]."
40** For completing both Contraption Challenges, you get the trophy "[[Literature/HonorHarrington The Best Laid Plans...]]"
41** When you destroy 25 of Newton's robots, you get the trophy "[[Music/LynyrdSkynyrd Free Bird]]."
42* One of the Popit colors is called "Twit Twoo". This is also the name of a song in an album called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery_Quarter_(album) Jewellery Quarter]] from the band "The Twang".
43* In the "The Journey Home" Level Pack, one of the stickers you get is of a small frog. What's its name? [[Franchise/TheMuppets Robin.]]
44* The second-last level is called Film/TheGreatEscape.
45* There's ''another'' ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}''-referencing pin in this game, this one just called "Cross the Streams".
46* The pin for completing the Dancing Academy stage under a certain amount of jumps is entitled "The Daddy Sack'll Make You...", in reference to Kris Kross's "Jump".
47!![=LittleBigPlanet PSP=]
48* Some level names:
49** [[Franchise/FlashGordon Stitch Gordon]]
50** [[Film/TheSixthSense I Race Dead People]]
51** [[Film/TheBourneIdentity The Sewn Identity]]
52** [[Music/OdeToJoy Road to Joy]]
53!! [=LittleBigPlanet=] Vita
54* During the Platform/PlayStationVita version of the DC Comics DLC pack, Batman has exclamations such as "[[Series/Batman1966 Holy scene-stealing, Sackboy!]]" during the Gotham stage. In the same level the Joker also asks Batman "[[Film/TheDarkKnight Why so serious?]]"
55!! [=LittleBigPlanet=] Karting
56* From the [=LittleBigPlanet=] Karting Beta, one of the rival racers' names? [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Pliss Snakeskin]].
57* One of the loading screen messages is "[[VideoGame/TheSims Reticulating Splines]]".
58* More level names:
59** [[Series/KnightRider Night Rider]]
60** [[Film/SnakesOnAPlane Cakes on a Train]].
61** [[Music/EltonJohn Don't Go Baking My Kart]].
62** One of the levels in the Space Bass is called [[Series/LostInSpace Lost In Bass]].

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