Arts
- North America: Portrait of a Continent is a large-scale pictorial map of North America covered tundra-to-tropics in hundreds of details, such as flora, fauna, landmarks, city skylines, and much more in accurate reference the continent's vast history, geography, and culture. For example, These two
blog posts delve into how just much thought and research went into the map's depiction of Cuba alone. The surrounding waters are even an accurate bathymetric drawing of the ocean floor. - Seven Virtues: Both Sandro Botticelli's and Piero del Pollaiolo's knowledge in goldsmithing (or that of the latter's brother Antonio, who was a goldsmith) shows in, respectively, the very detailed armor of Fortitude and the gold objects of some of the other Virtues, which was inspired by the most elegant and precious ecclesiastical ornaments in use in the 15th century.
Creators
- The works of Kenneth Burke—literary theorist/philosopher/rhetorician/scholar/renaissance man— definitely apply. He decided that reading the entire New York Public Library would provide a much better education than attending college, and both the depth and breadth of his knowledge are obvious from his work.
Non-Fiction
- How NOT to Write a Novel shows that it's possible to show too much of their work, and provides a Stylistic Suck example of a character of a novel interpreting everything around her in terms of varying, and massively inappropriate, layers of physics-based Technobabble.
Pinball
- Golden Logres: The instruction manual is jammed with numerous details and backstories drawn from Arthurian Legend, such as the quests of the various knights, even when most of these details have no direct bearing on the game itself.
Podcasts & Radio
- 1865:
- The creators put quite a bit of attention to historical accuracy. There is occasionally a bit of Artistic License for the sake of better plot flow and story, but overall the podcast remains incredibly faithful to the historical record. Each episode is accompanied by a bonus episode that goes into the real history behind the podcast.
- This also applies to the soundscaping. The audio production team took pains to include as many of the sorts of the ambient sounds, that one would expect to hear in 19th Century Washington, D.C., as possible.
Rides
- Disney Theme Parks:
- For a ride based off a movie that you've never seen and that Disney would like you to forget ever existed, Splash Mountain sure has a lot of shout outs to it. For one thing, the design of the mountain is actually based off of Chickapin Hill, the hill that Br'er Fox lives in (seen in only a couple of shots). The story of the ride itself is actually based off of all three of the animated segments that feature Br'er Rabbit, mixing moments between the three. And not only that, but they even include songs not based on the animated sequences into the queue music (such as All I Want and the title song). Hell, the queue even features Uncle Remus' chair for god's sake!
- While we're on the topic, it should be noted that almost any Disney attraction, hotel, or restaurant has crazy amounts of research put into them, even if it's unlikely that anyone would notice them unless if specifically looking for it.
- In It's Tough to be a Bug, the scent pumped into the theater for the stinkbug scene is actually the smell of a real stinkbug.
- For a ride based off a movie that you've never seen and that Disney would like you to forget ever existed, Splash Mountain sure has a lot of shout outs to it. For one thing, the design of the mountain is actually based off of Chickapin Hill, the hill that Br'er Fox lives in (seen in only a couple of shots). The story of the ride itself is actually based off of all three of the animated segments that feature Br'er Rabbit, mixing moments between the three. And not only that, but they even include songs not based on the animated sequences into the queue music (such as All I Want
- LEGO Land: The theme park in Billund, Denmark, the very home of LEGO. Some themes have incredible detail that is faithful to the (then) collection of toys it is based on, while a very few others were original ideasnote . And that's not to mention the hotel. It's considered a different part of LEGO, rather than an addition to LEGO Land, but the hotel contains a few cool LEGO things here and there.
Toys
- In Dracula, Lucy Westenra is described with "sunny" hair as a human, and with dark hair and red lips as a vampire. When Diamond Select Toys made an action figure of her as a steampunk monster-hunter, she included two heads: a blonde human one, and a vamped-out head with brown hair and darker lipstick.
