In Pulp Fiction when Vincent makes a drink while waiting for Mia he uses McCleary’s scotch, a fictional drink. I thought sure I read that someone since has produced that brand but I can’t find it so I guess not.
It appears that they did, although in different forms.
And Steven Spielberg’s son Max had a brief stint as a film director in 2002.
Isn’t the modern touchscreen tablet/phone interface also a Star Trek (Next Generation) invention (the PADD in the show)?
There have been/are various versions of Duff Beer from the Simpsons, although most seem to have been copyright infringements.
It dates back at least to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Possibly further.
Stay Puft marshmallows have been licensed from the Ghostbusters movies and have been sold in a few different guises, most recently by Campfire brand.
It looks like Pizza Planet from Toy Story is going to become reality of a sort.
Parts of the video game Sugar Rush from Wreck-It-Ralph is available in a few forms from Disney.
As is the Pancake Milkshake game from the sequel.
They actually put together a full size arcade version of the Wreck-it Ralph / iFix-it Felix video game. I played one at a now-defunct video emporium in southern New Hampshire. It had the graphics from the game as shown in the movie, and play was the same.
Hard to find anything about it with a quick internet search, but here’s one reference:
https://www.quora.com/Is-Wreck-it-Ralph-the-game-based-on-a-real-arcade-game
Seems it appeared in various arcades to promote the movie.
There’s one at Freeplay Arcade in Richardson, TX that I played a few months ago.
I’ve wondered since 1983, and never found a good answer to, where did the prop for the movie come from? That’s a very nicely made prop. It looks to be injection molded. Not a fiberglass layup. A lot of work for a low budget movie. And the plastic did not look period-correct, but that’s OK. I used to think it was real period antique, but if they were, they’d be all over ebay.
And that it sounded like glass breaking when mother “accidentally” broke it I just take as Ralphie’s faulty memory embellished by time.
Reportedly one of three created by lead production designer Reuben Freed. None are known to exist now.
ETA: here’s an interview where Mr. Freed talks about the lamp and its creation.
I thank you for the vid, but I’ll pass. An hour listening to that would drive me batty. Even without the “bouncing ball” subtitles! Who does that? Why? And why can’t it be turned off?
Sorry about that. The lamp talk starts in earnest halfway in; they look great but he says they were actually quite fragile.
that’s fra-gee-lay. It’s Italian.
And it certainly looked easily breakable!
Minnesota Fats?
IIRC there was a pool champion (Rudy Walderone) who the character (in the novel? or movie?) was based on.
After the movie came out, he began going by the name Minnesota Fats.
There’s been one in Disneyland for a while, but does that really count?
OK, having posted that, I looked on wiki and see it’s more complicated.
The Red Ryder BB gun featured in the movie also did not exist at the time, at least not in the configuration that is shown in the movie.
When people wanted to buy the exact model that was featured in the movie, the manufacturer gave into the demand and started making a special “Christmas” version of the BB gun with the same features (compass and sundial on the stock, etc).
I saw Harry Potter Butterbeer flavored coffee creamer, today.
There’s also baking things. Lots of pumpkin and Autumnal flavors.
Good grief.