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Turning into the Ghoul wasn't a quick job, at least not at first. Walton Goggins originally spent up to five hours in makeup every single day to become the character, with prosthetics designer Jake Garber gradually whittling that process down over time as they both got more efficient at it.
Almost as soon as the game launched, players convinced themselves Bigfoot was hiding somewhere in the countryside near Back o' Beyond, and the rumor refused to die for years. Rockstar's own co-founder eventually shot it down publicly, though that didn't stop people from combing the woods with in-game cameras looking for him.
The massive airship the Brotherhood of Steel rolls up in looks like a dead ringer for the Prydwen from Fallout 4, and the show even nods to where that name came from, since it's named after King Arthur's ship in an old Welsh poem. In the series it's given the name Caswennan, which is another name tied to that same legendary vessel.
When Max Mayfield uses this 1985 track as her lifeline against Vecna in Season 4, nobody expected it to send a nearly 40-year-old song rocketing back up the charts. Kate Bush herself, notoriously private and rarely public about anything, posted a heartfelt statement thanking the show's young fans for giving the track, in her words, 'a whole new lease of life'.
Arcane was supposed to land a full year earlier than it did, but COVID-19 pushed the release back to November 2021. Given how hands-on the animation process is, with real actors filmed as reference for nearly every scene, a pandemic delay to that kind of workflow makes a lot of sense.
The 2007 Writers' Guild strike hit right as the show was getting off the ground, chopping the first season down to just seven episodes and forcing a much more abrupt ending than originally planned.
Batey wasn't in great shape when it came time to record the song properly. He turned up to the studio unwell, got through the session on multiple cups of honey and lemon tea, and still managed to nail several clean takes.
Caitlyn's voice actor, Katie Leung, is probably best known to a lot of viewers as Cho Chang from the Harry Potter films. Arcane marked a proper return to a major franchise role for her after years working mostly in smaller British TV and theatre projects.
When BMO says "time to make the donuts" before getting to work in the Distant Lands special, it's not an original BMO catchphrase. It's a straight lift from a Dunkin' Donuts commercial character from the 1980s, dropped in as a little treat for older viewers watching alongside their kids.
Steven's goldfish tank back at his flat is decorated with a tiny pyramid and a little model of Taweret's boat, both of which show up for real later in the season. Given how obsessed Steven is with Egyptology, it makes sense his fish would live somewhere themed to match.
