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Nuka-World's World of Refreshment ride is Fallout's take on the chocolate river from Willy Wonka. Guests used to sail through it in boats, just like in Roald Dahl's book, and there's even a terminal entry encouraging visitors to drink straight from the river - basically the opposite advice Wonka gave his guests. These days it's just full of nukalurks and murky Nuka-Quantum instead of chocolate, so maybe don't take a sip.
Casting F. Murray Abraham as the voice of Khonshu wasn't a cold call — Oscar Isaac reached out to him personally, since the two had already worked together on the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis nearly a decade earlier.
Look at Tristana's cannon-arm and tell me you don't see it. The little blue-tinged buster shot she fires is a pretty blatant wink at Mega Man's arm cannon, right down to the shape of the blast. Riot's never made a huge deal of it, but once you notice it you can't unsee it.
Avatar Kurok is the shortest living Avatar, he died at the age of 33. This was caused by Avatar Yangchen, who neglected the spirits, because of this every time Angry Spirits invaded the world. When Kurok defeated them some of his life energy would be drained eventually killing him.
Before settling on Chloe, Naughty Dog kicked around a few other ideas for who should lead this spin-off, including Victor 'Sully' Sullivan, Uncharted 3's Charlie Cutter, and even Cassie Drake, Nathan and Elena's daughter, who'd only been glimpsed as an adult in Uncharted 4's epilogue.
Fans of the first game still think fondly of Sam and Henry, the brothers Joel and Ellie travel with for a stretch. In a quiet moment in Part 2, Ellie comes across Sam's old toy robot and picks it up, a small gesture that carries a surprising amount of weight if you remember how their story ended.
Once filming ended, the production auctioned off its horses, and Viggo Mortensen bought two of them: the one he'd ridden as Aragorn for most of the shoot, plus the horse used by Arwen's riding double.
Peter Jackson is genuinely terrified of spiders, and he leaned right into it when designing Shelob. Every detail people find most unsettling about her, the fangs, the size, the way she moves, comes from what actually scares him.
The show stuck with Albuquerque, New Mexico for all five seasons instead of chasing cheaper tax breaks elsewhere, and it's estimated the production put around $70 million into the local economy. Fans still turn up to photograph the White family house and the car wash.
