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'''(Examples should be listed under the genre of the work they originally appeared in.)'''
== [[Advertising]] ==
* A TV ad for Yellow Pages in the UK featured a man searching used bookstores for a hard-to-find book: ''Fly Fishing'' by J. R. Hartley {{spoiler|which at the end of the commercial, we find out that the man ''is'' (the fictional) J.R. Hartley}}. Later, a real book was published with the same title and byline.
* Staples had a series of commercials in which office employees would press a [[Big Red Button]] labeled "EASY" to make needed office supplies appear. Staples later began selling "Easy Buttons" that, when pressed, play a recording of the ad's narrator saying "That was easy." A Spanish version also exists, which says "Así de fácil" when pressed. And a French-Canadian version, that goes "Y'a rien d'plus simple." (Nothing's simpler).
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* Alexandr, the main character from the [[Compare the Meerkat]] campaign, wrote an autobiography.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Kujibiki Unbalance]]'' was originally a [[Show Within a Show]] of ''[[Genshiken]]'', but was eventually made into a real series with an altered premise. When the characters within the original watched the real series the changes were incorporated ''back'' into the show!
** When the retooled ''Kujiun'' series became a manga, it included a bonus [[Omake]] chapter of ''Genshiken'' where they discussed the retooled ''Kujiun'' series becoming a manga and the changes made to it, including a [[Lampshade Hanging]] "[[Who Would Want to Watch Us?|Who the hell is Kio Shimoku?]]". Reincorporation Combo Attack!
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** Not to mention any number of zanpakutō, more commonly in their ''shikai'' form (as their normal form is a simple katana with a stylized tsuba (handguard)); no functionality though (Renji's is frequently sought after)
* ''[[Durarara!!]]'' has an in-universe example where [[Otaku|Walker and Erika]] have managed to defictionalize ''[[Darker than Black]]'' protagonist Hei's trademark grappling knives, complete with a miniature generator to mimic his [[Shock and Awe]] powers {{spoiler|for the purposes of [[Torture Technician|torture]]}}. In the real world, fans actually made a 'Dollars' board, complete with password and everything. (It's actually more along the lines of a fan forum, however.)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131012174313/http://www.399animeshop.com/anime/full-metal-alchemist/fma-state-alchemist-pocket-watch.php The State Alchemist pocket watch] from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''.
* ''Space Travelers: The Animation''<ref>Not related to the re-branded version of ''[[Marooned]]'' seen on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''</ref> was produced as a spinoff for a live action caper comedy also called ''Space Travelers''. The gimmick was that the main characters of the live action film—a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|Ragtag Bunch of Misfit]] bank robbers and the hostages they take who [[Stockholm Syndrome|help their captors try to escape]] take codenames from characters in the [[Show Within a Show]] that one of them was a fan of while planning the escape, and start [[Becoming the Mask]]. [[Media Blasters]] licensed the anime movie, but without the tie-in, all they had was a [[Sci Fi]] [[Cliché Storm]] and a cast of [[Awesome McCoolname]]s.
* In ''[[MAR]]'', the characters use magic powers through the use of accessories called ARMs. These same ARMs were then sold as jewelry in real life, although presumably sans magic powers.
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* ''[[Pokémon]]'' - Several apps for Apple's iOS devices turn it into a functional Pokedex, and do just about everything but talk.
* ''[[Akagi]]'': [[Washizu Mahjong]] was at first invented in the story, but now it actually exists.
* In early 2024, [[McDonald's]] briefly defictionalized the anime-standard [[Bland-Name Product]] version of their name and logo, [[Bland-Name Product#WcDonald's|WcDonald's]], as part of [https://www.foodandwine.com/wcdonalds-mcdonalds-anime-promotion-8598620 an anime-themed promotion].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The [[Tabletop RPG]] ''Hackmaster'' from the gamer comic ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]''. Rather than being created from scratch, the ''Hackmaster'' rules set was actually licensed from Wizards of the Coast and was, more or less, a reprint of the D&D 1st Edition rules with a great deal more snarkiness, [[Genre Savvy|genre savviness]], and in-universe references thrown in. All but one page of the Players Handbook was written as though this were a book being published in-universe by the Hard 8 staff, including long diatribes about using male pronouns by default as a writing convention and insisting that female dwarfs have beards.
* The Thagomizer (the spiked tail on a ''Stegosaurus'' and similar dinosaurs) got its name from ''[[The Far Side]]'', where it was named after "the late Thag Simmons". In an example of [[Sure Why Not]] and just overall fandom, paleontologists have been using the name themselves, as they realized that the part did not have a standardized name before. It even appears on placards in the dinosaur exhibit at New York's Museum of Natural History.
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' - As a matter of principle Bill Watterson always refused any kind of merchandizing. This does not stop people creating pirate products. A pair of hacks actually wrote a children's book called ''Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie.'' Watterson specifically never went into detail about what happens in the book [[Noodle Incident|to preserve the funny vagueness]].
** On a more positive note, many scientists have replaced the term "Big Bang" with Calvin's more accurate "Horrendous Space Kablooie" since Watterson coined the term in 1991.
* In-universe example—in ''[[Planetary]]'' issue 9, "Planet Fiction", a secret lab builds a craft which can travel into a fictional world. When it returns, they discover that they've picked up a
* The new ''Musée Hergé'' in Louvain-la-Neuve has the same address as the Brussels flat in which [[Tintin]] lived in his early adventures: 26, rue du Labrador. (For the comic, Hergé had taken the address of his grandmother, 26, rue de Terre-Neuve (Newfoundland street) and slightly altered it; [[Bilingual Bonus|the province's name in French is "Terre-Neuve et Labrador"]]).
* ''The Life Story of [[the Flash]]'', ostensibly by Iris Allen. In-universe, the appearance of a copy from the future (owned by Professor Zoom, no less) let her nephew know she'd be coming [[Back from the Dead]] to write it by 1997. DC put out a [[Real Life]] version in 1998.
* Chess Boxing was directly inspired by ''Froid Equateur'' by [[Enki Bilal]].
== [[Film]] ==
* The creation of an entire line of Wonka-branded candies as a tie-in to the 1971 film ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]''. Many of the signature chocolate bars from the film (and earlier book), such as "Everlasting Gobstoppers" and "Chocolate Scrumdiddilyumptious bars", were recreated as genuine products. Even now, over
** In fact, the 1971 film was designed ''specifically'' to market Wonka-brand chocolates. It was funded by Quaker Oats, who had planned to make a grand entry into the candy business. Unfortunately, the formula they used caused the bars to melt in stores, and they had to be withdrawn from sale. However, the harder sugar-based candies like Nerds and Gobstoppers were a big hit and remain popular to this day.
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''▼
** "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans" was incarnated into the real world by the good if twisted folks at [http://www.jellybelly.com/ JellyBelly] as part of the promotional build-up to the [[Harry Potter (film)|film version]] of ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Philosopher's Stone''. It helped that they'd already made plenty of bizarre jelly bean flavors—all they had to do was make all the gross ones. A lot of the gross ones are actually discarded, legitimate if not failed attempts at making good flavors—the vomit flavouring, for instance, was originally ''meant'' to be pizza.▼
** Chocolate Frogs and Caramel Flies now exist as well, although the frogs are just Pop Rocks in a frog-shaped shell, which come with holographic trading cards.▼
** In another ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' reference, King's Cross train station in London now has a sign for "Platform 9 3/4", as well as a luggage cart half-embedded in a brick wall at which tourists can take pictures.▼
** The Muggle world now has ''[[The Tales of Beedle the Bard]]'', ''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]'', and ''[[Quidditch Through the Ages]]''.▼
** In most of the DVD cases for the movies released in the US there's a small leaflet with merchandise you can buy, like replicas of the wands.▼
** "Muggle Quidditch" on college campuses. Even though the part of the Snitch has to be played by a small fast-running student in a yellow T-shirt. There's even a movement for it to [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101040925/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131144212 become an NCAA-sanctioned sport.] You can't make this up, folks.▼
** The life-size vibrating replica broomsticks. Not like those are likely to be [http://www.realitywired.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/potter-broom.jpg repurposed].▼
** A lot of Harry Potter products, like pumpkin juice and butterbeer, are getting their own official defictionalizations now with the opening of the Wizarding World parks around the world.▼
*** Butterbeer is also a popular choice of drink at Alamo Drafthouse theaters.▼
*** J.K. Rowling may have come up with the fictional recipe, but [[Older Than They Think|a real drink called butterbeer has been around for ages]].▼
** With the launch of Pottermore, you can now be officially sorted into a Hogwarts House by a questionnaire designed by JK Rowling herself.▼
** ''Spellcasting'' with an Ollivander wand has been defictionalized, at least to a limited degree in the Universal parks. Buy a special wand with an infrared reflector on its tip, and at certain locations in the parks, specific wand movements will trigger special effects.▼
* ''[[RoboCop]]'' - Omni Consumer Products is now a real company. Appropriately it specializes in creating defictionalized products:
** Via OCP you can buy the Tru Blood drink from the show ''[[True Blood]]''.
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* The band from ''[[The Commitments]]'' also toured as a real band.
* According to the [[IMDb]] trivia entry for ''[[Local Hero]]'', "After the movie came out, many people went in search of the village with the phone booth. Since it didn't exist, they were always disappointed. The village where the movie was filmed finally decided to put up a phone booth for the sake of the visitors."
* Wilson Sporting Goods still sells a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104102905/http://www.wilson.com/en-us/volleyball/balls/cast-away-volleyball/ volleyball just like the one in] ''[[Cast Away]]''.
* The ''[[Fight Club]]'' soap is an exact copy of the one used in the film, very popular.
** Exact; as in, even with the [[Human Resources|special ingredient]]?
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* ''[[Maximum Overdrive]]'': Residents in Wilmington, North Carolina, where the film was made, actually purchase the area where the Dixie Boy truck stop area to make a real one after many truckers mistook the set for a real truck stop.
== [[Literature]] ==
▲* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''
▲** "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans" was incarnated into the real world by the good if twisted folks at [http://www.jellybelly.com/ JellyBelly] as part of the promotional build-up to the [[Harry Potter (film)|film version]] of ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Philosopher's Stone''. It helped that they'd already made plenty of bizarre jelly bean flavors—all they had to do was make all the gross ones. A lot of the gross ones are actually discarded, legitimate if not failed attempts at making good flavors—the vomit flavouring, for instance, was originally ''meant'' to be pizza.
* A few things in ''[[Discworld]]'' had since been turned into actual products. These include the ''Where's My Cow?'' children's book, and various badges (City Watch, Guilds, [[Überwald]] Blood Donor Group...)▼
▲** Chocolate Frogs and Caramel Flies now exist as well, although the frogs are just Pop Rocks in a frog-shaped shell, which come with holographic trading cards.
** The stamps introduced in ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', and mentioned in later books. Which now exist, complete with sports, rare limited editions and a quarterly magazine for "flatalists".▼
▲** In another ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' reference, King's Cross train station in London now has a sign for "Platform 9 3/4", as well as a luggage cart half-embedded in a brick wall at which tourists can take pictures.
** Pterry mentioned an example himself in the Author's Note to ''Wintersmith'': a group of fans who danced the Dark Morris for him in Chicago.▼
▲** The Muggle world now has ''[[The Tales of Beedle the Bard]]'', ''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]'', and ''[[Quidditch Through the Ages]]''.
▲** In most of the DVD cases for the movies released in the US there's a small leaflet with merchandise you can buy, like replicas of the wands.
▲** "Muggle Quidditch" on college campuses. Even though the part of the Snitch has to be played by a small fast-running student in a yellow T-shirt. There's even a movement for it to [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101040925/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131144212 become an NCAA-sanctioned sport.] You can't make this up, folks.
▲** The life-size vibrating replica broomsticks. Not like those are likely to be [http://www.realitywired.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/potter-broom.jpg repurposed].
▲** A lot of Harry Potter products, like pumpkin juice and butterbeer,
▲*** Butterbeer is also a popular choice of drink at Alamo Drafthouse theaters.
▲*** [[J. K. Rowling]] may have come up with the fictional recipe, but [[Older Than They Think|a real drink called butterbeer has been around for ages]].
▲** With the launch of Pottermore, you can now be officially sorted into a Hogwarts House by a questionnaire designed by
▲** ''Spellcasting'' with an Ollivander wand has been defictionalized, at least to a limited degree in the Universal parks. Buy a special wand with an infrared reflector on its tip, and at certain locations in the parks, specific wand movements will trigger special effects.
▲* A few things in ''[[Discworld]]'' had since been turned into actual products. These include the ''[[Where's My Cow?]]'' children's book, and various badges (City Watch, Guilds, [[Überwald]] Blood Donor Group...)
▲** The stamps introduced in ''[[
▲** Pterry mentioned an example himself in the Author's Note to ''[[Wintersmith]]'': a group of fans who danced the Dark Morris for him in Chicago.
** The card game ''Cripple Mr. Onion'' has been turned into a playable game by fans. Several times over, in fact, because the rules seen in the books are vague enough to allow for a lot of interpretation.
** You can also buy ''Nanny Ogg's Cookbook''. Not entirely defictionalization, as this is not the same book as the one she wrote in ''[[Maskerade]]'', which was called ''The Joye of Snackes''.
** You can get the ''[[Thud!]]'' game. Thud was based on real life Tafl Games, although the rules ''were'' altered a bit. And the game appeared in real life first and ''then'' got added to the books.
* Around the time the movie adaptation of John Irving's novel ''A Widow For A Year'' came out, the children's book ''A Sound Like Trying Not to Make a Sound'' (featured in the novel and the movie) was published for real.
* A George Orwell essay describing the "Moon Under Water", his idea of a perfect British pub, inspired (at least in theory) the creation of the J.D. Wetherspoon chain. Many Wetherspoon's pubs are indeed called the Moon Under Water.
* One of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut's fictional author Kilgore Trout was ''Venus on the Half-Shell''. [[Philip Jose Farmer]] later wrote an actual novel title ''Venus on the Half-Shell'' that he published under the pseudonym Kilgore Trout.<ref>Some critics thought Kilgore was Vonnegut and the book a "worthy addition to his canon" pissing off Vonnegut no end, even though he had given permission to Farmer to use the name.</ref>
* In ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein|Robert Heinlein]], the [[Framing Story]] is that the main character, Lazarus Long, is reluctantly recounting his life story. The computer recording his recollections is instructed to select quotable portions and compile them into a book of his quotes. These are presented within the book in interlude sections. However, in 1978 and 1988 [[wikipedia:The Notebooks of Lazarus Long|actual books]] were published of only the quotes.
* Lovecraft: it's quite easy to obtain Miskatonic University attire. Go Cephalopods! The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has some very impressive reproductions of [https://web.archive.org/web/20141217085118/http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/store.lasso?1=product&2=33176 assorted] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140329175746/http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/store.lasso?1=product&2=32771 blasphemous] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150310063928/http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/store.lasso?1=product&2=45 idols], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140812021733/http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/store.lasso?1=product&2=32831 pages from the Necronomicon], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130722224808/http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/store.lasso?1=product&2=50 Professor Angell's Box], a very expensive, detailed and exhaustively complete copy of the box of documents and props from ''The Call of Cthulhu''.
** The Necronomicon is listed in the Ohio University Library card catalog. [[L. Sprague de Camp]], fantasy author and linguist, acted as Abdul Alhazred's "translator".
** Naturally, many book publishers have been inspired by Lovecraft's work to create and mass-market "real" versions of the Necronomicon. Some seem loyal to the source, like ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Necronomicon Simon Necrominon]'', others are more about [[Homage]] to the source. There's even [[Lovecraft Lite| a ''pop-up book'' version.]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20170712142543/http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/Necronomicon%20Pillow%20-%20Large.jpg No, really.]
* ''The Book of Counted Sorrows'' by [[Dean Koontz]].
* In [[Michael Chabon]]'s novel ''[[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
* The ''[[War Against the Chtorr]]'' series features the Mode Training, which is kind of self-help training on acid. Guess what? David Gerrold, the author, is building an ''actual'' Mode Training program. Oddly, one of the books has him set aside some pages to point out that Mode Training is fictional and he never wants to see anyone creating "Mode Training" and charging people money for it, because it was rather dangerous. Perhaps this meant ''other'' people.
* Several segments of the titular play of Robert W. Chambers' short story collection ''King in Yellow'' have been later written by other authors. Thom Ryng is the possibly the only one who has not only written the whole thing, but also had it actually played on stage. No reports of insanity have been made of the readers, but save for a few anachronisms in language and style, it's a very good and suitably bleak story of how [[You Can't Fight Fate]] in a world inhabited by [[Cosmic Horror]]s.
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* In 1912, the White Star Line inadvertently defictionalised the ''Titan'', an ocean-going vessel in ''Futility (or the Wreck of the Titan)'' by Morgan Robertson (1898), by naming a vessel ''Titanic''. {{spoiler|[[It Was His Sled|It was as doomed as its fictional namesake, which struck a 'berg in the North Atlantic.]]}}
== [[Live
* The sitcom ''[[Bob!]]'' was a show about Bob McKay, a man who created a Silver Age comic book character called "Mad Dog", which was revived and "reinvisioned" for the '90s. During the run of the show, [[Marvel Comics]] published [http://www.andymangels.com/maddog.html a double covered comic book called "Mad Dog"] that was one half the 50s version, and the other half the 90s, with things like an "Ask Bob McKay" feature in the middle.
* In 2004, the American [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] and Wal-Mart teamed up to produce ''Enchantment'', a perfume that previously had existed only as a product of Erica Kane's cosmetic company on ''[[All My Children]]''.
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***:And Virgin Galactic's first commercial spacecraft is named—what else? The ''VSS Enterprise''. Trek fans everywhere cried.
*** It will have a sibling ship called ''VSS [[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]''.
** In the mid 1990s you could go out and buy yourself a functional [https://web.archive.org/web/20130317125501/http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0996September/Sparky/tricorder.html tricorder]. There was a clause in Gene Roddenberry's contract that anyone who could make a working Tricorder was allowed to call it that; a now defunct Canadian company produced the "TR-107 Tricorder Mark I." It was about the size of a huge novelty universal remote, was done up to look like a TNG tricorder and loaded with the appropriate sound effects, and could detect EM fields, barometric pressure, temperature, light values and colour values.
*** An Android smartphone developer known as [http://code.google.com/p/moonblink/wiki/Tricorder moonblink] made a Tricorder app which used the phone's built-in GPS, microphone, wifi, and other functionality to actually scan for and detect magnetic fields, sound levels, and so on. All was well and fans had defictionalized tricorders, until [https://web.archive.org/web/20121005191955/http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/cbs-demands-removal-of-moonblinks-android-tricorder-app-2011097/ CBS made them take the app down].
*** Real tricorders are being [https://web.archive.org/web/20130614085818/http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/03/this-is-a-real.php developed again.]
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** Pretty much every website that the show mentions has been set up before airing by the showrunners.
** Robin's music videos from her "Robin Sparkles" Canadian teen idol days were only seen in excerpts in the show, but are available in full online (and are awesomely bad) at Robin Sparkle's [[Myspace]] [http://www.myspace.com/robinsparkles page].
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20200905043540/http://www.tedmosbyisajerk.com/ Ted Mosby is a Jerk!], which includes a 22-minute song about how horrible Ted (actually, Barney using his name) was to the woman who made the webpage.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20190330041801/http://www.barneysvideoresume.com/ Barney Stinson's Video Resume] (sponsored by Barney's fictional employer Goliath National Bank), which is available in both "awesome" and "not-as-awesome" resolutions. They're not wrong. It's awesome!
** https://web.archive.org/web/20100306180240/http://www.guyforceshiswifetodressinagarbagebagforthenextthreeyears.com/, which is basically [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. Along with being one of the longest of [[Long Title|Long URLs]].
** [http://www.lilyandmarshallselltheirstuff.com Lily And Marshall Sell Their Stuff] was a real-life charity auction of ''How I Met Your Mother'' swag. Sadly now defunct.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20210609030712/http://canadiansexacts.org/ CanadianSexActs.Org], which includes every single act mentioned in the show, complete with an age verification system, bilingual warnings from the Canadian government about content, and a disclaimer regarding "any possible physical or emotional trauma suffered as a result of undertaking any of the acts described". The links for each act are hilarious. {{spoiler|Every link is to a different picture of Alan Thicke (of ''Growing Pains'') captioned with a variety of "sorry, we're experiencing technical difficulties" explanations in exaggerated Canadian English}}
** There was a [http://slapcountdown.org Slap Countdown] too, counting down to the Slapsgiving episode, but honestly it was just a timer so it was pretty boring.
*** As of right now it is counting down again, at just over 299 days.
** And now there's [https://web.archive.org/web/20100209090541/http://www.itwasthebestnightever.com/ itwasthebestnightever.com], which is ''hilarious''. Basically if you hear them mention a ridiculous website in-show, it's probably already been Defictionalized.
* ''[[Lost]]'' has had a few examples.
** The novel ''Bad Twin'' is supposedly written by a passenger in the plane crash which occurred in the pilot episode. Remember the guy who got sucked into the airplane engine before it blew up? That's supposed to be him.
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* An episode of ''[[L.A. Law]]'' introduced the world to a sexual technique called "The Venus Butterfly", which Stuart uses to great effect on his wife, Ann. Or [[Informed Ability|at least that's what we're told, afterward]]. Not only is the act or actions never described or shown on screen, the writers made the whole thing up. Despite this, the show's writers were flooded with requests to describe the technique. Dr. Sue Johnson finally officially put moves to the name in a 2005 book. (Google it, if you must know what it entails).
* ''[[UFO]]''. Funds were raised for "The Explorer Motor Company'' to produce a real-life version of the [[Cool Car|futuristic, gull-winged car]] driven by Commander Straker in this British sci-fi series. A plastic mold of the vehicle was made (to be called "Quest"), but the company never got off the ground.
* [[Battlestar Galactica|Frak]]. (The set designers gave Adama an actual [https://web.archive.org/web/20090721054232/http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/38006200 FRÄCK] to use for shaving.)
* ''[[Conan O'Brien|Late Night With Conan O'Brien]]'': In an example of a [[Justified Trope]], one of Conan's skits at one point featured a guy watching a "webcam manatee". Riffing a bit at the end, he joked that the man was at https://web.archive.org/web/20100123143737/http://www.hornymanatee.com/, unaware that he had just forced NBC to buy that domain name (to avoid some random person buying the site and putting on offensive material). Making the most of things, Conan's staff decided to actually put content on the webpage, and made it into an example of [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. Since Conan got [[Screwed by the Network]], the URL now redirects to NBC.com.
* You can now buy ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'' inspired scrubs in hospital uniform stores. They're ridiculously soft, too.
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* Satirised in an episode of ''[[The Daily Show]]''. John Oliver announced that scientists were working on [[Iron Man]] armor and using genetics to turn lizards into dragons.
** There ''are'' companies making powered exoskeletons in real life. The two leading models are Raytheon Sarcos' XOS, which deliberately played up the ''[[Iron Man]]'' connection by holding a press conference about the XOS-2 on the day ''Iron Man 2'' was released to DVD, with a member of the movie's cast present, and Lockheed Martin's HULC. So far, they have been made with intent of aiding with heavy lifting, not direct combat, and cannot fly.
* The ''[[Bones]]'' episode "The Gamer in the Grease" had the fictional retro arcade game ''Punky Pong'', which [https://web.archive.org/web/20100305194508/http://www.fox.com/bones/features/game/ actually exists] on Fox's website.
* "I have my own Amanda website you know, [https://web.archive.org/web/20081121095841/http://www.amandaplease.com/ www dot amanda please dot com]"
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''
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** In a reverse-defictionalization, the TARDIS key props used in the 1996 [[Doctor Who]] TV Movie were licensed replicas of the classic series' TARDIS key in production at the time, which the production team bought from an American scifi memorabilia catalog.
** Similarly, after the first series of ''[[Doctor Who|NuWho]]'', a replica/toy Sonic Screwdriver was created. Slightly larger than the one in the show, and thus slightly more robust in use, it caught the attention of the prop department at the BBC. They requested that the toy company give them the molds for the toy; from the second series all the way through the first episode of the fifth, the toy you could buy was identical to the one on the screen because it ''was'' the one on the screen.
** There was an [https://web.archive.org/web/20140908154013/http://www.petitiononline.com/Drwh2012/petition.html online petition] to let David Tennant carry the Olympic torch as he did in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S28/E11 Fear Her|Fear Her]]". This partially became true, with [[The Nth Doctor|Tennant's successor]], [[Matt Smith]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20121204175147/http://www.metro.co.uk/olympics/900154-matt-smith-set-to-carry-olympic-torch-in-echo-of-doctor-who-plot carrying the torch].
** In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E10 Blink|Blink]]", a character mentions having a T-shirt that says "The Angels have the phone box". Online retailers such as [[Think Geek]], Zazzle, and [[Cafe Press]] soon began selling versions of the T-shirt.
* There are not one, but two pubs in Boston based on the bar from ''[[Cheers]]'', both in Faneuil Hall. This is in addition to The Bull & Finch Pub, the real Boston pub that Cheers was based on.
* In 2003, ''Chapelle's Show'' had a sketch that parodied the Discovery Channel show ''[[Trading Spaces]]''. The sketch was called "[https://web.archive.org/web/20111013174405/http://www.metacafe.com/watch/329599/dave_chapelle_trading_spouses/ Trading Spouses]" and it was about two families, one white, one black, who appear on a reality TV show in which they exchange husbands for a month. (Both husbands were played by Dave Chapelle.) Three years later, by what they insist is pure coincidence, Fox Network released ''an actual show'' called ''Trading Spouses'' with basically the same premise, except that the wives switch instead of husbands.
* [[Bland-Name Product|"Mocny Full"]] beer from the Polish sitcom ''Swiat Wedlug Kiepskich'' was at one point defictionalized but it was discontinued due to copyright infringement—the company had no rights for the mark and its logo.
* The producers of ''[[Fringe]]'' defictionalized the 70's psychedelic rock album Seven Suns by Violet Sedan Chair (an anagram of {{spoiler|Olive Can Read This}}) that appears in an episode of season 3. The producers went to great effort to make the defictionalization authentic by releasing the album only in the form of beat-up LPs in the bargain bins of used record shops. More info at [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110121243/http://www.fringebloggers.com/fringe-violet-sedan-chair-seven-suns-album-unearthed/ Fringe Bloggers].
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** People have also come up with recipes for Charlie's favorite foods, the Grilled Charlie and milk steak.
** Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with [http://dicktowel.com/ Dicktowel.com]. Very [[NSFW]].
* There are a surprising number of ''[[Degrassi]]'' related items for sale for fans. Most notably, you can [https://web.archive.org/web/20140913100510/http://www.bruzer.com/degrassi/index.php?option=com_shop&sf=2&task=viewItem&id=37 buy the t-shirt worn by employees] at [[Local Hangout|The Dot]]. Other items can be seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20131020095532/http://www.bruzer.com/degrassi/ here] (some of which are unfortunately out of stock now)
* The quirky American ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry's has made [[Saturday Night Live]]'s infamous Schweddy Balls into a flavor. (They're rum balls, if you need to know.)
* Allegedly, during the run of the original ''[[Knight Rider]]'', Pontiac was deluged with requests for a Knight Rider edition Trans Am. Potential liability kept it from happening officially, but to this day there's a decent market for conversion parts of varying fidelity to the show to make KITT replicas. Some people have even worked to integrate various computer AI/bots into them, though naturally none is anywhere close to what was seen on the show.
* For the the long running comedy ''[[The Office]]'' novelty items branded with the name and logo of fictional paper company ''Dunder Mifflin'' have been available for years, however in 2011 Staples announced it would begin to sell actual Dunder Mifflin branded paper products in its stores
** Also, Replicas of Michael's iconic "World's best boss" mug are sold by NBC as official merchandise.
** Dwight Schrute's bobble head figure of himself can be bought as well as bobble heads of the whole main cast.
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* In the 2015 series ''Servant of the People'' Volodymyr Zelensky played a man who became President of the Ukraine in a freak victory resulting from a rant on political corruption. In the 2019 election, Volodymyr Zelensky ran for President of the Ukraine for real as a joke, creating a political party named after the show and using its logo in the process. In a freak victory he won with over 70% of the vote as a result of frustration with current political corruption.
* In 2018, [[HGTV]] bought the house which was used for exterior [[Stock Footage]] of the Brady home in ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', and a team of their designers completely replicated the interior sets from the show within it as a fully working house.
* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' exists as a local street in a few communities. "WCFE Mountain Lake PBS, 1 Sesame Street, Plattsburgh NY 12901" is a real address, as is "WCVE Community Idea Station, 23 Sesame Street, Richmond VA 23236". There was also one block of a longer New York City street which was renamed to Sesame Street because it served a museum which covered the show.
* ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' exists as a real island in a few places, including [[Puerto Rico]]
* While ''[[The Beachcombers]]'' was shot in and around the real town of Gibsons, B.C,, the restaurant "Molly's Reach" wasn't a real restaurant - the show's producers had just put the shop sign onto the building where they stored props, in order to be able to get some exterior shots. After the show ended, the building was turned into an actual restaurant called "Molly's Reach".
* ''[[The Partridge Family]]'' was created as a TV show ''and'' a popular band at the same time, but there's very little overlap between the cast of the two - just two people appear in both<ref>David Cassidy and Shirley Jones</ref>, leaving the concept that the TV cast are the popular musicians fictional. (The show began as a vehicle for real-life family band [[w:The Cowsills|The Cowsills]], but when it turned out none of them could act and only the youngest daughter had any screen presence, the concept was retooled for a fictional family band.)
== [[Music]] ==
* Toad the Wet Sprocket, originally mentioned in a "Rock Notes" segment on a [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Monty Python]] album.
* In a similar manner, Heaven 17 are one of the fictional bands mentioned in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. A real band of the same name would form in 1980.
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* ''[[Hannah Montana]]''—Hannah was a pretty creepy example. Disney sometimes double-billed the character and the actress in the same albums and concerts, as though they were two different people. Not so much now since [[Miley Cyrus]] has broken so thoroughly with her Disney roots.
* Other fake Disney bands have also become real. [[The Cheetah Girls]] became a real band after debuting in a Disney Channel Original Movie(which was based on a book) -- which, conversely, led to the need to phase Raven Symone's character from the first movie out of the third movie since she wasn't a part of the group outside of the movie world and due to disagreements with the rest of the cast. Although, in reality, you could just call them 3LW-2.
* [[The Monkees]] for all intents and purposes, ''was'' a real band -- especially after they rebelled against the studio when it kept them from actually doing anything but laying down vocal tracks.
* [[Spinal Tap]].
* [[The Rutles]] finally stepped completely out of fictional territory with the release of their CD ''[[wikipedia:The Rutles Archaeology|Archaeology]]'' in 1996 ([[Blatant Lies|purely by coincidence]] paralleling the release of the Beatles' ''Anthology''). While there had been earlier Rutles releases, none of them purported to be a "genuine" Rutles album; instead they were soundtracks. There's even a Beatles tribute band who do occassional Rutle shows.
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* [[Prince's Associates|Apollonia 6's]] album was released about two months after the group's appearance in the [[Purple Rain]] film.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==▼
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
* The "Lisa's Legacy" breast cancer walk featured in ''[[Funky Winkerbean]]'' has become [http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2009/10/post_6.html a real event].
* One ''[[FoxTrot]]'' strip has Jason [https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0815/7955/products/8x10-doomulusprime_1024x1024.png?v=1462462796 finding a superpowered mace] by the name of "[[Doomy Dooms of Doom|Doomulus Prime]]" while playing "World of Warquest". Blizzard [http://www.wowhead.com/item=22348 put it in the game.]
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** A Sadie Hawkins Day dance was actually a plot point in one episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==▼
▲== Professional Wrestling ==
* The original character Suicide, originally designed for the ''[[TNA Impact]]'' video game, started appearing at real life events in late 2008.
* Similarly, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, who played Zeus in ''No Holds Barred'', would continue to play the character into a short-lived [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]] career.
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* Arguably, the whole concept of [[Kayfabe]].
== [[Radio]] ==▼
▲== Radio ==
* [[wikipedia:Band Waggon|Band Waggon]], a BBC Radio comedy from the 1930s, featured a fictional cleaning product called Askitoff (slogan: Askitoff Will Take It Off), named after the star, Arthur Askey. Askey was prohibited from taking advantage of this new brand name by his BBC contract, but this didn't stop an [https://web.archive.org/web/20130827062453/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760943,00.html unofficial product] reaching the marketplace within weeks.
* [[wikipedia:Radio Norwich|Radio Norwich]] used to be a spoof radio station which employed [[I'm Alan Partridge|Alan Partridge]]. In 2006, a real commercial station named 99.9 Radio Norwich was launched (and still exists as of 2012).
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* ''The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer'', an [[Fictional Document|ever-so-helpful handbook]] given to members of the [[Redshirt Army|Imperial]] [[Badass Normal|Guard]] in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', is actually available for purchase. It's filled with the amount of propaganda, disinformation, and blatant lies that you'd expect for the setting ("while sneaking up on the enemy, recite the [[With Catlike Tread|Litany of Stealth]] to reduce your chances of being heard"). Also the lengthy "Blessing of the Bomb", to be recited after pulling the pin of a grenade but before throwing it to ensure accuracy.
* [[White Wolf]] has produced a few published versions of [[Fictional Document]]s (''Chronicles of the Black Labyrinth'' for ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'', ''Rites of the Dragon'' for ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]''), game symbols (clan pins for ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', tribal glyph necklaces for ''Werewolf'', and clan and covenant pins for ''Requiem''), and even Tarot decks (one for ''[[Mage: The Ascension|Ascension]]'', and one for ''[[Mage: The Awakening|Awakening]]'') for its Worlds of Darkness. The darker materials above and many others were released under the label "Black Dog," White Wolf's in-universe analogue of themselves in [[Old World of Darkness]] (a subsidiary of Pentex, of course—so they naturally produce role-playing games that actually have the effects on children that [[Jack Chick]] warns of).
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** ''Dawg'', the Xenofiction RPG invented by B.A. of ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'', has also been published in real life.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Anatevka is a small [[Judaism|Jewish]] community in modern-day [[Ukraine]]. The name originated with ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]''; the defictionalised Anatevka Jewish Refugee Community is in Kyiv Oblast, just far enough west to be outside Kyiv's city limits. (Ten miles further north are Irpin and Bucha, two of the civilian settlements heavily damaged by [[Russia]]n warfare during Putin's 2022 invasion.)
== [[Toys]] ==
* In 1968, [[Hot Wheels]] came up with their first original car design, the [http://hotwheels.wikia.com/wiki/Twin_Mill Twin Mill], which became available one year later. 33 years later, [http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2002-01/1400-horsepower-hot-wheels-car a life-sized Twin Mill was built]. And not only a mere prop, but a fully driveable automobile, actually propelled by that [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|pair of supercharged 502cui Chevy Big Blocks with something between 700 and 900bhp each]].
* One couple converted their van into a life-size [[Transformers|transforming robot]].
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* The special Edition version of ''[[Fallout|Fallout 3]]'' came in a lunchbox designed like the one in the game (An item that in-game is used to build land mines), and came packaged with 1 limited edition bobblehead, which can be collected in meatspace as well as in the game world.
** Another special edition came with a pip-boy alarm clock that could actually be worn. (for those wishing to emulate the Vault Dweller)
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* [[Gears of War|Chainsaw bayonets]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ljd_hUxCfI as seen here].
== [[Web Animation]] ==▼
▲== Web Animation ==
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]''
** [[Fake Band]] Limozeen held a live performance. It included a guest appearance by Schenkel McDoo, the fictional lead singer of Taranchula, another [[Fake Band]] in the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' universe.
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* Genki Rockets, the virtual in-house band of Q Entertainment (''[[Rez]]'', ''[[Child of Eden]]'', ''[[Lumines]]'', etc.), have two real albums.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* A good half of the products in the ''[[Megatokyo]]'' store were actually items worn by the characters in the comic. Piro comments in the first ''Megatokyo'' book how no one was really sure what Largo's "cool thing" purchase was. Dom comments "When we do, it'll be on our online store in less than two weeks. God bless America."
* ''[[Achewood]]'' has two short stories "written" by character Nice Pete, as well as six issues of Roast Beef's 'zine and greeting cards (from [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04242008 this] storyline) in the shop. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102014807/http://phoneballs.com/ Phoneballs] exist now, though they seem to have been created independently of the ''Achewood'' strips.
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* [http://nonadventures.com/2010/05/01/the-queerest-of-the-mirror/ This strip] of ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]'' features Hitlerella relaxing with a blanket adorned with swastikas. The [[Alt Text]] reads "If anyone actually creates a blanket like this, do me a favor and never ever tell me."
* The ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' website has a store where you can buy, among other things, the distinctive shirts worn by the four kids in the latest series, ''[[Homestuck]]''. The fans have also been working on coding some of the fictional computer programs shown in the adventure, most notably the PesterChum instant messaging service, now availalble [https://web.archive.org/web/20130703091052/http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?37333-PESTERCHUM-3.14-Brand-new-Pesterchum!-From-scratch! here].
** Additionally, the [[Show Within a Show]] ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'' has a real webpage, which is shown just as it looks in the comic and even has a redirect from [http://www.sweetbroandhellajeff.com sweetbroandhellajeff.com]. Sadly, Sweet Bro's Hella Blog is an aversion, as it consists entirely of a page saying [[Blatant Lies|"No, no one registered this account name."]]
** [[Homestuck]]'s crafty [[Deviant ART]] fandom are responsible for a few migrations to reality; among them the puppet Lil' Cal, plush Squiddles, and the Warhammer of Zillyhoo.
* In ''[[Lackadaisy]]'', access to the titular speakeasy is granted by showing a club-shaped pin, which was made available in their online store alongside their comics and prints.
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* ''[[Wondermark]]'' has [https://www.patreon.com/posts/archive-dive-3-15537111 these] scenes. Including "ninjas on unicycles".
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The online store [http://www.thinkgeek.com/ ThinkGeek] lists [http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/ fake products on April Fool's day] that are intended to be obviously something that couldn't exist in real life, but sometimes they're just so plausible, that they have to give into fan demand and make them real. The [http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/hats-ties/9352/ 8-bit Tie], [https://web.archive.org/web/20100105205353/http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/98ab/ the Grow Your Own 1-Up Mushroom kit] (although not as literally as the original product was described, and no longer on the site) and [http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/bb2e/ the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag] are examples of this.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180804023121/http://powerthirst.ca/ Powerthirst] is now real, as well.
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* A [[Creepypasta]] story called [[Pokémon]] Lost Silver led to a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKnCBwsa-bU homemade Pokemon game] based on the experiences of the story [https://web.archive.org/web/20120312091847/http://64digits.com/users/reidd/pokemon_lost_silver.zip (download).]
* [https://twitter.com/#!/petermolydeux @petermolydeux], a twitter feed that posted absurd [[High Concept]] fictional games to poke fun at Peter Molyneux; later, a gamejam, [https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23molyjam2012 molyjam] was set up to make actual games based on those ideas.
* In 1998, ''[[The Onion]]'' ran a story titled "[https://www.theonion.com/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroes-1819564663 Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes]". In 2022, [https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/25/google_drive_copyright_infringement/ Google claimed copyright over "1" and "0"].
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' - Dethklok released an album in 2006 ''The Dethalbum'', which according to Billboard is the ''biggest selling death metal album of all time'' and followed it with a brief tour as opening act for the indie rock band And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, and later a headlining tour in 2008.
* ''[[Futurama]]'' - In the show Slurm is the heavenly tasting soft drink made from "alien behind". It is now available in some comic book stores. It's just relabelled Red Bull though.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
** A few weeks before ''[[
** Duff Beer is now a Mexican [https://web.archive.org/web/20131207165534/http://www.duffdemexico.com/ beer brand.] Matt Groening does not want an alcoholic product to be licensed because he is worried kids would want to drink it. Officially the nearest thing is a Duff branded [http://www.xoxide.com/simpsons-duff-energy-drink.html?productid=simpsons-duff-energy-drink&channelid=FROOG energy drink].
*** Duff brand beer was sold in Australia in the mid 1990s. Though the cans bore no resemblance to the ones on [[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]], the homage was obvious, and the beer was pulled from sale at the insistence of Twentieth Century Fox. Cans now turn up on Ebay for sizeable amounts.
*** You can actually buy Duff beer in Italy, right near the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It may or may not be bootlegged.
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** [[wikipedia:Products produced from The Simpsons#Tomacco|Behold the Tomacco.]] The first defictionalized ''lifeform''.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100115053034/http://www.thesimpsons.com/badgers/index.htm What Badgers Eat] was, at one point, an actual minisite on the ''Simpsons'' website (the link goes to an archived version).
** [http://www.ranker.com/list/13-simpsons-jokes-that-actually-came-true/robert-wabash This article] has a few examples.{{context}}
* Now you too can be strong to the finish with [https://web.archive.org/web/20120501084600/http://www.popeyespinach.com/products/prd_popeye.php Popeye's brand spinach]. At least it doesn't come with taurine in it.
* Real versions of Cheesy Poofs and Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls appeared early in the flood of ''[[South Park]]'' merchandise.
** I love cheesy poofs, You love cheesy poofs. If we didn't eat cheesy poofs, We'd be...[https://web.archive.org/web/20131029110309/http://www.incrediblethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/south-park-cheesy-poofs.jpg Lame].
** And now{{when}} Cheesy Poofs are coming back for a bit at Comic Con and Walmart.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' - Burger King released a Krabby Patty, only with beef patties instead of [http://spongebob.wikia.com/wiki/Krabby_Patty imitation crabmeat] patties.
** A restaurant chain in Palestine called Salta Burger [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0gDJFAzTQTU tried this too], and seemed to have put far more attention to detail in the recreation. Unfortunately, it was unauthorized, and having alcohol on the menu likely didn't help their case when [[Nickelodeon]]'s legal team found out.
* One of the places you can eat at Disney World's Disney Hollywood Studios is Pizza Planet from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''.
* [[Scooby
* In a strange sort of semi-example, the ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' version of Soundwave is essentially a Scion xB with [[Serial Numbers Filed Off]]—more streamlined and slightly more futurey. The Scion xB was recently redesigned... ''and it looks like Soundwave.''
* Goodwood's ''Junior Festival of Speed'' has defictionalized all eleven vehicles from ''[[Wacky Races]]'' into "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100324111130/http://www.goodwood.co.uk/site/content/festivalofspeed/The-Action_Junior-Festival-of-Speed.aspx full-size working cars]".
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* And let's not forget Pai Sho! The game of strategy in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]],'' [http://paisho.pbworks.com/ now with fan made rules.]
* A ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' arcade machine was released about a year or two after the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Guitar Queer-o" aired. Cartman played [[Lady Gaga|Poker Face]] on [[Rock Band]] which wasn't actually available until later. You can tell this defictionalization was a response to the scene in question since there is also a Cartman version.
* There are now official ''[[Adventure Time]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20141016123655/http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/PopCulture/AdventureTimeWithFinnAndJakeAlgebraic/Adventure-Time-Finn-White-Awesome-Hat-199262.jsp Finn hats]
* Mooslyvania from ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' nearly became the name of a small state next to Minnesota. The "Mooslvania for Statehood" campaign was cut short when the petition reached the White House just as the Cuban Missile Crisis was unfolding.
* The house from ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130728214820/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home2/52141049-183/bangerter-disney-movie-parade.html.csp has been recreated at full scale in Herriman, Utah]. Disney approved of the house, and it was put on the market for sale to buyers.
* In August 2010, a number of Disney Stores across America held events where kids could make their own Perry the Platypus Inaction Figure, like the ones from the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Toy to the World".
* The ''[[My Little Pony:
** The fans even go so far as to try out various recipes on the show, which range from the [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/baked-bads-recipe-step-by-step-images.html baked bads] from Applebuck Season, to the surprisingly appetizing [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/01/chimicherrychonga-compilation.html Chimmicherrychongas] from The Last Roundup.
* [http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Charlie-Brown-Christmas-Tree/dp/B001DW00K4 Charlie Brown Christmas trees] (not to be confused with [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]], which existed before the animated special).
* Zoe Dowdell, a 20 year old rapper, who took the name "Gangstalicious" from a fictional rapper in ''[[The Boondocks]]'' was shot and killed by police in 2017 after he attempted to run them over. ''Why'' he thought naming himself after a characters whose defining traits were [[Armored Closet Gay|being a closeted homosexual]] and [[All Part of the Show|having no one call an ambulance for him when he was shot because they thought it was part of an act]] is unclear.
== [[Other Media]] ==
* [http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/02/round2/04/Puzzle.html This puzzle] was written seven years before [http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/09/puzzles/The_Board_Game/ one of the board games it involves].
* [[wikipedia:Agloe, New York|Agloe, New York]] started out as a copyright trap by a mapmaking company. Later, someone opened an Agloe General Store at the indicated location.
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