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* A commercial for the [[Syfy]] featured a car folding into a briefcase. May be a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Jetsons]]'' (see [[Western Animation]] entry below).
* [[The Flash]]'s entire costume is stored inside his ring.
* ''[[Iznogoud]]'' features an example of this. In "Iznogoud's Nightmarish Birthday", he opens a very small box and extracts a small piece of paper and proceeds to unfold it (it's so small that he needs a magnifying glass to start to unfold it). When completely unfold, the paper is several metres large. Of course, the box had been given to him by the guild of mages...
* At one point in the original comic-book version of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'', the Tick and Arthur take a road trip; the Tick insists that he knows how to fold up their (standard US-style) road map, but every time he tries, he produces an even larger wad of paper, until he's filled up the entire backseat of the car with it.
* In ''[[Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'', when Dalthazar gives Dave the book, Dave unfolds it from tinyness.
* In ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'', the allspark cube-thing goes from the size of a house to the size of a basketball.
* In ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', Homer has a small billboard-sized poster of Alaska folded up to the size of a business card.
* One Norse god can fold up a ship and stick it into his pocket.
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[Glory Road (novel)|Glory Road]]''. The foldbox which carries all of the team's equipment.
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* Planetron, star of two children's books about the solar system and the galaxy, unfolds from the size of a toy robot to a fully functional spaceship, and back.
* ''[[Paranoia]]'' adventure The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues, Mission 4. In order to enter Troubleshooter Headquarters the [[PC
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' module I12 "Egg of the Phoenix". The title egg is an homage to the foldbox in the ''[[Glory Road]]'' entry in the [[Literature]] section. It can be opened up multiple times, each time becoming larger.
** There is also a folding boat.
* The ''[[Pokémon]]'' games feature a bike that can be folded up small enough to fit into a backpack, although this may just be an example of [[Bag of Holding]].
* Manny Calavera of ''[[Grim Fandango]]'' can fold up his huge [[Sinister Scythe]] to fit in his coat pocket.
* [[The Jetsons|George Jetson's]] car could fold up into a briefcase, which he can easily carry into his workplace in the show's intro.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' loves using this.
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* On ''[[How to Hook Up Your Home Theater]]'', [[Goofy]] opens the "easy" instrctions for the home theater. Unfolded, they cover most of the room.
* The current world record for folding a piece of paper in half is 12 times. That's about 4,096 layers (2^12).
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