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{{quote|''"I actually recognize this wall. It's been redressed a number of times, most recently for a scene in the ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]'' series finale "These are the Voyages...", but it's also been used as a backdrop on a Son'a ship in ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection|Insurrection]]''... This wall, I think, deserves an Emmy for withstanding so much crap."''|''[[The Agony Booth]]'' [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Star_Trek/Deep_Space_Nine/Let_He_Who_Is_Without_Sin___.aspx?Page=5 recap] of "[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Let He Who is Without Sin...]]"}}
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** ... are used as walkie-talkies by the alien security guards in ''[[They Live!]]'' .
** And ''[[Suburban Commando]]'' uses it as a tracking device.
** And so does an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]''. Yes, an ''animated series'' used
* In ''[[Mulholland Drive]]'', when Betty Elms arrives at the movie studio for her audition, the car from ''[[Sunset Boulevard]]'' is parked at the entrance.
* Steve Martin's dentist instruments from ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' were reused as surgical instruments for the Joker in Tim Burton's ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]''.
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== Literature ==
* Frank Herbert has been known to reuse elements in his works. Chairdogs, which orignally appears in [[Con Sentiency|Whipping Star]], are seen in ''Heretics of Dune''. Inversely, the Galach language from [[Dune]] is reused in the [[Con Sentiency]] stories.
* Keith Laumer reused his [[Bolo
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== Theme Parks ==
* [[Universal]] Studios Hollywood was built on this
* [[Disney Theme Parks]]
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* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''
** In ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'', a sprite of the (broken) [[Tokyo Tower]] used on a ''[[GaoGaiGar|Gao Gai Gar]]'' chapter is later re-used as a (broken) [[Eiffel Tower]] for a ''[[Mazinkaiser]]'' one. Except ''the Eiffel Tower isn't red''.
** ''W'' in general reused a lot of sprites from series' it shared with ''
* In the ''[[Mass Effect 2]]: Arrival'' DLC, the animation and prop seen when Dr. Amanda Kenson breaks out of her restraints after being rescued by Shepard uses the same motions (she uses both hands to rip the neck collar off, and grimaces while doing so, before staggering to her feet) as Jack does during her recruitment mission in the same game.
* Some of the objects and scenery in the game ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'' were actually taken from the games ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''.
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