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** A lot of Harry Potter products, like pumpkin juice and butterbeer, got their own official defictionalizations 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
** ''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.
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