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Compare [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]].

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* The anime series ''[[Brigadoon Marin and Melan]]'' has the same name as the play in the title and a world sort of similar to it. It also has [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|robot gunsword-slingers from another dimension]].

* The second ''[[Read or Die]]'' manga (''Read or Dream'') featured a ghost library that appeared to the living once every ten years. Of course, you could visit it all you liked after you were dead, as long as you brought your books back on time.

== Comic Books ==

* One of these makes an appearance in ''[[Black Moon Chronicles]]''. Demons use the protagonists' unwitting stay there to stuff main character Wismerhill's [[Shallow Love Interest|first]] [[Disposable Woman|girlfriend]] [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|into the fridge]].

* Pleasant Valley, in Herschell Gordon Lewis' "B" horror film ''[[Two Thousand Maniacs!]]''

== Literature ==

* ''[[Forever After]]'', an anthology with [[Roger Zelazny]]'s name on front, features an assassin on a quest to {{spoiler|take a magical artifact back to it's resting place, after the Big Bad has been defeated.}} This city comes and goes, and no one is sure if he'll make it out.

* In the [[Secrets of Droon]] book ''City In The Clouds'', the floating city of Ro only appears once in hundreds of years, and the heroes (and the villains) are in serious danger of getting stranded there.

* In the ''Deverry'' series by Kathrine Kerr, the dwarven island of Haen Marn teleports away when its inhabitants are threatened, disappearing for years at a time until ithe island deems it safe to return

* The [[Humanx Commonwealth]] novels apply this trope to an entire ''planet'', Quofum.

* ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'': The planet Meridian appears only once every 60 years.

* ''[[Farscape]]'' has an episode with a group of planets at the centre of a time anomaly where time passes much faster than in the wider universe and which only become accessible for an hour or so every fifty-five years. It is suggested that since the spaceship Moya is part-way into the anomaly, it may be experiencing a milder but still serious level of time displacement.

** Though this is only because of a [[Phlebotinum Breakdown|malfunction]] with the device they use to go from world to world. If it worked right, they'd be able to come and go as they please.

* ''[[Exalted]]'' has a spell specifically to produce the Brigadoon effect.

* In the ''[[GURPS]]'' ''Infinite Worlds'' sourcebook, places like Brigadoon are referred to as 'shiftrealms', and range from the archetypal 'town from the mists' to a subway car that always knows where its passengers need to go.

== Video Games ==

* The city of Dawn in ''[[Ultima III]]''. "Dawn lasts for but a brief moment."

** Minus the "must escape or be trapped" part... the city's got a ''really'' favorable timeflow differential.

== Western Animation ==

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