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Poll of the Day~ What's your favorite fictional place?

Started by vae_editor, June 20, 2009, 03:09:27 PM

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Violet Rose

#25
June 21, 2009, 09:43:11 AM
221B Baker Street - and yes it is fictional because that house never existed
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#26
June 21, 2009, 10:24:18 AM
Quote from: JosephR on June 20, 2009, 05:51:22 PM
Quote from: Acadian Angel on June 20, 2009, 05:25:13 PM
Tir na Nog

He said fictional.  ;)
*Grin.*
Quote from: E.A. Claringbold on June 21, 2009, 01:19:59 AM
Quote from: Dasai on June 20, 2009, 09:03:28 PM
The City from Transmetropolitan.

...what, the foglets are interesting.

Yes. That city. I just want one of those  Makers that aren't high off of the stuff for machines...
Perhaps the otherworld across/over the wall in Neil Gaiman's Stardust.
This town has done us dirty
This town has bled us dry
Weve been here for a long time
And well be here til we die
So we'll finish off the leavings
Of blood and glue and beer
And burn this bloody city down
In the summer of the year

Going transmetropolitan
From arlington house with a 2 bob bit
To the scottish shores today
Going transmetropolitan
Well drink the rats piss, kick the shite
And Im not going home tonight
Well I've worked among the spitters and I've breathed the oily smoke
I've shovelled up the gypsum and it neigh 'on makes you choke
I've stood knee deep cyanide, got sick with a caustic burn
Been working rough, I've seen enough, to make your stomach turn

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neon_suntan

#27
June 21, 2009, 10:40:30 AM

The weird dreamy alternate timeline L.A. from Wild Palms

The world from Laputa/Castle in the Sky

The world of Last Exile

and yes Mr Godfrey.. the Culture is also very cool *checks for Iln*

Magister

#28
June 23, 2009, 06:20:58 AM
The city of D'ni.

LostHorizons

#29
June 23, 2009, 03:17:03 PM
I'm torn between Halloween Town (The Nightmare Before Christmas), New Crobuzon (Perdido Street Station), London Below (Neverwhere), the dream world in MirrorMask, and my personal happy-place.
Ours was a city of lost horizons and towering stories... A city of front and back, a city of light and shadow.

-MirrorMask

WickedPenguin

#30
June 23, 2009, 03:31:39 PM
Quote from: neon_suntan on June 21, 2009, 10:40:30 AMThe world of Last Exile

God yes. I'd love a vanship in my garage. I wonder what the price per barrel is on Claudia fluid these days.

Aside from that...

The Japan from the Ghost in the Shell universe, so I can hang a warning sign on my fence that says "Beware of Tachikoma".

Grumfoss

#31
June 23, 2009, 03:44:59 PM
I would love to Visit the Dreaming City Imrryr out of the Elric novels

The Abiliegh

#32
June 23, 2009, 03:58:22 PM
Seiously, folks. There are some awesome places lacking here.

Earthsea
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Earth from Kushiel's Legacy (Terre d'Ange, Alba, Skaldia ect)
Action! Adventure! Possible Harlotry!
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Byron Cogsmith

#33
June 23, 2009, 04:26:59 PM
 Onboard Serenity... :)
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karoshi

#34
June 23, 2009, 05:08:10 PM
Quote from: SteamBlast_Mary on June 20, 2009, 03:52:34 PM
Ankh-Morpork.

*Dons a sprig of Lilac* "Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably-Priced Love and a Hard-Boiled Egg!"

I'd love to take in the twin city but i think i'd prefer to settle in Lancre :D
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The Abiliegh

#35
June 23, 2009, 05:12:59 PM
Oh, and The Enchanted Forest/Linderwall
Action! Adventure! Possible Harlotry!
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Lucifargundam

#36
June 23, 2009, 05:22:37 PM
I would like to add the internet. The walk-around and wander version of the net. As in one physically wandering around the net.

Humbolt

#37
June 23, 2009, 06:47:52 PM
Quote from: Magister on June 23, 2009, 06:20:58 AM
The city of D'ni.

Now that's a place I'd love to visit!

I'd probably have to pick either the 'verse from Serenity or maybe Redwall from the books of said name.

James Harrison

#38
June 23, 2009, 06:57:39 PM
The lands of the living and the dead in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. 
Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.

Von Gast

#39
June 23, 2009, 07:21:59 PM
I want to go off roading "In The Night Garden"  :D

The locals seem harmless and there's an airship. Plus you'd get a great trials course around those trees.

Grumfoss

#40
June 23, 2009, 07:57:48 PM
Von Gast I like your style, great idea :)

Angus A Fitziron

#41
June 23, 2009, 10:45:42 PM
I love the idea of traditional Japanese houses and my current favourite is the house in My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Myazaki). I watched it with my lovely grand-daughter, amazed at how she engaged with the images. I would love to live in that film as it recaptures the simplicity of child hood, including the fears and anxieties as well as the freedom and laughter.
Airship Artificer, part-time romantik and amateur Natural Philosopher

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dbvictoria

#42
June 24, 2009, 01:37:34 AM
A second for Terre d'Ange here, and also Simon Green's Forest Kingdom.  And Middle Earth, of course.
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David Godfrey Esq.

#43
June 24, 2009, 04:00:11 PM Last Edit: June 24, 2009, 04:04:16 PM by David Godfrey Esq.
Quote from: LostHorizons on June 23, 2009, 03:17:03 PM
I'm torn between Halloween Town (The Nightmare Before Christmas), New Crobuzon (Perdido Street Station), London Below (Neverwhere), the dream world in MirrorMask, and my personal happy-place.

Why anyone would <i>want</i> to live in New Crobuzon is beyond me. Yes, its steampunk, but it makes the average dystopia look like the the Island of Sodor. (Thomas the Tank Engine, for those that don't know)- Doesn't mean its not an awesome setting.

Another steampunk world I love is Deepgate from Alan Campbell's Scar Night and Iron Angel - a steampunk city suspended by chains over an abyss, at the bottom of which is something not unlike hell. Not somewhere I'd go for holidays though...
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jringling

#44
June 24, 2009, 05:36:39 PM
I have been wanting to visit Magrathea to browse their catalogue...

darkshines

#45
June 24, 2009, 05:53:00 PM
Anhk Morpork, Narnia, Silent Hill, Ry'leah, the ballrooms of Edgar Allan Poe's "Red Death", the future as described in the Time Machine, the Island of Doctor Moreau.......

I could go on.....
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Matthias Gladstone

#46
June 24, 2009, 10:56:54 PM
Star Wars universe. Sorry, I know i'm steampunk but who can resist being a starfighter pilot?
Failing that, some sort of steampunk world thats not too heavy on the dystopia and big on the airship-as-a-means-of-personal-transport. Because I love the aesthetic but there are enough battles to be fought in real life. Unless they're airship battles, in which case i'm in, especially if my airship has helium and their's have hydrogen.
I'll stop now.
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Sir A Poiselamppe

#47
June 24, 2009, 11:15:47 PM
Swindon 1985...

karoshi

#48
June 24, 2009, 11:30:49 PM
"Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."

Mina

#49
June 24, 2009, 11:33:50 PM
Quote from: Captain Lyerly on June 20, 2009, 05:07:14 PM
Rivendell, perhaps. 

Jackson got it *very* right.

I am glad to see I am not alone on this forum, though I do not know if you are obsessive as myself....
Though I must say I prefer Lothlorien to Rivendell, and the Shire to Lothlorien.

Jackson did a superb job all around. Can't wait to see Del Toro's work
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