Ok, guys, this was on the old forums and never got resurrected (although someone HAD made an excellent Claptastic Voyage reference thread shortly after the DLC releasee - maybe someone could be kind enough to fold that into this thread, pretty please?) so let’s rebuild it here!
Please post any reference / connection / easter egg / meme / tribute / etc that you can think of, large or small, from TPS and associated DLCs.
I’ll start off with a few to get the ball rolling:
Darksiders Base, Tritons Flat: blatant reference to Pink Floyd’s seminal album, Dark Side of the Moon. Especially those bridge / rooftop prisms. Signs and graffiti throughout the base also reference a couple other early Floyd albums.
The Claptastic Voyage - referencing old school cult sci fi film The Fantastic Voyage, where a team of scientists shrunk down to Microscopic size and fly into the human body in a tiny ship.
Major Tom Legendary Assault Rifle - referencing a classic David Bowie song, and the flavour text references another classic Bowie Album, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Scranton’s Liver Tork Area secret location with Monolith - referencing Stanley Kubrick’s classic film adaptation of Arthur C Clarke’s novel “2001: A Space Oddyssey”. My God, it’s full of stars!
I’m gonna update this post with a picture but there’s a dead space easter egg… During “let’s build a robot army” when you have to clear the room full of scavs… Written on the wall says “all is not lost” a reference to the numerous times in the dead space series where written on the wall says “all is lost”
The quote from the “Jack in the Box” from the side mission, “The sum of some fears” which goes, “Wanna see something really scary”? I’m pretty sure is from the Twilight Zone movie from 1983 (the “Midnight Special Horror Drive” skit).
My girlfriend at the time and I watched that movie in the theater… I was later banned from joking around with that quote with her.
Claptastic Voyage - Mutator Arena. First playthrough has the racist hotdog yelling “Hotdog!” repeatedly which is a reference to an episode of The Heart, She Holler on Adult Swim. Love that crazy-ass show.
That RedBelly/Ned Key bit about hin getting shot in the kneecaps finally answers a long standing TPS question of mine!
In one of the Crisis Scar RedBelly ECHOs, Belly says “Oh no! I forgot the cuisse & greaves for my armour! You know, the leg bits”, to which Red replies, “Don’t worry! No one’s gonna shoot you there, mate!”
THANK YOU!!!
I actually watched a documentary recently where they re-made Ned Kelly’s infamous armour; it stopped a LOT of bullets and shotgun shells!
I think they had to resort to explosives to finally pierce it!
