– King Kong is also doing massive damage to the track, but while we appreciate this Spielbergian addition to one of his heroes, Merian C. – As if you needed to be told, that is the queen Tyrannosaurus Rex from Spielberg’s very own Jurassic Park tearing up the track. – Also spotted during this section is a jack-knifing truck, which eagle eyed Twitter user recognized as the one Kurt Russell drove in Big Trouble in Little China(1986).
For the rest, please scroll down to the Back to the Future subsection. This is also the sole BTTF reference in this section (just so you know we aren’t crazy!). In the book, it also has the Ghostbusters (1984) symbol spray-painted on the door, but alas Sony must not have wanted to contribute. – Parzival’s vehicle of choice is obviously Marty McFly’s DeLorean from Back to the Future, albeit it has been retrofitted to include the red-light grill scanner from Knight Rider (1982). It should be noted Bluth and Spielberg later partnered for An American Tail (1986) and The Land Before Time (1988). However, the way the film animates his flowing black robes in the film seems intentionally evocative of how Don Bluth drew such robes on Nicodemus in The Secret of NIMH (1982). – Halliday’s OASIS alter-ego Anorak looks vaguely wizard-y, like Merlin or Gandalf. – Also seen getting gutted on Planet Doom is a cameoing avatar as Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th movies. *(We shall henceforth refer to Aech in the OASIS as “he,” and in the real world as “she,” as the character seems to want to be approached in both realities.) To be specific the Freddy Krueger first played by Robert Englund in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), although fans’ favorite variation on the big bad came in Part III: Dream Warriors. – When we meet Aech on Planet Doom, he* is seen blasting Freedy Krueger into space buck coins. – Also during this sequence, commenter David Thiel spotted the Cyclops from Ray Harryhausen’s The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). You know back before the franchise’s diminished returns. – During the opening montage, among the avatars filling up the OASIS portal terminals Z traverses is the original RoboCop from 1987. But not just any Batman… it’s Michael Keaton’s Batman from the Tim Burton classic of 1989! (For more superhero movie references after this point, please scroll down to the superhero movie reference’s subsection.
– In the opening montage of what you can do in the OASIS, the first actual homage appears to be Batman climbing Mount Everest.
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