KFR Needs Your Help!
Author: Stephen Gerding
June 3rd, 2008
We’ve been working on a Top Secret (Pop Secret? yummm…) project that’s a bit off the wall, but we need a little help — and of course that’s where you all come in!
What we need is for you to suggest here in the comments some of the most famous nerd-errific locations in the world. We’re talking Avengers Mansion, the Fortress of Solitude, the Baxter Building, Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island, the Crayola factory, the Marvel/DC offices, movie locations, famous birthplaces, that sort of thing. Really any place you can think of that relates to anything nerd.
Fire away! And thanks.
Spread the word!
- Related Articles:
27 Responses to “KFR Needs Your Help!”
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:47 am
- The Batcave
- Hall of Justice
- JL Watchtower
- Xavier’s School
- Kwik-E-Mart and The Android’s Dungeon (Simpsons)
- Hogwarts
- Camp Crystal Lake
- Starfleet Academy
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 am
The Hellfire Club…Daily Planet building (more iconic than the Daily Bugle building)…that fancy Japanese resturant built in the shape of Godzilla’s footprint…the Bulldog Cafe (R.I.P., Dave Stevens)…Empire State Building (including the HQ of Doc Savage…and we’d better include BOTH Fortresses of Solitude!)…Sesame Street…And, of course,The Play-Doh Fun Factory….
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:39 am
* San Diego ComicCon
* Titan Tower
* Graceland
* 1 Infinite Loop (Apple HQ)
* USS Enterprise (not a fan but, the ultimate in Nerdom)
* Metropolis, Illinois
* Wildwood Cemetary (The Spirit’s HQ)
* Tracy Island (Thunderbirds HQ)
* The island from Lost
* Paradise Island
* The Island of Dr. Moreau (Hey! Let’s see how many islands we can mention!)
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:45 am
Riza (the coolest vacation spot this side of the Beta Quadrant), Mos Isely (scum and villainy), Latveria, the Savage Land, Empire State University, Mt. Wundagore, Gamma Base, Wakanda, X-Mansion (aka Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, 1407 Graymalkin Lane), Heart O’ the City Hotel (first and last fight scene in The Matrix)
BTW, awesome site.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
The Internet.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
The Village(location unconfirmed, of course)…Del Monico’s Tailors(aka UNCLE hq)…Casino Royale…Dr.Shatterhand’s Garden of Death…(yeah, I know my 1960’s spies…)
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:36 am
Cybertron
Atlantis
Videoland (from the Captain N cartoon)
Eternia
and of course… THE PLAYBOY MANSION
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
1. Shamballah (from Iron Fist)
2. Xanadu (from Lost Horizon)
3. Duckberg
4. Opar (from Tarzan)
5. All the countries from Conan’s Hyborean age.
6. Melnibone (as in Elric of…)
7. Bronson Canyon (as seen in Robot Monster, the Strar Trek episode “Arena” and pretty much every 50s monster movie)
8. The Black Lagoon
9. Monster Island!
10. Universal Exports (speaking of 1960s spies)
11. BPRD Headquarters
12. Castles Dracula & Frankenstein
13. Bates Motel
14. Wayne Foundation building
15. Stately Wayne Manor
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
* Legoland
* Middle Earth
* The Shire
* Mordor
* Gondor
* Rivendell
* Rohan
* Narnia
* Terrabithia
* Milliways-The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
* Venture Labs
* Gargantua-1
* Death Star
* Dagobah
* Hoth
* Jabba’s palace
* Cloud City
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
This is awesomely helpful - thanks guys! Keep ‘em comin’.
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Banzai Institute…The Wanderer (train from WILD WILD WEST)…Wackyland…Where the Wild Things are…Pangkott Palace(aka The Temple of Doom)…Pellucidar…
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
- Asteriod M
- Apokolips
- New Genesis
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Ooh, Ooh…
- Delta City (Robocop)
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Kandor, Kryptopolis, Arkham Asylum, Ceti Alpha IV (Khan!!!), Genisis, Endor, Hoth, The Cockpit of the Millenium Falcon, Willi Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, Ape City, Cloud City, Smallville, Metropolis, Gotham City, Central City, Coast City, Warworld, Cadmus project,Legion of Superheros HQ, Sky High, Lexcorp tower, Rura Penti (Klingon Prison Planet), Utopia Planetia Shipyards (Builders of the Enterprise D), The Pride Land (Lion King), Under Da Sea (Little Mermaid), The Yamato/ Argo Starblazers, The Sdf-1 Macross/ Robotech, Sunydale - Buffy, Serenity- Firefly, Quaratas- Lorne’s bar in Angel- not sure of the spelling, Rick’s Cafe American- Casablanca, The 4077- M*A*S*H, The savage land, earth 2, the negative zone, the phantom zone, the jewel mountains of krypton, The Battlestar Galatica, The Reliant, The Excellsior, DS9, Quarks Bar, 10 forward, 344 Clinton St. (Clark Kents Apartment)
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
sorry delete those extra’s if you can, general hospital, vallhalla, the rainbow bridge, Mount Olypus, Troy, The Well of the Souls, Shangra La, Zanadu (Citizen Kane)
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
In no order (and apologies for any repeats):
- The Baxter Building.
- The Skull Cave.
- The Arrowcave.
- Planet Vulcan.
- The Banzai Institute.
- The Basement of The Science Building.
- Regula One Space Station.
- The Bottled City of Kandor.
- The Lambda Lambda Lambda Frat House.
- Mondas.
- Gallifrey.
- The Squared Circle.
- Mongo.
- The Danger Room.
- The Jedi Temple.
- Coruscant (sp?).
- Tattooine.
- The 4th Moon of Yavin.
- Hoth.
- Dagobah.
- Babylon 5.
- The Legion Clubhouse.
- Blackhawk Island.
- Department H.
- Latveria.
And I’m outta here.
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Forgot two:
- Space Station K7.
- The Dark Side of The Moon (Close Encounters, not Pink Floyd).
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Paradise Island :D
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
1313 Mockingbird Lane
221 B Baker Street
1407 Graymalkin Lane
Wassamatta U. Frostbite Falls, MN.
The Pit, Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island, New York
Roald Dahl Plass in Cardiff Bay
Chott Le Jerid, Tunisia
Mayan temple complex at Tikal, Guatemala.
Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, Agua Dulce, CA
742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Think Geek offices
WoTC office
Arkham (as in Cthulhu’s Arkham)
Ry’leh (again: Cthulhu)
Miskatonic Univeristy (Yeah, Cthulhu)
Area 51
June 4th, 2008 at 6:22 am
- Castle Greyskull
- Snake Mountain
- Eternia
- Castle of Lions (Voltron)
- Thundera, New Thundera, The Cat’s Lair (Thundercats)
- Dunder Mifflin :)
June 4th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Bear City (and their rivals in Rabbittown)…Neo-Tokyo…Capital City (where a bum feels like a king and a king feels like some kind of crazy nutty Super-King…)Dr. Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum…The Fox’s Lair(Zorro’s Hideout)…The Castle of Fu Manchu (not to be confused with his hideout in Limehouse)…Bizzaro World… Omnicron Persii 8…Valley of the Wind…Krull…Wonka’s Choclate Factory… The Comatorium (TMV)… KrustyLand (the krustiest place on Earth)… Muir Island… The Isle of Lodos… Marshal University… Midgar (FF7)… The Spencer Mansion (Source of the Umbrella outbreak)… The plantation of Murder Legendre… Avalon… Weapon X facility… Ogra’s house/planetarium (The Dark Crystal)… Fraggle Rock… WKRP in Cincinatti…Raccoon City…Silent Hill…La Garage Hermatique du Jerry Cornelius…Midian..Grand Central Station-Year 3000 (BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES)…Land of the Lost…Caprona…
June 4th, 2008 at 7:49 am
I have to add Gary Gygax’s home in Lake Geneva, WI; clearly should be in the top 10 of geek pilgrimage sites.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Apple’s secret labs in Cupertino.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
thought of some more,
comics:
mega city one
gorilla city
keystone city
fawcett city
jla cave happy harbor Rhode Island
Argo city
Ferris Aircraft
TV
Monk’s Diner Seinfeld
Central Perk Friends
Seatle Grace Grays Anatomy
Double Meat Palace Buffy
The Fonz’s Apartment/ Arnold’s Happy Days
4077 MASH
Movies
Dr. Evils lair
The Spice Mines of Kessle
New York City Prison, Escape from New York
June 4th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Akihabara - the real life Japanophile nerd mecca of Japan
June 5th, 2008 at 4:53 am
Oh, Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, CA, as well as the ILM facilities. I’ve been to the front office there. Not easy to get in, but very cool.