Category Archives: Maps

The Rest of Nonestica

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Nathan

The International Wizard of Oz Club’s map of the countries surrounding Oz includes a few places, mostly in the southeastern part of the continent (which most likely isn’t technically a continent), that were never directly linked with Oz. They are, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cults, Dick Martin, Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, arol, aurissau, bilkon, burzee, earl of highlough, fairies, gregory maguire, groves of trom, gump, gurd, hallita, international wizard of oz club, jack frost, james e. haff, junkum, king gruph, king scowleyow, lady lindeva, macvelt, mary ann brodjinsky de la porkus, mary-marie, mother goose in prose, mount mern, mulgravia, old king cole, prince melra, quok, slave of the royal bedstead, the king who changed his mind, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the queen of quok, the runaway shadows, the witchcraft of mary-marie, the wizard of aurissau, thumbumbia, tik-tok of oz, whatland, witches, zendik | Leave a comment

Join the Odyssey and See the World

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Nathan

I haven’t played Super Mario Odyssey, and I’m sure I’d be terrible at it if I did. There’s a reason I mostly stick to turn-based role-playing. I am, however, quite interested in keeping abreast of new Mario developments and how … Continue reading →

Posted in Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Maps, Mario, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged big ape city, captain syrup, dinosaur land, donkey kong island, donkey kong land, dragon quest ii, homo nintendonus, isle delfino, metro kingdom, mushroom kingdom, mushroom world, new donk city, paper mario, paper mario: the thousand-year door, pauline, princess daisy, princess peach toadstool, professor elvin gadd, pudding continent, sarasaland, super mario odyssey, super mario sunshine, the adventure of link, toad town | Leave a comment

Snow Business

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Nathan

I was aware from pretty early on that Ruth Plumly Thompson continued the Oz series after L. Frank Baum, and that illustrator John R. Neill would eventually write his own as well. I don’t think I’d heard of the fourth … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged bzzzantium, cap'n bill, chapter three, father goose, flittermouse, fred meyer, gillikin river, good witch of the north, into the cave, james e. haff, merry go round in oz, over the rainbow to oz, oziana, polychrome, shaggy man, the baum bugle, the crystal people, the magical mimics in oz, the rundelstone of oz, the shaggy man of oz, toto, unexplored territory in oz, who's who in oz | 5 Comments

Grand Unified Marioverse Theory

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Nathan

I’m glad to know I’m not the only one interested in mapping the Mushroom World and riveting together a sense of continuity for the Mario games. Like Oz, the games show a whimsical world where the creators weren’t all that … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Maps, Mario, Metroid, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link to the past, banjo-kazooie, brothers bear, crossovers, diddy kong racing, dk vine, donkey kong country 3, gulliver, hyrule, king bowser koopa, link's awakening, luigi, mario kart, mario kart 8, mushroom kingdom, mushroom world, ocarina of time, paper mario, paper mario: the thousand-year door, princess peach toadstool, reddit, skyward sword, starfy, super mario bros. 3, super smash bros., wario, wart, yoshi, zelda timeline | 1 Comment

Springfield, Springfield, It’s a Hell of a Town

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Nathan

YouTube recently recommended this series of Simpsons Mysteries videos, which are interesting to people like me who tend to over-analyze just about everything we enjoy. Obviously the show negates any real notion of continuity in time or place. Springfield can … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Maps, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged bart simpson, carl carlson, flashbacks, homer simpson, lenny leonard, lisa simpson, marge simpson, moe szyslak, ned flanders, springfield, timeline | 1 Comment

Wacky Worlds

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Nathan

The original Super Mario Bros. provided several different environments through which Mario (and sometimes Luigi) had to travel: largely flat worlds with trees and bushes in the background, underground caverns, water, cliffs with tops bigger than their bases, and castles … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Food, Maps, Mario, Names, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged dark land, dinosaur land, giant land, gustav holst, king bowser koopa, kitchen island, koopalings, lemmy koopa, mario is missing!, mushroom world, new super mario bros., new super mario bros. u, new super mario bros. wii, nintendo power, sarasaland, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario land, super mario land 2, super mario world, wario land, wendy o. koopa | Leave a comment

Mountains of Mystery

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Nathan

Even though John Dough and the Cherub clearly indicates that Hiland and Loland are on an island, called Hi-Lo by some and Lo-Hi by others, the map in the Tik-Tok of Oz endpapers shows them as part of the mainland, … Continue reading →

Posted in Chris Dulabone, Dick Martin, Jared Davis, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged captain salt in oz, hiland, ivalane valley, ivalor, jack breton, james e. haff, john burton hatcher, john dough and the cherub, john drury clark, larry breton, loland, meerth, nimenvell, ozma of oz, skeezik and the mys-tree of oz, terra obscura, the baum bugle, the gardener's boy of oz, the magic tapestry of oz, the ork in oz, the royal explorers of oz, the search for soob, thorns and private files in oz, witches, zectorland | 2 Comments

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