Way down south in Quadlingland
Aug. 14th, 2006 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatSomething cool that I found while doing a Google search for changes between the Japanese and English versions of the Dragon Quest/Warrior games is this list of video game cameos and references. It's missing a lot of stuff, and it's apparently not being updated anymore, but it's definitely worth a look.
After just having ordered some new Oz books, I find out that the International Wizard of Oz Club is now offering Gina Wickwar's new Toto of Oz, as well as several other items (Ruth Plumly Thompson's Wonder Book, a collection of L. Frank Baum's short stories, and normal-sized hardcover editions of the original books that they originally published in an oversized format). I think it's been a while since the Club last offered a new book, so it's a pleasant surprise to see all this stuff at once. I'm definitely ordering Toto soon, but I'll probably wait on the others.
Speaking of new Oz books, I had a dream about one last night. It was an oversized children's book that they were selling at Borders, which was really close to where I lived (or where I was staying, anyway). For some reason, I was able to get into the store at night while they were closed and borrow the book. I took it home and read a little bit of it. The part that I read was about Boq serving as King of the Munchkins. There was a map in the front, which I thought was cool, but I didn't like that it showed a railroad, which Oz never had in the official series. The name of the railroad was something with "Tea" in it, which was also the name of a coach shown on the map. I was going to go back and buy the book, but I realized that I took it without permission, and couldn't bring it back to the store without being accused of stealing.
In either the same dream or a related one, I was wondering whether the Quadlings are the least advanced and civilized people in Oz. Then I thought that I might just have come up with that idea because I lived in a country where the South was less advanced and civilized than the rest of the nation. I really don't think there's any indication in the Oz books that the Quadlings are any less civilized than the rest of Oz. There are some references to the Gillikin Country being the wildest of the four, but that doesn't seem to have much to do with the people living there. In Wicked, the Quadlings ARE less advanced than the other peoples of the land, but this idea has absolutely no basis in the original Oz books.
After just having ordered some new Oz books, I find out that the International Wizard of Oz Club is now offering Gina Wickwar's new Toto of Oz, as well as several other items (Ruth Plumly Thompson's Wonder Book, a collection of L. Frank Baum's short stories, and normal-sized hardcover editions of the original books that they originally published in an oversized format). I think it's been a while since the Club last offered a new book, so it's a pleasant surprise to see all this stuff at once. I'm definitely ordering Toto soon, but I'll probably wait on the others.
Speaking of new Oz books, I had a dream about one last night. It was an oversized children's book that they were selling at Borders, which was really close to where I lived (or where I was staying, anyway). For some reason, I was able to get into the store at night while they were closed and borrow the book. I took it home and read a little bit of it. The part that I read was about Boq serving as King of the Munchkins. There was a map in the front, which I thought was cool, but I didn't like that it showed a railroad, which Oz never had in the official series. The name of the railroad was something with "Tea" in it, which was also the name of a coach shown on the map. I was going to go back and buy the book, but I realized that I took it without permission, and couldn't bring it back to the store without being accused of stealing.
In either the same dream or a related one, I was wondering whether the Quadlings are the least advanced and civilized people in Oz. Then I thought that I might just have come up with that idea because I lived in a country where the South was less advanced and civilized than the rest of the nation. I really don't think there's any indication in the Oz books that the Quadlings are any less civilized than the rest of Oz. There are some references to the Gillikin Country being the wildest of the four, but that doesn't seem to have much to do with the people living there. In Wicked, the Quadlings ARE less advanced than the other peoples of the land, but this idea has absolutely no basis in the original Oz books.
