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Pop-culture Timelines Core Thread - Dicussion thread that explores potential popular culture PODs, links to other discussion threads about such PODs and allows members to plug their own timelines with a primary focus on pop culture.
The Culture Club: Alternate Pop Culture - A medley of different projects, the first one being an exploration on a different history of the Flash Gordon franchise (note: other members are encouraged to contribute short ideas).
AH challenge: Tinseltown, Arizona, as an alternate Hollywood
Films in a Nazi victory or predominantly Fascist dictatorship world
WI: Clark Gable captured for Hitler ?
Challenge: Ed Wood, the master of cinema
Alternate big movie stars in more conservative version of the 1960s
WI if both Patton and M*A*S*H* had bombed ?
Francis Ford Coppola and Stanley Kubrick WI ideas
Challenge: The Godfather bombs
WI: Walt Disney lives to 80 (1981) ?
The End of the "Animation Age Ghetto"
Alternate fate of New World Films
A Spiderman movie in the late 1980s
WI: Indiana Jones IV Gets Made Earlier ?
Earliest possible darker Batman movies and alternate Batman movies
An Alternate Disney Rennaissance
WI: Superhero Film Boom in the 90s
Who should've directed 'Watchmen' circa 1990 ?
More accurate dinosaurs in Jurassic Park
Challenge: James Cameron's Titanic (1997) not as huge
WI: Kevin Costner not in The Postman
Terry Gilliam directing Batman Begins...
The Dark Knight if Heath Ledger was still alive
Challenge: Save Dragonball Evolution
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Alternate histories of TV shows
Challenge: Alternate US TV networks
WI the DuMont television network had survived ?
WI: 1960s Batman not cancelled
WI: Serious Batman TV Show in the 1960s
Challenge: Save the variety show TV genre
Buffy the Vampire Slayer starts seven years earlier
Challenge: Doctor Who popular in the United States
Alternate 1996 Doctor Who movie
WI: Doctor Who 1996 movie suceeded to relaunch the series ?
What if both Patton and M*A*S*H* had bombed ?
The End of the "Animation Age Ghetto"
Challenge : Kill Reality Television
Harry Potter and the Small Screen
You are given control of the BBC
Challenge: Keep Firefly flying
Challenge: Save the History Channel
WI: The Big Bang Theory picked up on its first pilot ?
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Jewels of Taiwan: Chinese-Taiwanese radio broadcasting PODs
Early radio broadcasting with recording technology (allowing for reruns/rebroadcasts of radio shows)
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Plausible suggestions for alternate names of modern music genres
WI: The Rolling Stones break up in 1970, the Beatles keep going
Paul McCartney joins the Electric Light Orchestra
Rock and roll never coming into existence
Challenge: How long can you keep The Sex Pistols together
WI: Van Halen goes thrash metal
Challenge: Make Shoegaze a dominant genre
Challenge: Make Hole more popular than Nirvana
Challenge : Flunk Sting's career in the 1990s
Music & Youth/Pop Culture in a "No-9/11 World"
WI recent songs in earlier times ?
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A World Without Superheroes: What if Superman had never existed ?
AH superheroes with a European twist
WI: Comic books never get serious
Comic WI: Peter Parker had a very special brother...
Several Comic Book What Ifs and What If Seeds
WI Kevin Smith became Editor-In-Chief of Marvel ?
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WI: TSR merges with Games Workshop
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Popeye instead of Mario and Donkey Kong ?!
Nintendo keeps its deal with Sony
Gaming WI : The "tycoon" subgenre without the contributions of Chris Sawyer
Challenge: Xbox 360 outsells the Wii and PS3
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Tolkien's legendarium (LOTR, Silmarillion, etc.)
WI Robin Hood actually existed ?
WI: Fantasy genre not based on Norse mythology ?
Alternative pop culture in the 2000s
Music & Youth/Pop Culture in a "No-9/11 World"
Pop culture icons not dead before their time
What would you like to see in a 20th century cultural ATL ?
Analogues of the Western genre in alternate timelines ?
WI: Laserdisc doesn't have a bad launch
The cultural effects of Robert F. Kennedy getting elected for US president in 1968
Plausibility check: Spy Craze without James Bond ?
21st century popular culture in a Nazi victory timeline ?
WI: Blue skin seen as fashionable
Challenge: Make Halloween a regional holiday in the US
Alternate endings for films, TV series, books and other works
Challenge: Keep Canada from being dominated by US and/or UK pop-culture
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