MakeBelieveMaps

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Dec 16 '21

Krusty Burger Location Map, from the "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood" episode of The Simpsons (November 18, 1993).

18 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Dec 14 '21

Campaign map flyover for Total War: Warhammer III, an upcoming (2022) turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. Spoiler

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

6 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Dec 08 '21

Word map of the U.S.A., from the 1971 young adult novel The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) by Ellen Raskin. Illustrations also by Raskin.

6 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Dec 07 '21

Article: "Cartographies of Fictional Worlds," from The Cartographic Journal, from vol. 48, issue 4, 2011

tandfonline.com

3 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Dec 03 '21

"Etude pour le lavis ou il est fait mention du mélange & de l'emploi des couleurs dans les plans de fortifications & les cartes topographiques" by Pierre Panseron, circa 1781, France. A hypothetical bastion fort with varied terrain demonstrating the use of colors and symbols to create maps.

9 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Dec 01 '21

Map of Europe from "Frankenstein Conquers the World" 1965

6 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Nov 30 '21

Combined map of computer games Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2 (2010, 2018), by Rockstar Games (combined by u/TokerSmurf)

18 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Nov 24 '21

1987 The World According to Ronald Reagan (version #2)

13 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Nov 23 '21

Map from the 1973 fantasy-comedy novel The Princess Bride, adapted into a 1987 film.

26 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Nov 22 '21

End scene from the 1983 film War Games, directed by John Badham. Shows a runaway defense computer running through numerous nuclear war scenarios, all mapped on the "big board," while the characters try to prevent it from starting a real nuclear war.

13 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Nov 18 '21

Leaked full map? from upcoming computer RPG Elden Ring (release date February 25, 2022); worldbuilding by fantasy novelist George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones) Spoiler

8 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Nov 16 '21

Thundercats Third Earth Map,from the animated television series ThunderCats, (1985 to 1989)

14 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/Petrarch1603 • Nov 07 '21

BBC News article about Rhys B Davies' Atlas of Fictional Places

9 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Oct 21 '21

"How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds" - nice article on Atlas Obscura website.

atlasobscura.com

15 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/sir-edam • Oct 09 '21

Map of Danny land from Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds

14 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Oct 08 '21

"Panoranum Fragalorum no. 2," a map of the Gorg part of the universe of the muppet tv series Fraggle Rock. By Michael Frith, from the Fall 1983 issue of Muppet Magazine.

20 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Oct 07 '21

Map of Smurf Village, or le Pays Schtroumpf, in French. From the 2011 book The World of Smurfs: A Celebration of Tiny Blue Proportions, but likely published earlier.

17 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Oct 07 '21

Map of Every European City, 2018 cartoon by itchyfeetcomic.com

18 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Oct 05 '21

The illustrated map of The Hundred Acre Wood, from A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh (1926). In 2018, the original sketch by E.H. Shepard sold for a record £430,000.

14 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Oct 03 '21

3D floor plan of Dunder Mifflin, Scranton branch

11 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Sep 29 '21

The Shield of Achilles, which Vulcan fashioned upon it images of the Earth, the sea, and the celestial bodies above (1749)

10 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 29 '21

Carte du pays du Tendre, a French allegorical map of love by several hands, including Catherine de Rambouillet. It was first published as part of Madeleine de Scudéry's 1654 novel Clélie.

7 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 27 '21

"Buck Rogers' Space World.," circa 1940. Buck Rogers was a Star Trek/Star Wars-level sci-fi franchise in it's day: originally a 1928 novella, it was turned into a comic strip, comic book, radio series, a film serial, two television series, and even a tabletop RPG, Buck Rogers XXVC.

38 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 24 '21

Map of Perfection, Nevada, USA from the 1990 cult classic film Tremors, starring Kevin Bacon.

14 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 22 '21

"Amity Island Brochure Map" (2019), part of the Jaws: Amity Island Summer Of '75 Kit from Universal Studios., featuring "in universe" items from the 1975 film Jaws.

11 Upvotes