Before a later film revealed its boring mundanity, the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark surfaced as a kind of Überwarehouse, a seemingly infinite repository of all manner of myths and magicks–carefully catalogued by “top men.”
This DHL Trojan horse advertisement recalls a far more ancient logistical fiction.
Varok Saurfang gives a lesson in the logistics of supplying Warsong Hold to an impatient Garrosh Hellscream in World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. “Our only viable port for resupply is held by the Forsaken on the other side of this blasted continent!”
One of Jurassic Park’s unsung innovations was this perfectly designed container for extinct embryo transport (and shaving cream).
Bill of Lading signed by Captain H. van Breda in Novy Odense, from “Once Upon a Time in the North,” the prequel to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series.
