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Past Right Now
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This is where something is much like the past, either preserved through isolation or deliberately re-created, but definitely existing in the present day. No time machines here! Many real-life and fictional theme parks will play on this trope. Some take it to greater extents than others. In fiction, you can expect an Adventurer Archaeologist to discover a Lost World with supposedly extinct species still living. See also Retro Universe, where the whole world is like this, although somewhat more likely to incorporate history-flavored versions of present-day technology or sensibilities. | |
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The Simpsons has an episode where they visit "Colonial Springfield," based on Colonial Williamsburg. | |
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In ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept., Suitsu District is this. It is like an early-19th-century French city, preserved through isolation, while the other districts appear modern. | |
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Austin Powers is a 1960s spy, frozen and then thawed, bringing his "mod" lifestyle and fashion sense with him. | |
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Also, not the sequel to Jurassic Park, The Lost World (1912) by Arthur Conan Doyle. | |
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The X-Files episode "Gender Bender" had a group called the "Kindred" that were Amish-type throwbacks. Except they had super powers of seduction, and changed genders after sex, and might have been aliens. But not like the other aliens on the show. At all. | |
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Diogenes Club: In "The End of the Pier Show", a small seaside town is being artificially kept as it was during World War II in the 1970s. Unfortunately, those responsible are about to be taught a very painful lesson: namely, if you choose to live in the past, you do not get to choose only the good bits of that past. | |
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The Kim Possible episode "Cap'n Drakken" started with a class trip to a historical-recreation village, and concluded with a sail-and-cutlass battle against a Ghost Pirate crew (led by Drakken, who was possessed by the ghost captain). | |
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Ong-Bak: A small traditional village has its statue stolen, and sends its resident warrior into the city to get it back. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series had several of these, where the Enterprise visited worlds that had either deliberate recreations of earlier eras on Earth: the gangs of Chicago, or NAZI Germany; or where parallel development had recreated Earth cultures: the Roman Empire, a 1960s Earth where an attempt to stop aging wiped out all the adults, or a world where the cold war had turned hot, and the surviving "Yangs" (Yanks) and "Comms" (Communists) have been thrown back to near stone-age technologies, but are still trying to kill each other. | |
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On Futurama, Past-O-Rama is a historical theme park that gets everything wrong. | |
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Stargate: A different planet happens to be remarkably similar to Ancient Egypt. | |
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In Tom Goes to the Mayor, Tom and the Mayor stage a forced 19th-century re-enactment, including compulsory trade-ins of car keys for horses and a complete power-down of Jefferton's electrical grid. Chaos ensues. | |
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Jurassic Park, the ill-fated theme park where dinosaurs are actually alive ... and the sequel to Jurassic Park (1990), The Lost World (1995). | |
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In Up, Carl dreamed of adventuring to Paradise Falls as a child. About 60 years later, he manages to get there... and it looks exactly the same as when he was a kid. | |
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Tom-Yum-Goong: A small traditional village has its elephants stolen, and sends its resident warrior to Australia to get them back. | |
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South Park parodied the theme park version, with the performers refusing to break character even in the midst of a hostage crisis. | |
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The village itself is revealed to be this in The Village (2004). | |
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In Ra, there's a historical recreation that covers the entire world. While the protagonists think they're living in the early 21st century, they're actually living in the 195th century, on an Earth that was "rebooted" to a reconstruction of 1970. Most of the people living in the affected area have no idea that they're living "in the past"; only the handful of people who built the recreation know the truth. | |
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Transmetropolitan has this with its reserves, which are huge expanses of land where people go to live a different lifestyle (Viking, Middle Ages, Aztec...). They regularly take amnesiacs to forget they were part of the modern world in the first place. Visitors to the reserves require special injections that neutralize the various diseases they pick up in the City, and others to protect them from the diseases to which those in the reserves have built up resistance. | |
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In Running Out of Time, the town of Clifton, Indiana has been created to reflect life in the 1840s, and anyone born in the town has been brought up believing that they are living during that time. It functions as a 24-hour historical park, with visitors watching the residents through hidden cameras. Initially the citizens live there voluntarily, but when things change the protagonist's mother finally breaks the secret and sends her out of the village to look for help. | |
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Played with in the Village Tales novels. The parishes insist on the 1662 prayer-book and no women clergy. The whole District is part of an AONB, everything has a preservation order on it, and, as the duke says, even the cowsheds and sheep-folds are at least Grade II* ("damn me, I want an Act of Parliament to change a plug" at His Grace's residence). Of course, there is growth all the same: the new social housing (Georgian to the last detail, and housing retired Gurkhas), the community real-ale brewery (Victorian steam technology), the restored heritage steam railway, the planned recreation of the Georgian canal.... All with broadband, of course. The duke has managed to get his Tory way and make his conservative rural neighbors happy ... all by suckering the Green sorts, the National Trust supporters, and the Lib Dems into doing his bidding and thinking it theirs. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Indy crash-lands into a remote village in India, whose people are suffering because they lost their sacred stones. | |
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