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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. | Magic satchel is a term often used in reference to computer role-playing games. It refers to the use of a character's inventory in the game, which can often contain more items than is physically possible for the character to carry (or are simply too large), without any visible means to hold or transport them. It was jokingly suggested that these characters were carrying around some kind of invisible mystical bag where they could keep everything without fear of encumbrance and could pull out any item at will. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
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Inventory is a list of goods and materials, or those goods and materials themselves, held available in stock by a business. ...
A similar concept is hammerspace, the physical dimension that characters reach into to pull out very large mallets (or anything for that matter) with which to hit other characters on their heads.[1] The main difference is that "hammerspace" is used in reference to animations and other fiction in which the viewer or reader does not participate. For other uses, see Mallet (disambiguation). ...
The "bag of holding" is a similar concept in the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, a bag of holding is a popular magical item, capable of containing a lot more than one would expect. ...
The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ...
Origin The concept of a magic satchel was alluded to many years before role-playing or computer and video games, for instance as Felix the Cat's magic bag of tricks and in the Disney film Mary Poppins, where the title character has a bag from which she can produce a large number of objects, including ones that significantly outsize its dimensions, such as a large lamp, complete with a shoulder-length stand. This article is about the cartoon character. ...
Old logo from 1985-2006 Walt Disney Pictures refers to several different entities associated with The Walt Disney Company: Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner, was established as a designation in 1983, prior to which Disney films since the death of Walt Disney were released under the name of the...
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Even earlier, the bag in Samuel Beckett's play Happy Days (1960) is strongly implied (though not shown) to have magic satchel-like qualities. Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. ...
The first English edition of Happy Days. ...
Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Even further back, in the medieval Welsh epic Y Mabinogi, Pwyll is given a magic satchel by the goddess Rhiannon; this satchel can never be filled except by a man putting his body into it. This trick is used to save Rhiannon from an unwanted Otherworld suitor. The Mabinogion is a collection of prose stories from medieval Welsh manuscripts. ...
This article is about the Welsh hero; for the impact crater on Europa, see Pwyll (crater). ...
For the Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac song, see Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win). ...
The term otherworld could refer to: the afterlife Other World, in Irish Mythology. ...
Characteristics Typically, in most games, a magic satchel can carry almost any number of different items (even vehicles in some extreme cases), but only up to 99 of a single kind of item, as any more of it would require too many digits to indicate. The general exception to this rule is money. A magic satchel can carry nearly any amount of money (although many games have either a limit of 65,535 units or 4,294,967,295 units, the maximum values that can fit in two bytes or four bytes, respectively). In computer science a byte (pronounced bite) is a unit of measurement of information storage, most often consisting of eight bits. ...
In addition, in most games, none of the objects in the satchel have any weight: One can carry an armory's worth of giant swords, several dozen old suits of armor, scores of healing items, a small fortune in the local currency, and a vehicle without any strain whatsoever. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
This rule is not universal: a few games do enforce weight restrictions, and many do have some items that require a certain minimum level of strength. The first game to introduce a weight limit (which varied according to the player's strength) was probably Dungeon Master in 1987. An Attribute (also called a statistic, characteristic or ability) is an abstract number (or, in some cases, a set of dice) which represents a single aspect of a fictional character in a role-playing game. ...
Dungeon Master was the first 3D realtime action computer role-playing game. ...
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In print media - The Luggage in the Discworld series parodies the D&D convention.
- In Ranma ½, the character Mousse can hide a large number of weapons mostly in the sleeves of his robes, but also in his feathers when in the shape of a duck.
- In the novel Changeling by Delia Sherman, the main character owns a magic bag, aptly named Satchel, which provides her with an unpredictable supply of prepared meals.
- Alpha Flight, a Marvel Comics superhero, carries a medicine bag which contains a pocket dimension. He can summon anything needed from the bag.
- In The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Mr. Moseby's grandmother, Rose Moseby has a medium sized purse and she pulls out a baseball bat, a vacuum, and another purse from.
- The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling frequently makes use of the concept by having several objects that are able to hold much more vast quantities than they normally would, including a Ford Anglia that can seat more than ten people, a tent with multiple floors, and a magic satchel in which character Hermione Granger stores a full-size portrait and an entire library of books.
The Luggage is a fictional object that appears in several of the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. ...
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Mousse (æ²çµ² MùsÄ« or ムース MÅ«su) is a fictional character in Rumiko Takahashis anime and manga series Ranma ½. // Mousse is a male Chinese Amazon and a master of the Hidden Weapons fighting style who is desperately in love with his childhood friend Shampoo. ...
Delia Sherman (on the right) with Ellen Kushner (photograph by Keyan Bowes) Delia Sherman (born Tokyo, Japan) is an award-winning fantasy writer and editor. ...
Alpha Flight is a Marvel Comics superhero team, noteworthy for being one of the few Canadian superhero teams. ...
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A Medicine Bag is a traditional North American Indian container for various items of supernatural power. ...
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, is an American childrens television series that airs on the Disney Channel. ...
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The Ford Anglia was a British car from Ford in the UK. It was related to the Ford Prefect and the later Ford Popular. ...
Hermione Jean Granger (first name pronounced IPA: ) is a fictional character in J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter series. ...
In films - In the 1992 film Brain Donors, the character Jaques wears a magic-satchel-like raincoat that seems to contain anything. A messy situation occurs when Jaques is arrested and ordered to empty his pockets.
- In the film Mary Poppins, Mary has a magic bag that can store any number of items regardless of shape.
- In the live action Jim Carrey film The Mask, the main character uses cartoon-like applications of Hammerspace.
- A running gag in the Marx Brothers films was for Harpo Marx's character to be carrying any given item at any given time, and to produce it at will. In Horse Feathers, for example, he produces a candle burning at both ends, as well as a cup of hot coffee for a passing bum. In the last Marx Brothers movie, Love Happy, Harpo is forced to empty his pockets and produces two mannequin legs, a block of ice, a music box, a puppy, a mailbox reading "Moss Kaufman," and a music box.
Brain Donors (1992) is an American comedy film released by Paramount Pictures loosely based on the Marx Brothers comedy, A Night at the Opera. ...
For the 2004 stage musical, see Mary Poppins (musical). ...
James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian-American A-list film actor and comedian. ...
The Mask originated as comic book series by publisher Dark Horse Comics. ...
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This article is about Harpo Marx, brother of Groucho et al. ...
Horse Feathers (1932) was the fourth Marx Brothers film. ...
For other uses, see Candle (disambiguation). ...
For other uses, see Coffee (disambiguation). ...
Love Happy (1949) was the 13th, and virtually the last Marx Brothers film (they would return to the big screen in 1957 for short appearances in The Story of Mankind). ...
Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater. ...
George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 - June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, director, producer, humorist, and drama critic noted for his many collaborations with other writers and his contributions to 20th century American comedy. ...
On television - Many animation shows have magic satchel-like objects or characters.
- Bill Smith from The Red Green Show can produce anything he needs for a given adventure from his trousers.
- The character of Jerry on the 1990s sitcom Parker Lewis Can't Lose wears a trenchcoat from which he can instantly extract any needed item, always with the sound of a velcro attachment ripping free.
- Nanny, in the British show Count Duckula, wears a sling on her right arm, and is able to produce virtually any item from her sling.
- In the 2005 remake of Doctor Who, it was revealed that the Doctor's pockets, like the TARDIS, are bigger on the inside than on the outside, confirming a long time theory held by the fans for many years.[citation needed] During Tom Baker's tenure as the Doctor, he was frequently required to empty his pockets by authority figures. This usually resulted in the production of many useless and cumbersomely large objects.
- The character Charmcaster from Ben 10 has a bag from which she can draw all manner of items, such as magical explosives or throwing blades.
- In a Benny Hill sketch set in the 18th Century, a woman in a big, puffy skirt hides at least seven people under her skirt to fool passing castle guards.
Bill Smith or just Bill is a character on the television show The Red Green Show. ...
The Red Green Show is a television comedy that aired on CBC Television in Canada and on PBS in the United States from 1991 until the series finale 7 April 2006 on CBC. Reruns currently air on CBC Television, CBC Country Canada, The Comedy Network, and various PBS stations. ...
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Velcro: hooks (left) and loops (right). ...
Count Duckula is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic vegetarian vampire duck in the animated television series of the same name created by British studio Cosgrove Hall, and a spin-off from DangerMouse, a show in which an evil version of the Count Duckula character was a recurring villain. ...
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The current TARDIS prop as seen at the BBC Wales reception in 2005. ...
Ben 10 is an American animated television series created by Man of Action (a group consisting of Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, and Steven T. Seagle), and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. ...
Alfred Hawthorn Hill (21 January 1924 – 19 April 1992), better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comic, actor and singer, best known for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show. ...
A skirt is a traditionally feminine tube- or cone-shaped garment which is worn from the waist and covers the legs. ...
In computer and video games Video games make extensive use of magic satchel devices to keep the player's inventory. Generally this applies to the majority of games where the player controls one character or a small party of characters.
A further modification of the magic satchel-idea is to give the player a limited inventory in which to contain his weapons and items in form of a bag of some kind, but never actually showing this device visually on the played character. This occurs in Resident Evil 4, where the items and weapons are stored in a briefcase, which, although being accessible at all times, is never seen with the character. This also applies to many CRPG's. The difference to magic satchels is that the player might be forced to get rid of some items to store others. Resident Evil 4, known in Japan as biohazard 4 ), is a third-person shooter, published and developed by Capcom. ...
While most games give the player a magic satchel without any further explanations or reasons, some games treat them with comical effects, like the Monkey Island series, where it is shown that the character stores all items in his pants. Another example is Toonstruck where a hand-sized bag is openly referred to as "bottomless bag". The Secret of Monkey Island, CD version. ...
Toonstruck is a 1996 point-and-click adventure game in which, although all the imagery is drawn and scanned into the game, the protagonist Drew Blanc (played and voiced by Christopher Lloyd) is an actual video-captured representation of the actor (the name is probably a homage to Mel Blanc...
In the Sonic the Hedgehog video game franchise, Chaos Emeralds are pulled out by the character's backs. The Sonic the Hedgehog series is a franchise of video games released by Sega starring and named after its mascot character Sonic the Hedgehog. ...
The Chaos Emeralds, as depicted in Sonic Advance from a side view. ...
Also, in the Spyro the Dragon video games, the titular character Spyro can carry thousands of gems and over a hundred dragon eggs, yet has no possible way of carrying them (not even a satchel). Spyro the Dragon (1) PlayStation cover Spyro the Dragon is a popular platform game series starring the video game character Spyro, which was originally released for the Sony PlayStation. ...
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