Well, if you've seen the end of Threads, that nails it pretty well.
Post-Doomsday pop culture
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Well, if you've seen the end of Threads, that nails it pretty well.
Your basic medieval starving peasant. That may be realistic but the Doomsday timeline tends to be a lot more optimistic than that. Unreasonably so for anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere nations have much more chance of returning to near normal life in a generation or so.
So safe to say the fashion trends from OTL 2000s-2010s would be butterflied away for good? or at least delayed?
Probably butterflied altogether. In the war zone the surviving communities will be more concerned with finding anything to clothe themselves rather than what it looks like and in the more or less undamaged south things will be much more subdued. It's a smaller, poorer and shell shocked world that's probably regressed to a 1930's level economy where its not a scorched and poisoned wasteland.
I have a real hard time seeing this continuing as a popular film after Doomsday.
That's another unreasonably optimistic portrayal of the aftermath of a nuclear war.
I'm sorry, I fail to see the relevance to my comment? What does TDA not coming out (I believe it was two months after Doomsday) have to do with my observation about WarGames?
WarGames would have been harsher in hindsight since in the film shows a false alarm leading to a nuclear war. It was released in June 1983 and with Doomsday occurring on September of that year, it as it got predicted. Though I am unsure how many survivors know that 9/26 was caused by a computer error.
I believe that The Day After was more hyped up at that time and it would show the after effects of a nuclear war immediately, unlike in WarGames where no nuclear war really happened.
I was thinking of what famous toyline would continue in the 21st century:
- Mattel is likely be gone since it's headquarters is in El Segundo, CA within the Los Angeles Country. Los Angeles and the county suffered multiple hits. If surviving factories survived, maybe they could still produce Hotwheels, Matchbox, and Barbie Dolls.
- Hasbro may or may have survived since it's HQ is in Pawtucket, RI. However, since Rhode Island is small and Providence taking a hit, the entire state is drenched in fall out along with strikes in the Boston-Washington corridor. Again, like Mattel, if other factories survived, they could still continue making their products such as Transformers and Battleship.
- LEGO definitely survived since Billund didn't take a hit. I could see it continue production factories within the ANZC, SAC, and Southeast Asia. Just like OTL, it would be insanely expensive and only the elite would probably be its main customer.
Other than that, Star Wars action figures from 1977-1983 would be worth a fortune here.
- Mattel is likely be gone since it's headquarters is in El Segundo, CA within the Los Angeles Country. Los Angeles and the county suffered multiple hits. If surviving factories survived, maybe they could still produce Hotwheels, Matchbox, and Barbie Dolls.
- Hasbro may or may have survived since it's HQ is in Pawtucket, RI. However, since Rhode Island is small and Providence taking a hit, the entire state is drenched in fall out along with strikes in the Boston-Washington corridor. Again, like Mattel, if other factories survived, they could still continue making their products such as Transformers and Battleship.
- LEGO definitely survived since Billund didn't take a hit. I could see it continue production factories within the ANZC, SAC, and Southeast Asia. Just like OTL, it would be insanely expensive and only the elite would probably be its main customer.
Other than that, Star Wars action figures from 1977-1983 would be worth a fortune here.
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Threads is interesting cause Jane, despite having been born and grown up after World War 3, has a tooth filling plus pierced ears for ladies' earrings...
Wasn't her dad a doctor in Baltimore or DC? If so the chances would be minimal unless they were on vacation at the time.
I'm guessing there'd be a resurgence of acoustic big band groups with more modern genres of music falling to wayside. Since they tend to rely on electronic recording equipment, speakers etc.
Don't forget this little bit from Reign of Fire, one of the best post-apocalyptic bits of fun:
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