Conquest Card References

[zerodemon]

For everyones information, you receive a free colourless "Time Circuits" card for Ultimate Odyssey with Conquest. It's inside the box.

Thought I'd kick off proceedings here with a list of the card references I know off the top of my head. Here we go.
Starter Cards
Morden's metals exchange - This is Morden, the agent of The Shadows in Babylon 5. Proud of myself for that one.

Carrots
21- Queen Liz II
22- Adam West as Batman
23- That girl robot from Wall-E
24- D'Argo from Farscape. He is holding a chocolate eclair. You will notice he is the fourth Conquest Carrot, much like Flo is the fourth Quest Carrot. We will be using his Eclair in the same way Flo uses her Danish.
25- Melanie Chartoff from Parker Lewis Can't Lose. The flamingo on this card (and on bingo flamingo in Quest) is also a reference to the show; the high school students were called the Santa Domingo Flamingos.
26- Bumblebee from the Transformers movies.
27- Amelia Earhart
28- I think this is Bjorn from Abba, but not sure.
29- Named after Susanna Thompson who played the Borg Queen in Star Trek
30- Robin Hood
31- Wendi from Reno 911
32- is Vic Fontaine, a holographic entertainer from Deep Space Nine - you can see the space station over his left sholder.
33-
34- Egon is Egon from the Ghostbusters
35- Joan is Joan of Arc
36- Neo is Neo from The Matrix

Bunnies
Evil Bunny - Doctor Evil

Cards
Choose 2 Carrots - Pirates of the Caribbean
Angry Beet Farmer - The Office! Possible reference to "The Beat Farmers"
String of Poloponies - The Honeymooners
Quantum Singu-harity - Quantum Leap
Ruby Laser Slippers - Wizard of Oz
Gremlins - Duhhhh (there may be a Back to the Future reference here also.)
Lordzilla - Godzilla
Kamikaze Kitt - Knight Rider
Children of the Corn - references both the movie and the lovely greeby greebs that like the band Korn.
Trash Compactor - Star Wars - A New Hope
Deep Sleep Nine - Deep Space Nine
Sour Hour - Alien Nation
Top Of The World - Titanic
Bizarre Baccarat - Casino Royale
Night at the Roxbunny - Night at the Roxbury
Terrible Misfortune 854 - Die Hard
TM 855 - Indiana Jones
Silver 860 - Judas of Biblical fame
Silver 861 - Silver Surfer
Gold 862 - The Delorean
Gold 864 - Goldmember from that movie Goldmember
Copper 858 - Abraham Lincoln
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Xanadude - Xanadu
Terminators - Terminator 1,2 and 3
Clue Cast - The Cast of Clue
Dead Zone - Some of these references are becoming very obvious. Dead Zone.
Hecklers - The Muppets
Olympic Winner - Phelps (this guy looks like Obama to me. You'll see what I mean. If you know the reference, please tell me. I've seen Obama in Speedos now.)
Tranny Nanny - Mrs Doubtfire
Beefed Up Production - Killer bunnies and the Ultimate Odyssey.
Banana Phone - Raffi's song, banana phone
TM 927 - 300
TM 928 - Icarus
Quickdraw - Norman Rockwell painting.
Where's the Beef - Old Wendy's commercial
Continuum Transfunctioner - Dude, Where's my Car?
Googol Plexing - Refers to a Googolplex which is just 10 to the power of however many zeroes you can write before collapsing. The dude on the card is Carl Sagan.
Grabthar's Hammer - Part of the catchphrase of Dr. Lazarus from Galaxy Quest. "By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!"
Paper Boy - From the 80s movie, "Better Off Dead" where the main character is hounded by the local paperboy for the princely sum of two dollars.
Servo Pen - Star Trek reference to Gary Seven and his wonderful "sonic screwdriver-esque" piece of expositionary machinery.
Goa'uld Device - This is one of the hand devices used by the Goa'uld in Stargate
Slight of Hand - Star Trek episode "Who Mourns for Adonais" where Apollo seizes control of the enterprise with his giant green space hand.
Carrot Lottery - The Lottery?
Zoetic Zoology - Noah's Ark
Blue Plate Special - A Blue Plate Special is a low-priced daily diner special: a main course with all the fixins, a daily combo, a square for two bits.
Lemon Squeezie - Probably a reference to the old washing up liquid or the phrase "Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy."
Bamboozled Blacksmith - References a few other cards, including Grabthar's Hammer, Sword, Cleaver and Lucky Horseshoe. I think that may be plutonium in his front pocket form the associated TM. Anybody know if the guy is some kind of reference?
Dragon of Doom - This could be a reference to D&D (and most associated fantasy games since) where doom dragons are purple. It also may be a reference to the lady dragon from Shrek.
Doe Si Doe - The sound of music probably

Red Booster
What the Deuce - Stewie Griffin and one of his early catchphrases.
Hindenbomb - Is, in brilliantly poor taste, modelled after the Hinderburg.
Holographic Bunny - This is the holographic doctor from Star Trek Voyager.
Terrible Misfortune 980 - Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Guardian Angel: This is Bartleby, from the Kevin Smith film 'Dogma'
Black Ooze - The black ooze from the X-Files
Odd Job - A popular and well known Bond villain.
Everybody's Dead Dave - References the very first episode of Red Dwarf, where Holly informs Lister that the whole crew is dead.
Terrible Misfortune 979 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Kentucky Avenue - is one of the Monopoly streets. There is clearly more to this card, but I don't know the reference.
Faxilmilian - named after the big red robot from the 1979 movie The Black Hole.
Scotty Doesn't Know is based on a scene from the film EuroTrip and a song by the band Lustra. It is quite a funny song.
Witch's Spirit - This refers to the book The Witching Hour by Anne Rice. The shadowy figure at the door is Lasher.
Eight is Enough - refers to the tv show of the same name.
Grapes of Wrath - This is based on the popular book "The Grapes of Wrath." In the book the characters aren't grapes, but the characters on the card seem to be modelled after the actors from the 1940's movie.
Bunnies on Film - This was a sketch from the skit show 'In Living Color.' This particular skit starred Damon Wayans and David Allen Grier

[Altoid27]

Thanks for clearing a lot of these up (I had no idea about Carrot #24). I added my own below just going off of what I think might be what the cards were going for ("think" being the key word - for all I know, I'm shooting in the dark here):

Continuum Transfunctioner - I would have sworn this was "Dude, Where's my Car?" but I'm second-guessing myself...
Where's the Beef - Old Wendy's commercial
Gold 864 - Wow, I thought this was the Goldmember villain from the third "Austin Powers" movie. May need to go get my eyes checked after this...
Olympic Winner - I thought this was supposed to be the swimmer Phelps? But I can actually see where you'd think that looks like Obama since he really does.
Quickdraw - Norman Rockwell painting.
Carrot 31 Wendi - I want to say this is Wendy from "Reno 911." I don't know if it is, but that's the vibe I'm getting.
Carrot 32 Vic - I'm probably way off here but the only "Vic" I can think of (aside from the Vic Viper in Konami's Gradius games) is the singer Vic Damone. It doesn't really look like him to me but there you go.

[zerodemon]

You ARE right about the Goldmember thing!
Bunny Stew is a Family Guy reference. I keep thinking Vic is some kind of Evangelist reference or (scarily) that it's meant to be evil source of evil L'Rhonh'bbard, daemon founder of Scientology. I doubt either is true though,

[shibby]

Carrot 29 is named after Susanna Thompson who played the Borg Queen in Star Trek.

Carrot 32 is Vic Fontaine, a holographic entertainer from Deep Space Nine - you can see the space station over his left sholder.

Angry Beet Farmer is indeed from the TV show "The Office". The character Dwight Schrute (illustrated on card) was a beet farmer. I wonder if the card name started out as an homage to the band "Beat Farmers" from JB's home town of San Diego who had a cult following in the 80s.

Googol Plexing is referring to a Googolplex which is just 10 to the power of however many zeroes you can write before collapsing. The dude on the card is Carl Sagan.

Grabthar's Hammer is part of the catchphrase of Dr. Lazarus from Galaxy Quest. "By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!"

Paper Boy is from the 80s movie, "Better Off Dead" where the main character is hounded by the local paperboy for the princely sum of two dollars.

[zerodemon]

We are nearing the full set very quickly! Well done us. Does anybody get the reference from the carrot "Melanie"? I thought 29 may be the Borg Queen, but I totally wasn't sure.

[zerodemon]

Servo Pen - Star Trek reference to Gary Seven and his wonderful "sonic screwdriver-esque" piece of expositionary machinery.
Goa'uld Device - This is one of the hand devices used by the Goa'uld in Stargate
Slight of Hand - Star Trek episode "Who Mourns for Adonais" where Apollo seizes control of the enterprise with his giant green space hand.
Carrot Lottery - The Lottery?
Zoetic Zoology - Noah's Ark
Blue Plate Special - A Blue Plate Special is a low-priced daily diner special: a main course with all the fixins, a daily combo, a square for two bits.
Lemon Squeezie - Probably a reference to the old washing up liquid or the phrase "Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy."
Bamboozled Blacksmith - References a few other cards, including Grabthar's Hammer, Sword, Cleaver and Lucky Horseshoe. I think that may be plutonium in his front pocket form the associated TM. Anybody know if the guy is some kind of reference?
Dragon of Doom - This could be a reference to D&D (and most associated fantasy games since) where doom dragons are purple. It also may be a reference to the lady dragon from Shrek.
Doe Si Doe - The sound of music probably

References we're looking for:-
Texas Let Go (I'm English, so no idea.)
Wasabi Bobby
The Terrible misfortune with the log birling (has a yellow ball with a red stripe)
Squish Kebab
Suspended Animation
Star 69
Silver (The Car One)
Terrible Misfortune (The one with the defibrillator.)

[BunniesArtist]

Not every card has a reference, but you are doing pretty good.

The majority of Conquest has been drawn by our new artist, Matthew Holliday. He's done a lot of Odyssey images, too ... so that may tie in a few other references.

[shibby]

Hi Jonathon.

I'm guessing you drew Quickdraw and added yourself in place of Norman Rockwell. Is he a favourite artist of yours?

[shibby]

I'm guessing Texas Let Go may be a reference to government of Texas not 'letting go' of their current position on gambling/casinos and refusing to allow an expanded gambling industry in their state.

The fact that the card mentions that you can force opponents to gamble may lend some weight to this assumption.

www.casinovendors.com/article/analyst-skeptical-on-texas-casino-legislation-196822/
www.casinovendors.com/article/dont-bet-on-texas-gambling-expansion-196934/

Too political for a KB card? Too wild an assumption on my part? What do you think?

[zerodemon]

I think it's a reasonable assumption under the circumstances. Good thinking.

[shibby]

Star 69 is the code you punch in to a US phone to return the last (missed) phone call. In this case you are returning, or redirecting, the FTB.

[zerodemon]

Ahhh, but what does the card art represent?

[shibby]

Not sure.... looks like a scene fron Back to the Future.

Wasabi Bobby confused me when I saw it first in the Green UO starter deck. I tried to find out what it was and found a funny blog about a Japanese delivery guy. The only other WB I found was an old blues bassist, but that's not really relevant to the card.

[shibby]

Mar 16, 2011 19:40:17 GMT -5 joeyskywalker said:

Bunny with bow tie = Doctor Who?

Mar 16, 2011 20:18:32 GMT -5 gambitrulz said:

i was thinking the bow bunny = 007, savage bunny = wolverine, short bunny = Dr. Evil, migraine bunny = star wars, and flying bunny = ...tails from Sonic the Hedgehog?

What do y'all think of these posts from back when we first learned about Conquest? I'm inclined to agree with the Wolverine for Truculent Bunny. The Tails for Ludicrous is interesting too.

[Altoid27]

Oh, thank you for Grabthar's Hammae and the Googol Plexing one (that guy was driving me nuts).

And I'm pretty sure Texas Let Go is just a play on the name of the popular poker version of Texas Hold'Em. I get to Houston for conferences for work and there's a huge statue of Sam Houston on the drive. Thinking that may be him on the card, too.

Either way, you all are awesome at this stuff. Some of you need to go on "Jeopardy" and turn that knowledge of stuff into cash.