Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Azteca – Rikmah Stone Crofter & Wilhan Short Horn

Rikmah Stone Crofter & Wilhan Short Horn – Rick & Will Marshall from Land of the Lost
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Rikmah_Stone_Crofter
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Wilan_Short_Horn
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Land_of_the_Lost…and_Found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Lost(1974_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Land_of_the_Lost_characters_and_species

Rikmah Stone Crofter and his son Wilhan Short Horn are lost in the Cenote. Rikmah has been abducted by the hungry dead. Wilhan asks you wizard for help recovering his father. Wilhan NEVER wants to be lost in this land again. The quest detailing this encounter is called Land of the Lost… and Found.

Rick Marshall and Will Marshall are two of the three main human characters of the show, Land of the Lost (1974-1976). The show was produced by Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions. The Krofft brothers were also responsible for such Saturday morning live action shows like H.R. Pufnstuf. (1969), Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (1973-1975), Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (1976), and Wonderbug (1976-1978).

Land of the Lost is a children’s adventure television series created (though uncredited) by David Gerrold and produced by Sid and Marty Krofft, who co-developed the series with Allan Foshko. It is a live-action show mixed with stop-motion animated dinosaurs, originally aired on Saturday mornings from 1974 to 1976, on the NBC television network. CBS used it as a summer replacement series from 22 June 1985 – 28 December 1985 and 20 June 1987 – 5 September 1987. It has since become a 1970s American cult classic. Krofft Productions remade the series in 1991, and adapted it into a feature film in 2009.

Land of the Lost related the adventures of the Marshall family (including Will and Holly and their father, later replaced by their uncle). The Marshalls become trapped in a pocket universe populated by dinosaurs, ape-like creatures called Pakuni, and anthropomorphic reptilian creatures named Sleestak.

Travel to the Land of the Lost is almost always accidental, via “time doorways” that appear to glow and/or billow mist. These doorways sometimes appear to open and close spontaneously, but they can also be opened and controlled by Pylon crystal matrix tables and by a matrix table in the Lost City. Time doorways obey a form of temporal energy conservation law: whenever something enters the Land of the Lost via a time doorway, something else must then leave it, though not necessarily at exactly the same time. This aspect was abandoned in the show’s third and final season, after new producers took over and the show’s mythology was substantially changed.

At least one Pylon periodically travels to other universes, acting as a sort of “interdimensional elevator”, triggered by a conjunction of the Land’s moons that occurs every three to four years. One of the universes it stops at along the way appears to be the Marshalls’ home Earth.

Rick Marshall, his son Will, and his young daughter Holly were rafting on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon when they were caught in “the greatest earthquake ever known”. The river was diverted over a cliff, and as the Marshalls’ raft plunged over the resulting waterfall they struck a time doorway partway down. Trapped in the Land of the Lost with only the minimal camping equipment they’d had on the raft, they make their camp in a natural cave partway up the face of a cliff they call the High Bluff.

The three of them are from California, though Rick grew up on Ford Street in Indianapolis and attended Fillmore High there. The Marshalls formerly lived in Harrisville, Indiana. Mrs. Marshall died of unspecified causes when Will and Holly were very young, and neither of them remembers her very clearly. Rick describes her as being headstrong and beautiful, just like Holly, and apparently loved her deeply. Will and Holly frequently suffer bouts of sibling rivalry, though they overcome such issues when the situation becomes difficult enough. Will is the most adventurous of the Marshalls, frequently taking “shortcuts” as an excuse to explore new territory and tampering with Pylons to determine their function. Holly suffers from a fear of heights.

The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references, I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

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