Easter eggs
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There are many easter eggs in Spore and they range from easily noticeable to a rare find.
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[edit] Creature Creator
- If you spin the galaxy very fast, Will Wright's head will appear. This can be incredibly startling for players who don't know about it.
[edit] Main game
- Like in the Creature Creator if you spin the Galaxy really fast a few pictures of the Maxis team appear, and if you press CTRL+SHIFT a new cluster of pictures emerge from the Galaxy.
- Players can find the Sol system.
- Steve is the same UFO from SimCity 2000 box art.
- If you look carefully on a Happiness Booster the letters IPPETAD are on the bottom of the tool. This is a parody of Family Guy's Blue Harvest, from 'Darth' Al Harrington's "Intergalactic Proton Powered Electrical Tentacle Advertising Droids" scene.
- Will Wright's head sometimes appears in the creatures' speech bubbles in the Tribal, Civilization and Space stages.
- Sometimes a plumb-bob will appear in the creatures' speech bubbles in the Tribal, Civ, and Space Stages. This is a reference to The Sims, another series of games invented by Will Wright.
- Another possible speech bubble that pops up occasionally is one with exclamation points and little symbols in it, reminiscent of cartoon swearing. This sometimes pops up in the Creature Stage as well, over the head of one of your pack mates or a summoned creature.
- The orange fruit in the Creature stage is covered in numbers and yellow stars.
- If a fruit lays on the ground too long, it starts to rot into a Blue fruit with Green fumes coming out of it, meaning your creature does not like the smell.
- When trading with any empire, the theme song from M.U.L.E. can sometimes be heard in the background.
- Simply typing the $ symbol in the editors will create a Sporebuck symbol.
- A tribe member will demand pie just before Civilization stage, in the Pie Scene.
- The Sporebuck ยง symbol also resembles Simoleon from the Sims and Sim City series.
- If you destroy the only planet left in a system, your ship will hover over the star, but you can't land on it.
- Sometimes in creature stage, creatures can be found sleeping, and if woken,it angrily snaps at the players creature.
- Players can chase citizens around with buildings in the city editor. The citizens scream, shout and cry.
- In civilization stage, when a vehicle blows up creatures fly out of it
[edit] Llamas
In many of Maxis games, Llamas are used* for reasons currently unknown.
- Sometimes empires will assign players a mission to retrieve Llama artifacts.
- Some planets have Moai-style statues resembling llamas.
- Upon entering the Galactic Core, Llamas can be seen surrounding the wormhole tunnels.
- The creature Al Packa is an Alpaca, an animal related to the Llama.
- One of the Hyper Sized Bones that can be found on the player's homeworld is very similar to a Llama head.
- In Spore Galactic Adventures, one of the objects avaliable for the player to put in the adventure is a llama statue. Also, one of the Maxis-made missions' objective is to recover a giant golden llama statue from a temple.
*This could be from a movie called Monty Python's Holy Grail. In the introduction to this movie, it mentions many different types of llamas, especially Mexican Whooping Llamas. Most Maxis games have other allusions to this movie as well; if you look at some of the Sim City zoos, they always include llamas, African swallows, evil rabbits, and other things related to Monty Python.
- In Spore Galactic Adventures, there is a useable song called "Pump-U-Up", which is actually a completely unedited soundtrack from Sims Superstar called "Studio Town".
