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A Little Leaguer falls through an earthquake crack at home plate and lands in King Arthur's Camelot, where a backpack of 90s stuff makes him look like a prophesied savior. Critics hated it; 90s kids wore out the VHS. And look closely: that's a pre-Titanic Kate Winslet and a pre-Bond Daniel Craig.
The 2001 Martin Lawrence comedy where a modern theme-park worker falls in a moat and wakes up in medieval England, fish-out-of-water antics ensuing. A critical flop that a whole generation still somehow watched on cable a dozen times.
Square's "Dream Team" — Final Fantasy's creator, Dragon Quest's creator, and Dragon Ball's artist — built a time-travel RPG so good that thirty years later it still tops greatest-of-all-time lists. A dozen endings, no random battles, and the game that gave New Game Plus its name.
Jack and Annie climb into a tree house full of books, point at a picture, and the whole thing spins off to dinosaurs, knights, or the deck of the Titanic. Mary Pope Osborne's chapter-book series turned a generation of kids into readers — one 'research trip' at a time.
A 12-year-old orphan inventor gets yanked into the future by a fast-talking kid named Wilbur, meets a gloriously weird family, and is hunted by a villain in a sentient bowler hat. Meet the Robinsons underperformed in 2007 and got lost in Disney's awkward mid-2000s stretch — but its three-word motto, "Keep Moving Forward," stuck with the kids who saw it.
"Oh, boy." Every week Dr. Sam Beckett woke up in someone else's life with only a cigar-chomping hologram named Al to tell him what had gone wrong. NBC moved it around the schedule for five seasons, and it never did get Sam home.
The Borg Queen haunted the multiplex in Jonathan Frakes's feature directorial debut, with James Cromwell as the boozy, reluctant legend who invents warp drive. It became the highest-grossing and best-reviewed of the TNG-era films — the moment 90s Trek proved it could do full Hollywood scale.