What physical embodiments of portals between worlds have been imagined in sci-fi/fantasy? My starter list:
Rabbit hole (Alice)
Subtle knife (dark materials)
Wardrobe (Narnia)
Phone booth (Doctor Who)
Platform 9 3/4 (Potter)
Wormhole with gate (Stargate)
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Dirk Gently has a weird mechanism where Thor turns his hammer by a tiny angle or something
HHG has a bunch of half-assed ones
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Magic carpet in Aladdin
Stone circles in Outlander
Jet car in buckaroo banzai
Looking glass in alice
Tornado in oz
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magic carpet doesn't go to a different world though does it? it's more like a plane
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One that made a big impression on me as a kid:
The pools in the forest (Narnia book 6)
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I would buy the hell out of an art book filled with artists' depictions of all these different portals
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Cupboard
Looking glass/mirror
Stargate
Broken transporter pad
Turn-style door
Sliding door? (I think - I never saw it)
Closet door
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do you count time travel?
- time machine
- duffle bag
- hot tub
- Delorean
- Toaster
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