

laylah ( talk) 16:34, 27 October 2011 (UTC) An editor keen to preserve the image we're talking about did a google on the subject and came up with a book, evidently for children, about city life in the Muslim Golden Age. The book of the thousand nights and one night. Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. here towards the bottom but i this is a different edition from mine and i can't actually find it) i don't have time to think about the image in the wp article right now, so i'm putting these here in case someone finds them useful before i have a chance to get to it: i think burton mentions it in a note in one of the supplemental volumes (see e.g. Soundofmusicals ( talk) 01:07, 27 October 2011 (UTC) it doesn't seem to be in the burton version, although of course who can ever be sure of that, but it does seem to be in mardrus and payne and possibly others.

If someone badly wants to put it back - please find a story it relaltes to and put it in a more appropraite place in the article. In any case the (nice) magic carpet graphic was at best misplaced. I actually can't remember a specific story in the Nights with a magic carpet - although Disney sneaked one into their (per)version of Aladdin (which is not a real "Nights" story anyway!!). Soundofmusicals ( talk) 12:03, 7 March 2012 (UTC) Magic Carpet Only in the Disney version! In the real story Aladdin is transported by a genie. He's what comes to mind when people talk about magic carpets!
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I can't believe the movie (or story, whatever) of Alladin isn't mentioned in the popular culture reference. What is tapestry? -Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.160.90.204 ( talk) 03:33, 12 November 2009 (UTC) No Alladin? As stuff gets sourced, it can be moved back. Moved this unsourced WP:OR from the article to the talk page. In one episode from Baby Looney Tunes, when Daffy borrowed and used Sylvester's blanket on a slide, Daffy went airborne for a few seconds in a way resembling one riding on a flying carpet.A popular amusement ride which rotates riders vertically but keeps them heads-up is called "Flying Carpet".The Magic carpet also return in Sonic Riders and Sonic and the Secret Rings.However, certain enterprising businessmen have revived this method of travel across the expanse of the desert, for a price. In the online MMORPG RuneScape, magic carpets (made from camel hair) used to be a popular and common method of transportation around the Kharidian Desert, but lost favour after the Emir of Al Kharid, the desert town, fell to his death after mistaking an ordinary carpet for his magic one.Harry Potter - The Ministry of Magic has made magic carpets illegal made in a reference in the 4th book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Flying carpets are a mode of transportation called "Hawking mats" in the novel Hyperion by Dan Simmons.Popo from the famous manga and anime Dragon Ball rides a magic carpet. However, the escape does not initially go according to plan since the carpet does not work until Rincewind "just paid attention to certain fundamental details of laminar and spatial arrangements." (the carpet being upside down) and commands it to go 'down' in order to make it fly.
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