If they're gnomes, then are elves a subset of gnomes, are gnomes a subset of elves, are gnomes and elves exactly the same things or are they totally different things?
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When garden gnomes begin disappearing all over London, Gnomeo and Juliet recruit the help of detective Sherlock Gnomes (Johnny Depp) and Dr. Watson (Chiwetel Ejiofor).
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Smith hasn't been very busy since the final season of "Downton Abbey," but she did voice one of the gnomes in the animated 2018 movie, "Sherlock Gnomes."
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When Gnomeo and Juliet discover their friends are missing, they team up with detective Sherlock Gnomes to solve the mystery and bring the gnomes home in this family comedy.
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Last year we had 2,860 gnomes that we could count.
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Because of their distracting and somewhat crude nature, Garden Gnomes have been banned in the illustrious Chelsea Flower Show, leaving the supplies abundant for "gnoming" (loading people's lawns with a score of plastic gnomes).
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I visited with some gnomes, but let's not go into that.
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You should also collect Eggos and Gnomes to unlock secret content.
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I just didn't want to hang out with gnomes, that's all.
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Pharmacies, physiotherapy surgeries and shops selling garden gnomes line the sleepy streets.
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Ahead, discover eight of our favorites, from nesting dolls to garden gnomes.
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But a fire-breathing dragon ferociously burninating a small gang of gnomes?
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KS: I don't love gnomes but that's fine, so they're all different.
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From classic gnomes with white beards, red hats and pipes to footballers in white shorts and female gnomes in saucy underwear, Philipp Griebel is one of the most famous producers of the painted clay models which adorn gardens worldwide.
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One image, captioned "The election contenders", shows a group of waving garden gnomes.
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The story takes place in a mythical realm where centaurs, unicorns and gnomes roam.
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Granted, it's highly abstracted but with some effort, the garden gnomes can be found.
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The Rice Krispies mascots are gnomes who are aptly named Snap, Crackle, and Pop.
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ORCs are humanoid creatures, best described as ugly, filthy, fanged beings who resemble gnomes.
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Early on I fretted over whether the Rice Krispies characters are elves or gnomes.
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Obviously, Netflix did not actually create a trailer featuring gnomes or porpoises, perfidious or otherwise.
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Hundreds of garden gnomes and pink flamingos were reportedly being stolen to pay for methamphetamine.
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"Nothing is better to set the mood than Jonathan and Drew gnomes," Drew told PEOPLE.
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Do you think that garden gnomes going on adventures are a thing of the past?
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Amazon description: Join a phe-gnome-nal adventure inside the secret world of garden gnomes!
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On the other hand, the Chinatown trinkets the gnomes encounter cut uncomfortably close to caricature.
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The new superteam strips to skimpy speedos and battles giant gnomes in the name of feminism.
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In Cumbria, northern England, 1,500 contaminated birds were killed and buried with some radioactive garden gnomes.
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So you draw these goblins and gnomes … Oh, sorry, I really got off the question there.
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We don't meet the gnomes in this preview, but I expect we will in the future.
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I found a little counter space in our made-for-gnomes kitchen and set to work.
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Retired window cleaner Ron Broomfield has turned his cottage into a shrine for gnomes — 1,600 of them.
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Tomoko Takagi's "Dwarf in Kamoeka" (2014) depicts a garden with gnomes and dwarves at ARTCOURT gallery's booth.
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So I just was at your office trying out "Gnomes and Goblins," which I thought was fantastic.
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The appeal of decorating a garden with a bunch of ceramic gnomes is completely lost on us.
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There's also the possibility that Chivo, that mysterious dude who loves puzzles and gnomes, is Lil' Ricky.
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He's currently developing a sequel and will soon unveil a virtual reality project titled Gnomes and Goblins.
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I just did one with Jon Favreau, who's working on a bunch around gnomes, or there's goblins.
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Just walk outside and speak your command, and Google's army of helper gnomes will come to the rescue.
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More than 40 of the victims were children, many trapped inside a cinema watching the animated film "Sherlock Gnomes".
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Well, do you remember that South Park underpants gnomes episode with the chart that goes Phase 1: Collect underpants.
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On and around these boxy structures he placed typical garden decorations, such as gnomes or animal and angel statues.
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It's the latest round of the Kids Interview — and the cast of Sherlock Gnomes is in the adorable hot seat.
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Paramount's next animated feature release is "Sherlock Gnomes" in 2018 followed by "SpongeBob SquarePants 3" and "Amusement Park" in 2019.
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And then, on the other side of the hill, there are the gnomes with their own society you can explore.
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Plus, Chivo's love of garden gnomes does offer up an enticing clue: According to the map, Lil' Ricky loved gardening.
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The Kleingärten used to be sniffed at by the urban elite — too square, too uncool, too full of garden gnomes.
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A dancing gnome from the film Sherlock Gnomes dancing while sporting a Borat-swimsuit charmed many people in 2018. Why?
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Think tiny doors made for fairies placed in unexpected scenarios, fairy figures on miniature rope swings, or gnomes on beaches.
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Garden GnomesThere's something distinctly mischievous about Garden Gnomes, which might have to do with their roots in fairy tales and myths.
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In the end I decided that the characters on the Rice Krispies box are elves, not gnomes, so it didn't matter.
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"The project is not about fairies or gnomes but instead about reflecting the spirit and architecture of the neighborhood," Singer told CNN.
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With its Provençal clay crèche village figures (santons), and Scandinavian bearded gnomes (tomte), the market embraces the Mediterranean and the Nordic too.
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Kakeda also cites Japanese characters called "Kobito Zukan," which are like tiny dwarves or gnomes — some, like Gudetama, also have strange butts.
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One mention of the clunky, backless wooden shoe, and visions of gnomes, gardeners, Amsterdam tourist traps, and Pippi Longstocking flash into your mind.
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The Running of the Gnomes — a community-run race that raises awareness and money for breast cancer treatment — has been going since 27.
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His first work in that medium is an interactive experience called "Gnomes & Goblins" that Favreau is developing with Los Angeles-based studio Wevr.
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Think of the ubiquitous pink flamingos and garden gnomes that people place on their lawns, or of Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup Cans painting.
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Elton John Reacts to 'Sherlock Gnomes' Using His Music, Plus Khloé Kardashian Begins Nesting in Cleveland Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
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No more moody, masked teens wielding knives, or lawn gnomes come to life on the cover of my reading material, thank you very much.
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Dragons are kept as pets, trolls run the bridge toll booths, and garden gnomes have to take care of the lawns they're standing on.
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"Either I carry on until I am over 100 years old, that would certainly still be fun, or the garden gnomes reproduce," he joked.
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But there's still something a little chuckle-worthy about its setting, a world of elves, gnomes, and trolls who fervently believe magic doesn't exist.
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But "Gnomes & Goblins" is meant to be a stand-alone entertainment with future updates that will reveal more of the story and more adventures.
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Google, Niantic (and again, Apple) have it figured out, but startups in the space must avoid phase 215 of the Underpants Gnomes' business model.
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GNOME ALONE After moving into a new house, a girl discovers that the garden gnomes are alive — and guarding the entrance to another dimension.
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His calls were amplified by his willingness to offer his punchy opinions on television, unlike the reclusive, grumpy gnomes who managed most fixed-income investments.
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A world filled with fairies, gnomes, and wizards has the potential to be just as entertaining as one with Navy SEALs who are also seals.
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"We are becoming ever more like our garden gnomes," says Wolfgang Nowak, one of Germany's most astute social observers—inward-facing rather than open-minded.
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In April, the Mets doled out Noah Syndergaard garden gnomes that caused fans to line up in the morning for a 4:05 p.m. game.
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I didn't really like visiting the gnomes very much, but I could see it being that kind of thing where you explore environments and travel.
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You're coming off a blockbuster exhibition of high-end garden gnomes and an accompanying documentary, and you can do pretty much anything you damn well please.
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From Muzzle's character sheet, I could click a link to learn more about Rock Gnomes, then click another to learn about their various quirks and lore.
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Aleksandr Lillevyali had dropped his three daughters, a pair of 11 year-olds and a five year-old, off to watch the cartoon film "Sherlock Gnomes".
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When we arrived at the compound to film Debbie and Carrie, we discovered a wonderland festooned with pink coffee pots, gnomes and tiny statues of the
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If it were correct, we'd all find gnomes, whose only distinguishing characteristics are diminutiveness, avarice, and a preference for living underground, considerably more plausible than ghosts.
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In defiance of common sense, "Gnomeo & Juliet" (2011) decided that Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers would be better off not dying, at least as animated garden gnomes.
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I arrived, finally, at a small, neat brick house that was surrounded by a large collection of ceramic garden gnomes, teddy bears, Yorkies, mermaids and fairies.
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The last time I was in Iceland, in early July several years ago, I understood why talk of the existence of fairies and gnomes persists there.
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For the Worst Actor category, that would be Johnny Depp (voice acting in Sherlock Gnomes), Will Ferrell (Holmes & Watson), John Travolta (Gotti), and Bruce Willis (Death Wish).
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Sherlock Gnomes isn't Sir Elton John's first foray into composing music for animated films, but it does have one perk that The Lion King didn't: his kids!
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Google has used the first of April to "launch" everything from morse code keyboards, to AI-powered garden gnomes, to a translator for talking with your pets.
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Nobody knows when or why it started, but head out to Western Australia and you'll find a small village with a population of over 1,63 garden gnomes.
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If comical little garden men strike your fancy, take a walk along the streets and say hello to the likes of Greg Gnoman and The Rolling Gnomes.
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My lovely, four-star hotel had décor of wooden gnomes and elk heads, and a smashing petit déjeuner where the fresh food never seemed to stop coming.
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The studio's co-founders Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb have put their own spin on the traditional garden lurker by creating a line of abstract, steel gnomes.
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So, let your garden gnomes suffer through a brown lawn this summer, and think of the earthy hues of your dead grass as the new suburban status symbol.
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Former students said the rules when they attended ranged from not talking about anything related to witchcraft or mysticism, including Harry Potter and gnomes, or PG-13 movies.
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Six years after the cute, kitschy animated lawn decor danced into moviegoers' hearts in Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), the charming original characters are back for a sequel — Sherlock Gnomes.
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Surfacing Living among us are hundreds of fairy gardeners, who maintain a sense of childlike wonder and whimsy by embracing miniature gardening with fairies, gnomes and other mythical figurines.
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Good news for completionists out there: The game is chock-full of waffles and gnomes, a VHS library to fill, and comes with its own set of milestones and achievements.
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"They love animation movies, so I can't wait to take them to see [this]," John told PEOPLE in March of his family film Sherlock Gnomes, which he composed music for.
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The president is nominated in the worst actor category (for appearing as himself), along Johnny Depp ("Sherlock Gnomes"), Will Ferrell ("Holmes & Watson"), John Travolta ("Gotti") and Bruce Willis ("Death Wish").
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The absurd humor and vivid worlds of Adventure Time: Magic Man's Head Games offer constant stimulation, as you guide Finn and Jake past enemies that include giant sandwiches and evil gnomes.
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"Earlier there were just the classic garden gnomes, typically from the mines, then politicians came along and all sorts of other people, also of course some scantily dressed ones," said Griebel.
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It has the aura of a morbidly picturesque fairy tale, with Monaghan's compact, sprightly and inexhaustible Richard bringing to mind one of the vengeful, quick-tempered gnomes common to such stories.
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Set in what looks like the suburbs of Los Angeles (if the suburbs were populated by elves, centaurs, trolls, and gnomes), the story follows two elf brothers named Ian and Barley Lightfoot.
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Two gnomes chase off winter by waving flame-colored fabric — they're funny — paving the way for "Spring," in which James Whiteside (Zephyr) partners Sarah Lane (The Rose) and Skylar Brandt (The Swallow).
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We were there with a quartet of male garden gnomes in gray seersucker skirts, a golden-gowned mermaid, an iridescent jelly fish and a sea gull in a feather-bedecked knickerbocker suit.
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One would think a show filled with an abundance of blood, royal intrigue, the occasional orgy, and fantasy characters like elves and gnomes would have the requisite ingredients to hold your interest.
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Shakespeare takes a back seat to Arthur Conan Doyle here, as the lovers are joined by Sherlock Gnomes (voiced by Johnny Depp) and Watson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) to crack a case of missing figurines.
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But "Gnomes and Goblins" requires room scale and controllers and it's available only on the Vive now and it will be with Oculus as they put out their hand controllers and their room scale.
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"If there's one thing I know Jonathan doesn't like, it's a whole lot of mini-mes," Drew says in the episode, as he fills Jonathan's house with Drew gnomes from their Scott Living line.
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In the past, work included fresco-style paintings by Sara Bright, faux-finish lawn gnomes sculptures by Andy Byers, and an apocalyptic installation by Phil Wagner which incorporated the flames from the fire pit.
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As the storm blew in, Vladimir Zuev, a retired Russian pilot turned tour operator, was sitting beneath his shady pergola, where the garden gnomes consist of a bust of Lenin and other Soviet icons.
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When I tried the demo for the VR project Gnomes & Goblins, from Iron Man and Jungle Book director Jon Favreau, it did a good job of approximating the basics of human-to-human eye contact.
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The next thing I knew, I was in a room with a table and it was littered with toys — everything from blocks to tank cars to gnomes to a tether ball suspended in the air.
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Coming to the HTC Vive on September 8th as a free download (an Oculus version will be coming later this year), Gnomes & Goblins is currently referred to as a "preview", and that's a fair characterization.
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Like the garden gnomes that sometimes stand guard, the Wursts are a legacy of immigrants from Germany, Poland and other central European countries who, along with northern Italians, settled the region from the mid-19th century.
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How director Jon Favreau made the leap to VR with Gnomes & GoblinsChrome for Windows gets Material Design and big battery improvementsAndroid companies keep pretending that Android doesn't exist It's a new iPhone with a new number.
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Here's the kind of video GoNoodle produces: And here's a sample of some GoNoodle-branded content from Viacom's Paramount, promoting its upcoming Sherlock Gnomes movie: GoNoodle says 14 million kids use its software, primarily in schools.
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GRAEFENRODA, Germany (Reuters) - One of Europe's last traditional manufacturers of garden gnomes is struggling to find a successor for the 145-year old business and may be forced to close its doors when its owner retires.
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Instead, the 14-strong collective – led by Kevin Abstract, and comprised of rappers, singers, producers and visual artists – dress as blue gnomes in orange prison overalls, or wear bulletproof vests and fire up sweaty mosh pits.
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Each year, untold numbers of pink-haired gnomes gather for one day in World of Warcraft to make a heroic trek through snowy hills, murloc-filled forests, and perilous jungles all in the name of charity.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 56%Summary: In the animated comedy "Gnomeo and Juliet," Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Blunt) are two star-crossed garden gnomes who fall in love despite an ongoing feud between their respective neighbors.
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And while many VR experiences often try to transpose traditional narrative or gaming conventions into the space, a few moments into Gnomes I realized that Favreau, Wevr, and co-publisher Reality One had something different in mind.
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When someone snatches figurines across London, Gnomeo and Juliet (again voiced by James McAvoy and Emily Blunt) team up with a condescending Sherlock Gnomes (Johnny Depp) and Watson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) to crack the case without cracking anyone.
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Most of the hundreds of fairy gardeners gathered at a nursery near Cleveland were adults who seek a sense of childlike wonder by embracing the fantasy element of miniature gardening with fairies, gnomes and other mythical figurines.
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For Worst Screen Combo, he s up against: "Any Two Actors or Puppets" (Happytime Murders), "Johnny Depp & His Fast-Fading Film Career" (Sherlock Gnomes), Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly (Holmes & Watson), and Kelly Preston and John Travolta (Gotti).
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If you want to hear more about my encounters with gnomes and goblins, you can check that out on my podcast with Jon Favreau, Hollywood writer/director/actor who is also now into VR. That's on Recode Decode.
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But that jarring initial encounter lit a spark, Favreau says, leading him to the idea for a massive, interactive VR fantasy world, one that is taking its first baby steps toward reality with Wevr's newest title: Gnomes & Goblins.
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But if that's the ultimate ambition, the Gnomes & Goblins preview represents just the tiniest of first steps — and an effort to determine if Favreau and the Wevr team are even pulling on the right thread to begin with.
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DePaoli said the Mets would attempt to get sponsors for items to defray cost, but souvenirs such as bobbleheads or gnomes are expensive, and the team has to project if it can make up deficits through ticket revenue.
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"I grew up in a small town and find some of those small town problems very endearing," said Takahashi, who became captivated by Nextdoor when a San Francisco neighbor started complaining daily about strangers touching her garden gnomes.
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"Sherlock Gnomes," Paramount's chipper computer-animated comedy about a garden doll version of the Arthur Conan Doyle detective, made $10.6 million — a steep decline compared to its predecessor, "Gnomeo & Juliet," which made $25.3 million upon its opening in 2011.
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It's a book that my father gave me when I was about 9 years old — a classic pastoral adventure about the last four gnomes in Britain, who go on a yearlong search to their find their long-lost brother.
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Right, it's interesting because I was just seeing one that it was a bunch of ... Jon Favreau, we did a podcast with him, and he has this one that's more dulcet, [with] gnomes and stuff, and I liked it.
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Garden gnomes were never exactly a trendy addition to any home, but if you must fill your garden with tiny ceramic characters, at least go with this 17-inch-tall R2-D2 statue instead of a bunch of creepy trolls.
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McFate called the idea a "train wreck," saying it reminds him of an episode of "South Park" where the main characters meet gnomes trying to make money with a three-step process in which the second step is a question mark.
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During World War I, a young British officer who was hospitalized after the Battle of the Somme began writing a tale about the struggle between good and evil, set in a hidden city called Gondolin and featuring gnomes, spirits and orcs.
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When Mr. Friedman took it over, he shook out the gnomes and the pencil sharpeners and the board games, and brought in supersized versions of stuff that was reminiscent of the work of designers like Axel Vervoordt or Christian Liaigre.
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He somehow conjured perfectly what that sound would be; from there, he imagined the gnomes' confronting the terrifying sight of an army, their faces eerie and ghostlike, covered in the white powder that was expelled from the bags with the fall.
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We gave the garden gnomes our neon shirts to better wave our legs in the air, petit-allegro-style giddy even though the sanguine gals don't menstruate—it's all good, for the man says it keeps us quick on our backs.
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Editors, buyers, and fashion industry followers eagerly await the spectacle every season, whether he's presenting a Willy Wonka-ian crew of flannel-clad garden gnomes, an army of mid-century office drones, or pastel-bouffanted models donned in trompe l'oeil skirt suits.
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"Here, garden gnomes were, I won't say invented, but brought to life, a symbol of hard work from the mine," said Reinhard Griebel, owner of the firm in the village of Graefenroda, which describes itself as the birthplace of the garden gnome.
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His rapidly escalating hysteria makes any mundane side story kind of delightful, whether he's sharing the scene with Ruby's abuelita, the mysterious thug Chivo, or a surprising number of garden gnomes, all while in search of a legendary fortune supposedly hidden in Freeridge.
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Restoration Hardware opened in 24 as a source for old house restorers but by the late '90s had been reimagined as a quirky housewares store, selling objects with nostalgic narratives — Italian fans and Stickley furniture, garden gnomes and office-style pencil sharpers, e.g.
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His characters, a dwarven king, a 12-foot-tall mountain giant and a half-elven chef, were not interested in brokering peace; they and their army were a bloodthirsty lot, with dwindling food stores, hellbent on conquering a nearby population of gnomes.
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Glenn Goldberg does the same thing with his chosen iconography: generic images of birds, dogs, flowers, rainbows, and rubber duckies, the sorts of things you'd expect to find decorating a Middle-American house alongside garden gnomes, cross-stitch homilies, and perhaps a Norman Rockwell calendar.
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Fortunately, there are thousands to choose from, whether you want to watch a disastrously spilling ketchup bottle, find out whether or not it's dark outside, catch your hand in a gum fingertrap, stare endlessly at your favorite bucket meme, or watch gnomes party. Thiswebsitesaysitall.
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"The idea for the build that I came in and talked to these guys about was very expansive," says Favreau, but moving forward he wants players to be able to develop ongoing relationships with gnomes and goblin characters that will change and evolve over time.
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The work, created by Etcetera, became an aesthetic manifestation of a fictional political event — an assembly — complete with "representatives" from different activist movements and large cardboard cutouts of world leaders, including Pope Francis, Mario Draghi (the Head of the European Central Bank), riot police, and gnomes.
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The other three films (Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes, and Invisible Man) were all announced before the allegations from Heard were made public, and it seems that they were never in jeopardy despite the stories surrounding his behavior.
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According to Google's approximations, I now reside 9,940.7 miles from the house of GLENDENNIS—assuming a direct route across the Pacific—9,940.7 miles from the camellia bushes and pink rhododendron, from the Daphne shrubs and impudent gnomes, from my grandfather, who is still alive, from the lemons.
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You're already getting a brutal butt-kicking from Saturn and Mars retrograde in the sector of your chart that rules finances, so having to spend more money to replace the things that the house gnomes stole from you during Mercury retrograde will be really, really annoying.
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The society awards grants to members keen to undertake sauna-related studies and its regular seminars are a great introduction to sauna culture — including lessons on the mythology surrounding sauna elves, gnomes and trolls who enjoy the last of the steam once the humans have gone.
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I may be standing over a wooden shelf, in a landlocked city in the shadow of mountains, surrounded by men dressed like gnomes and women dressed like semi-pornographic milkmaids but, in my mouth at least, I am staring out over a setting sun and wine red sea.
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Ready Player One ends (spoiler!) with Wade winning the contest, the fortune, and control of the OASIS, passing the scepter of its corporate monarchy from Halliday to his most obsessed fan, which solves everything in a way that can only be described as Phase 2 of the Underpants Gnomes business plan.
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A greenhouse in the back contained tropical palms and painted gnomes; a stone table sat near my grandfather's woodworking shed (where, during retirement, he spent hours fashioning small sculptures of platypus), its surface adorned with bonsai; and there was a birdbath and a sundial, both of which seemed very exotic.
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In addition to being honored during the 60th annual Grammys telecast — and taping a full-scale primetime tribute special set to air April 10 on CBS — he's found time to executive produce the animated children's feature Sherlock Gnomes and announce a 300-date global trek to mark his retirement from concert tours.
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"Gnomes & Goblins" is Mr. Favreau's experiment with virtual reality, or VR. Hovering somewhere between a movie and a game, the preview version of the project makes you the protagonist and sets you in the middle of an enchanted forest, where you can build a relationship with a timid, tiny goblin living there.
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For the eighth run happening this October, Blizzard is turning the event into a micro-holiday called the Great Gnomergan Race (named after the old gnome capital) and it's decking out the course with checkered flags, cheering gnomes, and a quest reward for runners who make it all the way to the end.
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The "sworn protector of garden gnomes," voiced by Johnny Depp, swoops in and endeavors to help Gnomeo and Juliet find their lost friends, although from the looks of things Gnomeo gets himself wrapped up in the mystery mess and Juliet and Holmes have to follow the clues to save him as well.
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Amidst their Nazi-style chants of "blood and soil," and "Jews will not replace us," 100 racist, tiki-wielding goyim dressed as indignant garden gnomes are enough to make you forget the initial alibi for last weekend's Unite the Right rally — the potential removal of the Robert E. Lee monument from Emancipation Park — and focus on its actual intention.
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There were dungeons aplenty — deep, multilevel labyrinths outfitted with false doors and booby traps and elaborate menageries of monsters: ghouls, gorgons, hydras, mummies, minotaurs, basilisks, gnomes, orcs, chimeras, hobgoblins, centaurs (which could "attack twice, once as a man and once as a medium horse") and griffons ("the most prized of steeds ... fond of horse flesh above all other foods").
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On a recent episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, "Iron Man" and "The Jungle Book" director Jon Favreau talked about his new project "Gnomes & Goblins," which he hopes will push the limits of VR. You can read some of the highlights from Kara's interview with Jon at that link, or listen to it in the audio player above.
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"They can decide at will who isn't able to participate," he told Reason magazine in April, adding that he hates Silicon Valley almost as much as he hates Washington, D.C. In the push to democratize information, Mr. Wilson has said, 3-D printers will only become revolutionary tools when they are used not for useless things like trinkets or lawn gnomes, but medical devices, drugs or guns.
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These are, presumably, the best of the best, but (maybe as a result) they always look faintly inhuman—not even in the usual way cops might look inhuman (body armor and visors and the cold menace of implacable authority), but more like pug dogs or garden gnomes, clutching their guns and staring with sad, uncomprehending eyes at traffic and tourists through the slits on the gate that separates them from the world.
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