“If you leave your game, stay safe, stay alert, and whatever you do, don't die. Because if you die outside your own game, you don't regenerate. Ever. Game over.”
―Sonic the Hedgehog
Game Central Station is a location in Disney's 2012 animated feature film Wreck-It Ralphand its 2018sequel. It acts as the hub of Litwak's Arcade, where video game characters from different cabinets can congregate, travel to other games, and socialize after hours.
Game Central Station resembles a gigantic underground train station on the interior, but on the exterior, it is a power strip for most of the consoles in the arcade. Any suspicious characters are given security checks by the Surge Protector, who acts as the sole authority figure. When games are unplugged, Game Central Station becomes a home for refugee game characters, who resemble homeless mendicants often found in big cities. Connecting Game Central Station and the consoles is a transit system consisting of trains stylized to represent their respective games, which travel to the games via the wires that are plugged in to provide power to the games.
Places of interest[]
Pac-Man: A classic title where the weekly Bad-Anon support group meetings are held. It is home to Pac-Man and the four ghosts.
Wi-Fi: Mr. Litwak's Wi-Fi router that leads to the world of the Internet. It allows programs to travel far beyond the arcade, as it hosts websites and mobile apps connected to a wide array of devices around the world.
Game Central Station is an obvious parody of the real life Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Which in the movie, is a major transportation hub just like how Grand Central is in real-life.
The station's carpeting resemble motherboards.
The station's gates resemble electrical sockets.
It's revealed in the credits that the Surge Protector is responsible for the various graffiti seen throughout the film.
There is apparently a rule against bringing objects from different games into other games.
The station can plug in/support up to 24 games. Although despite this, there are over 24 of them which can possibly hint that the power strip is plugged in to another that holds the rest amount of games.
The tunnels that connect the station to each game gate resembles the interior of electric cables.
