Before the building can be reduced to rubble, the citizens of Niceland call out to Fix-It Felix Jr., the repairmen able to use his magic hammer to undo the damage and chase Ralph to the roof where he can be tossed off to end his rampage. Outraged by being displaced, Ralph attacks the new building with his massive fists, shattering windows and knocking bricks loose. arcade game to promote the film, and surprisingly, it feels like a natural fit in an arcade.Ī large muscular man named Wreck-It Ralph was content to snooze in his stump until one day a construction crew displaces it so they can build an apartment building on the land it was occupying. In an interesting case of defictionalization, Disney had cabinets made featuring a newly made Fix-It Felix Jr. is the imaginary game created to serve as the source for some of the film’s key players, its detailed visuals and technical features not aligning with the real world advancements in video games but still feeling at least somewhat possible as a real game by taking cues from other old arcade games like Donkey Kong.
The 2012 animated feature Wreck-It Ralph featured many loving homages to classic gaming and cameos from major characters from video game history, but for the characters important to the central narrative, Disney invented a fictional arcade classic.
