00:00What year is it in that universe, and how does it align with the timeline of our Earth?
00:06So we're on Earth 828, named in honor of Jack Kirby and his birthday, August 28th.
00:12They are the only heroes on this planet.
00:14Thanks to the multiverse, we can tell these stories where it's a different corner of the Marvel storytelling universe.
00:21But, of course, they have a bright and brilliant future ahead of them in Avengers.
00:26So they will meet up, no surprise, no spoiler, with other characters that we know and love from the MCU
00:31and from Earth 616.
00:34But in terms of the year, we are purposefully vague about it.
00:39But when we were organizing ourselves from a design standpoint, it was 1965.
00:43This was the year that we used for clothing, for cars, for New York, in terms of referencing things.
00:52And that's really due to the fact that we wanted to be middle of the decade in terms of, you
00:57know, things start to change.
00:58You get to about more 70s as you get to the end of the 60s.
01:00And we didn't want it to feel too much vestigial 50s either.
01:04And so early 60s has that.
01:05So solidly in the middle, just kind of after the World's Fair in New York City, that was one of
01:10our touchstones, which was, you know,
01:12what if the World's Fair, you know, out in Queens was actually all over the city?
01:16You know, saucer-shaped buildings, monorails, flying cars, all that idea.
01:19In terms of your question, though, in their version of the world, they're in the 60s.
01:24But different universes are of different ages, right?
01:27And so when they cross over, they won't be time traveling.
01:31That's cool that that—and because the technology also implies that there's a vagueness to the time that they're living in
01:37and the way it correlates to ours.
01:38Which was the retrofuturism aspect of it.
01:40But even there was a groundedness to that, too, because Reed Richards, before he became Mr. Fantastic, was still the
01:45most brilliant person in the universe.
01:46And he's been a child—he was a child prodigy.
01:49So he's been Einstein meets Steve Jobs meets Robert Moses since he was very, very young.
01:55So his influence on the city, on architecture, on technology, Herbie robots and monorails and Fantasticars is, you know, pre
02:02-exists even his time as a member of the Fantastic Four.
02:05So that's what we were looking at, 60s from 1965 New York, but with a layer of Reed Richards over
02:12the last 15 to 20 years.
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