Land of Oz

The Land of Oz is one of multiple alternate realities in the interdimensional multiverse.

Understand

Oz was discovered by L. Frank Baum in 1899; by 1939 it was a most colourful place, even while poverty-ridden Kansas remained a monochrome wasteland.

Get in

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore

By storm

• See our article on tornado safety.

Get around

Yellow Brick Road circles the land of Oz.

By road

• Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road. Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the yellow brick road.

By balloon

• A wizened old wizard, a Kansas boy himself, seems to think ballooning to be a most clever idea. Just be sure he doesn't take off without you.

See

• Lions and tigers and bears, oh my.
• Visit the Emerald City, home of the Wizard

Do

• Watch the Munchkins sing and dance in the public square.

Buy

Du courage, s'il vous plait

• A heart. Optional if your next destination is Wall Street
• A brain. Optional if your next destination is Washington, D.C.
• Courage. Optional if you'd be willing to consider accountancy instead of lion taming.

Eat

• The Lollipop Guild, Munchkinland. A group of Munchkins welcome Dorothy to Oz with song and dance when not busy preparing their signature assortment of sugary confections.

Drink

If you start to see winged flying monkeys across the skies? Time to put the bottle down. Please.

Sleep

Options are limited. Any castles you see will be infested with evil witches, and what little other housing is left is likely to be the tornado-damaged rejects of rural Kansas, so monochrome and not very impressive at all. Expect to meet a few "sleepyhead" munchkins until sleeping accommodation improves.

It might be best to go back to your home country and sleep there. There's no place like home.

Connect

Infrastructure is limited. It may be possible to get a message through by crystal ball, but the operators of such facilities tend to be adept of black magic and not to be trusted.

Respect

Dorothy

It is considered very poor form to drop a house on someone and kill her just because you conceptually disagree with her Wiccan belief system on an ideological level. The official state religion of the State of Kansas is the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but Kansans visiting alternate universes must expect to encounter fundamental differences in religious beliefs. Killing someone merely to steal her ruby red slippers is in especially poor taste.

If you meet any friends of Dorothy, though, please do respect their diversity. They may usually be found somewhere over the rainbow.

Stay safe

Stay safe? Stay safe?!? I'll get you, my pretty – and your little dog, too!

Stay healthy

There's a wizard in the Emerald City at the end of the Yellow Brick Road who says he can do anything, a new heart, a new brain... Ignore the man behind the curtain. Just ignore the man behind the curtain.

Go next

• Kansas. Just click your heels together three times and repeat "there's no place like home, there's no place like home..."
• "So goodbye yellow brick road, Where the dogs of society howl, You can't plant me in your penthouse, I'm going back to my plough."