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[edit] In popular culture

Magic carpets have also been featured in modern literature, movies, and video games, and not always in a classic context.

In his comic fairy tale Prince Prigio, Andrew Lang makes one of the hero's christening gifts a magic carpet.
Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos features an alternate America in which flying carpets are a major form of transportation, along with brooms.
In Super Mario Bros. 2, an enemy named Pidgit rides on a flying carpet.
A flying carpet is also a character (complete with personality) in the 1992 Disney film Aladdin.
Contemporary journalists often described the 1955 Citroën DS automobile as having ride quality similar to a magic carpet.
In Sourcery, the fifth novel in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, Rincewind, Corina, Nijel and Creosote escape from Klatch using a magic carpet stored in Creosote's treasury. However, the escape does not initially go according to plan since the carpet does not work until Rincewind "just paid attention to certain fundamental details of laminar and spatial arrangements." (the carpet being upside down) and commands it to go 'down' in order to make it fly.
Mr. Popo from the famous manga and anime Dragon Ball rides a magic carpet.
Flying carpets are a mode of transportation called "Hawking mats" in the novel Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
Harry Potter - The Ministry of Magic has made magic carpets illegal made in a reference in the 4th book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
In the online MMORPG RuneScape, magic carpets (made from camel hair) used to be a popular and common method of transportation around the Kharidian Desert, but lost favour after the Emir of Al Kharid, the desert town, fell to his death after mistaking an ordinary carpet for his magic one. However, certain enterprising businessmen have revived this method of travel across the expanse of the desert, for a price.
The Magic carpet also return in Sonic Riders and Sonic and the Secret Rings.
A popular amusement ride which rotates riders vertically but keeps them heads-up is called "Flying Carpet".
In one episode from Baby Looney Tunes, when Daffy borrowed and used Sylvester's blanket on a slide, Daffy went airborne for a few seconds in a way resembling one riding on a flying carpet.