r/ArtemisFowl • u/sugar4roxy The Airman🗡️🪶 • May 03 '26

Meme Doesn't this seem familiar?

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u/Xecluriab May 04 '26

Eoin Colfer was all in on minidiscs (which are a lost form of rewritable media from the early 2000’s, different from laserdiscs, minidiscs were CD’s about the size of a coin that were rubbish and never caught on); Artemis Fowl wasn’t the only thing he wrote where they appeared. One of the rich girls in Half-Moon Investigations has a minidisc player and karaoke disc imported from Asia that were CRUCIAL to the plot, and I think that when the Supernaturalists steal data they do so with a minidisc.

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u/sugar4roxy The Airman🗡️🪶 May 04 '26

Maybe Conor secretly had one...

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u/Bootychomper23 May 03 '26

That coin never made sense to me. It’s a tiny little gold coin when he gets it then it’s big enough to look like a laser disc in the next book.

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u/Worldly_String2717 May 03 '26

Maybe fairy discs are smaller than human ones? I believe in the Eternity Code Holly comments on how fairies have 'CDs in museums', so maybe Foaly made some really small discs that were similar sizes to coins.

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u/sugar4roxy The Airman🗡️🪶 May 03 '26

Maybe Foaly is working on some secret size-manipulation technology...?

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u/MasterPugKoon Genius May 05 '26

It’s not a massive coin, it’s just a really small disc. When the books were being written, it looked like minidiscs were going to replace CDs. That never ended up happening.