r/warehouse13 • u/HalfblindChaos • 5d ago
What's Stored in the Other Warehouses Anyways?
I recently started watching Warehouse 13 and The Librarians. I am enjoying them both for what they are. Both shows beg the question, what is stored in the other warehouses anyways?
I want to envision warehouse 8 archiving music and video game media for preservation. Their main focus is to convert most of them digitally and make that archive available to the general public. Even though their second focus is top secret. Their second focus is to procure and study video games and music that are the center of strange phenomenon. Games like Polybius for example.
I also envision warehouse 1 is used to store classified paperwork only. Nothing but paperwork everywhere.
Maybe even the Disney 'vault' is classified as one of the warehouses too. Just for giggles.
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u/tom_bacon 5d ago
It's the 13th chronologically. There's only one in existence at any one time. You'll get to see some of the previous iterations as the show goes on though so you've got that to look forward to.
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u/HalfblindChaos 5d ago
Just started the show. I'm only halfway through season 1. Thanks kindly for the info though. I can't wait to see what little things the show has yet to reveal.
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u/lady_edesia 5d ago
I think the confusion may come from warehouse 2 because they go there and there are artifacts W2 was shut down so fast they didn't get a chance to get all the artifacts out. Otherwise all warehouses other than 13 are closed and gone.
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u/HalfblindChaos 5d ago
Just started the show. I'm only halfway through season 1. Thanks for the info though.
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u/Ewonder11 5d ago
Technically, Warehouse 13 is all warehouses to ever exist. It is fun to think about how it has changed in each iteration, though. Warehouse 8 would have most likely been long before widespread consumption of music. I imagine each Warehouse deals with crazier stuff than the last. Imagine a future Warehouse dealing with AI infused Artifacts. That's scary!
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u/onlylightlysarcastic 5d ago
I think you are wrong in your assumption of the prevalence of music. Music is probably older than primitive architecture, and with that I mean shelters made from sticks and leaves.
Even Warehouse 1 would have had an assortment of dangerous musical artifacts. There probably are some mummy musicians in there.
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u/Ewonder11 5d ago
I was thinking more modern style music. Music itself has definitely been around for a very long time, LOL. And I agree Warehouse one and thus all of the warehouses, for that matter, would definitely have some crazy musical artifacts.
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u/onlylightlysarcastic 4d ago
Well, there was a disco ball as far as I remember. I have to rewatch. And I bet there is a Stradivari that was played by Pagannini somewhere in there. Probably in the restricted section.
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u/HalfblindChaos 5d ago
Just started the show. I'm only halfway through season 1. Thanks kindly for the info though. I was hoping that warehouse 8 would have archived music because I'm a huge 80's and 90's music nerd. I guess that the warehouse numbers weren't quite what I was thinking.
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u/Ewonder11 5d ago
Didn't mean to spoil anything. There is a couple music themed artifacts throughout the show. The thing about the warehouse is it's truly Endless Wonder. There's definitely 80s and '90s music related artifacts in there somewhere. Definitely keep watching because it's awesome. The Librarians is also a great show.
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u/nerdguy1138 4d ago
There's a decent amount of lore showing that having this much psychically charged stuff in one place makes the Warehouse itself kinda semi-alive. It chooses when to move.
I don't think "a place of endless wonder" would like Trump very much.
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u/Chrischrill 5d ago
As people say, this is the 13th Warehouse. It moves to a country or civilization leading the world. It started in ancient Greece in the kingdom of Macedonia, and the next Warehouse (number 14) was supposed to be in China.
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u/HalfblindChaos 5d ago
Just started the show. I'm only halfway through season 1. Thanks for the info though. Wouldn't surprise me that the next one was supposed to be moved to China. Scary to think about if you ask me.
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u/DanieXJ 5d ago
It's a fictional TV show, with no basis in actual reality. Why would it be scary? It's not real.
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u/helenasbff 5d ago
OP sounds like a bot. Same canned responses to all the comments. China is scary. Thanks kindly for the info. etc. etc.
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u/DanieXJ 5d ago
You're probably right. I could also swear that, even though the other Warehouses (throughout time) weren't brought up fully until the 2nd Season, in the first season it was understood that this was The Warehouse, even though it was called 13.
It's been awhile so I don’t remember exactly why I thought that, but.... 🤷♀️
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u/helenasbff 5d ago
No, it’s for sure discussed that there’s only one. Maybe not explicitly in the way of there can only be one because tragedy will ensue, but definitely there’s only one at a time.
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u/PizzaWhole9323 2d ago
I like to think that one of the warehouses is completely missing, like Babylon 4 on Babylon 5 the Sci-Fi show. They'll find it someday.
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u/Ready-Product 5d ago
I wish they would reboot it. But the question is where will the warehouse be located? With a certain someone I think we may need to change the scenery.
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u/DemonicEgo 5d ago
The other warehouses have been destroyed or decommissioned. Warehouse 13 is the thirteenth iteration of the storage facility, and tradition dictates the active warehouse is almost always in the strongest world power. Warehouse 12, for example, was in the British Empire, and Warehouse 1 was in Ancient Egypt.