In the 1996 movie, Dorothy  was a barrel similar to TOTO designed to release hundreds of sensors into the center of a tornado and send the data back to the weather researchers on the ground, played by actors Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt.

Twister is a game of physical skill produced by Milton Bradley Company and Winning Moves Games USA. It is played on a large plastic mat that is spread on the floor or ground. The mat has four rows of six large colored circles on it with a different color in each row: red, yellow, green and blue.