Roku is the market leader in providing streaming entertainment devices and services, that allow viewers to explore a huge range of online content. However, a lesser-known feature of Roku that deserves attention is screen savers. Easter eggs are like quirky treats—fun surprises hidden, sometimes in plain sight, on screensavers.
They add more flavor to the otherwise boring screen, making it more colorful and full of figments of imagination. Here is a list of all the references in the screen savers used as easter eggs that all you roku hunters can have fun trying to spot!
What are Roku Screensavers?
Roku is a familiar name that has come to stay in the streaming industry due to the creativity and impartiality of its screensavers. Thus, these screen savers represent an easter egg that spices up the enjoyment of online streaming between 2018 and 2024. These Easter eggs are not just for fun anymore. These are things that people cherish very much. Memories from different movies, TV shows, and events become special pieces for them and they start teamwork to find the secret messages.
Such screensavers are quite gorgeous, and they create a fun and calm atmosphere throughout your house when you are not using your television actively. From 2018 to 2024, Roku TV screensaver Easter eggs and Roku movie reference collection have radically transformed into a huge world to include references from old-school movies, movie figures, even a conspiracy theory and TV series posters with features like improved graphics, software updates, and screen mirroring. What at first may have been static or simple animations have now given way to dynamic sequences that tend to depict movies, TV shows, video games, and even historical events.
ROKU 2024 Screensaver
Spring Stroll in the Park
This screensaver contains Easter eggs from Spirited Away, Godzilla, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Neverland, Encanto, Shrek, Baby Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy 1, Wall-E, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factor, Lord of the Rings, One Tree Hill, Bridgerton, Winnie-the-Pooh, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Nope, The Notebook and Hugo.
ROKU 2023 Screensaver
Paramount+ Roku City Neighborhood (Limited Version: May 25 to 29)
This Roku screensaver playlist depicting a Paramount movie theater consists of references like Optimus Prime from Transformers, the star trek starship from Star Trek, Star Trek ii, Star Trek iii: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Prodigy, Beavis and Butt-Head, Spongebob SquarePants, Halo, SEAL Team, Wolf Pack, iCarly, PAW Patrol, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Blue’s Clues & You, Peppa pig, Monster High: The Movie, Survivor, Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick, Rugrats, America’s Wild Seasons and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
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ROKU 2022 Screensavers
Winter Wonderland Walk
This screensaver contains movie references from Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Elf, Star Wars, Frozen, Peanuts, Small Foot, Batman Returns, Misery, Miracle on 34th Street, New Years Eve, The Grinch, The overlook hotel from The Shining, The Day After Tomorrow, Black Panther, Die Hard, Superman, The Gremlins, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Snowman, Citizen Kane, Sleepless in Seattle, Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Happy Feet, March Of The Penguins, The Nutcracker, My Little Pony, Apocalypto, Serendipity, Soul, Better Off Dead
Fall Stroll in the Park
The screensavers include references from October Sky, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Signs, Purple Rain, Zodiac, The Simpsons, Iron Man, Headless Horseman or Beetle Juice, Harry Potter, Fly Away Home, Batman, Bobby Fischer or Queens Gambit, The Ring, Rudy or Any Given Sunday, Coco, Hocus Pocus, Mary Poppins, Tangled, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Friends, You’ve Got Mail , Poltergeist, The Black Phone, Ratatouille, Stranger Things, Back to the Future 3, The Big Lebowski
ROKU 2021 Screensavers
Roku Romance Screensaver
This screensaver contains references from Under the Tuscan Sun, Mona Lisa Smile, Sleepless in Seattle, Roman Holiday or Rome in Love, Moulin Rouge, Palm Springs, Dirty Dancing, A Star Is Born, Some Like It Hot, Full House, Say Anything, Desert Hearts, When Harry Met Sally, Casablanca, La La Land, Love Locks, Love and Basketball, Two Turtle Doves, The Apartment, Pretty Woman, Ghost, You’ve Got Mail, Love Actually, The Vow, Grease, Friends, Enchanted, A Walk to Remember, My Girl, 10 Things I Hate About You, and Crazy Rich Asians.
Roku Space Screensaver
This screensaver contains countless sci-fi Easter eggs from Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stargate, Blade Runner, Star Trek: TNG, Star Wars, Alien (1979), Alien Series, Space Jam, Contact, Arrival, Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, Armageddon, Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, Galaxy Quest, The Martian, Dune, and Spaceballs.
Roku Jungle Screensaver
This screensaver contains Easter eggs from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jumanji, The African Queen, Jurassic Park, King Kong, Jungle Book, Tarzan, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Predator, Africa Screams, Apocalypse Now, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Apocalypto or The Road to El Dorado, and King Kong.
Roku Nautical Screensaver
This screensaver consists of references in three different parts of the image: Under the sea level, there are references to Sphere, Austin Powers, The Little Mermaid, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, The Hunt for Red October, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Abyss, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Goonies and Finding Nemo. Above the sea level, there are Easter Eggs from Master and Commander, Cast Away, Life of Pi, Swiss Family Robinson, the pirate ship Pirates of the Caribbean, and Jaws. Finally, in the background, there are references to Treasure Island, 2012 or The Poseidon Adventure, Pacific Rim, Top Gun, The Final Countdown, and Stealth.
Roku Western Screensaver
This screensaver has Easter Eggs from Dollars Trilogy, Back to the Future 3, The Alamo, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Stagecoach, Wild Wild West, Westworld, Tombstone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hellfighters or There Will Be Blood or Giant, Three Amigos, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, City Slickers, Shane
Roku Kids Screensaver
This screensaver contains Up, The Wizard of Oz, Cars, Mary Poppins, Wreck-It Ralph, The Secret Life of Pets, Dr. Seuss, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Alice in Wonderland, The Smurfs, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Peanuts, The Iron Giant, A Lego Man from The Lego Movie, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Muppets, Lion King, Despicable Me, Jack and the Beanstalk, How to Train Your Dragon, Sonic the Hedgehog game series, Mario game series, Flight of the Navigator, Princess Bride, Dumbo, Aladdin and Harry Potter.
All in all, Roku’s investment in these inventive and quirky wallpapers adds quite the charm and amusement to an otherwise usually boring main screen. Its charm further extends to 2018 with various screensavers like the Roku city stroll featuring movies like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Aladdin, Panther Cave, a Palm Tree, a Little House, a crazy flying machine, Hotel del Coronado, Valentine’s Day special love boat, mount doom, yellow submarine, ultralight aircraft, humpback whales, paul blart mall cop, dining table and diner, abandoned house, golden gate bridge, teenage mutant ninja turtles, yellow brick road, Chrysler building, mighty ducks and many such cute and funny elements. Using the treasure of movie magic, Roku has found an effective way to keep viewers engaged before they move on to other elements of the app.
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