Editing Time Bandits (section)

===Legacy===
Gilliam has referred to ''Time Bandits'' as the first in his "Trilogy of Imagination", followed by ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'' (1985) and ending with ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' (1988).<ref name="essay">Matthews, Jack (1996). "Dreaming Brazil". Essay accompanying [[The Criterion Collection]] DVD.</ref> All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible".<ref name="essay" /> All three films focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination: ''Time Bandits'' through the eyes of a child, ''Brazil'' through the eyes of a man in his thirties, and ''Munchausen'' through the eyes of an elderly man.<ref name="essay" />

The film is ranked No. 22 on ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine's "The 50 best kids' movies".<ref>{{cite web |title=The 50 best kids' movies |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-kids-movies/ |website=Empire|year=2023 }}</ref> It is listed as one of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's "Top 10 Time-Travel Movies".<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Full List |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2010/03/26/top-10-time-travel-movies/slide/all/ |magazine=Time}}</ref>

Game designer [[Richard Garriott]] was inspired by ''Time Bandits'' while creating the 1982 game ''[[Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress]]'', stating that he watched the film about 20 times to create a copy of the time map, as his game would feature a similar mechanic of "time doors" and the game's box even had a similar cloth map inside.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Allen |last=Rausch |title=From Origin to Destination - Page 1 |url=http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/tabula-rasa/512497p1.html |date=7 May 2004 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=GameSpy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet |user=RichardGarriott |number=1062000529591668739 |title=True! Watched it like 20 times with friends all sketching... to find it was not a ms real as I hoped... so, I made a "real" one! |date=2018-11-12 |access-date=2024-07-15}}</ref>