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[SPOILER] Inspiration for upcoming Episode III vehicle
Posted: 2005-03-20 09:21pm
by Crayz9000
OK, those of you who have been looking at the spoilers know that General Grevious drives a bizarre and wicked-looking monocycle.
Well, apparently it's actually a semi-practical design that exists in real life.
Kerry McLean's Monocycle
Automobile Mag picture shoot
Apparently he even set a speed record in one (powered by a V8 nonetheless!) on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
I'm honestly not sure how that thing would fare in a crash, but it's one of the most interesting designs I've seen.
Posted: 2005-03-20 09:38pm
by YT300000
Does Greivous' have a force field bubble around it or something?
Posted: 2005-03-23 11:03am
by darthnidankendo
Have any of you ever seen that dude crash on that thing?
Posted: 2005-03-23 12:13pm
by Aaron
darthnidankendo wrote:Have any of you ever seen that dude crash on that thing?
I think crashing might be too generous, I've seen video where it just fell over.
Posted: 2005-03-23 12:28pm
by darthnidankendo
i saw a video of the guy crashing, it looked very bad. The whole thing came apart and went flying all over, he was lucky he didn't get his head taken off.
Posted: 2005-03-23 05:04pm
by Steven Snyder
Didn't Mr. Garrison build one of these things on Southpark?
Posted: 2005-03-23 05:10pm
by Agent Fisher
Steven Snyder wrote:Didn't Mr. Garrison build one of these things on Southpark?
I was thinking the same thing. And the thing would jam something up your ass to lock you in.
Posted: 2005-03-23 05:12pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
There's something slightly similar in V Gundam as well.
Posted: 2005-03-23 05:43pm
by Molyneux
There was something vaguely like that in "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust", but the character rode on a housing on top of a single wheel, not inside it.
It looked like a pretty nice design, but a bit unstable...although she did get a great turn of speed on top of it, and it was apparently stable enough to fire a rocket launcher from while in motion.