[SPOILER] Inspiration for upcoming Episode III vehicle

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-03-20 09:21pm

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.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2005-03-20 09:38pm

Does Greivous' have a force field bubble around it or something?

darthnidankendo · Post by **darthnidankendo** » 2005-03-23 11:03am

Have any of you ever seen that dude crash on that thing?

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2005-03-23 12:13pm

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.

darthnidankendo · Post by **darthnidankendo** » 2005-03-23 12:28pm

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.

Steven Snyder · Post by **Steven Snyder** » 2005-03-23 05:04pm

Didn't Mr. Garrison build one of these things on Southpark?

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2005-03-23 05:10pm

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.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-03-23 05:12pm

There's something slightly similar in V Gundam as well.

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2005-03-23 05:43pm

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.