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Message started by The Montanan Slinger on Nov 9th, 2018 at 10:47am

Title: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by The Montanan Slinger on Nov 9th, 2018 at 10:47am
What's your Fictional Dream Vehicle?

For me, easy; Banshee.

As cool as it might be to fly an X-Wing, going uber fast and destroying things with their quad-cannons, a banshee has a lot of control, to the point where it can go slow enough and be tough enough that even if it takes a direct hit to the ground, most of the time that doesn't do much to the vehicle. It can also go extremely fast if need be and decelerate immediately. A banshee can either be taken on a slow Sunday drive or a fast aerial dogfight. Bailing is so simple as you would only need to open the hatch and let go of the controls, and then out you go out the back of the vehicle.

Plus it just looks so weird and cool, I also rather like the idea of plasma and fuel rod ammo on demand.

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by Sarosh on Nov 9th, 2018 at 12:26pm
The God's Egg
an egg shaped vehicle made out of a transparent material, could be graphene
it flies with antigravity, pilot gets no g-forces inside ,meaning it can take 90 or 360° turns without you becoming a pulp :P
runs on free energy, has biosphere temperature and humidity conditions
can fly with a joystick for 2 dimensions and your mind for altitude and speed.
it has a tesla interferometer plasma shield which protects against conventional arms and a strong magnetic shield that protects from the conditions in space such as nuclear reactions in stars etc
version 1 : is big enough for a standing man
version 2 : fits 1 man and his partner , for romantic space rides ;P

that's a dream vehicle



Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by Curious Novice on Nov 10th, 2018 at 2:27pm
How would 0 gravity prevent you from experiencing g forces? Even if you have no weight, you would still have mass, and momentum.

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by NooneOfConsequence on Nov 10th, 2018 at 10:12pm
Do you mean vehicles in fiction? Or any fictional vehicle you can imagine? Are we limiting it to ground vehicles?  Assuming it has to be vehicle from fictional stories...
If we can do spacecraft, then it’s a toss-up between the Death Star and the Heart Of Gold (with an added SEP invisibility shield).

If we’re sticking with ground vehicles, I might have to go with the Gecko Mobile because it drives up walls and my 4yo would think it was awesome ;P

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by slingbadger on Nov 11th, 2018 at 6:27am
Easy. The Tardis. Go anywhere and anytime.

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by kicktheotter on Nov 11th, 2018 at 7:12am
Prowlgrin :D From the Edge Chronicles series. Essentially  the houses of the series but they can bound through trees and and look like big round furry balls with lots of teeth... sort of. Also can be ridden into battle which is a plus.

https://i.warosu.org/data/lit/img/0032/38/1355361701212.jpg

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by Curious Aardvark on Nov 11th, 2018 at 12:25pm
problem with the tardis is that you don't have a lot of control on where and when you actually end up.

montana - what is the banshee from ?

I think you could do a lot worse than the red dwarf.
Big enough to be a city in itself and can 'eat' anyone who disagrees with you :-)
if you want something small and fast - the blitzspear from nemesis the warlock.
living ships are cool - actually the Lex would also be pretty cool.
Giant semi-sentient dragon fly that can destroy planets if someone really annoys you :-)

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by kicktheotter on Nov 11th, 2018 at 2:37pm
Banshee is from the videogame series Halo (sounds like that banshee at least). Red Dwarf would be good but Star Bug would be more fun :D

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by The Montanan Slinger on Nov 11th, 2018 at 7:39pm
Yes KTO, that Banshee.

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by The Montanan Slinger on Nov 11th, 2018 at 7:42pm
So many obscure vehicles here lol, lots of either old tv show or literature entries. Pretty interesting ones too.

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by kicktheotter on Nov 12th, 2018 at 3:08am
Well going for obvious ones would be boring :D

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by Mersa on Nov 12th, 2018 at 3:45am
Shadowfax !?? .

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by Curious Aardvark on Nov 12th, 2018 at 8:00am
just a horse - now if you want a proper 'horse', go for Sleipnir :-)

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by kicktheotter on Nov 12th, 2018 at 9:24am
I almost said Sleipnir :D 6 legs are better than 4!

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by Curious Aardvark on Nov 12th, 2018 at 11:20am
8 are better 6 ;-)

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by kicktheotter on Nov 13th, 2018 at 1:18am
Was it 8? I need to brush up on my Norse mythology...

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by Curious Aardvark on Nov 13th, 2018 at 6:21am
lol, yep :-)
I don't suppose great A'tuin counts as a 'vehicle' ?
You can't actually drive her around - but would be fun to ride on :-)

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by Curious Aardvark on Nov 14th, 2018 at 6:50am
here's another one: Obie from jack l chalkers Well World series.
Planetoid sized ship with the power to make anything into anything else.

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by NooneOfConsequence on Nov 16th, 2018 at 11:38pm

Curious Aardvark wrote on Nov 12th, 2018 at 8:00am:
just a horse - now if you want a proper 'horse', go for Sleipnir :-)


If you are going to go with a horse, you should definitely choose an amazing horse to travel across the universe (and all the other places too) ;P

https://youtu.be/GUl9_5kK9ts

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by kicktheotter on Nov 17th, 2018 at 3:43am
It's been a long time since I've watched that video :D

Title: Re: Dream Vehicle from Fiction
Post by Rat Man on Nov 25th, 2018 at 11:37am
The Batmobile from Batman Begins.

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