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clutch-monkey
07-25-2007, 01:16 AM
i don't know how old this is but it looks pretty awesome. they used it in that arms race E3 trailer, which i liked.
there's a picture with the article.

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/14044/Peter-Jacksons-WETA-Creates-Fully-Functioning-Warthog/

The dudes at WETA made a Warthog. I don’t mean that they made a big plastic thing that looks like a Warthog. I mean they built a fully-functioning, four-wheel steering, powerful, off-road vehicle with a machine gun on the back. At the correct scale. If you live near Wellington, New Zealand, you might even see some crazy machine-shop dude from WETA fishtailing around your base, ahem, I mean neighborhood.

What’s it for? Well, a couple of things – one of which will be one of the shorts coming from director Neill Blomkamp. We sort of blindsided you guys with the first short (Arms Race) – it had little to no context or explanation, but when you see it as it was originally intended – as part of an overall narrative, you might just pee your pants. And if you don’t, then the picture below will certainly cause some leakage.

Goddamn. It’s a Warthog

Sepharih
07-25-2007, 02:48 AM
...meh...looks more like a puma to me.

Seriously though, fucking awesome

clutch-monkey
07-25-2007, 03:03 AM
...meh...looks more like a puma to me.

:lol: ass :p didn't i tell you to stop making up animals?

Nocturnal
07-25-2007, 11:29 AM
Nice, looks a bit small in the pic.

Can I buy one?

Papero
07-25-2007, 11:34 AM
I would kill for a vehicle like that.

Nickster
07-25-2007, 12:36 PM
I've always thought that one of the most awesome things any man could own is a car with a big gun.

Shit, that would be killer for getting through traffic if you had someone to man the gun. Now, if we had a Scorpion...

xeoset
07-25-2007, 01:10 PM
Holy shit, that's awesome! I could really get around in one of those.

Nocturnal
07-25-2007, 02:29 PM
I've always thought that one of the most awesome things any man could own is a car with a big gun.

Shit, that would be killer for getting through traffic if you had someone to man the gun. Now, if we had a Scorpion...

Scarab might be better...

clutch-monkey
07-25-2007, 07:05 PM
nocturnal; it's supposed to be to correct scale and stuff :)
i can see the weta crew re-enacting a halo capture the flag match in some unsuspecting town.... now make a banshee damnit :D