#fictional vehicles

Real Life Star Wars Landspeeder I've been messing with this list for so long, I'd forgotten I'd never put it on there. Colin Furze’s real-life landspeeder that goes up to 40mph (link, link, link). It’s made with the core of a golf buggy. Except it’s jet-powered. (Mirrors make it look like it’s hovering.) Junkyard Empire + Damascus Motors (golf cart motor) There’s also this one, which reaches 25mph and shares Daniel Deutsch with the one above, though it doesn’t look like the same landspeeder to me. This one with a Honda motor sold on Ideal Classic Cars.  This other landspeeder sold on Ideal Classic Cars that’s built with an electric golf cart.  FliteTest "Secret Car Collection in Las Vegas" landspeeder. It’s a little tiny, though.   Tommy Built Design Studios  Joel Creates' toy speeder modded with a jet engine/here (70mph). Obviously very small. Whoever made this one being sold on Iron Planet.  

Star Wars 74-Z Speeder Bike (I think):  Devinsupertramp’s Jetovator bike works with water jets, like the wizarding broomstick we mentioned before. Lithium Cycles/here. It has wheels, but they’re hidden with mirrors. Vintageworks’ version based on an electric motorcycle James Bruton’s version with omni-directional wheels.   Futurism’s modded motorcycle.  This mysterious Mandalorian spotted riding a speeder.  This not mysterious Mandalorian (mando2hire) riding a speeder.     Whoever made this one being sold on Iron Planet.

+ Bonus: In addition to the replicas, here are some examples of very similar hover bike technology, which I wasn’t going to add, because they are technically their own inventions and not a fictional thing made real, but then then I saw a stormtrooper riding one, and that bridged the worlds, so here you go: Volonaut (124mph) and Aerofex (<--I don’t see how you wouldn’t burn yourself on this in the sun) There are a few other things like the Hoversurf bike that I decided that strayed too far from belonging here.

——Unmanned Swarms: type 022 tactical vessel, armed with 48 Cruise missiles with the range of 300 kilometers by Xiaoyingping

Little known fact: I sometimes dabble in 3D modelling! My favorite things to model are vehicles, so here is a selection of fictional French and German vehicles circa WWII.

Shown here are a fictional French tank destroyer, the SOMUA S45 "Tortue", as well as a light tank based on the hull of the Tortue and a fictional Panzer IV variant with sloped frontal armor that I have been calling the Stubentiger ("Housecat").

It was made as both side of war slows down and fortifies against each other's attack instead of the more assault and counterassault focused battles with lighter, faster strategies and equipments before the grueling siege of Mayne where the Brabazonian Industrial center beaten back several waves of Atlantide raids with heavy fortification and firepower, and even though the Federal Army's newer heavy artillery, tanks, bomber aircrafts and warships are sufficient for the Federal military's counteroffence against Atlantide fortifications, the army believed that their current main tank, the Stepper Hunter Type 6 medium tank(a design combination between US T14 Heavy tank, Canadian Ram tank and Argentinian DL-43 Nahuel tank) and National Machinery model 33 Union heavy tanks(a combination between Hungarian 44M Tas, soviet T-43 and German Tiger tanks), is insufficient in the fear factor against atlantide forces in comparison to the Navy's new Federation class super Battleships(based on Montana-Class, HMS Devastation in WOWS and Japanese A150 Class Battleships), Homeland class fast battleship(based on Iowa-class, Bismarck-class and Vanguard-class battleship) and Blizton class Aircraft Carriers(supercarrier/battlecarriers based on Federation class Battleship hulls) and the Air Force's Federation avionics Retaliatior 400 six propeller heavy bomber(based on Boeing B-54 And Junker Ju 390 Amerikabomber), and Collins Model 44 Bulwark quad jet fast Bombers(based on Arado Ar 234 Blitz and North American B-45 Tornado), while the high casualty rate of the Army's soldiers and equipment due to Atlantide forces' zealous and resilience despite their inferiority in ranged weaponry that also tipped the public opinion against their favor.

And with the Persuader tank, they're looking to build a rolling bunker with an extremely powerful 203 milimetre howitzer as the main gun to punch through enemy fortifications, and multiple smaller but still rather effective auxiliary Guns, including a 88mm anti tank gun mounted in the front of the hull to the right of the driver's seat, two 90mm infantry support gun in the sponsons in both sides of the tanks, and dual 20mm autocannons that serves as the coaxial and hatch mounted gun that can provide cover fire for accompanying units and deterrent against aerial enemies. Its heavy weight and armor which would reach the thickness of 250 milimetres would allow it to plow through enemy defensive measures and laugh at enemy fire. It was also powered by an upscaled version of their 16 Litre diesel V16 engine used in regular tanks, which is now at the displacement level of 36 Litres and supercharged, making 1800 kilowatts of power, which was transmitted to the sprocket wheels via a novel electric drive system to power a pair of 1.5m width twin tracks to dissipate the weight and increase grip on loose surfaces such as gravel and mud, allowing it to achieve a considerably high top speed. The 20 meter long, 8 meter wide(10 meter counting the sponsons that housed the 90mm guns) and 4.5 meter tall 200 ton metal behemoth was manned by a crew of twelve, including a commander, four gunners and loaders for the four guns each, a driver, an observer who also serves as a mechanic, and a radio operator that also serves as an observer.

However, the prototype of the tank was found to be rather unsatisfactory. It was still rather slow, the massive size makes it an easy target, the massive weight means that it can't go over many bridges, be transported by rail or roll on paved surfaces without completely tilling it, and the tank would shake extremely violently when going over uneven surface which makes the crew almost impossible to operate the vehicle, and the 88mm gun would be easily damaged when breaking through enemy defense due to a lot of its barrel sticking out and often taking the brunt of whatever it hit. Thus, the Persuader tank was rejected by the Federal Army, its role was replaced by Maynesburg Heavy Machinery's famous and perennial Minister series heavy main battle tanks(based on IS Series and T29/T30/T32/T34/M26 Pershing heavy tanks), And with the war also prematurely ended after the sinking of the floating city of Atlantide, the development on Persuader Tank and a "tank destroyer" variant (based on T28 Super Heavy tank destroyer and is basically a large armored dome on tracks) were both halted and the Persuader tank was left in a museum's storage space while the "tank destroyer"'s unfinished chassis was dismantled and scrapped.

However, some 40 years later, while Talon Corporation is pitching sales of the Federation's surplus military equipments to the nations of the New Land, one of the most frantically willing customers, a fascist Monarchy in possession of vast frozen arctic and subarctic tundra, finds many of their heavy and superheavy tanks, while effective and deadly in combat against most of other forces of the new land, was somewhat lacking in the factor of intimidation due to their "compact" size in comparison to the difference of light and heavy equipment of other services such as the Navy and the Air force(where Talon Corporation assisted them in construction of massive rigid airships with the firepower, defense capability and the aircraft carrying capacity of of Two Federation class battleships and a Blizton class SuperCarrier combined), as most super heavy tanks were barely one and half times the size of the more advanced Centaur(Similar to the EE-T1 Osorio main battle tank and French AMX-30/40 MainBattle tank) and TBT-3(based on the Vickers Main Battle Tank series, Italian Ariete Main battle tank and South African Olifant Main Battle Tank) Main Battle Tanks and barely larger than the Ferma-Chandler Heavy Main Battle tank(a combination between the Conqueror Heavy tank, M103 Heavy tank, T-95 Main battle tank and M1 abrams series Main Battle tank) used by Talon Corporation Mercenaries. And without missing a beat, the sales representative of Talon Corporation produced a picture of the Persuader tank in comparison of a Minister-9 heavy MBT(the final model of the Minister series, based on the T-10/IS-8, M103 And M46 Patton, and was in active service as late as early black tide crisis), which almost immediately caught the eye of the Imperial Nobilitys' eye, and they immediately ordered one to be sent to the Imperial territory for evaluation. And to better sell the tank, the company that had acquired Spangler, Utility Automotive Commercial(UAC, commercial subsidiary of the Brabazonian automotive Juggernaut Utility Automotive/UA) set out to vastly improve and modernize the Persuader Tank. They reinforced the structure and armour of the tank with stronger materials and internals, the supercharged V16 diesel Engine was replaced with a pair of 18 liter twincharger 8 cylinder engines driving the sprockets together, making over twice the power, and that can even potentially be replaced with a miniature Magnussen Reactor to make it even more powerful, the suspension were improved to make the cabin more stable, and the 88mm anti tank gun is now capable of retracting back into the hull when the vehicle is rolling through obstacles, and the equipments were also all upgraded and thus better suits the needs. The improved Persuader tank was almost immediately loved by the Imperial Nobility and the Tsar, and they ordered it without hesitation. It's yet unknown if any more Persuader tank were being manufactured or where they were manufacturing them, though there had been many claims of these super heavy vehicle spotted in different places.

We're taking a ride in our favorite fictional vehicles for #5FF! #FiveFandomFriday

Three of us are sharing our favorite vehicles today. We all love to travel (even though we don’t get to do it as often as we’d like) so it is no wonder that we’ve all got a list of fictional vehicles that we are dying to take a trip in. You might notice that Tiffany and I have some vehicles in common, but as we’ve said before we spend a lot of time together and like/watch/listen to a lot of the…