• Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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    3 months ago

    Huh. I actually saw one for the first time in person yesterday too. On the way back from a camping trip, in a little village surrounded by corn fields.

    It really i the ugliest car I’ve ever seen. Including the car Homer designed in the Simpsons.

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      3 months ago

      Couple of weeks ago I saw several, all parked next to each other, in a parking lot. Assumed it was some car club, or people going to some car event. Anyway, seeing them all lined-up like that, made me realize just how out of place they looked. They looked fake, like mock-ups, or something. It was weird. I have seen a lot of very highly stylized cars, lots of specialty vehicles designed for industrial, and military, use and never have I gotten that vibe. The only other time I got the same feeling was when one of the Nolan batman movies was being filmed near where I worked, and they had the “bat” vehicles parked in a private lot I passed, on my way to work. Getting to see them up close, and in person, really made it clear that they were fake vehicles, that required distance, and editing/cgi, to look real.

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      3 months ago

      Homer’s car was pretty cool…

      • two bubble domes, with muzzles and restraints in the back
      • shag carpet
      • tailfin and metal bowler hood ornament
      • three horns to play the song “La Cucaracha”.
      • gigantic cupholders (which actually became a feature on many cars in the 1990s onward)