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Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Means of Transportation in a MSTed MovieAlert reader “Mooney” writes:
I think I have to go with the Paper Chase Guy’s cool, albeit annoying, cycle. You? 87 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Means of Transportation in a MSTed Movie”Commenting at Satellite News
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I’d have to go with the weak little “Enforcer” buggy things from Space Mutiny. If I remember correctly there’s at least one low-speed chase, and “Roll Fizzlebeef” makes an amazing escape from one right before it explodes.
There’s Nick’s time transport airplane (a Piper Cub? Afraid I don’t
know much about types of airplanes).
Actually an interesting way for the plucky young filmmakers
to posit traveling in time. I just hope they dropped some water bombs
on the citizens and officials of Rutland, Vermont!
Oh, and bleep Paper Chase Guy’s motorcycle. It would be way cooler
to hitch a ride on Megaweapon.
I gotta go with Ator’s hang glider. Coming up with an aluminum frame and parachute fabric on the spot was pretty impressive, especially for that era of medieval prehistory.
You have got to love the basement heavy ship in Space Mutiny. Personally, I enjoy looking at all of the random cars in the background while watching shorts (MST3K and RIFFTRAX) between the 30’s and the early 50′.
Is this a trick question?
It’s obviously…..Megaweapon!!!!
I was GONNA pick Megaweapon, but I wasn’t fast enough. Oh well, I suppose nobody really “rides” Megaweapon. As a backup, I pick the escape barrels from Killer Shrews, because in Soviet Russia, barrels ride on you!
I’ll go with the time transporter in “Terror from the Year 5000” with an honorable mention to the ropes and asses in Mole People.
But I have never piloted swim trunks before.
I’m thinking that only way to travel is a Sidehack motorcycle from”Sidehackers.” Turning based on a co-pilot having to defy death by hanging off a non seated sidecar. Now that’s travel!
I’d go with the bong tubes inside the spaceship in This Island Earth. What a way to travel, dude!
Easy…
The dune buggy from Girl In The Gold Boots
Ah, I suggested something like this a while back but it wasn’t accepted then. IIRC, it was sweetest ride for all of air, land and sea. I’ll go ahead and throw in space too.
Air: Space Chief’s one-man lower atmosphere rocket. (Invasion of the Neptune Men)
Land: Servo’s makeout car. (Attack of the The Eye Creatures)
Sea: Kevin Costner’s boat from Waterworld. (Mentioned in the She Creature and Quest of the Delta Knights)
Space: Richard Kiel’s 60s Christmas ornament space ship. (The Human Duplicators)
Or, if you want one that encompasses all four in one: Gamera!
I have two;
I really liked that big boat in Devilfish with the boxy fish finder and never ending beer cooler.
Crow’s Mom van from WARRIOR OF THE LOST WORLD skit.
Forgot one thing:
If you put all of them in a battle against each other, who would win? Batman! Piloting Megaweapon!
If you are a juvenile and preferable named Kenny….Gamera would be the greatest mode of transportation/protector of children EVER!!!
Joe Don Baker’s Stomach. For it carries many sausages and beers in both his MST3K movies.
The drunk guy’s jalopy in The Giant Gila Monster. I wonder if he ever got that $500 offer to match his original purchase price?
Second best mode of transportation: Battlestar Galactica in Space Mutiny.
Favorite transportation? A rocket ship of course! As a science and science fiction fan I want to visit outer space and other planets. For example, Rocketship X-M, though I’d like a crew that can stay on course please. Or First Spaceship On Venus, though we now know landing on Venus is suicide, maybe we could just orbit Venus instead of landing there.
The coolest way I’d like to use to get around would be quantum linear super-positioning from the Gunslinger.
It’s obviously Arch Hall Jr buggy! Did I mentioned that his tires are filled with water?
If I knew what a sampo was I’m sure it would be a wonderful form of transportation
It’s the hippie’s righteous micro-bus from Laser Blast. It runs on high grade weed, can fit a dozen hitchhikers on their way to see the Dead, and has that nifty camera rig on the passenger side. It’s faaaar out.
The sweet, beat-up pick-up with laundry that Rowsdower drives is my favorite ride!
There’s also Arch Hall Jr.’s dune buggy in Eegah! Very useful for
getting away from large prehistoric guys. But watch out for snakes!
Hey Roxie, we just ran over one. Did you ever see Romancing the Stone?
This snake is deadly, but very delicious. What do you say? You, me,
roasted snake, a bottle of whiskey?
Eeeew!
The Orbit Jet from Manhunt in Space because it’s easy to fly: only five knobs on the console. Plus it has artificial gravity and a cloaking device. The terrarium helmets must go though.
I’m sure the NSA agents lurking around this site would answer: the Chevy with the rice-cooker–I mean radar dish–on its roof (Radar Secret Service).
For ground transportation, there’s the cool sports car the murderous husband drives in “Screaming Skull” (though the gull-wing doors would be a hassle in parking lots). Honorable mention to Franklin Hart’s Forumla 1 racer from “The Last Chase”.
For above-ground transportation, there’s the cool Eagle transporters from “Space:1999”, featured in “Cosmic Princess”. I’ve been a fan of those (and their military counterparts, the Mark IX Hawks) since I was a kid.
Chuck’s car from Laserblast before it blew up, or Chuck’s carbon donuts.
I do love those classic cars from the ’40s. They may have weighed two tons; got five MPG; had no power steering, no power brakes, no air conditioning, and no seatbelts, but they had character. If I may quote Bill from one of the RiffTrax Batman shorts: “Cars back then where like sleeker, more stylish PT Cruisers.”
Wow, so many to pick from. My faves are the Zamboni/floor waxer vehicles in “Space Mutiny” and the boat-sized convertible complete with car phone (even though this was 1957) in “Beginning of the End.”
Honorable mention for Pipper’s beautiful horse in “The Final Sacrifice” although he appeared to have been ridden by Rowsdower for only a short distance before being forgotten.
Petey Plane!
Samson has a cool car that somehow manages to record video of the driver without a camera. I’m guessing it wasn’t standard equipment.
Being a man of simple mind, pleasures, and tastes, I really like Diabolik’s Jaguars (Eva option definitely included!), and Kevin’s muscle car in “Hobgoblins” (though I would choose a different color than prune).
Paint my muscle car prune-colored please!
Van!!!
Oh – wait – no – ewwww….
Sorry.
In reality, I’ve always had a soft spot for futuristic mass transit systems like you see on Metaluna in This Island Earth. I don’t imagine I’d ever stop complaining about a commute, but a combining the privacy of personal transportation with the convenience of having somebody else drive is appealing.
Well obviously its Commander Cody’s rocket pack from ‘Radar Men From The Moon’. A couple of nipple tweeks and off you go.
The wingtip shoes in THE LOST CONTINENT. I’m sorry, but in the Real World those guys would have been dead ten times over–or at least all had twisted/broken ankles.
Adam Chance’s motorcycle in AGENT FOR H.A.R.M. It’s like being chased by your Anthropology professor!
MEGAWEAPON…MEGAWEAPON…MEGAWEAPON!!!!
Has to be the Martian spaceship from ‘Santa Claus Conquers the Martians’. What other vehicle ran on a Simon game, rickety wooden levers and lentils? Plus had a radar box roomy enough for napping and toys? For land travel my choice would be the pickup from ‘Red Zone Cuba’ – provided, of course, it came with the guy.
I apologize for a lateral but relevant comment:
I love that two door police car in Cinematic Titanic’s coverage of The Alien Factor.
Would Torgo’s legs qualify for the competition?
The sexy lady boat from Double 007.
I’ll go with Pegasus IV in “The Phantom Planet”, mincing co-pilot yapping about the good and the beautiful included.
Honorable mention goes to that matte black Gran Torino in “The Final Sacrifice”. Bags of potato ole’ and baby on board sticker included.
Jack Frost’s sledge from Jack Frost.
Obviously Doctor Who was a Santa Claus and Martian fan who
loaned A tardis (probably not THE tardis) to Kimar, since it
was clearly bigger on the inside than the outside. But it had
a really poor second hand tardis console.
I would like to say the bamboo car but they never did a Gilligan’s Island movie(How did they miss The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island?) I have to go with Richard Kiel’s 60’s Christmas tree ornament space ship in The Human Duplicators/srotacilpuD namuH ehT. My mother had one just like it ( the ornament not the space ship).
The Mom 5000 from Angel’s Revenge is the only van I would I ever drive. I would take it down to Troxartis’ custom car shop and have the sides painted with some epic dragons and busty maidens.
John Saxon’s dune buggy from the deleted scenes of the movie Mitchell. Those things are cool, even though it ultimately killed Deeny.
The Icky Elf’s ability to translocate in the Girl in Gold Boots. He’s just a kid, but he has the most efficient and pollition free. Jump cuts leave no carbon footprint.
How about one of those cool side-hackin’ motorcycles from “The Side Hackers”?
That little clown car from Deadly Beeeeeees….everybody pile in… weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……!