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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 | 06:57 AM
umm... cool...
cool for spam at least |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 | 07:51 AM
Ok....That is very very sweet!!!!!!!!! I MUST have one. That should be easy to build....Just need foam and a propeller....Lets not forget the $500.00 radio controller. |
David B.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 | 09:09 AM
Sorry if anyone didn't get the Simpsons reference (guess it should have been "Coolest. Toy. Ever.").
When I first watched the video, I saw the boats swimming around and had an internal monologue something like the following: -
"This is one of these 'caught on camera' gags. The boat was doing to hit someone in the crotch or something."
[Boat jumps into the air]
"Hoax! Someone's got it on a piece of fishing-line off camera."
[Seconds pass]
"That is so fake. Worst. Hoax. Ever."
[Time passes]
"Okay. I don't know how they did that."
[More time passes]
"Holy <BELGIUM>! This is for real!"
I was really disappointed to find you can't buy one! I just want to take one down to my local lake and freak people out. |
alteregogi
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 | 10:14 AM
Kinda cool, but not really surprising if you have watched this type of boat race in full scale. They hit one bad wave and their boat becomes and airplane.
Of course when there is a living human being inside it is a little less cute when they come smashing down. |
thunder
in England
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 | 10:23 AM
the website at the end of the film thing doesn't work :(
If anyone makes one, I'll buy it for all the money in my pocket i.e about 20 quid |
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 | 11:58 AM
Thunderstruck - it does.
http://michaelconnally.com/
I so totally want one. |
Citizen Premier
in spite of public outcry
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 | 01:06 PM
I suppose you could just buy a rc plane and turn it into a boatplane. In fact, you could probably radically alter it too look like a boat, since aerodynamics doesn't seem as important at that scale--remember the flying lawnmower? |
Cyb3rD0n_Architectus
in The Netherlands
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 | 04:55 AM
MUST. HAVE. ONE. |
LesCorbusieurs
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 | 03:32 PM
I do not believe that this thing can fly. NOTHING can drive on land and water, and mow the lawn, and be so lightweight that it can fly! Plus I haven't seen anything on it so that it can fly. No propellers, no fuselage, no nothing. So I cannot believe this is real. I saw the shotas of the bottom and saw that it is a piece of plastic held on there by 2 bolts. Believe me, there is nothing on it that shows it can fly. |
Winona
in USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 | 03:37 PM
Ummm... you misunderstood the mowing the lawn thing. It does not mow the lawn.
And, I saw propellers, I'm not sure it was on one of the stills or on the page, but I saw 'em. |
LesCorbusieurs
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 | 03:39 PM
I just looked over the first sot of it, and I saw a very small propeller on the top.. Still that is not enough to make something that does both of those things.
P.S. Coolest. Toy. Ever. is a Worth1000 photoshop contest. See for yourself. |
LesCorbusieurs
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 | 03:43 PM
I meant to say that teeny propeller is not enough to make anything fly, unless it was a fly. |
LesCorbusieurs
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 | 03:45 PM
Now i'm less skeptical about this. Yet, what is it made of? That thing got run over, & it still worked! I WANT IT! (slobbers over computer while showing the video) |
Winona
in USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 | 03:46 PM
That's depends - it looked to me like it was made of foam pressboard, my husband uses it a lot in his projects, and I can attest to it's low weight.
But anyway, do you have a link to where it is in the Worth1000 contest? |
LesCorbusieurs
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 | 03:54 PM
Nevermind. It did'nt get run over. |
Citizen Premier
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 | 10:14 PM
<a href="http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=4406&start=1&end=10&display=photoshop">Coolest. Toy. Ever.</a> |
Citizen Premier
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 | 10:18 PM
Credit Card Maker would have to be the best. |
David B.
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 | 11:10 AM
The Worth1000 contest is <a href="http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=6410&start=1&end=10&display=photoshop">HERE</a>. I'd forgotten all about it when I started this topic, but this must have been where the title popped into my head from! |
David B.
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 | 11:13 AM
Sorry, that should have read "The latest Worth100 contest..." |
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 | 11:29 AM
it could totaly fly. You got to love people that don't know squat about rc flight talk about it needing a fuselage to make it fly. TARDS!!! |
dec
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 | 11:56 AM
u can get um on ebay |
ochants
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Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 | 05:29 PM
they are real i have seen these guys at a local flying field.
they are very hard to fly because they are unstable. but with the right pilot they are really cool. |
ttt
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 | 04:19 PM
you can buy the suckers now:
http://www.hobbytron.com/RCHydrofoamboat.html
i want one. now to find the $$$$... |
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 | 06:07 PM
dudes.... your all messed up. I even bought the Walmart version of this thing and it even flys and drives but does not mow the lawn... stupid blankity blanks.... are you 9 years old? |
