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Re: The Incredibles Monorail Thingy
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Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:47:36 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Rob Antonishen wrote:
> Took the family to The Incredibles last night...most excellent!
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> I loved the set design (do you call it set design when it is all CG?)
> and one thing that jumped out was the egg-shaped monorail/personal
> transport thingy on the island. Extreme cool.
I saw the Incredibles last Friday. I thought it was a little scary but overall
quite good. Pixar doesn't seem to be able to do any wrong.
> I also caught a reference on slashdot a while back about a company
> (Taxi 2000) trying to sell a similar thing called the SkyWay Express
> <http://www.skywebexpress.com/> thatlooks very similar.
Iain Hendry is a huge fan of these mini monorails, called PRT (Personal Rapid
Transit) There's a number of them, most notably the Morgantown PRT and the
incredible CabinenTaxi.
http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/transit/Morgantown/
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/cabin.htm
> Any thoughts on how something like this could be built in Lego? I've
> never actually touched Lego monorail, so don't know if it could
> support little pods rather than train type cars...
The monorail I think is powered by a cylindrical shaped motor that's in the
middle of the two cars included in the set.
Derek built a monorail which uses old train track. Perhaps with more work you
might be able to make it look like the PRT from the Incredibles!
http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/events/lego/lego-081101-derekmonorail.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=8216
He'd probably know more about how feasible it would be customized to fit the low
flat shape in the movie.
Calum
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