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In 2010, the coffee table book Captain Action: the Original Super Hero Action Figure, by Michael Eury, was published by TwoMorrows Publishing.. In July 2012, an original Captain Action pulp novel was released by Airship 27, called Captain Action: Riddle of the Glowing Men, written by Jim Beard.
The car was the only car built in addition to the Mach Five for the movie, and it features weapons like machine guns mounted above the cockpit and under the chassis. In addition to this car, Racer X also drives a car built for the competitions in the film, a T180. This car was titled the "Augury" in the film's video game counterpart.
Cars in fiction may closely resemble real-life counterparts with only minor or unintentional deviations from a real-life namesake; such vehicles may still play an important role in a story. Or, the limitations of real cars may be completely ignored for story purposes; in extreme cases, describing the car is the main point of the story.
In 1977, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels debuted. The titular Captain Caveman was modeled after the Slag Brothers. In 1990, a cartoon segment in Wake, Rattle and Roll named Fender Bender 500 was produced. The show followed the same premise as Wacky Races, but had racers drive monster trucks and races took place on various parts of the world.
James Taylor of Car magazine ranks the SPV as one of the top ten vehicles in Gerry Anderson productions. On the vehicle's design, he comments that "all-round visibility [was] clearly not a priority of Captain Scarlet's employers." [14] Andrew Blair of website Den of Geek calls the SPV "clearly the best vehicle" in Captain Scarlet. Comparing it ...
The right-hand drive gadget-filled Aston Martin DB5 inexplicably returned in 2012's Skyfall. Two gadgets are shown on this vehicle, the ejector seat and two front-firing machine guns. This is the first time machine guns have been used in action since 1964's Goldfinger. This car is destroyed in the climactic battle scene.
Lightning McQueen, known primarily as Montgomery "Monty" McQueen before the events of the Cars films, (voiced by Owen Wilson in the films, Cars on the Road, video game adaption, Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure, and Lego The Incredibles, Ben Rausch in Cars 3: Driven to Win, and Keith Ferguson in Cars Toons and most video games), [1] is a custom-built race car who competes in the Piston ...
Speed Buggy, the dune buggy, was designed by Tinker and participates in racing competitions in order to collect winner's trophies. During their travels, the crew often defeats villains and crooks in order to save the world, such as diamond thieves, car-obsessed doctors, and evil pirates. [3]