Get your Halo 3 on with a full-scale Warthog
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Halo players are familiar with the Warthog, the mil-buggy you (and often a friend) use in some scenarios to help the Master Chief dish out death with extreme prejudice to the Covenant's alien baddies. Well, the truck has made the jump from your DLP screen to the real world thanks to the guys at WETA, who have produced a running full-size replica complete with gun (natch) and four-wheel-steering. The full-scale Warthog's being used in a series of live-action shorts designed to ramp up gamers' excitement levels in the runup to Halo 3's release. You can get an idea of what to expect in the teaser trailer, which we've included after the jump. So that's what the Warthog assembly line looks like...
Thanks for the tip, Travis!
[Bungie, WETA via Joystiq]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
William 12:50PM (7/25/2007)
I want one!, lol
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travis 9:58AM (7/25/2007)
Jeep shmeep, If GM built that as Hummer4 (even without the cannon) I would stand in line to buy one.
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Yin 10:02AM (7/25/2007)
That is just too cool, anyone have an idea of what they used as a base?
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Feline_Jay 10:20AM (7/25/2007)
HEY! A Warthog I can actually *DRIVE*?!?
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bleh 10:24AM (7/25/2007)
Nice. In the first game I was obsessed with taking buggy with me everywhere it could possibly go, even if that meant throwing a plasma nade underneath it to get it to through.
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RITmusic2k 10:49AM (7/25/2007)
Heh, this was probably a byproduct of the fact that Peter Jackson was well into planning (and evidently beginning development) a live-action HALO movie...
Very cool! I'm glad they're still involved in the franchise even if the movie's been back-shelved.
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tokastyle 11:14AM (7/25/2007)
I wish a kit car manufacturer would buld one of these on a GM platform that would allow you to use the recently discontinued all wheel stearing feature.
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Blake 11:37AM (7/25/2007)
Looks more like some sort of big cat to me... like a puma.
(Thank you RvB)
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jeff 1:14PM (7/25/2007)
Blake, are you making up animals again?
Moltenauto 11:38AM (7/25/2007)
I wonder if they actually built it using the Warthog individual swing arm suspension design, or cheated and used axles.
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Guenther 4:27PM (7/25/2007)
Picture looks like it could be a swing-arm, although it's difficult to tell from just one angle. If I had to fab up something like this, I would probably go with 2 sets of front axle bits from an HD GM truck, simply because of the good availability.
Jon 1:21PM (7/25/2007)
I'll go for a test drive in Blood Gulch with that!
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Khanh 4:04PM (7/25/2007)
Much better video quality on IGN.com!
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Nellydesign 3:22PM (7/25/2007)
I think it looks more like a... what are they called... chupa-thingee?
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