Rate and Discuss The Hellcycle!

[Lord Valumart]

and i thought Nic Cage was the best thing in this movie

 

[FlameHead]

Those are the best pics on the net right now of the bike! It was posted before in the ET thread but quickley got lost with the recent footage talk.

I really love the look of this thing... and don't care at all that it's nothing like the comic versions of the bike, which were really just bikes anyway.

 

[InVictus]

Now that i saw it better i think the sculpting is done by Miles Teves(he's the one signed as props/sculpting maker), i can see definitively his peculiar style on it. probably one of thoose chopper makers did the working bike inside, or the base structure.

 

[Sauron]

i really like the skeleton arms and hands going up the gas tank. Cool!

 

[Hunter Rider]

Stunning i told the doubters it was real

 

[totalpackage59]

Myinfo is that Miles Teves was the Production Illustrator(US) & the Sculptors were guys like Chris McMahon, Liam Hardy,Russel Sharp & Phil Beadsmore, or though I may be wrong.

 

[blades_shades]

Whoever made it it's beautfiul. I wonder if the bike is going to be organic. We'll the bike's structure move like the spines and bones, etc...Via CGI of course.

 

[FlameHead]

Good question. It certainly does have a 'living' look to it... like a bug of sorts. There's definalty room to animate it somehow to make it look even more alive.

Perhaps that's how they'll explain it doing things on it's own (if does things on it's own), by actually being a living organism. Interesting...

 

[blades_shades]

Like the Venom Bike but more evil.

 

[batmaluco]

Yeah, that would be very nice.

 

[The Guardian]

LOOK AT THIS THING, HOW DO YOU NOT WANT ONE, I WANT ONE DAMNIT!

 

[The Lizard]

and i thought Nic Cage was the best thing in this movie

I never thought that for a minute, but if GR himself looks as cool as his bike, then I'll be willing to put up with Cage in this movie.

 

[blades_shades]

Cage is fine but if this movie does good they need him back. The cool thing is if Cage walks after 1,2, or 3 films then maybe he'll just get his sould back and a new character will become the devils ghost rider. Much easier to pull off than changing actors in other Marvel films.

 

[Socrates]

That bike is just excellent.

 

[FlameHead]

Like the Venom Bike but more evil.

I didn't know Venom rode a bike... or that it did anything.

 

[not_a_victim]

I KNOW I'M GONNA BE FLAMED, BUT...
While there may be a functional bike llike that in the movie, the one in the above pics is not a functioning motorcycle. Its just a mock-up, probably plastic with little metal here and there.

 

[not_a_victim]

Ok, MarvelMovies lets do this...
I said the bike in the above pictures was not a functioning motorcycle, while there may have been one on the set that did function.
1. The bike in the above pictures does not have a carburator.
2. The bike in the above pictures does not have a real motor in it.
3. The bike in the above picture does not have a front brake (though I will admit that some custom chopper makers eschew a front brake).
4. The bike in the above picture doesnt have a hydraulic master cylinder for the rear brake.
5. The bike in the above picture does not even have a fuel cap on the fuel tank.
6. If there was an engine buried under all that metal/plastic, it would very quickly overheat because there is not way the engine is getting air to cool it.
7. There is not a liquid radiator anywhere on the bike.
Again, I am not saying that you cannot make a bike look like the one above and make it function, but the bike in the above pictuers is not a functional bike.
Just like Master Replicas makes NONFUNCTIONING lightsabers that look just like the ones in the movies, someone has made a NONFUNCTIONING mock-up of the movie bike.
I will admit that I havent seen ALL the pics of the bike on the set, but the one pic I did see of Cage, I believe on the bike, the bike was sitting on some sort of low riding dolly that made the back wheel not even touch the ground, it was probably being pulled along instead of being ridden.
PS, I am a cop, why would I pull someone over for riding this bike?
Check my sig.

 

[InVictus]

If i remember correctly, reports said that there was a real engine inside the bike, and that they had to make short runs pbecause of the overheating.

 

[roach]

Please let me take this bike to Daytona for Bike Week...I'll bring it back...promise...

 

[Salemdog]

A couple more pics of the bike for you

 

[FlameHead]

There were 3 or 4 of those bikes make remember. Some of them completly working and some others not. This one is probably one of the nots.

 

[not_a_victim]

Yeah, I hafta admit, I would be verrrrrry tempted to jump on this thing and have my picture taken. There doesnt seem to be any barrier keeping people from walking right up to it.
Edit: I see now in the latest pictures that it looks like they were still setting the display up when the pics were taken.
I would also offer that a lot of states/municipalities have very strict statutes/ordinances against having "wet" vehicles on display inside a public venue, with "wet" meanind a fueled, ready to go vehicle.
Also, dont get me wrong, I think the bike is incredible, and should look great on the screen.
It is the perfect time to release this movie, between the influx of comic movies, and the interest in choppers that is sweeping the nation right now.

 

[not_a_victim]

I wouldnt doubt if they were slated to build a functional bike to tie in to the movie. They did it with "I, Robot", and it didnt even have a bike in the central point of the movie.

 

[Mr Nick]

Myinfo is that Miles Teves was the Production Illustrator(US) & the Sculptors were guys like Chris McMahon, Liam Hardy,Russel Sharp & Phil Beadsmore, or though I may be wrong.

Well, gentlemen, I salute you. That is an exquisite work of art. If it looks that good under the harsh lights of an exhibition hall, imagine how awesome it'll look in the movie.

 

[FlameHead]

Aye, it's going to look fantastic!!

Very true about the interest in choppers.

Ever since the show "American Choppers" debuted, I can't get enough of 'em. As a good promotion, they should get Paulie and the gang to have a special episode promotion, next season closer to the release of the movie of course.

I think some sort of tie in with these guys is a great idea. In fact, not doing so would be a missed promotion tool. I mean, they wanna target these chopper freaks to come to the movie right?

It's still possible they filmed the making of one of these movie bikes are are saving it for later on next year. Not likely, but possible...

They do have a guy named Russell Sharp (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1147298/) credited as the 'action vehicles bike sculptor'... so I assume it's him that created the bike... unless is a mini of the bike he made.