Rate and Discuss The Hellcycle!

[FlameHead]

Wow. There's overwhelming support for the hellcycle. That's so aweseom. Mark must be so happy if he's reading.

 

[Chaos Bringer]

oooooh.
that looks super evil.
I cannot wait to see it move.

 

[Triad]

Simply AMAZING!! I wasn't extremely hyped about this movie yet but that has just changed!


BTW, does anyone know who designed it?
I wonder if O.C.C. had anything to do with it.

 

[ObakeTora]

Oh hell yes. This will look even better on screen.

2006 is the year of the Ghost Rider.

I think it's dope, but I was hoping for the nineties cycle...

 

[Mr Nick]

WOW! I never thought it'd live up to my expectations, but it's actually better than I'd envisioned. They made it look organic and wickedly cool. Like Anton Furst's awesome Batmobile, it looks like it's alive. Can't wait to hear the thing growl.

Nice one, Mark & team. Let's hope Ghost Rider's as bang-on. I don't want any eyeballs or dayglo jumpsuit or Skeletor mask or any crap like that.

 

[InVictus]

Simply AMAZING!! I wasn't extremely hyped about this movie yet but that has just changed!


BTW, does anyone know who designed it?
I wonder if O.C.C. had anything to do with it.

I bet it's Miles Teves who made(actually sculpted the model for cgi, i guess) it. I think i've recognized his style(www.milesteves.com, just look at Legend, or Chronicles of Riddick), and he's in the staff of GR, to make prosthetics & sculpting... But maybe he's not so found on GR or bikes so probably there's more than one hand behind it(not to mention MSJ).

 

[InVictus]

I think it's dope, but I was hoping for the nineties cycle...

Heh, i actually have that plastic set, very good one, only the bike body and forks are a little mismeasured( i worked long on that). But GR himsefl is very good, also the skull.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

I think it's dope, but I was hoping for the nineties cycle...

That's a cool bike too. Maybe they'll have that version in the sequel?

 

[GhostRider]

I voted option 1, but I'm not sure about the chain forks and skull. The rest of the bike is perfect though.

 

[Tissues]

the bike is totally awesome...

 

[Exabyte]

Yeah, its real. Why would they go through a whole movie with a CGI bike when it can be easily built "with a lot of time". No the flames are real, they just tell Cage to be careful of the burning rubber and the possibility of being burnt.

J/K.

I have seen bikes like this, they definately take a very gifted person(s).

 

[Exabyte]

that is the same thing they said for the bat-mobil in BB, "Lets CGI the whole car" one for cost, and two for the design was unlike anything before. Nolan said, "lets just build it." and her comes 13 of them at 1 to 3 million a piece I estimate. It is the only car of its kind.

 

[Exabyte]

Makes me want to put on my fire proof pants and cruze by the Police station and burn......

 

[Melb]

HOLY HELLLLLLLL!!!!!! that is freaking awesome man! I never thought it could look this good! It's definitely CG. I'm confident the movie will look good nowww...

 

[Melb]

I'm giving it a 2 thumbs up!

 

[Uncanny Orb]

Looks amazing, I love it.

 

[crystal_flame6]

I can't wait to see what else they have done. They pulled the bike off and it is so awsome. I hope that the GR they do can match our expectations since we saw the bike. The front wheel on the bike is definitaly CG 'cause it is not touching the ground and the forks probably are not real (or not that big of chain links, though there has been chain link forks). The rest of the bike is a question, in my opinion.

 

[enderwaves]

i'm really bummed by this design. i really wish that it were based somewhere near reality. having grown up on gr books, and being an avid motorcyclist, i truly hope they do far better than this. i always saw hellcycle as being more sportbike or standard than chopper, but even so, there are literally hundreds of chopper builders who could've done a fantastic job with this bike. i'm even sure that buell had gr in mind when they designed the xb12r firebolt:

hopefully something better happens, because i'm severely disappointed with what i'm seeing. maybe we can convince them to call confederate cycles and pick up a couple of wraiths. at 50g's a pop it'll be far less expensive than a fully cgi cycle.
and just imagine it with flaming wheels...

 

[Hunter Rider]

^^^^^ first off the bike is real not CGI. secondly it was designed by jesse james one of the best.I really don't get the "reality"thing when it comes to GR he's a fricken demon with a flaming skull for chrissakes!,the good ship reality sailed a loooong time ago.Also this is johnny Blaze and he had a chopper not a sports bike so the design is correct

 

[Melb]

CG 'cause it is not touching the ground and the forks probably are not real (or not that big of chain links, though there has been chain link forks

GOod observation.. you've got a point!

 

[Carmine Falcone]

That Hellcycle looks very good, But I have no knowledge about Ghostrider whatsoever...

 

[4CABGs]

I am starting to see a motif here. The far side gear changer looks like a prancing horse (pony???).

I am not sure if a pic was posted but for those who went to the Alley set in Melbourne remember the cigarette mural with all the horses on it?

As these things always come in 3's anyone Caretaker to guess where the next horse motif will be???

 

[The Lizard]

I think it's dope, but I was hoping for the nineties cycle...

The 90's Hellcycle was cool, but it looked similar to the design for Kaneda's bike from Akira, so that dates it.

i'm really bummed by this design. i really wish that it were based somewhere near reality. having grown up on gr books, and being an avid motorcyclist, i truly hope they do far better than this. i always saw hellcycle as being more sportbike or standard than chopper

Ghost Rider is a product of the 1970's, and even though Johnny Blaze was a stuntbike rider, the image of Ghost Rider blazing down desert highways in a big bad-ass chopper just makes more sense than a zippy little sportbike or a futuristic anime bike.

 

[roach]

Can I take it down to Daytona for Bike Week Pleezzzzzzzzzzzzzeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[crystal_flame6]

First off, the movie is JB/GR with a very few elements of DK/GR in with it. JB had a chopper as a run-around bike, not a cafe-racer. The movie is set to look like Texas and choppers are a better choice than cafe-racers for highways. Plus choppers have a lot of options that cafe-racers do not have, examples are fork lengths, handle bar style, exaust style, to have sissy bars or not, etc. On cafe-racers you have to have a certain kind of handle bar design, seat design, exaust design, etc. Choppers look more bad-ass cruising the highways than cafe-racers and can shake the ground if you have the right exaust. Who doesn't want to take either bike to Bike Week or another show?
The movie is live action so it stands to reason that they want ALL the elements in the movie to look as REal as it would in real life. Computer animated characters do not mix well with live actors.
Enderwaves, you would probably like the bike at http://www.countingdown.com/movies/15658/board?viewpost=3659850&folder=0.
Hunter Rider, where did you learn that Jesse James designed the chopper? That would be an enteresting read.
4CABGs, remember that Caretaker has at least one horse. There is also a slight resembleance to a horse skull with the skull on the hellcycle.
For the point I told of priar, (The front wheel on the bike is definitaly CG 'cause it is not touching the ground and the forks probably are not real or not that big of chain links, though there has been chain link forks) the flames are probably CG as is the reflections of the flames and the repeating chain links (because of the computer animated look to them).