Real 'Akira' Motorcycle

News for nerds writes "At Tokyo Motorcycle Show in Japan (2/3/4 Apr.), the official licensed model of the motorcycle in the anime movie Akira (poster) is displayed. This Kaneda bike is not a mere replica, but a full working model (more pics at ITmedia) with twin-steering system and 249-998cc water-cooled 4-cycle engine, and on its cockpit is DVD-navi-system + trackball & ten-key + custom computer-controlled LED meters - all licenced by the author and the publisher of Akira. Though at the show only miniature figures are sold and real price or release date is unclear, you can check out the manufacturer's website for later info."

Comments

TETSUO!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd like to be the first to say, "TETSUO!"

Re:TETSUO!!!

[Divlje Jagode]

A while back, I saw a post on slashdot I thought was quite funny: it was called the Akira Drinking Game. First you choose your favorite character, then everytime you hear his name, you drink :-)

I also found this game doesn't work very well with The dead ringers :-)

Neo Tokyo is about to explode!!!

[dswensen]

And it goes:

Kaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
neeeeeeeeeeee....
DAAAAAAAaa aaa....

Oh, shush, someone had to do it...

Re:Neo Tokyo is about to explode!!!

[DenOfEarth]

Teeeeeeeeetttttttttttttsuooooooooooooooooooooo noooooooo!!!!!

Re:Neo Tokyo is about to explode!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Blame Kaneda!

And I'll be the first to say...

[Necroman]

KENADA!!!!

Superpowers not included

[foreverdisillusioned]

Does it leave neat glowy trails in the air? And what about the background music? I want to hear drums and people yelling "DAH... DAH... DAHDAH!" in the background whenever I crank this baby up.

Re:Superpowers not included

[PetoskeyGuy]

No superpowers, but I bet it includes a free pack of stickers.

Re:Superpowers not included

[Vairon]

Sure it does. You just have to take massive amounts of hallucinogenic drugs first and play the CD. Scratch that. With the right drugs, you won't NEED the CD.

Re:Superpowers not included

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm holding out till they bundle it with a laser rifle.

Then I figure I won't have to go looking for the hot Japanese girls fighting for the resistance, they'll come to me.

Want one?

[cybermace5]

If you like it so much, then steal one for yourself like I did!

Cool motorcycle

[General Sherman]

It's a shame their server wasn't as fast as that motorocycle.

Anyone got a mirror?

impressive.

[Mandrake]

I have never been inspired to sit on a motorcycle before, except possibly by the Robotech Cyclones. I wonder how long it will be until someone licenses and produces those ;)

This is why the japanese should build up a military. We'd have mechs walking around and defending tokyo from alien invasions in no time. Except they'd have to be piloted by children who were finicky and subject to teen angst.

Re:impressive.

[the_mad_poster]

Yea, and they'd probably get raped by an octopus or something. Not everything about Japanese culture is cool.

Re:impressive.

[BaumSquad]

But they'd have to watch out when the invading countries prepare for the onslaught by blasting some pop music to confuse and diffuse the robot mecha defenders.

(alternate ending quote in Tora! Tora! Tora!)

"I fear all we've done is to awaken a sleeping Minmae attack"

Yeah, that'll be the day. :)

Re:impressive.

[botono9]

Maybe I'm missing something, but you seem to be saying that octopus rape isn't cool.

Re:impressive.

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, YOU rape the octopus!

Just one laser rifle short.

[Orclover]

Ok after this ill be one millitary issue laser rifle short of living out my childhood dreams of hunting down psychic ex-best friends.

I doubt that... it's self-healing

[AllenChristopher]

"the nerd factor of riding any sci-fi reproduction pretty much means you will never get laid again...Ever. ;P"

If all you do is ride a sci-fi reproduction, the girl has to know something about either motorcycles or sci-fi to suss you out.

Where the nerd factor comes in is the nasal bragging about the animation director's signature on the cowling. That keeps you from getting laid. Also not showering for days before or after riding in your reproduction sci-fi leather riding suit. Ewwww....

An experienced 2/3-wheeler-riding lunatic writes..

[Lproven]

I actually do ride motorcycles, including a sidecar outfit -- the most evil-handling form of vehicle mankind has so far invented -- a triked superbike (ZZR1100: incredibly fast in a straight line, terrifying in corners) and even a recumbent bicycle (Linear LWB) in city traffic.

From this, and from reading reports of earlier home-made customs in the style of Kaneda's bizarre feet-forward bike, I believe that thing is going to handle like an utter, utter pig. Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow.

Despite this, I want one desperately, right now.

Re:Otaku

[Anonymous Coward]

Otaku no jinsei ha yabai na.

Trackballs on motorcycles...

[modder]

This is very safe.

TRON Lineage

[farrellj]

The Akira motorcycle always reminded me of the lightcycles from TRON. Tre-cool!

ttyl
Farrell

Re:Dear God: THANK YOU!

[Ironsides]

No, No, No. The next Holy Grail will be when I get my perfect fully working replica of Gundam Zero working. All I have to do is figure out where to get the plutonium. Maybe if I traded someone some pinball machine parts....

Put that girl from Chernobyl on that bike...

[Thagg]

And you have half the geeks in the world dying (happily, but still dying) of lust.

thad

Re:Here's a mirror

[Jubii]

From the site:

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That is informative!!! Thanks!!!

And In Other News...

[spoonboy42]

Networks around the world suffered varying degrees of damage today as 20 million geeks achieved simultaneous orgasm.

Re:Drivetrain

[MajorDick]

Actually my step-brother was a stoner. She was deathly afraid of me following in his footsteps. Whats really sad is right now hes worth about a cool 5 million, and I cant find a #%$@^ job.