Honda's transforming Rose Parade float in action
By Evan Blass 
posted Jan 2nd 2008 10:34AM
posted Jan 2nd 2008 10:34AM
posted Jan 2nd 2008 10:34AM
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That's is neat!
oops, duplicate "is"
From the picture, it looks like a crop-dusting spaceship... in the desert.
"Pretty impressive for a parade float, but pit this achingly-slow changer against any one of the Decepticons in a RoboOne-style deathmatch, and Honda would have a lot of truck-plane pieces to sweep up after the carnage."
Don't you mean, the Honda would be in lots of little pieces?
...if it is "achingly slow"?
Isn't that what he said?
"Honda would have a lot of truck-plane pieces to sweep up after the carnage."
The Honda is a TRUCK that turns in to a PLANE therefore being the pieces he is referring to.
ASIMO PAWNZ ALL!
It's about time somebody built a vehicle powered by Pink Floyd and smoke machines.
but alas it was just hydraulics and 4+ humans to make it all happen.
Yeah. My car has flames coming out of its butt like that too. Just not intentionally.
Mine does: Yay for anti-lag ^^,
this is what i commented over at autoblog:
cool factor: marginal (too slow, but cool that Asimo was the pilot)
but i sure as heck hope they get the crapioca pudding sued out of them for using the sacred TRANSFORMERS transformation sound.
Yeah, only GMC can use that...
Ya, like I said over on AB, it's just wayyy too slow. It's cool, but just SLOW.
It's made out of flowers, what do you expect?
I actually saw this during the parade on HD Net.
Wish I had set my DVR to capture it so I could share the video in high-def glory...
Shaky YouTube videos: FAIL.
rewind and then hit record... most PVRs allow that. The good ones will let you just hit record and it'll save everything it has for that channel so far.
I know that...The DVR in my cable box essentially records whatever you are watching and will save it if you punch the record button before the show is over.
Unfortunately I didn't think to hit the record button while the parade was on.
To give credit where credit is due, I thought it was pretty awesome....and I thought the speed was fine, when it comes to foam and glue you can't expect things to move at a fast pace.
Shaky McSpasms on the camera.
Yeah, I second that. They could use one of these:
http://littlegreatideas.com/steadycam/
Were there no professional shots on YouTube?
I don't get it. That's all they could come up with? I think it's pretty weak.
All I can say is that, even though it was slow, it's pretty impressive being made out of flowers.
I saw it Live on HGTV... though a bit slow, it was pretty cool... surprised nobody here's ripped & uploaded it already. :P
I was at the parade and saw this thing. As it rolled past me, the front part folded out, with an Asimo pilot sitting there. But that was it. The rest of the transformation never happened (at least along my stretch of the parade route). And I must say it looked pretty stupid. Everyone was like, "That's it? What the heck is that thing?" I think it must have been malfunctioning, because we saw lots of smoke coming from it when it was further up the street, and again after it past us. Also, that Ridgeline truck is just hideous looking IMO.
that is so cool. if all the floats in the Rose Bowl parade were that cool, I'd actually think about watching it.
I wish Honda would crash a Boston parade. All we ever get are Duck Boats. They don't even decorate them.
here is the broadcast coverage: http://tinyurl.com/2w3qzc
If a transformer took that long to change the episode would be over. :xP I guess those crazy machine aliens have technology that cuts the transforming process in a 10th.
"Passport to the Future" is kinda odd name for the float, considering the Passport is a discontinued Honda SUV, and the Ridgeline used for the design is a current model.
But I guess "Ridgeline to the Future" doesn't make much sense...
i was wondering if anyone else noticed this! I checked to see if my iTunes was open, but it was not.
wtf that's something for disneyland maybe, but where is the REAL flying robot now, Honda??! We all have a limited lifespan, now do something!
Kinda a neat advertisement for ASIMO, HondaJet & a car.
Oooh, aaah, not really, go watch Transformers.
It was kinda neat, but the Honda roller coaster a few years ago was much cooler!
ROFL that thing sucks beyond any reasonable limit