Video: Silverlit's Heli-Mission SWAT Truck brings your Blue Thunder fantasies to a rockin' reality

We've seen remote controlled toy helicopters and remote controlled toy cars, and they were good, but never have we seen before a product that brings the greatness of the two together. Silverlit's Heli-Mission SWAT truck is that holy union of RC, a butch-looking controllable truck with flashing lights and a cavernous cargo bay that swings open to release a three-channel helicopter. The heli is hoisted into position and can then be launched to go rescue your Transformers figurines from the clutches of your evil sister, brother, husband, wife, or pet. This wireless duo will set you back £59.95 when it releases in Europe, about $100, but sadly we're not finding it up for order anywhere else at the moment. So go ahead and relax, Brazilian prison guards -- at least for now...

[Via SlashGear]

[wes @ Jun 29th 2009 11:59AM]

WHY oh why was I born in in the seventies and not the noughties. I would have sold my sister to the highest bidder on ebay to play with this!

[Tim Brown @ Jun 29th 2009 7:43AM]

I second, that 78 in my case, but man kids today get all the cool toys!

[Shadowise @ Jun 29th 2009 7:33AM]

Well, we sell the choppers at work, so hopefully this will come in and some point and I will get to play with it!

[Shadowise @ Jun 29th 2009 7:35AM]

Hmm.. looks like it only uses one remote which is good This just really makes me wish they had Thunderbird 2 as a flying RC model... it would make me so happy.

[G @ Jun 29th 2009 7:41AM]

i can see the helicopter is still so hopelessly hard to control as my picoo z, they can't make it appear like its controllable even in the ad.

[Mic2000 @ Jun 29th 2009 12:51PM]

Yeah, you try flying that heli back into the truck in one piece!

[Ekauq @ Jun 29th 2009 7:47AM]

follow my leader

[Blurr @ Jun 29th 2009 8:22AM]

Pretty cool.

Kind of reminds me of a combination of TerraHawks and M.A.S.K.

[whiskey @ Jun 30th 2009 4:22PM]

Glad i'm not the only one who made the connection

[Deuche ex Machina @ Jun 29th 2009 9:09AM]

Very nice, I bet you could seel this thing through a tv infomercial. Hell, I bet that Billy Mays could put together a sweet one minute commercial that would make these things sell like...

Oh, wait. Forget it.

[10minutehobo @ Jun 29th 2009 9:26AM]

The video (especially the music) was so 90s.

Love it.

[BigTeebo @ Jun 29th 2009 9:28AM]

It's like the show "The Highwaymen" where they had a helicopter inside a big rig's trailer. The cockpit stuck out.

[arkweld @ Jun 29th 2009 1:25PM]

glad someone else remembered that. Definitely a better reference than Blue Thunder.

It was easy taking off, but how did they get the helicopter back in? Especially since it was only Flash Gordon driving/flying it?

[Username @ Jun 29th 2009 11:33AM]

The picture looks so much cooler than the video.

[Curmudgeon @ Jun 29th 2009 10:10AM]

Ripped off from "Damnation Alley's" Landmaster!

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[Hackettman @ Jun 29th 2009 11:13AM]

Amazing!!!! I want a lifesize one now.......

[Torokun @ Jun 29th 2009 1:30PM]

Looks more like Air Wolf.

[Ubermelon @ Jun 29th 2009 2:55PM]

My little brother got something like this a few years back for Christmas, it was a truck you could drive around but it had a plane on the back, you hit a button on the remote to raise the little launch ramp on the back and rubber band the plane into the air, then you had control(although very little) over the plane.