Via: Nostalgia on Wheels

The why of Fry. Via: Penny Arcade

Via: The art of Akira

Via: Giant Robot Invasion

Via: Motorcycle.com

The "Black Rider" terrorizes Tokyo in Durarara!!

PEANUTS 1970’s Production animation Cell. Via: Gremlin Fine Arts Gallery

3/D Stills from the stop motion film of Runaway Ralph (Red and Blue glasses required ) Via: Joel Fletcher's stereographic photography.

CG rendering for the short film Rocketman

Via: Van Eaton Galleries

Film: Werner - Beinhart!

Werner - Beinhart! Is a German live action and cartoon film based on the German comic character Werner, which was produced in 1990 by Bernd Eichinger. The film is divided in animated and real sequences. Rötger Feldmann Plays both roles in the film. Approximately 5.5 million people watched the film in the cinema, what makes Werner - Beinhart! One of the most successful German films.

Pict via: Cinefacts

Saturday morning cartoons: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.

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Wiki:

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's (遊☆戯☆王5D's (ファイブディーズ) Yūgiō Faibu Dīzu?) is a new Yu-Gi-Oh! series which began to air in Japan from April 2, 2008, and replaces Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX (broadcast as Yu-Gi-Oh! GX in the US)

Ok I'll admit it..I can't wait for the toys to come out...

During the series, the main Duel Disk is a motorcycle called a "D-Wheel" and duelists engage in stadium games called "Riding Duels". The 18 year old main character, Yūsei Fudō, has "Stardust Dragon" as his main card, which is the cover card for the Duelist Genesis trading card set.

Yūsei's D-Wheel

The latest Yu-Gi-Oh series features the "Riding Duels". An all new style of duel in which the players ride the D-Wheels, motorcycles with Duel equipment. Contrary to the previous series, dueling with D-Wheels contain some special rules. First, the duel is entirely played using the field magic "Speed World". Second, only magic cards designed to work into this field are allowed in the duel. Each magic needs a number of "Speed Counters" to be activated. Each duelist starts with zero Speed Counters and its number increase by one in each standby phase. A player's Speed Counters are reduced by one for every 1000 points of damage done to their LP. When a winner is decided, the D-Wheel of the defeated duelist shuts down automatically.
The D-Wheel features the card platform, sitting in front of the duelist, a stand for the cards in hand, which allows the duelist to ride with one hand while using the cards with the other, and a compartment for the deck located in the player's wrist. Cards sent to graveyard are inserted in a slot also located in front of the duelist.

In some D-Wheel models (called hybrid models), the card platform can be detached from the bike and function as a standard Duel Disk for old-fashioned duels.

Jack Atlas's D-Wheel monowheel


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Saturday morning cartoons: Kotetsushin Jeeg.

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'Kotetsushin Jeeg (鋼鉄神ジーグ Kōtetsushin Jīgu?, or "Steel God Jeeg") is a Japanese animated television series and sequel to the 1975 Super Robot series Steel Jeeg, created by Go Nagai. The show began airing on the satellite network WOWOW on April 5, 2007 at 11:30 p.m. JST. Press material describes the show as "A simple tale of 'Good versus Evil' while at the same time a robot anime created for the sake of the adult core audience.

The story of Kotetsushin Jeeg takes place fifty years after the original and features a new cast of characters - primarily the new main character Kenji Kusanagi, a high school student and motorcycle racer who becomes Kotetsushin Jeeg to fight the sudden reappearance of "Haniwa Genjin"

The colours!-a pict from the first Steel Jeeg series in the early seventies

Kenji's motorcycle "Raikoba" was created by Build Base with the bronze bell as it's core. While riding the motorcycle, Kenji can activate the Raikoba's transformation by slamming his fists together (while wearing special yellow gloves emblazoned with a green "S"). The Raikoba will then transform into the Jeeg's head unit (much like how Hiroshi Shiba transformed into the Jeeg head, except he didn't need a motorcycle since he was a cyborg). Kenji later learns that his own parents were part of the Jeeg project and his father designed Raikoba."

Saturday morning cartoons: Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch.

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"Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch was a 30-minute cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera which aired for one season on NBC from September 7, 1974 to August 30, 1975. It aired on Saturday morning from 8:30-9:00 am, opposite the popular The Bugs Bunny Show.

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The series focuses on Wheelie, a red Volkswagen Beetle, and his girlfriend Rota Ree (a pun on both the "rotary engine" and Ruta Lee).Wheelie made his living as a professional- and quite successful- racing and stunt car. Wheelie didn't talk (Unlike the other characters in the show)but emoted by honking and displaying symbols across his windshield showing his inner thoughts such as a heart for love or a lightbulb for an idea.Wheelie could also produce any form of prop needed from his trunk thru the use of special mechanized hands, much like Inspector Gadget would later. Wheelie's regular nemeses were a 4-member motorcycle gang called the Chopper Bunch which included the leader Chopper, Who was jealous of Wheelie and had a spiked motorcycle helmet for a head, Revs, a sputtering three- wheeled motorcycle who often mixed up his words ("Chight,Rhopper"-"Oh,I mean, Right, Chopper!") Hi-Riser, who was tall in body but shorter in brains, and Scrambles,a small minibike who acted more like the good kid caught up in the wrong crowd. Scrambles would constantly try to warn Chopper that his plans were about to backfire only to be rebuffed ("Muffle it, Scrambles!") and end up taunting his sullen leader once they inevitably did.

Two other characters were used on occasion to keep the Chopper Bunch in line. They were Captain Tough a hulking Police car, and Fishtail,who was literally a motorcycle cop. The show was the subject of a seven-issue comic book from Charlton Comics, published from July 1975 to July 1976"

Saturday morning cartoons: Storm Hawks

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Wiki:

"Storm Hawks is an animated television series created by Asaph "Ace" Fipke and made by Nerd Corps Entertainment in conjunction with Cartoon Network and YTV. It premiered on Cartoon Network on May 25, 2007. It started to air on YTV in September 2007. It started to air on Cartoon Network in the UK in 6 August 2007. In Poland it started to air on Cartoon Network on 10 November 2007. Internationally, it first aired on ABC1 in Australia on 26 February 2008 and on Hero in the Philippines on March 12, 2008

Buy me that!-The Storm hawks toy bike.

Storm Hawks is set in a fictional world called Atmos, a largely mountainous world consisting of scattered landmasses known as terras. Because of the geography, travel is largely dependent on flight. The technology of Atmos is based around energy-generating crystals, used to power the various devices in the series. Patrolling the skies of Atmos are the Sky Knights, groups of warriors who pilot motorcycle-like vehicles that can semi-transform into flying machines. These warriors are loosely managed by the Sky Council."

Fool throttle.

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Created by Reelworks animators and directors Todd Hemker and Morgan Williams in an era of rampant road rage, Fool Throttle is a cautionary tale about how aggressive behavior on the road leads to a no-win situation.

Anime: Bari Bari Densetsu .

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"If you're a fan of anime/manga and sportbikes, or an Initial D fan, you might enjoy Bari bari Densetsu (Baribari Legend, or "legend of rolling wheels"). It's from 1986 (through 1995 or so) and written and drawn by Shuichi Shigeno creator of the hugely popular Initial D comic and anime drifting series but only with old school sport bikes, +40% more recklessness, and apparently (from what I've read so far), lots of Japanese High School delinquent -type fighting (which is a genre of all it's own).

The main character, Gun rides a customized Honda CB750F cafe racer (well, no fairings but he's got clip-ons and rearsets), and eventually evolves into a pro road racer. The manga is almost impossible to find in the U.S. There are no translations that I know of (besides Chinese subtitles for the anime version we see here).

The series is credited with causing a lot of people to become motorcycle street racers and bousouzoku, apparently. There are 38 volumes of manga and two OVAs. (straight to video releases)"

Via: sportbikes.net

Music: I'm Gonna Getcha Good,

Wiki:

"The music video for "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" was shot in London, UK and directed by Paul Boyd. It was filmed on August 22 and 23, 2002 and debuted on CMT on October 4, 2002. The video is set in a futuristic setting, with Twain riding a motorcycle trying to escape a flying robot, at the end of the video Twain finds a clone of herself performing behind glass, which she breaks. The video was a success, peaking at number one on VH1's weekly countdown. The video won the Best Video of the Year Award at the 2003 Canadian Country Music Awards. The films animation was by Blur studios"