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I love speeder bikes and the AT-AT, they are cool as hell. Obviously I love Ghost riders bike and Spawns as well, and you can't forget the BatMobile from the Arkham games, but better than the BatMobile, the batpod or any bat motorcycle.

The OG Real Robot. Variations acceptable, up too and include wacky alien tech fusion real robot, time travel real robot, and wacky plastic model real robots are serious business.

Bonus points to my favorite of the variations; big mace smash real robot.

Mostly the monobikes, but many of vehicles from the Venus Wars anime movie.

A-Wing. Love the design, love its combat role, love flying one in sims.

Rhino APC. Rugged, reliable, self-repairing.

StarCraft Terran vehicles are a favourite of mine. Also Babylon 5 did a great job of doing the hardest sci-fi vehicles of the 90s.

I've always been partial to Star Trek's Danube class runabout - I like the Starfleet aesthetic in general, but the Danube struck a really pleasing balance between Starfleet's glowy chic look and a sense of tangible practicality, inside and out. Beyond that, most of the usual suspects any Trekkie would pick - with the exception of the Sovereign, I never really got attached to it. A lot from Mass Effect as well, starting with Normandy SR-1 (I had some great times on board SR-2, but I really miss the mobile engine assemblies, the 2 lost something in stripping out the turian influences), Destiny Ascension, her distant distant ancestor Ocean of Stars, postwar Vanguard, basically anything the asari every built, the Audacious class, it's a long list, we don't need to be here all day. Honorable mentions to Space: 1999's Eagle transport, the B-Wing and TIE Defender, the Wind Raider from Masters of the Universe, the Rocinante, the Tim Burton Batmobile, USS Cygnus, Windblade, the Lightcycle, James Bond's Aston Martin DB5, Miles Mayhem's Switchblade, HMS Hexapuma, Space Battleship Yamato, and Gordon the Big Engine.

All those are number two or lower to the TARDIS, of course.

Avenger from the original X-com game

The space sail ship from Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors

The plane from The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

DeLorean time machine

K.I.T.T.

X-Wing hands down.

 Gert wrote:
X-Wing hands down.

They got that one right, didn't they

The best things for me that came out of the sequel films was the trailer snippet of the T70s screaming along the water surface.

Similarly, the Rogue 1 x-wing bits were stupendous, and finally caught up with the quality of the original trilogy model-based effects.

 Daia T'Nara wrote:
Honorable mentions to Space: 1999's Eagle transport

Ding ding ding ... we have a winner!

 Flinty wrote:

 Gert wrote:
X-Wing hands down.

They got that one right, didn't they

The best things for me that came out of the sequel films was the trailer snippet of the T70s screaming along the water surface.

Similarly, the Rogue 1 x-wing bits were stupendous, and finally caught up with the quality of the original trilogy model-based effects.

Both deserve credit and praise for Sticking With The Physics As Established, but using digital processes to film shots the OT just couldn’t, despite its staggering level of innovation and invention.

For a while the Fantastic Four flew around in a transport-modified XB-70. Does that count?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Flinty wrote:

 Gert wrote:
X-Wing hands down.

They got that one right, didn't they

The best things for me that came out of the sequel films was the trailer snippet of the T70s screaming along the water surface.

Similarly, the Rogue 1 x-wing bits were stupendous, and finally caught up with the quality of the original trilogy model-based effects.

Both deserve credit and praise for Sticking With The Physics As Established, but using digital processes to film shots the OT just couldn’t, despite its staggering level of innovation and invention.

X-Wings are definitely one of the best designs out there. For whatever reason I've always had a soft spot for the Moldy Crow though.

Mecha in general is also a good call. Hard to beat the VF-1 Valkyrie in that regard.

I love Zentraedi Battle Pods, all variants.....

I also love TIE Fighters and those distinctive sounds.

The Spinners from the Blade Runner movies.

The Ornithopters from the new Dune movies, love the design aesthetic.

Most of the tanks from the C&C franchise, but specifically the Tesla Tank, the Overlord, and the Mammoth/Apocalypse tanks (something just amazingly ridiculous about the 2 barrels, 4 sets of treads look on those)

Have to go with the OG piece of of anime Mecha... MAZINGER Z!

There's even an old Mazinger Z statue in the Mas del Plata urbanization, in Cabra del Camp, Catalonia, Spain.

The War Rig. Awesomeness incarnate.

Thunderbird 4 and the SPV from Captain Scarlett for me!
The vehicle and set designs in general from those programmes are just so cool.

I would go with the VF-1 Valkyrie from Macross.
I'm pretty sure it was the first Mech/Transformer my child brain was exposed to back in ye olden pre-internet childrens television days. The only toy available of it in my country was the Transformers Jetfire version, which was too expensive.

The Batmobile - particularly the '66 & '89 models (Adam Wests & Keatons)

The USS Enterprise NCC-01 (Refit) - Kirk's ship from the first 2 movies.
I like it just a tiny bit more than the OS version.

Naboo Starfighter
Y-wing
Tie Interceptor
(X-wings are also cool, but those first 3....

The Battlestar Galactica (original)
Colonial Vipers (original)

Don't think I ever watched the entire movie, but I loved the motorcycles from Akira. Think some Euro company actually brought a "Kaneda Bike" concept to market a few years ago.

Valkyrie from Macross/Robotech



The oft forgotten Starfighter from Buck Rogers.

Double-post!

The APC and Cheyenne dropship from Aliens.

Tron Tank

Star Destroyer from Star Wars is awesome. I loved the idea of such a huge space ship when I saw it as a kid.

Agreed on the APC from Aliens, brilliant design.

And Imperial Navy ships from 40K look absolutely awesome in my opinion.

It's not truly a giant robot if you can pilot it by yourself.

A good ole House Crucis Titan supported by House Sidus.



Striker-Eureka, the second best thing associated with Australia!

I liked the gunships and the AMP suits from Avatar, and the interstellar spaceship at the beginning was a pretty cool design too, with the solar sail and all.