The April Fools prank we truly needed:
haha man Garand Thumb is one of the GOATs. Pure Gold.
It’s a 27 minute vid, so strap in. I’m writing this quick post as I’m watching. It’s the rifle from HALO, for those not familiar.
Thoughts?
COMMENThalo
This is awesome:
From the same guys who made the Predator hand blades!
1:41 – Whenever I see a torch of any type, even on screen I always have a quick reaction to turn away. My eyes are very sensitive to light, and I thought I messed them up a few times by accident.
3:00 – At 5+ feet high, and with all this metal I can already tell this thing is going to be deadly heavy. Note: toward the end of the video when it’s completed it’s actually 6′ high and 100 lbs haha.
6:40 – Meh. I liked the way it looked in raw metal too. Now it looks like plastic, but I guess that’s true to the look in the game.
7:19 – Ok ok it actually does look pretty cool in this shot.
7:23 – These dudes are going to hurt their wrists / backs haha.
COMMENTApparently M$ was quite irritated that this existed, piggy backing on the popularity of their HALO franchise:
Liberty Ammunition removed all mention of HALO from their website, rebranding the ammunition simply as “civil-defense” now.
If you wanted to get some for your collection though, Midway USA still has some 9mm +P for $20 per box.
There’s a huge article on this ammunition over at Kotaku you can check out for more information.
Thoughts?
Hat tip: hocklermp5
HALO Jump:
UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle):
Pretty neat videos. Seems like Richard Ryan is trying a bit harder now to be likable, which is nice to see. He used to be pretty obnoxious.
I’d like to own, or at least play with a high-end UAV someday. HALO jumping, or skydiving in general I really have no desire to ever try.
He will muzzle sweep you, take your gun, and generally revel in ruining your day:
Freddiew needs to come out with that full length film. I heard he was working on one a while back called “Video Game Highschool”, i’m not sure what their progress on that is though, but it will supposedly be released the beginning of 2012. They raised over a ~$274,000 on Kickstarter which is very impressive. These little clips are usually pretty well done, but they definitely are running out of good ideas.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vd7dkjp1oM[/youtube]
I originally built this rifle for a costume because I wanted something that would look nicely detailed compared to the relative simplicity of the suit. Originally it was just a silver nerf recon but over time I started to customize it as the suit was upgraded and made more complicated. I decided to keep all the functionality of the nerf gun to give me something to show off. (cocking, loading, etc) This project has been on and off for about 2 years now. I occasionally touched it up here and there and added some more detailing.
Pretty awesome!
Some details on how he built it – HERE
I really like the demonstration video too. Nice touch with the HALO style heads up display and music.