List of fictional vehicles
The following is a list of fictional vehicles.
List of lists
[edit]- List of fictional aircraft
- List of fictional cars
- List of fictional ships
- List of fictional spacecraft
Buses
[edit]Buses often appear as settings, or sometimes even characters, in works of fiction. This is a list of named buses which were important story elements in notable works of fiction, including books, films and television series.
- The Battle Bus, from Fortnite
- Bus 25/25, from the 1994 film Speed[1][2][3][4][5]
- Catbus, a sentient bus from the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro[4]
- "Cyclops", a nuclear-powered bus from the 1976 film The Big Bus[4]
- "Bertie the Bus" and "Bulgy the Double-Decker Bus", from The Railway Series and Thomas & Friends.
- "Doris", the fictional band's tour bus in the 2000 film Almost Famous.[1]
- The Knight Bus, which appears in several of the Harry Potter books and films[1]
- The Magic School Bus[1][2]
- "Priscilla", the eponymous bus in the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert[1]
- "Sweetheart", in John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus[3]
- "Tayo", "Rogi", "Lani", and "Gani", bus characters from the Korean animated children's show, Tayo the Little Bus.[5]
Hovercraft/anti-gravity vehicles
[edit]- Hoverboard
- Snowspeeder
- Speeder bike
- Fast attack (Javelin, Land Speeder, etc.) and main battle platforms (Astraeus, Repulsor, etc.) - Warhammer 40000
Magical vehicles
[edit]- Broomstick
- Catbus
- The Chariot of Morgan Mwynfawr
- Killdozer
- Magic carpet
- Mortar (bowl)
- Seven-league boots
- Ruby slippers
- Cinderella's pumpkin coach
- Santa's sleigh
- The Yellow Submarine
Mecha
[edit]- Big Darrell - OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
- Big O - The Big O
- E-frame - Exosquad
- Evangelions - Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Mobile weapons - Gundam
- Tripod - three-legged Martian fighting machine, armed with a heat-ray, The War of the Worlds
- VF-1 Valkyrie - variable geometry space fighter from Robotech (TV series)
- Voltron
- Z-Mech - Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2
- Metal Gear robotic war engines - Metal Gear
- BattleMechs - bipedal walker battle robots from BattleTech game series.
- Titans, smaller Imperial Knights and their counterparts of other races - Warhammer 40000
- Heavy Gears - bipedal warsuits from a Heavy Gear science fiction game universe
- Dreadnought - Warhammer 40k
- BT-7274 and other Titans - Titanfall & Titanfall 2
Railroads and trains
[edit]- Blaine the train - the Dark Tower by Steven King
- Hooterville Cannonball - Petticoat Junction
- The Quadrail trains - the Timothy Zahn series
- Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
- The Wanderer - The Wild Wild West
- Wabash Cannonball
- Baby Train
- Snowpiercer
- Supertrain
- Galaxy Express 999
- Tachypomp
- Blaine the Mono
- The Polar Express
- The Hogwarts Express - Harry Potter
- The Atlantic Express - Avalanche Express
- Central Pacific Railroad No. 131 - Back to the Future Part III
- The Transcontinental Express - The Cassandra Crossing
- The Indian Valley Railroad - Shining Time Station and Thomas and the Magic Railroad
- Wilson, Brewster and Koko - Chuggington
- Azul - Dora the Explorer
- Casey Junior - Dumbo (1941) and Dumbo (2019)
- Puffa and Little Owl - TUGS
- Driver Dan's Story Train
- The Greendale Rocket and The Pencaster Flyer - Postman Pat
- Ivor the Engine
- The Ninky Nonk - In the Night Garden
- The Spirit Train - The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
The Railway Series
[edit]There are many railway and other 'vehicle' characters in The Railway Series children's books by Rev. W. Awdry. For a list, please see:
Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
[edit]Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is the TV spin-off from The Railway Series. As such, it shares many characters with the original books but also introduces a vast array of new characters. These, too, are collated in a set of lists:
Tanks
[edit]- Bolo - AI armored super-heavy tank
- Griffon tank - Warhammer 40000
- RX-75 Guntank - Mobile Suit Gundam
- Leman Russ - a main battle tank of Astra Militarum, backbone armed force of Imperium of Humankind from Warhammer 40000
- Baneblade, Fellblade and their variants - super heavy tanks from Warhammer 40000
Other
[edit]- Howl's Moving Castle
- TARDIS
- B-Ped - Teen Titans
- Farcaster - Hyperion Cantos
- Time Tunnel - The Time Tunnel
- Transporter - Star Trek
- Time machine - novella "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells
- Laputa - Gulliver's Travels and Castle in the Sky
- Steam Castle - Steamboy
- Manhattan Island - Cities in Flight
- Death City - Soul Eater (anime but not manga)
- 2019 Spinner - self-contained lift, Blade Runner 1982 design by Syd Mead
- Supercar - Supercar
See also
[edit]The following are lists of mixed types of vehicles, not otherwise categorized above:
Literature
[edit]Film
[edit]- List of James Bond vehicles
- List of Star Wars air, aquatic, and ground vehicles
- List of Star Wars spacecraft
- List of Star Wars starfighters
Television
[edit]- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- Fireman Sam - vehicles
- New Captain Scarlet - vehicles and aircraft
- Terrahawks - vehicles
- Thunderbirds machines
- Transformers
- Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan - vehicles
Games
[edit]Comics, graphic novels and animation
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Shaw, Anaia (2017). "The Tour Bus and the Road". In Slethaug, Gordon E. (ed.). Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road. Bloomsbury. pp. 72–. ISBN 9781501335273.
- ^ a b Romero, Frances (17 August 2011). "Top 10 Famous Buses". Time.
- ^ a b Halverson, Cathryn (Winter 2008). "John Steinbeck's Sweetheart: The Cosmic American Bus". College Literature. 35 (1). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 82–99. doi:10.1353/lit.2008.0004. JSTOR 25115479. S2CID 143266987.
- ^ a b c Lindeke, Bill (20 May 2020). "The Five Best Bus Films of All Time". streets.mn. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ^ a b Marshall, Colin (31 March 2016). "One of Korea's Most Popular Cartoons Is About a Bus". The Korea Blog. The L.A. Review of Books.
