Finished: Project VI/22

A Time Machine in a DeLorean

So here it was, the Time Machine set up for the "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads" -scene from the end of the Back to the Future, with the Lego Collector -style plaque for those who didn't know what they were looking at.

For a fun comparison shot I put all my three DeLoreans next to each other in the same pose, doors opened because the Metal Earth Models DMC-12 was permanently wide open. The doors of the Playmobil car stayed open the best, as you could see from the photo. For the comparison I reverted the Lego car's back into the Plutonium-powered version but forgot to fetch the Playmobil car's detachable power rail.

For the flight mode the Time Machine had a couple (4) transparent 2x1 bricks in the bottom, that you were to move to different places when tilting the wheels.  When the wheels were out of the way, the bricks kept the car "hovering" further from the surface than if it was resting on the wheels, and when the wheels were in use the bricks were moved to more elevated areas so that they wouldn't bump into anything you'd drive over. This was a curious little trick you'd need to be doing repeatedly, but that didn't bother me.

Fooled you! I did remember to get the power rail for one photo at least.

'80s vehicles

Now that we were basking in the glory of the infamous eighties, of course I had to take a couple of photos of the Time Machine next to Optimus Prime. Sadly they were not in the same scale.