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[Blue Monkey]

Some things are self-explanatory. Should it be in the requested units list? With a small Volta Cannon on the handlebars - charged in transit by the engine, of course.

 

[KingArthur]

That made me laugh Blue, thanks.

Here's something new on one of my favourite sites (io9):

http://io9.com/5334606/portraits-from-the-steampunk-planet-of-the-apes/gallery/

 

[Blue Monkey]

Love that new avatar, KA. Maybe a unit concept for the Lamarckian tech? Too bad the uniform isn't, say, cerulean.

Believe it or not I've yet to own a cell phone. But I could see myself with one of these. Could carry blank cards for people to jot their number on & punch later. Voice-over in coffee shop "Should I hand her the one with cupid, the gear, or the rook?"

 

[Moosezilla]

Is that the forerunner of B.O. Plenty's "Magnetic Air Car"?

 

[Blue Monkey]

Is that the forerunner of B.O. Plenty's "Magnetic Air Car"?

I'd have to see it. Got a link?

 

[Moosezilla]

No link. Try Dick Tracy, I will. oops! invention was Diet Smith's! for a color image : HTTP://www.hillcity-comics/models_dick_tracy_space_coupe.htm (DON'T WORK)anyhow still can buy at megahobby.com for $11....see clubhouse model museum!

 

[Blue Monkey]

I remember that! Mmmmm, Moon Maid.


Now if only Cyrano had been a steampunk...

 

[Balthasar]

If I remember, Tracy also had personal flyers sometime around 1970. Diet Smith's cop-toys were the best part of Dick Tracy back then...

 

[Blue Monkey]

If I remember, Tracy also had personal flyers sometime around 1970. Diet Smith's cop-toys were the best part of Dick Tracy back then...

There were circular platforms - kind of like the bucket on a "cherry picker". given things like the steampunk versions of marvel superheros I wonder what a sp tracy universe would be like. Certainly the lunar civilization in a rift canyon would an interesting contrast to the selenites.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
Can a steampunk "Zombie Island" scenario be far behind? I know it would be fun to put together a team to create an sp urban terrain set.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Well, it's no Baphomet - it doesn't yet speak - but a clockwork laughing head does exist.

 

[West 36]

I've been lurking this subforum for a while, excited to see what comes of it, and I hope that progress is still going well, but I found something that, if you haven't seen it yet, I'm sure you'd enjoy!

Link to video.
hope there are plenty of airships to play with now

 

[Balthasar]

hope there are plenty of airships to play with now

As many as we could find. And thanks for teaching me how to embed a youtube clip!

 

[West 36]

As many as we could find. And thanks for teaching me how to embed a youtube clip!

Awesome and no problem!

 

[Blue Monkey]

1859 - Wireless Telegraphy Via Auroral Current

 

[Blue Monkey]

wikipedia was very informative this morning. A notorious 19th c. dive bar in NYC called "Hole in the Wall" employed female criminals as bouncers.

Gallus Mag was 6 ft. tall.

"It was her custom, after she’d felled an obstreperous customer with her club, to clutch his ear between her teeth and so drag him to the door, amid the frenzied cheers of the onlookers. If her victim protested she bit his ear off, and having cast the fellow into the street she carefully deposited the detached member in a jar of alcohol behind the bar…. She was one of the most feared denizens on the waterfront and the police of the period shudderingly described her as the most savage female they’d ever encountered."
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A composite character based on her, Sadie the Goat (also worked the Hudson as a river pirate), & Hell-Cat Maggie ("her teeth reportedly filed into points and wore long claw-like brass fingernails") was portrayed in Gangs of New York. Some of the rough customers they dealt with also had great names like Slobbery Jim & Patsy the Barber.

Got to be a unit or GL in there somewhere.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Has anyone seen Tin Man? It looks like it may have a hint of steampunk spice.

 

[jlvfr]

Does anyone here plays World of Warcraft?

The instance/raid zone called Ulduar has strong hints of Steampunk. Here are some images:

Ulduar

 

[Balthasar]

Ok guys, here it is: the steampunkiest machine currently in existence:

Meet The Jardinator (that is its actual name). The beauty is, it's self-propelled. Read more >here<.

 

[West 36]

http://musegames.com/games/gunsoficarus/