Fire-breathing pony

[Video Link] I, for one, welcome our plastic, flame-shooting horsey overlords. Shown at Maker Faire Detroit 2011.

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jimbuck

That’s not a real pony. I can tell by the pixels.
Cowicide

Is DARPA responsible for this evil killing machine?
Cowicide

Does the guy in the pink shirt on the right know something? He’s got his ears covered as if he’s waiting for the pony to explode.

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- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=613890938 Subhan Michael Tindall
  
  He’s talking on his cell phone & it’s noisy so he’s plugging his opposite ear.
  - Cowicide
    
    Really, are you sure? ;D
Bucket

Butterscotch, nooooo!
Blaze Curry

Sigh…why can’t such an awesome event happen here in Calgary? instead we get boring crap like street buskers juggling cats and job fairs…
http://twitter.com/TheRedMonk01 Red Monk

Not recommended for children under 3
Gemma

It’ll have to be careful not to embarrass itself by setting fire to its bedding.

[If I had the Pratchett book to hand I'd do an actual quote.]
Ito Kagehisa

Is that a wii nunchaku?
Shibi_SF

I expected some sort of disaster at say 0:23. I’m disappointed that nothing went awry.
LogrusZed

That’s what the Unicorn should have done in Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare.
millie fink

Wow, that’s a gas.
eyebeam

Stop with the kilts already!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6PZ4NR33COZKSDJ7XLORE2VK4Y Richard Hamilton

With any luck, it is not a prototype for a TSA explosives screening device.
- neurolux
  
  TSA pony sets you on fire. If you blow up, you’re pulled aside for questioning.
nosehat

I wish all plastic ponies did this!
gijoel

Binky?
arbitraryaardvark

one trick pony. it’s a good trick though.
princessalex

I’m loving the Utili-Kilts those two guys are sporting! :-)
- brix
  
  on a related note, the three main people in the video each have 2/3 of the utilikilt/mohawk/neon pink trinity. none of them has all 3.
  
  i just really appreciate that bit of social composition
  - Spriggan_Prime
    
    But they lack Techno Viking so the video’s awesome quotient will always be shy of true web nirvana.
Godfree

I’m loving the utili-kilts also, but I’m honestly curious: does anyone outside of Maker Faire wear them in public?
- http://twitter.com/lannanh Hilary
  
  Here in SF they do. If you count any sort of Burning Man event “public”
- mccrum
  
  I saw a gent wearing one today in Asbury Park. It was green plaid.
  
  So, yes.
- jere7my
  
  I’m loving the utili-kilts also, but I’m honestly curious: does anyone outside of Maker Faire wear them in public?
  
  I wear mine to work, and to dinner at the coffee shop afterward, pretty much every Monday, because I have Scottish country dancing in the evening. (I only missed one Monday in the last year, when the high was 9°.) I wear it other times when it’s hot and I’m not biking.
n s

the man in the pink wears them regularly, the one with the mohawk just got his at makerfaire and was contemplating burning his pants with the pony.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  was contemplating burning his pants with the pony.
  
  Is that what you kids are calling it these days?
feelbetter

HOW can it do that？
http://www.facebook.com/pevsonic David Peverley

Never mind the pony… Here’s Paka’s horse :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euwYkFp51GA
It’s a fantastic piece of kit and can be completely remotely controlled. Having said that, with gas for the fire and compressed air for the pneumatics, I’m not sure Id want to be riding on top!
andygates

Oh man, that’s my little pony, right there.
Tony Moore

looks like i found my daughter’s next Xmas present! she’s gonna love it!
lysdexia

WTF? I was there Friday (for setup) through Sunday and I saw no ponies. Fire breathing or otherwise! Granted I spent 80% of my time at ThunderDrome! but still, no pony!
lysdexia

These guys were my pick for “Having the Most Fun with Stuff They Built” award: http://www.detroitblog.org/?p=1832

The rolling barbeque grill was my fave. The level of detail and workmanship on these bikes was mind-blowing. Mr. Jalopy should go hang with these folks.

BTW, I stayed at Hostel Detroit http://www.hosteldetroit.com/ When I got up Saturday morning and stepped out the front door there was a wild grouse in the empty lot across the street. Detroit is weird-o-cool, y’all.
DJBudSonic

I shopped the kilts they had on sale there but the carpenter models start at $215, which is a lot of cash for work clothes. Even if they are made in America of green materials etc…
Jackalope

These Louisville KT guys were fun to chat with and they took time to show off custom features like the lightning-bolts in their pony’s nostril.

Butterscotch is FurReally dangerous!
Rich Keller

They could have made it out of brass so it would have been Steampunk. ;)

I like the Utili-kilts, too, but on other people. But even though I wear knee length tunics to SCA events, I just don’t think they’re for me. I’m thinking of combining cargo pants with Japanese hakama. I’m calling them Pockama.

(Edited for a typo).
Sheila Dong

Really? No Brony comments? I’m shocked and distressed.
Tara Mary Aziz

lol – how did i get here? :P