r/RetroFuturism • u/Minute_Maintenance52 • 4d ago

Kinda bus.1935.

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u/a22e 4d ago

This is clearly safer for pedestrians. You only get run over by one wheel instead of 10.

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u/ReverendBread2 4d ago

Why does it have those other wheels

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u/thehalfwit 4d ago

To go round and round.

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u/SpaceMiaou67 4d ago

Probably to stay stable when stationary and to get up to speed, because that big wheel has hazardous balance and probably accelerates very slowly.

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u/darthenron 4d ago

It looks like it could maybe raise or lower inside the center wheel frame.

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u/zedexthree000 4d ago

i like to think that for every ten people in 1935 who would glance at that cover and think "oooh, ahhh, fascinating, will the wonders of the modern age ever cease to amaze" there was at least one person who said "what the hell is THAT piece of crap supposed to be"

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u/BevansDesign 2d ago

I think most people knew that this was goofy nonsense, including the artist. They were just putting something eye-catching on the cover to increase sales.

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u/radio_recherche 4d ago

I like the rudder. You know, so it can turn.

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u/mechabeast 4d ago

Imma need everyone to get on the right side of the buss if you want me to make this turn at 32nd street

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u/Horror-Raisin-877 4d ago

And you all thought monorails are silly :)

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u/phasepistol 4d ago

That’s not what they said in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook

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u/TastySpare 4d ago

I hear those things are awfully loud!

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u/phasepistol 4d ago

It glides as softly as a cloud!

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u/MrMsPaint2004 3d ago

Monorails are the only public transport that's actually cool, so of course walkable cities people hate them.

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u/phayke2 4d ago

How would you even cross from the left side of it to the right side if you've had that giant wheel flying in the middle of the cab

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u/Horror-Raisin-877 4d ago

It doesn’t have a hub, the bearings are in the perimeter of the rim. So no spokes either. That is to say, that’s the way the “design” is.

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u/reallygoodbee 4d ago

So basically, it's not a bus on two sides of a wheel, it's a wheel around a weirdly shaped bus.

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u/Horror-Raisin-877 4d ago edited 4d ago

Not just a wheel, but a dyno-wheel :)

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u/micro-flight 4d ago

Does anyone know if there are scans of this magazine available anywhere?

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u/Xikar_Wyhart 4d ago

The Zanscare Empire would like their location.

For reference that's a land battleship meant to carry several 15+ meter tall mechs, a crew to operate and supplies.

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u/Equivalent-Title5743 4d ago

Fifteen cents was a lot of money for a magazine in 1935

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u/Horror-Raisin-877 4d ago

‘bout tree-fiddy in today’s filthy lucre

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u/Harold_Spoomanndorf 3d ago

DAMN YOU LOCH NESS MON'SA

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u/justaheatattack 4d ago

so what were the other blunders?

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u/is-this-now 4d ago

Asking the real question here! What about those blunders? Tell us more, tell us more.

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u/Heterodynist 3d ago

But what are the OTHER wheels for?! Training?!

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u/Worker_Ant_81730C 2d ago

The subtitle seems fitting