Each Pokémon fan has dreamt of driving one of many collection’ monsters as a substitute of utilizing extra mundane strategies of transportation. Vehicles, trains, boats, and planes are simply not as cool as driving a Pokémon good friend to get the place you must go. Effectively, Toyota has made at the very least one rideable Pokémon a actuality, but it surely’s unlikely any of us will get to journey this real-life model of Pokémon Violet mascot Miraidon.
The Toyota Engineering Society, a company of the Japanese car producer’s staff devoted to prototyping and iterating on the corporate’s know-how, has created an actual bike that’s made to resemble the futuristic, motorcycle-like dragon Miraidon. Whereas it’s extremely unlikely it’ll be mass-produced and made out there for buy, the prototype appears fairly unimaginable and correct to the Pokémon. (Thanks, Go Nintendo.)
Miraidon is each the mascot for Pokémon Violet and the participant’s major technique of transportation. The electrical/dragon-type monster is ready to shift into completely different varieties to climb, swim, fly, and roll by the world like a bike. The mysterious legendary Pokémon helps facilitate the sport’s open-world traversal and likewise performs into the bigger plot involving a time machine that brings futuristic kin of contemporary Pokémon to the current. Pokémon Scarlet had Koraidon, a prehistoric dragon who had the identical skills. Nonetheless, it in all probability doesn’t make for an excellent real-world bike, contemplating it doesn’t even use the wheels on its chest and legs when it strikes round.
Whereas a Miraidon bike looks like a reasonably logical step for an automotive producer, the Toyota Engineering Society additionally labored on a number of initiatives that aren’t even associated to transportation. These embrace a soccer-playing robotic and initiatives to get children excited by science and know-how.
This isn’t the primary time a real-world car has formally been made to appear like a Pokémon; the Pikachu Bug vehicles have been a major a part of the collection’ advertising again within the ‘90s.
