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mkt

mkt

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Agent H said:
lol car people generally hated it? Why did they complain it wasn’t realistic enough to what the cars dipicted in the movie could actually do?
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Yep.

DANGER TO MANIFOLD was a meme back then.

But it ended up attracting a new generation of people into car geekery, and turned some cars - like Mk4 Supras - into absolute collectibles. So now it's mostly accepted/ignored by the car community.
 
Agent H

Agent H

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mkt said:
Yep.

DANGER TO MANIFOLD was a meme back then.

But it ended up attracting a new generation of people into car geekery, and turned some cars - like Mk4 Supras - into absolute collectibles. So now it's mostly accepted/ignored by the car community.
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Ok that’s cool to know but the movies aren’t any less popular now because of it right?
 
mkt

mkt

When a paradise is lost go straight to Disney™
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Agent H said:
Ok that’s cool to know but the movies aren’t any less popular now because of it right?
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They're still viewed as somewhat kitschy, but they're extremely popular.

Although DANGER TO MANIFOLD is stlil laughed at. As are "overnight parts from Japan", and the the idea of finding an R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R randomly at a used car lot in the US back when it was an illegal import.
 
Agent H

Agent H

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mkt said:
They're still viewed as somewhat kitschy, but they're extremely popular.

Although DANGER TO MANIFOLD is stlil laughed at. As is the idea of finding an R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R randomly at a used car lot in the US back when it was an illegal import.
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Yeah as someone who has no interest in cars or fast and furious the second half of this post is a bunch of gibberish
 
mkt

mkt

When a paradise is lost go straight to Disney™
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Agent H said:
Yeah as someone who has no interest in cars or fast and furious the second half of this post is a bunch of gibberish
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I'll translate.

Danger to manifold. Peak nonsense. In cars, a manifold is either an intake manifold (feeds air to the engine) or an exhaust manifold (routes exhaust gases out). Both sit toward the top of the engine bay. If one fails, worst case? You lose efficiency, maybe develop a leak—nothing catastrophic. But in the movie? The manifold fails (which one? Who knows), and somehow, the floorboard falls out. That would never happen. Additionally the comically loud warning is extremely unrealistic and aligned with unnecessary show car modifications on a street race car.

It's pure nonsense, and car people have been roasting it ever since.

Overnight parts from Japan. This one’s a mix of car culture truth and meme exaggeration.
  • Japanese parts are high quality, but not everything from Japan is automatically superior.
  • Shipping performance parts overseas is never overnight.
  • And the big joke? People thinking that slapping on basic bolt-on upgrades—like a cold air intake—automatically makes their car some kind of monster build. It doesn’t. It's like putting a higher-wattage light bulb in your lamp and expecting to get a glorious tan.

R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R. According to the 2 Fast 2 Furious pre-release short film The Turbo-Charged Prelude, Brian picked up his Skyline at a used car lot in Dallas while heading east. The problem? That’s completely unrealistic. In 2002, the R34 GT-R was still in production and already legendary. It was called the "PlayStation supercar" (because most Americans first drove it in Gran Turismo) and nicknamed Godzilla, but it was never officially sold in the U.S. It was only officially sold in Japan in large numbers, and in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong in very limited numbers.

Back then, the only way to legally own an R34 in the States was through MotoRex, a company that imported no more than 16 of them - until it collapsed in fraud (cars went missing, people lost money, and compliance modifications weren’t done). Most Skylines in the U.S. were not legal, and if the Feds caught wind, they could be seized, and the owner charged with smuggling. (That said, this was rare - the Feds have bigger priorities.) A random used car lot having one for sale in the early 2000s? Not a chance. It's like finding a Bugatti at Carmax.

The R34 Skyline only just became fully legal for import in 2024 under the 25-year rule (which allows any car over 25 years old to be imported into the U.S. since it's considered a classic). So while some people managed to sneak them in before, Brian casually rolling up to a dealership and snagging one? Yeah, not a chance.
 
UNCgolf

UNCgolf

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Moth said:
I'm more so talking about the HP land they're doing at EU when I talk about that, even if I included the other two in it.

Diagon has the most top of the line rides and overall land build throughout any Universal property. I have no attachment to HP and actively dislike the brand but I'll bend the knee and recognize that Diagon is extremely well put together.

Meanwhile the one in EU is based around a failed series of films for it's main setting and attraction, and when realizing the spin-off wasn't working out, switched gears to make the ride of the land the nostalgia-classic HP ride.

I think my issue stems more from "did we really need a third HP land" than anything else I guess. But I've knocked EU for that since the day the lands got leaked and softened it with "at least I got Berk".

Like I said before, I carry a lot of love for HTTYD, it's a franchise I hold near and dear to my heart. I'm happy out of every DW franchise that Uni Creative picked it to be the one to get its own dedicated land. So obviously I'm carrying bias for Berk and it's main hook. I just hold reservations about the HP land in EU working as well as Hogsmede and Diagon since it relies a lot more on the established "lore" of HP, using Fantastic Beasts to prop itself up. It feels there's less of the hook of "wizards and magic" for me which, admittedly is softened by weird critters (I like those platypus guys, Nifflings?). But the overall build of it (just Paris, I guess) makes it less exciting and fantastical than the other two HP lands.
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Oh I completely agree that the HP land at EU feels like a misfire, especially since it seems like it's not going to have very much in it. They needed to build Hogwarts if they wanted another HP location (yes, I know it already exists at USF, but essentially just as a facade and the FJ queue).
 
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