Halo Soapbox Car Invades Red Bull Soapbox Derby
Adam sent us word that there was an “extremely accurate” Covenant Ghost soapbox racing in the 34 registered teams and soapbox cars that took part in the 2008 Red Bull Soapbox Derby in Manayunk, Pennsylvania.
The team who built this finely crafted homage to Halo, the Spartan Ghosts, wore army fatigues on their maiden voyage down the steepest hill in Manayunk in their SoapGhost. But unfortunately, things did not go well. Here’s Adam’s version of the story:
“The members of the team adorned army fatigues and set out to blaze down the steepest hill in Manayunk in the eerily detailed Ghost. They set out to do that, at least, but it’s very apparent that they neglected to hold the “L-trigger” and boost the vessel down because the ship went virtually nowhere before veering into the haystacks lining the track and coming to a complete halt. To all of our dismay, the ship wouldn’t levitate past us through to the finish line, 500m from the pit. It was carried. Well, pushed.
Let it be noted, too, that after crashing, the Ghost displayed no secondary explosion and if Halo has taught me anything it’s that the damned thing was still drivable. Oh, well. Here’s some evidence of the impressive model, anyway. I hope you appreciate it as much as I did!”
Adam, thanks for the good write up and fancy pics. Shame the weather turned out to be so lousy.
