Back to the Future

2022 - 12 - 27

Back to the Future meets Ioniq 5: Hyundai recreating its 1974 Pony ... (NZME)

Hyundai is recreating its 1974 Pony Coupe Concept - the car that was displayed at the Turin Motor Show that year. It's working with Italian design company ...

I felt very proud that I was in charge of creating a vehicle for a company and country that was about to take on a fiercely competitive global market. Now, I’m deeply honoured that Hyundai has asked me to rebuild it for posterity and as a celebration of the brand’s heritage.” At the time, there was no vehicle design and styling capability in Korea, so Hyundai Motor commissioned Giugiaro to design, make blueprints and build five prototypes, one of which was a coupe. The same year, Hyundai reinterpreted the original Pony production car as a restomod electric vehicle concept. It was the precursor to the (admittedly more prosaic) It's working with Italian design company GFG Style to bring the classic concept back to life; the original no longer exists, but a replica will be built from blueprints and photographs.

It's 'Back To The Future' On Steroids! (The Mckenzie Banner)

One minute Uncle Clifford was talking about how little rain we had back in June, and how that hurt the fall hay crop. The next second, Ruby Nell was telling ...

“The almanac says it’s going to be a wet spring.” “Mark my words, that new model Edsel is the next great automobile!” “This could be the year Ruby Nell FINALLY ties the knot.” Half of the people were boring you to death with what happened in the year just ending. The other half were obsessed with guessing at what was about to take place in the one upcoming! He had attempted a leap from the top of the porch roof to a mimosa tree some 20 feet away. The next second, Ruby Nell was telling everyone she was getting married next April. One minute Uncle Clifford was talking about how little rain we had back in June, and how that hurt the fall hay crop.

Universal Orlando Resort's First-Ever Escape Room Experience ... (Collider.com)

Get an insider perspective on Universal Orlando's Great Movie Escape with their Creative Development Group Show Director Nathan Stevenson.

The things that you’re doing in that lab are moving the story forward and taking you to that next piece, so it really does feel like you are in the movie, and you’re a part of the movie, and you’re a player in the movie. We just try to stay on top of it and think of the coolest things that we possibly can, that’ll make the guest experience as good as it possibly can be. Right now, for this, we’re really focused on making sure we got these two brands right and that we have a really strong showing with what we wanted to originally create. That goes back to weaving the story into the challenges, so that you’re not just standing in an engine lab, doing a random challenge, but you’re standing in an engine lab, and you are moving the story forward. We want kids to come in here and have just as much fun as adults, and we want people who love escape rooms to come in and have just as much fun as people who’ve never done the escape rooms. So, for the past two and a half years, I really have been able to just fully delve into this and make this as good as it possibly could be. What is it like to figure out that balance of everything, to make an experience for all ages and all experience levels, and that appeals to everyone? The history of Universal Pictures is a really rich history of really unique interactivity with the people that are involved with us. We wanted there to be replay-ability and different stages that you can unlock within the experience and within these challenges. Being able to work with these iconic brands, that are two of my favorite franchises of all time and two of my favorite trilogies of all time, and to be able to actually write stuff that gets to be in that, it just blew my mind. Was it always just immediately Back to the Future and Jurassic World that you knew you had to do for this? What made it something that you wanted to bring to the Universal Orlando Resort and put your stamp on it?

The Music Quiz: Busted released a song inspired by the movie Back ... (The Irish Times)

Plus: Pink Floyd's Rick Wright wrote a track on Atom Heart Mother about a romantic encounter in the year…

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