"Justin Young" (jus1029)
11/17/2016 at 09:39 • Filed to: None
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"Justin Young" (jus1029)
11/17/2016 at 09:39 • Filed to: None | 1
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Remember when Chicago and Detroit played the role as Hong Kong in Transformers: Age of Extinction?
Yeah, that happened. To be honest, they did a pretty decent job of replicating the typical Toyota Crown Comfort HK taxis to US-spec MX83 Toyota Cressidas (apart from the steering wheel position and 5mph bumpers).
After the cameras stopped rolling, the destroyed ones were left to rot. TTAC’s
Crabspirits
actually came across a junkyard filled with wrecked Cressidas thanks to Michael Bay.
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However, some of the undamaged ones were left in the hands of a film-car storage company called Greenlight Industries. Obviously, some filmmakers rented out these lucky stunt props and put them in back on camera!
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Constantine (TV Series, Season 1 Episode 9, 2014)
State of Affairs (TV Series, Episode 5, 2014)
A Walk in the Woods (Movie, 2015)
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (TV Series, Episode 4, 2016)
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This is what browsing through the Internet Movie Car Database has led me to! This could also be a series, but I need suggestions!
(Photos: IMCDb.org; Chicago Tribune [Transformers 4 BTS])
S65
> Justin Young
11/17/2016 at 08:03 |
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3/10 not worth destroying Cressidas
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Justin Young
> S65
11/17/2016 at 08:10 |
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That particular Cressida seemed to be able to drive away unscathed. However...
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> S65
11/17/2016 at 09:01 |
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As a person from Hong Kong, the said “Hong Kong” in the movie made me cringe the whole time.
Hong Kong is RIGHT HAND DRIVE for crying out loud. The chase scenes with the CTS I can forgive, as it depicts the cars coming in from China which does happen, but the everything else...
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> Justin Young
11/17/2016 at 09:02 |
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Ran when parked, minor scuffs. No tire-kickers.
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Justin Young
> 404 - User No Longer Available
11/17/2016 at 09:08 |
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Meanwhile on the Transformers 5 set...
...yet again in Detroit!
VonBootWilly - Likes Toyota, but it's still complicated.
> Justin Young
11/17/2016 at 09:41 |
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I’ve owned 4 mx83's over 15 years. I say crush and burn them all please. They are enticing, but will crush your soul after a while. Plus they look gross, much worse with age too.
OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
> Justin Young
11/17/2016 at 09:47 |
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Detroits great because you can destroy it and no one will notice the difference. Also there’s no one there to notice to the difference.
cesariojpn
> Justin Young
11/17/2016 at 09:50 |
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Police car has wrong markings for an ARV.
Textured Soy Protein
> 404 - User No Longer Available
11/17/2016 at 10:26 |
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This is how I feel about movies that are supposed to be in Washington, DC but were clearly shot somewhere else. I grew up there and recognize the scenery. The two easiest giveaways:
1. No buildings are allowed to be built taller than the Washington Monument so whenever there’s a “Washington, DC” shot with tall buildings it’s a dead giveaway.
2. The Metro is a very distinctive looking subway and yet there are always random other cities’ subways used as stand-ins. Sometimes they at least try to make the insides of the trains look like the Metro, or the tile and signs in the stations, but the roofs of the stations are hard to replicate.
Takuro Spirit
> Justin Young
11/17/2016 at 10:49 |
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I saw the one in A Walk in the Woods and thought to myself “That’s a damn odd car to have as a taxi...”
Never made the connection.
AfromanGTO
> Justin Young
11/17/2016 at 11:38 |
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All of those poor GTOs michael bay destroyed for the first transformers movie. It was bad enough they turned one GTO in a Camaro for the movie, but then they destroyed more.......
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> Textured Soy Protein
11/17/2016 at 11:38 |
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Seriously... they spent all that money on the CG, yet they can’t spend a wee bit more for attention to detail.
Nauraushaun
> Justin Young
11/18/2016 at 20:44 |
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This post is awesome and IMCDB is awesome