List of fictional vehicles explained

The following is a list of fictional vehicles.

List of lists

• List of fictional aircraft
• List of fictional cars
• List of fictional ships
• List of fictional spacecraft

Buses

Buses often appear as settings, or sometimes even characters, in works of fiction. This is a list of named buses which were important story elements in notable works of fiction, including books, films and television series.

• The Battle Bus, from Fortnite
• Bus 25/25, from the 1994 film Speed^[1]
• Catbus, a sentient bus from the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro^[2]
• "Cyclops", a nuclear-powered bus from the 1976 film The Big Bus^[2]
• "Bertie the Bus" and "Bulgy the Double-Decker Bus", from The Railway Series and Thomas & Friends.
• "Doris", the fictional band's tour bus in the 2000 film Almost Famous.^[1]
• The Knight Bus, which appears in several of the Harry Potter books and films^[1]
• The Magic School Bus^{[1] [3]}
• "Priscilla", the eponymous bus in the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert^[1]
• "Sweetheart", in John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus^[4]
• "Tayo", "Rogi", "Lani", and "Gani", bus characters from the Korean animated children's show, Tayo the Little Bus.^[5]

Hovercraft/anti-gravity vehicles

• Hoverboard
• Snowspeeder
• Speeder bike
• Fast attack (Javelin, Land Speeder, etc.) and main battle platforms (Astraeus, Repulsor, etc.) - Warhammer 40000

Magical vehicles

• Broomstick
• Catbus
• The Chariot of Morgan Mwynfawr
• Killdozer
• Magic carpet
• Mortar (bowl)
• Seven-league boots
• Ruby slippers
• Cinderella's pumpkin coach
• Santa's sleigh
• The Yellow Submarine

Mecha

See main article: Mecha.

• Big Darrell - OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
• Big O - The Big O
• E-frame - Exosquad
• Evangelions - Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Mobile weapons - Gundam
• Tripod - three-legged Martian fighting machine, armed with a heat-ray, The War of the Worlds
• VF-1 Valkyrie - variable geometry space fighter from Robotech (TV series)
• Voltron
• Z-Mech -
• Metal Gear robotic war engines - Metal Gear
• BattleMechs - bipedal walker battle robots from BattleTech game series.
• Titans, smaller Imperial Knights and their counterparts of other races - Warhammer 40000
• Heavy Gears - bipedal warsuits from a Heavy Gear science fiction game universe
• Dreadnought - Warhammer 40k
• BT-7274 and other Titans - Titanfall & Titanfall 2

Railroads and trains

• Blaine the train - the Dark Tower by Steven King
• Hooterville Cannonball - Petticoat Junction
• The Quadrail trains - the Timothy Zahn series
  • The Wanderer - The Wild Wild West
• Wabash Cannonball
• Baby Train
• Snowpiercer
• Supertrain
• Galaxy Express 999
• Tachypomp
• Blaine the Mono
• The Polar Express
• The Hogwarts Express - Harry Potter
• The Atlantic Express - Avalanche Express
• Central Pacific Railroad No. 131 - Back to the Future Part III
• The Transcontinental Express - The Cassandra Crossing
• The Indian Valley Railroad - Shining Time Station and Thomas and the Magic Railroad
• Wilson, Brewster and Koko - Chuggington
• Azul - Dora the Explorer
• Casey Junior - Dumbo (1941) and Dumbo (2019)
• Puffa and Little Owl - TUGS
• Driver Dan's Story Train
• The Greendale Rocket and The Pencaster Flyer - Postman Pat
• Ivor the Engine
• The Ninky Nonk - In the Night Garden
• The Spirit Train -

The Railway Series

There are many railway and other 'vehicle' characters in The Railway Series children's books by Rev. W. Awdry. For a list, please see:

• List of characters in The Railway Series

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is the TV spin-off from The Railway Series. As such, it shares many characters with the original books but also introduces a vast array of new characters. These, too, are collated in a set of lists:

• List of Thomas & Friends characters
• List of Thomas & Friends film characters

AFVs

Tanks

• Bolo - AI armored super-heavy tank
• Drill Dozer - Drilling tank from Drill Dozer, piloted by child gentleman thief Jill.
• Griffon tank - Warhammer 40000
• RX-75 Guntank - Mobile Suit Gundam
• Leman Russ - a main battle tank of Astra Militarum, backbone armed force of Imperium of Humankind from Warhammer 40000
• Baneblade, Fellblade and their variants - super heavy tanks from Warhammer 40000

Other

• Howl's Moving Castle
• TARDIS
• B-Ped - Teen Titans
• Farcaster - Hyperion Cantos
• Time Tunnel - The Time Tunnel
• Transporter - Star Trek
• Time machine - novella "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells
• Laputa - Gulliver's Travels and Castle in the Sky
• Steam Castle - Steamboy
• Manhattan Island - Cities in Flight
• Death City - Soul Eater (anime but not manga)
• 2019 Spinner - self-contained lift, Blade Runner 1982 design by Syd Mead
• Supercar - Supercar

See also

The following are lists of mixed types of vehicles, not otherwise categorized above:

Literature

• Known Space#Technology
• List of stories featuring nuclear pulse propulsion
• Intelligent car

Film

• List of James Bond vehicles
• List of Star Wars air, aquatic, and ground vehicles
• List of Star Wars spacecraft
• List of Star Wars starfighters

Television

• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• Fireman Sam - vehicles
• New Captain Scarlet - vehicles and aircraft
• Terrahawks - vehicles
• Thunderbirds machines
• Transformers
• Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan - vehicles

Games

• Warhammer 40,000

Comics, graphic novels and animation

• List of vehicles in Marvel Comics

Notes and References

1. Book: Shaw, Anaia . https://books.google.com/books?id=CC48DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT76 . Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road . Gordon E. . Slethaug . Bloomsbury . 2017 . 9781501335273 . The Tour Bus and the Road . 72–.
2. Web site: The Five Best Bus Films of All Time . Bill . Lindeke . 20 May 2020 . 25 July 2020 . streets.mn.
3. News: Top 10 Famous Buses . Time . Frances . Romero . 17 August 2011.
4. John Steinbeck's Sweetheart: The Cosmic American Bus. Cathryn . Halverson . College Literature . 35 . 1 . Winter 2008 . 82–99 . The Johns Hopkins University Press. 10.1353/lit.2008.0004. 25115479. 143266987 .
5. Web site: One of Korea's Most Popular Cartoons Is About a Bus. The Korea Blog . The L.A. Review of Books . 31 March 2016 . Colin . Marshall.