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[bjornwilde]

 From that fowl_beast :

Your pup is now in the Wacky Races with their own themed car competing against everyone else in the comments. How do they fare?

Ooops, nearly forgot. Here's a youtube vid for anyone unfamiliar with Wacky Races.

Or alternately, you entire pup roster has put together a race car for said races. What is it like? Was there honest collaboration or was there browbeating and infighting?

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[1nv1nc1ble]

"And coming up on the outside is Number 77, our resident Viltrumite, Mark Grayson, in the Invincicar!"

The Invincicar is nigh-unstoppable. No, really. The assortment of bombs, guns, buzzsaws, and other gadgetry the Wacky Racers are well known for has no effect. Unless you flip it over, run it off the road into a swamp or a lake, or otherwise immobilize it. Then, Mark's got to get out, flip it over or otherwise free it from whatever situation it's in, and then get back in the race. It's getting tiresome, really. Especially since Dick Dastardly invented those spring-loaded land mines.

Also, Mark's not the best driver out there. He goes off the road regularly without help from the other racers. Of course, with the Invincicar, he just keeps going, meaning that long, snaky road made up of twists and curves is going to have a series of straight lines through the rough patches around it, where the Invincicar has just barreled through. Predictably, Mark spends most of his prize money on repairs to the landscape.

EDIT: For those who haven't seen it, I submit this commercial.

[damncompass]

Flying down the middle in Number 13 we have the Time Machine, piloted by Joshua Donovan and Helena Wells!

Unlike most of the racers, this one's defensive, folks! From a cloaking device, to special gripping wheels, it's made for speed and defense.

Joshua is a daring driver, taking curves at full-speed, sometimes spinning out, and having to course-correct on the fly. Oh, dear! There's the grappling-hook again! We knew there had to be something non-defensive on this thing!

[bjornwilde]

All I keep picturing is this mashup of high tech (Val, Hank, and Quin) and magic (Anton/Brimstone), with lots of sharp pointy things (Mulan and Thalia) and arballista (Andrea). Jess would likely be her own ranged weapon.

[unglitched]

Gee, I wonder how Vanellope will fare in such a foreign environment? </sarcasm>

[genarti]

Sorry, I can't really watch YouTube anything at work, so I'm guessing from the name what this entails!

Thor's race involves high speed, great glee, a lot of competence, probably flying, and a WHOLE LOT of damage to scenery and property. If you've seen Thor 2, there's a certain scene you should be picturing, and you would be correct to do so.

River pulls in Wash and Kaylee for the purpose. The entire thing is cobbled together from scavenged parts and held together with wire and duct tape, and yet it functions amazingly well. If Wash is driving, he does a virtuoso job; if River's piloting, she's not as excellent but still quite skilled.

Regan goes into this going "oh god, who thought this was a good plan, oh god," but once she gets into the swing of things she's got a huge grin and an evil gleam in her eye. She finishes somewhere in the middle of the pack, but she has a ton of fun doing it. Somebody else has to have built whatever the thing is, though.

Trowa... is a Gundam pilot. He built his own car, and it has a lot of gadgetry and can probably do backflips. (Possibly literally.) He comes in first in almost any race. But, since ammo is presumably disallowed, he runs out of gas right after he crosses the finish line.

Clare has no idea what any of this is about. She has no idea how to drive, but she can beat the cars in a footrace...?

Enjolras is game, but is at the severe disadvantage of coming from a time when horses and occasional early locomotives are the fastest travel you're going to find. He's got the nerve for it, but he'd need a LOT of practice to be comfortable a) with the controls, and b) navigating a field where cars move as fast as they would here. He would probably opt out of any driving. If he's part of a team putting one together, he opts out of any engineering planning, but he's willing to be a pair of hands, and probably ends up taking a leadership role in directing everybody to work together -- of my roster, it's Enjolras or Thor who would step up to that task.

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut drives the Kharidian Tornado, so called because of it's tornado generator that she sometimes uses to knock other racers off the road but sometimes uses to lift her own car into the air so that she can later drop down on top of the competition!

Well, she was doing fine until Evil Chicken teleported the cutest fluffiest cat ever into the Tornado. AAaaaaaand the Tornado is a total wreck. Better luck next time, Amascut.