This is a reblog from the Daily Dot, with special thank to the folks at Podcast Evolved for posting the link on their Facebook fan page.
It’s not every day that you see a video game brought to life.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord, outside of Takoma, Wash., recently hosted an unlikely visitor: a Warthog vehicle from the Halo video game series. The Warthog is an armored reconnaissance vehicle with an mounted anti-aircraft gun, and while it looks like a real combat vehicle in the game, it’s completely fictional.
But a handful of Warthogs were manufactured for live-action Halo spinoffs and promotional events, blurring the line between fiction and reality. That’s how a real Warthog came rolling up to JB Lewis-McChord like it was no big deal.
This particular vehicle was a visitor from Microsoft‘s Xbox team, which sent it there as a photo opportunity for Halo fans on the base.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Nggv35TNA
HFFL: Totally wish I could have been there to see that beast!
Other Warthogs have been spotted before, dating back to 2007. At the time, Columbia Pictures was trying to make a Halo feature film, a project that involved Neill Blomkamp, Guillermo del Toro, and Peter Jackson at various points in pre-production. The studio eventually abandoned the idea, but we still got a few Warthogs out of it.
-Sal
That ’hog looks sweet!
Thats a very cool thing of Microsoft/343i to do!
Agreed. As a veteran, I can say that I always appreciated anything different from the norm on base. This would have been extremely cool to have seen in person on a real military base.