{"id":20838,"date":"2015-04-26T08:38:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T13:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=20838"},"modified":"2015-04-26T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T13:38:37","slug":"u-s-military-base-gets-a-visit-from-a-halo-warthog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=20838","title":{"rendered":"U.S. military base gets a visit from a ‘Halo’ Warthog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

It’s not every day that you see a video game brought to life.<\/p>\n

Joint Base Lewis-McChord, outside of Takoma, Wash., recently hosted an unlikely visitor: a Warthog vehicle from the\u00a0Halo<\/a>\u00a0video 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.<\/p>\n

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But a handful of Warthogs were manufactured for live-action\u00a0Halo\u00a0<\/em>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.<\/p>\n

This particular vehicle was a visitor from\u00a0Microsoft<\/a>‘s\u00a0Xbox<\/a>\u00a0team, which sent it there as a photo opportunity for\u00a0Halo\u00a0<\/i>fans on the base.<\/p>\n

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HFFL: <\/strong>Totally wish I could have been there to see that beast!<\/span><\/p>\n

Other Warthogs have been spotted before, dating back to 2007. At the time, Columbia Pictures was trying to make a\u00a0Halo\u00a0<\/em>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.<\/p>\n