Well here's what I've come up with so far:
* The Boulder-Mobile = Apollo capsule
* The Mean Machine = an Eldar Vyper Jetbike with a big rocket replacing the turret
* The Army Surplus Special = a patchy old orion drive ship
* The Compact Pussycat = a miniaturised USS voyager
* The Crimson Haybailer = a Messerschmitt me-262
* The Ring-a-Ding = Night Killer II
sort of
* The Turbo Terrific = a high performance space plane
* The Bullet-Proof Bomb = a space shuttle.
Not sure about the others.
edited 3rd Mar '11 8:10:53 PM by MattII
"Dangit, Yygo'kroth! I told you to put in more than 5 grems worth of hyperspace fuel!" :D
There has to be at least one tribute to the Millenium Falcon. I'll probably have this version be painted black on top, gray underneath and call her Black Beauty.
Oh, there can definitely be a flying saucer type of craft.
Now, one thing this race will need is a Dick Dastardly type of character. What kind of things can this character do?
How about an inversion? Have the dick darstadly cheat very reasonably and turn his craft into a revalistic weapon. bonus points if this basically amounts to a giant space rock with a huge engine attached. Two times multiplier if said racer is a SPESS ORK
edited 5th Mar '11 2:40:04 AM by doorhandle
Well, maybe it’s like a cosmic snowplow, but instead of pushing snow, it pushes aside everything in it's way, and doesn’t maneuver around obstacles so much as smash into them.
Or perhaps a better terminology, The Juggernaut as applied to a spaceship which can't steer, can't shoot, can only go forwards and has only the saving graces of speed and Nigh-Invulnerability
Besides, that fact I offered bonus points for it being a SPESS ORK kinda implies the guy driving this is batshit insane and wouldn’t care if his craft was one-use only.
The WH 40 K Orcs are more Slag Brother types than Dick Dastardly types (the Mean Machine was probably the fastest out, but because of Dastardly's obsession with setting traps he almost always came last).
I just started thinking of Sam Starfall in the Savage Chicken participating in these Wacky Spacey Raceys.
But for the Dick Dastardly role, I see something like one of the elites from Halo paired up with a grunt (the Mutley of the duo) from the same game. The reason for this is because the reliance upon superior precursor technology would easily explain how he keeps getting in the lead, and it could also explain why he has no idea about how to set up traps for spacecraft.
Somehow, I would expect the Dick Dastardly character to try things like using a sonic canon in space.
Add a galley-themed starship which is inexplicably powered by lash-driven slaves at the oars. With the captain looking like an antennae-headed Roman centurion.
And a harpoon-wielding Captain Ahab expy enjoying a temporary break from hunting a particular white-skinned Space Whale.
And at least one ship has to run like a Chinese rocket from that joke: "all systems fine, boiler-men on duty!"
edited 12th Mar '11 9:34:08 AM by lordGacek
There must be Mi-Go, and they must scare the bejeezus out of the other contestants.
That is all.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

What could be some awesome ideas for a Wacky Race style of story involving extra-terrestrials?