{"id":213620,"date":"2024-03-15T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/engineers-have-created-a-lifelike-replica-of-miraidon-the-motorbike-pokemon\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:36","slug":"engineers-have-created-a-lifelike-replica-of-miraidon-the-motorbike-pokemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/engineers-have-created-a-lifelike-replica-of-miraidon-the-motorbike-pokemon\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineers have created a lifelike replica of Miraidon, the motorbike Pok\u00e9mon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/download-54-900x506.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a collaboration between the Toyota Engineering Society and the Pok\u00e9mon Company, this weekend lucky fans can ride a real Pok\u00e9mon replica.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using cutting-edge technology, the invention is as close to the size and shape of the Pok\u00e9mon as possible, and can even transform between the two modes of Miraidon, wheels and legs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"\u3010\u516c\u5f0f\u3011\u300c\u30c8\u30e8\u30bf\u30df\u30e9\u30a4\u30c9\u30f3\u30d7\u30ed\u30b8\u30a7\u30af\u30c8\u300d\u59cb\u52d5\uff01\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PF8PLRH_SGc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"\u3010\u516c\u5f0f\u3011\u300c\u30c8\u30e8\u30bf\u30df\u30e9\u30a4\u30c9\u30f3\u30d7\u30ed\u30b8\u30a7\u30af\u30c8\u300d\u59cb\u52d5\uff01\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PF8PLRH_SGc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Toyota Engineering Society is a small subset of engineers from Toyota who have been building weird and wondrous devices and machines with the car-maker\u2019s technology for over 70 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They collaborate annually with the city of Tokyo on the \u2018Waku Waku World\u2019 event. This year the theme was \u201cFuture Mobility\u201d. After receiving over 8,000 submissions from elementary students in the Japanese capital, the team opted to create a lifelike Miraidon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The collaboration aimed to convey the message that \u201can adult\u2019s seriousness can become a child\u2019s dream\u201d and \u201cDreams don\u2019t end as dreams, as imagination creates the future,\u201d according to a translated post on Twitter\/X.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3010\u30c8\u30e8\u30bf\u30df\u30e9\u30a4\u30c9\u30f3\u30d7\u30ed\u30b8\u30a7\u30af\u30c8\u3011<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u5927\u4eba\u306e\u672c\u6c17\u304c\u3001\u5b50\u4f9b\u306e\u5922\u306b\u306a\u308b&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u30c8\u30e8\u30bf\u6280\u8853\u4f1a\u3068\u30dd\u30b1\u30e2\u30f3(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pokemon_cojp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Pokemon_cojp<\/a>)\u304c\u5922\u306b\u5411\u304b\u3063\u3066\u59cb\u52d5<\/p>\n<p>\u30d7\u30ed\u30b8\u30a7\u30af\u30c8\u306e\u69d8\u5b50\u3092\u305c\u3072\u3054\u89a7\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A8%E3%82%BF%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88%E5%A7%8B%E5%8B%95?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30c8\u30e8\u30bf\u30df\u30e9\u30a4\u30c9\u30f3\u30d7\u30ed\u30b8\u30a7\u30af\u30c8\u59cb\u52d5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZOTKnqYlB1\">pic.twitter.com\/ZOTKnqYlB1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u30c8\u30e8\u30bf\u81ea\u52d5\u8eca\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e (@TOYOTA_PR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TOYOTA_PR\/status\/1768094697757802514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The completed model will be on display in the Tokyo Midtown Hibiya mall from March 15 to 17, and anyone who weighs under 65kg will get the chance to ride on the back of Miraidon. Tickets for a ride are limited in number so this is truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience for a small number of fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pok\u00e9mon fans are an ingenious bunch and this isn\u2019t the first brush with modern technology we\u2019ve seen. In January, a YouTuber created a <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/a-youtuber-has-made-a-working-pokedex-with-ai\/\">working Pok\u00e9dex using a 3D printer and AI<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is Miraidon?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miraidon is a Pok\u00e9mon which featured on the box art for Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet. The replica is of the blue-purple variant from Pok\u00e9mon Violet. The legendary creature joins the protagonist on their adventure, transforming between a ride-on living motorbike and a dog-dragon hybrid ready to battle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite releasing in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-when-you-can-play-in-uk-us-europe-and-australia\/\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet were still receiving content updates<\/a> in the form of an epilogue earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Featured image credit: Toyota Engineering Society\/The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/engineers-have-created-a-lifelike-replica-of-miraidon-the-motorbike-pokemon\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In a collaboration between the Toyota Engineering Society and the Pok\u00e9mon Company, this weekend lucky fans can ride a real Pok\u00e9mon replica. 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