List of fictional vehicles

List of lists

• List of fictional aircraft
• List of fictional cars
• List of fictional ships
• List of fictional spacecraft

Buses

List of fictional buses Buses often appear as settings, or sometimes even characters, in works of fiction. This is a list of named buses which were important story elements in notable works of fiction, including books, films and television series.

• The Battle Bus, from Fortnite
• Bus 25/25, from the 1994 film Speed
• Catbus, a sentient bus from the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro
• "Cyclops", a nuclear-powered bus from the 1976 film The Big Bus
• "Bertie the Bus" and "Bulgy the Double-Decker Bus", from The Railway Series and Thomas & Friends.
• "Doris", the fictional band's tour bus in the 2000 film Almost Famous.
• The Knight Bus, which appears in several of the Harry Potter books and films
• The Magic School Bus
• "Priscilla", the eponymous bus in the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• "Sweetheart", in John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus{{cite journal|title=John Steinbeck's Sweetheart: The Cosmic American Bus
• "Tayo", "Rogi", "Lani", and "Gani", bus characters from the Korean animated children's show, Tayo the Little Bus.{{cite web |url=https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/the-korea-blog/one-koreas-popular-cartoons-bus/ |title=One of Korea's Most Popular Cartoons Is About a Bus

Hovercraft/anti-gravity vehicles

• Hoverboard
• Snowspeeder
• Speeder bike
• Fast attack (Javelin, Land Speeder, etc.) and main battle platforms (Astraeus, Repulsor, etc.) - Warhammer 40000

Magical vehicles

• Broomstick
• Catbus
• The Chariot of Morgan Mwynfawr
• Killdozer
• Magic carpet
• Mortar (bowl)
• Seven-league boots
• Ruby slippers
• Cinderella's pumpkin coach
• Santa's sleigh
• The Yellow Submarine

Mecha

Main article: Mecha

• Big Darrell - OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
• Big O - The Big O
• E-frame - Exosquad
• Evangelions - Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Mobile weapons - Gundam
• Tripod - three-legged Martian fighting machine, armed with a heat-ray, The War of the Worlds
• VF-1 Valkyrie - variable geometry space fighter from Robotech (TV series)
• Voltron
• Z-Mech - Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2
• Metal Gear robotic war engines - Metal Gear
• BattleMechs - bipedal walker battle robots from BattleTech game series.
• Titans, smaller Imperial Knights and their counterparts of other races - Warhammer 40000
• Heavy Gears - bipedal warsuits from a Heavy Gear science fiction game universe
• Dreadnought - Warhammer 40k
• BT-7274 and other Titans - Titanfall & Titanfall 2

Railroads and trains

• Blaine the train - the Dark Tower by Steven King
• Hooterville Cannonball - Petticoat Junction
• The Quadrail trains - the Timothy Zahn series
• Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
• The Wanderer - The Wild Wild West
• Wabash Cannonball
• Baby Train
• Snowpiercer
• Supertrain
• Galaxy Express 999
• Tachypomp
• Blaine the Mono
• The Polar Express
• The Hogwarts Express - Harry Potter
• The Atlantic Express - Avalanche Express
• Central Pacific Railroad No. 131 - Back to the Future Part III
• The Transcontinental Express - The Cassandra Crossing
• The Indian Valley Railroad - Shining Time Station and Thomas and the Magic Railroad
• Wilson, Brewster and Koko - Chuggington
• Azul - Dora the Explorer
• Casey Junior - Dumbo (1941) and Dumbo (2019)
• Puffa and Little Owl - TUGS
• Driver Dan's Story Train
• The Greendale Rocket and The Pencaster Flyer - Postman Pat
• Ivor the Engine
• The Ninky Nonk - In the Night Garden
• The Spirit Train - The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

''The Railway Series''

There are many railway and other 'vehicle' characters in The Railway Series children's books by Rev. W. Awdry. For a list, please see:

• List of characters in The Railway Series

''Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends''

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is the TV spin-off from The Railway Series. As such, it shares many characters with the original books but also introduces a vast array of new characters. These, too, are collated in a set of lists:

• List of Thomas & Friends characters
• List of Thomas & Friends film characters

[[Armoured fighting vehicle|AFVs]]

Tanks

• Bolo - AI armored super-heavy tank
• Drill Dozer - Drilling tank from Drill Dozer, piloted by child gentleman thief Jill.
• Griffon tank - Warhammer 40000
• RX-75 Guntank - Mobile Suit Gundam
• Leman Russ - a main battle tank of Astra Militarum, backbone armed force of Imperium of Humankind from Warhammer 40000
• Baneblade, Fellblade and their variants - super heavy tanks from Warhammer 40000
• Type 2 Armored Personnel Carrier from patlabor 2

Other

• Howl's Moving Castle
• TARDIS
• B-Ped - Teen Titans
• Farcaster - Hyperion Cantos
• Time Tunnel - The Time Tunnel
• Transporter - Star Trek
• Time machine - novella "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells
• Laputa - Gulliver's Travels and Castle in the Sky
• Steam Castle - Steamboy
• Manhattan Island - Cities in Flight
• Death City - Soul Eater (anime but not manga)
• 2019 Spinner - self-contained lift, Blade Runner 1982 design by Syd Mead
• Supercar - Supercar

References

References

1. Shaw, Anaia. (2017). "Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road". Bloomsbury.
2. Lindeke, Bill. (20 May 2020). "The Five Best Bus Films of All Time".
3. Romero, Frances. (17 August 2011). "Top 10 Famous Buses". Time.