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Title: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: Monster Dave on March 31, 2010, 02:01:51 PM
For all of you fans of the 80's hit show The A-Team, here are some detailed shots of the new van for the movie due out soon:

(http://cache-09.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2010/03/500x_a-team_van_1.jpg)

(http://cache-09.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2010/03/500x_a-team_van_2.jpg)

(http://cache-06.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2010/03/500x_a-team_van_8.jpg)

(http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2010/03/500x_a-team_van_7.jpg)

(http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2010/03/500x_a-team_van_5.jpg)

(http://cache-07.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2010/03/500x_a-team_van_6.jpg)


So alright, I'm not really a fan of the new look - but I do have to say that for a revised edition, they did a nice job of paying homage to the original without totally ruining it.

(http://www.coolcarsinmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/1983-gmc-vandura-a-team-van.jpg)

I do miss the original stripe and wheel colors though.

Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: cbartlett419 on March 31, 2010, 02:44:12 PM
I have an affection for panel vans 8)
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: herm on March 31, 2010, 03:13:56 PM
Quote from: cbartlett419 on March 31, 2010, 02:44:12 PM
I have an affection for panel abduction vans 8)

me too [evil]
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: WarrenJ on March 31, 2010, 03:36:42 PM
Suburban with Firepower Option (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU0FEOgvUGo#)

That one is ok but I prefer this one!

Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: teddy037.2 on March 31, 2010, 03:49:50 PM
this van is acceptible to me.

I just hope the movie will be, as well
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: PhoenixS4R on March 31, 2010, 04:40:16 PM
The 80's are never going to die.    :'(
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: NorDog on March 31, 2010, 04:42:09 PM
Quote from: WarrenJ on March 31, 2010, 03:36:42 PM
Suburban with Firepower Option (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU0FEOgvUGo#)

That one is ok but I prefer this one!



Does it have shag carpet?
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: NorDog on March 31, 2010, 04:43:05 PM
Quote from: PhoenixS4R on March 31, 2010, 04:40:16 PM
The 80's are never going to die.    :'(

I look back to the '80s with great affection for having delivered me from the '70s.
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: herm on March 31, 2010, 04:45:22 PM
Quote from: WarrenJ on March 31, 2010, 03:36:42 PM
Suburban with Firepower Option (http://www.youte.com/watch?v=qU0FEOgvUGo#)

That one is ok but I prefer this one!



love that sound...
would hate the scratched paint though.
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: Monster Dave on March 31, 2010, 04:56:48 PM
Quote from: cbartlett419 on March 31, 2010, 02:44:12 PM
I have an affection for panel vans 8)


I third that!
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: Kopfjäger on March 31, 2010, 05:00:37 PM
Quote from: teddy037.2 on March 31, 2010, 03:49:50 PM
this van is acceptible to me.

I just hope the movie will be, as well

Yeah, The acting and the special effect's from the TV show will be hard to match.  :D
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: krolik on March 31, 2010, 06:05:59 PM
Quote from: kopfjäger on March 31, 2010, 05:00:37 PM
Yeah, The acting and the special effect's from the TV show will be hard to match.  :D

I pity the fool!
(http://www.thecheapbastid.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/i-pity-the-fool.jpg)
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: Monster Dave on March 31, 2010, 06:50:04 PM
Personally I'm on the fence about the movie. I really was a fan of the show and remember the high point in Mr T's career where he was on TV, in the movies, and even made into a cartoon. From what I've heard, everyone but T will have a cameo (minus the late George Peppard). And while I think that the movie could stand to be entertaining, I'm really trying not to let my own fandom impressions get in the way.

In a way, I'm glad that they did make these obvious changes to the van so as to not tarnish the image of the origonal.


We'll see. Hopefully it'll get a strong kick into the present like Star Trek did last year (but I'm not holding my breath).
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: geoffduc on March 31, 2010, 07:08:15 PM
Quote from: Monster Dave on March 31, 2010, 04:56:48 PM

I third that!

And I'll forth it [bow_down] I just love my van  8)

But I aint no Mr-T  ;) ;) more Mr-D  ???

[coffee]
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: Oldfisti on March 31, 2010, 07:33:05 PM
Quote from: Monster Dave on March 31, 2010, 06:50:04 PM
Personally I'm on the fence about the movie. I really was a fan of the show and remember the high point in Mr T's career where he was on TV, in the movies, and even made into a cartoon. From what I've heard, everyone but T will have a cameo (minus the late George Peppard). And while I think that the movie could stand to be entertaining, I'm really trying not to let my own fandom impressions get in the way.


No T?

:(

I'm out.
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: teddy037.2 on March 31, 2010, 08:17:11 PM
Quote from: kopfjäger on March 31, 2010, 05:00:37 PM
Yeah, The acting and the special effect's from the TV show will be hard to match.  :D

I am still traumatized by the new transformers...
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: RAT900 on March 31, 2010, 10:33:26 PM
Quote from: alfisti on March 31, 2010, 07:33:05 PM

No T?

:(

I'm out.

+1...he carried the show

why is he not in it....?....is he sporting a walker and depenz? or was it $ issues?
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: lethe on March 31, 2010, 10:39:18 PM
Quote from: Monster Dave on March 31, 2010, 06:50:04 PM
Personally I'm on the fence about the movie. I really was a fan of the show and remember the high point in Mr T's career where he was on TV, in the movies, and even made into a cartoon. From what I've heard, everyone but T will have a cameo (minus the late George Peppard). And while I think that the movie could stand to be entertaining, I'm really trying not to let my own fandom impressions get in the way.

In a way, I'm glad that they did make these obvious changes to the van so as to not tarnish the image of the origonal.


We'll see. Hopefully it'll get a strong kick into the present like Star Trek did last year (but I'm not holding my breath).
Don't forget his cereal too!
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: Speedbag on April 01, 2010, 02:26:55 AM
Well, at least they picked a cool van. Knowing the utter lameness of recent Hollywood, while waiting for the pics to load I was half expecting to see a dolled-up, late-model Caravan.

Like most movies trying to rejuvenate an old, great premise, I think I'll wait to watch it when it comes out on DVD. That is, if I watch it at all......
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: Monster Dave on April 01, 2010, 04:39:18 AM
Quote from: Speedbag on April 01, 2010, 02:26:55 AM
Well, at least they picked a cool van...

You do realize that it is the same model and year van as the origional right?
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: zooom on April 01, 2010, 04:47:51 AM
Quote from: Speedbag on April 01, 2010, 02:26:55 AM
  Knowing the utter lameness of recent Hollywood, while waiting for the pics to load I was half expecting to see a dolled-up, late-model Caravan.

hell...I was thinking a soooped up Dodge Sprinter!
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: Monster Dave on April 01, 2010, 05:02:59 AM
Quote from: zooom on April 01, 2010, 04:47:51 AM
hell...I was thinking a soooped up Dodge Sprinter!

I think that doing something like that would have nailed the coffin shut on the movie being a flop - like if the Dukes of Hazzard had been filmed without the right car!
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: mookieo2 on April 01, 2010, 05:24:18 AM
Quote from: WarrenJ on March 31, 2010, 03:36:42 PM
Suburban with Firepower Option (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU0FEOgvUGo#)

That one is ok but I prefer this one!



They make that a third of the way into the movie out of a garbage pail, some crinkly metel, and an arc welder out of some old batteries they find in an abandoned barn.  ;D
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: Monster Dave on April 01, 2010, 05:59:52 AM
Quote from: mookieo2 on April 01, 2010, 05:24:18 AM
They make that a third of the way into the movie out of a garbage pail, some crinkly metel, and an arc welder out of some old batteries they find in an abandoned barn.  ;D

[laugh]
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: DCXCV on April 01, 2010, 07:05:12 AM
(http://www.uberreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/a-team-mini-car.jpg)
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: teddy037.2 on April 01, 2010, 07:09:00 AM
Quote from: DCXCV on April 01, 2010, 07:05:12 AM
(http://www.uberreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/a-team-mini-car.jpg)


[thumbsup]
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: Monster Dave on April 01, 2010, 08:16:26 AM
That's almost as bad as:

(http://www.smartcarofamerica.com/gallery/displayimage.php?imageid=9304)

Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: Monster Dave on April 01, 2010, 12:07:54 PM
Just as quickly as it was shown in public, today a new trailer has been released that shows the poor van's ultimate destruction. Jump to 2:15 to see it:

Critique-Info.com - The A-Team (Trailer 2 [HD]) Bande-annonce 2 [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip1pPPEpDyE&feature=player_embedded#)
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: zenjim on April 02, 2010, 06:39:39 AM
I'm in. I love that stuff. Even in the 80s the original show took the corn to a new level. Remeber how guys would be shooting at them with automatic weapons and...nothing. Or they'd be shooting dudes left and right and they'd just fall down, no blood. Funny.
I'm still pissed at Rampage Jackson though. He missed his fight with Rashad Evans to make this movie. That was gonna be a doozy. I hope that fight still gets made. Judging from the trailer, Mr Scorcese won't be calling any time soon.
BTW, I met Mr T at my gym. Really nice, funny guy. No attitude. But he is Mr T, no act. First time I met him I heard this voice, "What kinda fool would make that trade?" Wow, that sounds like Mr T! And it was!
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: NorDog on April 02, 2010, 06:42:37 AM
Can't wait to see what kind of Smart Car Q puts together for James Bond.
Title: Re: A-Team - here's the new van
Post by: Monster Dave on April 02, 2010, 07:05:09 AM
Quote from: zenjim on April 02, 2010, 06:39:39 AM
BTW, I met Mr T at my gym. Really nice, funny guy. No attitude. But he is Mr T, no act. First time I met him I heard this voice, "What kinda fool would make that trade?" Wow, that sounds like Mr T! And it was!

Are you serious!! That's awesome. What gym?