Remote Control Cars used in movies

Jan 12
08:53

2012

Meng Lee

Meng Lee

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Radio control cars are a well known and widely acknowledged phenomenon that nearly everyone knows about.

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 The most fascinating part that one can consider about these radio control cars is its use in various movies; in fact these scenes featuring the use of these cars are what made these movies so famous. The use of these cars in movies highlighted that these cars are not just for entertainment purposes but if used intelligently and wittingly they can also serve useful purposes.

The small size of these cars is what makes them so special i.e. approximately 2% of a real life size car. The ability of these cars to fit in through small places and move silently without catching notice adds to its appeal.

The most famous and notable use of this technology was seen in the famous movie Home Alone 3,Remote Control Cars used in movies Articles where a small child who was alone at home because of chicken pox tries to catch evidence of a potential robbery by the help of his radio control car. The main feature that was highlighted was that these cars can be used as spying machines by simply attaching a video camera to its roof making it move silently without making any disturbance where ever you may want. The most hilarious part of the movie was when the boy chased four full grown people around the neighborhood by the help of his radio controlled car and they didn’t even manage to catch it in fact they got themselves injured in the process. The use of these cars was also mentioned in the kid movie Stuart Little where a talking mouse was adopted by a family and that mouse then used his adopted brother’s radio control car as a means of transport.

Another movie that featured these cars was Bad Boys 2, in this movie the same concept was shown that a radio control car was discretely moved inside the mansion of a drug lord by covering under a transport vehicle and then it was later blown up so as to make a distraction which could be used by some soldiers to make their entrance. The point was how a small thing could be used to create a big catastrophe.

A small event related to radio control cars was also shown in the movie Terminator 2: Judgment day, in that movie an innocent man’s life was saved when saved when his son nudged him with his radio control car from under the desk which made him duck just in time for the shooter to miss the shot which she was aiming on his head.