Spartan jetpacks into Trafalgar Square

Published 13 September, 2010 Duration 3:05

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  • Ducklord #1 2 years ago

    Jet-packs are so so dissapointing in real life :/

  • Ed6445 #2 2 years ago

    Good to see Microsoft have gone all out with their pre-order bonus this time round.

  • S.J.Rogers #3 2 years ago

    That was so dull... :-(

  • peterfll #4 2 years ago

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsCJ2nYZsz0

  • reelbigkris #5 2 years ago

    Those firemen looked very, very bored

    We need to invest in jetpack technology. They could be used to save kittens from trees, chase outlaws by whoosing past over head, carry out small children from the upper floors of a burning flat and an excelent way to clean the windows of a sky scraper. One day, we will all have jetpacks, and it will be awesome...

  • DDevil #6 2 years ago

    Lot of talking and build up, followed by a quick 10 seconds of action and disappointment.

    A bit like your mum.

  • Scopeh #7 2 years ago

    i couldnt stop laughing at the way he landed. Somebody forgot to tell him that spartans do actually have knee's.

  • jumpdeveraux #8 2 years ago

    I feel sorry for the street cleaning guy who had to mop up the take-off and landing spots... probably still there scrubbing the paving slabs.

  • callum9999 #9 2 years ago

    It was so underwhelming it was probably a good thing there were only about 10 people watching, but why do the stunt at 6am in the morning?

  • Collymilad #10 2 years ago

    Urgh, that was dire.

    The spartan looked cool though, until he started flying about.

    EDIT: Haha, just watched the landing again. Classic. The covenant would be shiting themselves after that one.
    Edited by Collymilad at 13/09/10 @ 18:15

  • Deckard1 #11 2 years ago

    I thought it was ok. Its a fucking jetpack!!!

  • jonbwfc #12 2 years ago

    I suspect they did it as 6AM because if you stand around holding an assault rifle in London at Midday, the metropolitan police shoot you.

  • suhawk75 #13 2 years ago

    @Jonbwfc - the Met might also shoot you for looking even slightly Brazillian..

  • LazyNinjaUk #14 2 years ago

    Read the tagline thinking I'd see some mad spartan flying round and round nelsons column. Was a little underwhelmed, but still got to respect the dude who is essentially flying with the aid of 2 fire extinguishers, with the added wait of a spartan costume. :)

  • Iain815 #15 2 years ago

    Landed with precision eh? Seemed to land quite a few metres off his mark if you ask me.

  • felastica #16 2 years ago

    Yeah, that was disappointing. They costumes were more impressive before the midget hovered a few feet in the air before stumbling to a halt somewhere inbetween them.

  • Ror1984 #17 2 years ago

    @reelbigkris - I don't know if it would be a good idea to go near fire in one of those!

    I like the kitten idea though. That would be pretty damn interesting to see.

  • t8yman #18 2 years ago

    I'm still lol'ing. I was expecting a booming halo soundtrack followed by some dude descending through a hazy mist into trafalgar square amidst a hail of spartan laser fire and brute shots. What really happened was a middle aged bloke farted around in the air and landed like a guy getting off a bucking bronco followed by the suit from microsoft saying "wow that was awesome" in a way your really "cool" uncle might.

    Legendary.

  • makeamazing #19 2 years ago

    Seems jetpack technology is going backwards since that guy from the Olympics did it in the 80's... now that was Jetpack technology... though respect to the guy, cause i wouldnt like the idea of being up in the air flying one of those things.

    Still not sure why MS wasted time on that, would have been more cost effective and probably a longer experience if they just paid 30 people to walk around in Halo suits... and do a show of some kind, seems alittle wasteful.

  • Emmit_Assassin #20 2 years ago

    I'm sure the six people watching loved it. By the sounds of it, I had visions of a moonlit Nelsons Column with smoke billowing out, a big midnight light show with Spartans turning up in Warthogs and then one jetpacks in to a crowd of thousands.
    Turns out it was some geek in a suit who went up in the air for ten seconds at 6 this morning and six people went, 'wow.......lets go.'

    Having said that, I'd kill for a go on one.

  • dirtysteve #21 2 years ago

    Is it wrong to consider selling my own mother to get a suit of wearable Spartan armour?

  • Phishfood #22 2 years ago

    The most dissapointed "woo" I have ever heard.

  • Sunworship #23 2 years ago

    The omens are clear...

  • Inspirius #24 2 years ago

    Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper?

  • Sunyavadin #25 2 years ago

    Lot of talking and build up, followed by a quick 10 seconds of action and disappointment.

    A bit like your mum.

    And people negged this comment?

    What if we edit it to

    "A bit like Kinect"

    Or

    "A bit like the 9/11 hijackers"

  • Ihya #26 2 years ago

    Jet pack in theory? Fucking awesome!!

    Jet pack in practice? Complete waste of bandwidth.

  • StooMonster #27 2 years ago

    That was Kick-Ass, not.

    Agree with t8yman that "the suit from microsoft saying "wow that was awesome" in a way your really "cool" uncle might" was even lamer than the short jet-pack show: "incredible", "awesome", "great", repeat ad-infinitum.

  • Tinrib72 #28 2 years ago

    After that hop skippity landing he should be made to hand over his man card.