The Bus Cyclops from the Movie "The Big Bus"

[enterBJ40]

i remember the bus has a self cleaning device wich try to kill the hero in the movie...it was so stooooopid

[googuse]

I remember seeing the back end of the bus on a truck on the freeway in LA in early 1976

[MultiRob77]

If the Twisted Metal video game was made into a live action movie. They should use The Big Bus as the Moon Buggy character.

[Arabhacks]

The bus was not a bus, but 2 buses and a set of props.

The entire back half was nothing but a shell.

In order to shoot the scenes of the big bus moving it took 2 drivers and a lot of skill.

[JeffOrnstein01]

@Arabhacks Thank you for your comment. I appreciate the sharing of your knowledge of this unique bus.

[TheKingofTransit]

Holy Cow!

[hotdog2020]

This bus was scrapped after production. It was 2 seperate independent pieces that were driven to the set then hooked together. No drawings or concepts were made they basically designed it on the fly.

[jasonsbrain2]

I remember seeing this movie at the Theatre when I was 11. This was supposed to be a satire of all the Disaster Movies which were all the rage during the 1970's ("Airport", "Airport-75", "Earthquake", "The Posiedon Adventure", "The Towering Inferno"..)

Now the movie characters could experience life-threatening danger on a "Big Bus." I remember enjoying it as a kid, but I remember very little about it. I haven't seen it in YEARS. I assumed everyone was rescued at the end...

[JeffOrnstein01]

@jasonsbrain2 Thank you for your comment. The bus actually split in half at the end....in fact, there was no real ending. It sort of gave you the impression that a "Big Bus II" was coming...but alas, it was not to be....

[DungeonStudio]

If I recall, the Big Bus also sported a onboard bowling alley. I believe in jest to the the one Richard Nixon installed in The Whitehouse during his reign... er. Presidency.

[JeffOrnstein01]

@DungeonStudio Thank you for your comment. Yes, you are correct. The Cyclops did, in fact, have a bowling alley. I need to check if it ever had an ice skating rink......

[TheAmazingMikey]

Remember the bar fight scene? "look out he has a broken candle!" and the other fighter "Oh no he has a broken milk carton!" paraphrasing but I still remember it.

It was a parody of the "Airport" air disaster movies of the 70's

[JeffOrnstein01]

@TheAmazingMikey Thank you for your comment. Yes, that bar scene was pretty funny. I believe the Big Bus was made before the Airplane movies, making the Big Bus the model for those movies (but was made after the first Airport movie...I think).

[JohnM3D]

I liked this one, but I liked Supertrain way more! :D

[milolovesmusic]

the bus is now in the potomac river after a bad crash killing all 123 people on board but was hushed up by the government as it was carrying a class 2 atomic bomb

info gained from freedom of infomation from the CIA

[unbrokenjack]

You want to know who rides in this bus now, right?

 Carmen Sandiego.

[underwaterwoman30]

Some are taking this movie premise too seroiusly, it was a comedic farce at best, the vehicle was never a reality.

[shazzump]

Is it sad that i think i remember seeing this movie a few years back?

[MultiRob77]

Michael Bay must use this bad boy as the truck mode of Ultra Magnus in the new Transformers 3 movie.

[2Str0k3]

Seems interesting. Never seen this movie(i think)...but dl:ing now.

[n0td4v3]

I loved this movie when I saw it as a kid. It was so insane and absurd.

[bighub2010]

i remember this movie. i saw it late night on a local channel when i was 6. i loved it. only saw it once. i am almost 40 now and i can remember the entire movie all the funny scenes, especially the automatic tire changing machine

[pimpedvw]

Nuclear powered my ass.

[marekerhardt]

Better and out 4 years earlier than Airplane!

[stevewag79]

Where is this bus now???

[norwayfinland]

in hollywood if im right

[runawayfreak]

it has been demolished

[norwayfinland]

dont talk schit last year it was on the tv here in norge about the bigest buss of the world and this bus was in it it is not demolished sombody with alot monny he,s it

[runawayfreak]

@norwayfinland

that's weird according to the makers the bus was

destroyed. it wasn't even a bus just 2 trucks with

a prop on them (Hooked up together for filming. you can see it on the interetnet

[morval99]

@runawayfreak

Yes, without doubt a prop, and a very absurd one too, as it's meant to be!

Pre 'Airplane' movie, so somewhat of a pioneer. Quite a few famous faces. Film only last's 1h:22m, probably because 85% of the production cost payed for the bus!

'Watch it! he's got a broken milk carton!'

[tarzan694]

@stevewag79 may be you can chaeck at a scrapward.... lol

[sideslide23]

yeah right a supper size bus like the Airbus A380 and the boeing 747.

[littlewillie65]

You're joking right? You don't seriously believe this was a real bus do you? It was from the movie "The Big Bus" Starring Joseph Bologna and Stockard Channing. It was released in 1976 by Paramount Pictures.

[grudainc]

its a real bus, not run on nuclear power,but by a huge cummins diesel but it is real, it was a movie prop, that was completely street legal, the currant owner takes it out of its huge ware house once in a while to take it to car shows, he made theinteroir look like the movie too. I was inside the bus!

[littlewillie65]

It's cool to know that they didn't just trash it after the film (after all, it wasn't exactly a huge hit). It would be neat to see it.

[bigbadbronco86]

NUCLEAR POWERED?!?!?!?!?!?!?! holy shit why would anyone run a bus on nuclear reactors, thats probably the unsafest thing that ever traveled any roads, i hope the demolished it and made paperclips out of it

[rafl1983]

Are you serious? This bus is made for the movie "The big bus"....

[bigbadbronco86]

well obviously you dont understand the dangers of nuclear power, let alone when its rolling down the road in a 75 ton projectile, that thing was a ticking time bomb and i hope it was destroyed

[esheffield]

Wow, you can't be serious? The thing was a PROP for a MOVIE. I remember watching this as a kid, but I'm quite sure no actual uranium was used in the filming of that movie. :-P

[bigbadbronco86]

if you had to drive the thing i bet there was and they had to be able to move it so its likely that it was used, and if you were running something that heavy on an internal combustion engine it would need 15 of them or a freaking freight train motor. try researching the thing it was NUCLEAR POWERED. idk the lame ass european movie youre talking about but to me that makes it even more like that it was nuclear powered.

[JBofBrisbane]

@bigbadbronco86 - you're Poeing, aren't you? But just in case you're serious...

1. YOU try researching the thing. I saw the movie, and this bus was in it.

2. "...you would need 15 of them, or a freaking freight train motor." - Google or look on YouTube for "Australia Road Train" and see what you get.

3. The thing would need so much lead shielding it would not be able to move, or it would fall over on the first bend it tried to take.

[bigbadbronco86]

@JBofBrisbane speak english man