A good way i think for making vehicles that suit the heros people are playing would be to supplement a general set with designs made for the themes of each successful costume pack.
So Pulp would have WW1 and WW2 fighter planes and pulp era streamlined but realistic looking cars.
Golden Age would have vehicles of a less realistic early and flashy-looking old-fashioned comic look.
Iron Age would be all angular armour plates with unneccessary panel-details and a Ron Cobb influence on flying tanks, fighter jets/starfighters, cars that are as much tank as car etc.
Retro Scifi would be all streamlined and sleek whether its a classic rocket, a classic bubbledomed flying saucer or a tank like the Ark II
http://www.livejournal.ru/static/files/tech/themes/zoom/2607_4.jpg another pic here
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HHrruj81gbs/T9yQBA9LiDI/AAAAAAAANyU/eWqdq7BDrQg/s1600/lottery1.jpg
The Halloween set is where we get the difficulty with mystic vehicles if they need to be enclosed but they could be something like this tank
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Vintage-Voltron-Skull-Tank-Vehicle-World-Events-1984-/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/%24T2eC16N,!zcE9s4g0-S!BQC%2BORU%2Bgw~~60_35.JPG and this ship
http://evilbrainjono.net/images/golion/slaveship.jpg or a nice flying galleon!
By making vehicle designs which fit the visual style of each themed costume set the gaps that generic vehicles won't fill will be more easilly covered.
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I was honestly hoping we'd see themed vehicle content. Like 'Sleek Night Vehicles', 'Rugged Military Vehicles' and 'High tech vehicles' or even 'alien vehicles'. I hope that the vehicle customization isn't completely limited to 'This jet/car/motorcycle/rocket camel' and you color it. I'd like to see things you can change like wings, spoilers, body kits, fairing, tires, etc.
Trailturtle did say that the new jet is just phase 1, and that this fall there will be more vehicles (he mentioned hover tanks specifically). I hope we're going to get multiple parts for the Fighter Jet skin, because that would be perfect for Steely Dan (he wears an alien battlesuit that gives him Behemoth powers; if I can get the right appearance for it, then the conceit will be that his suit transforms into the fighter for distance travel).
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"We?ll likely start with a varied slate of releases that are very cool but somewhat conventional ? Fighter Jets, Hover Tanks and so on. Later, we?d love to expand into the more obscure ? things like magical winged chariots!"
http://co.perfectworld.com/news/?p=637351
While it may be a pipe dream, kind of like staves ( QQ), I for one am not going to give up on motor cycles and something like the Bat-pod .
I think its possible, with the proper tweaking. *taps wallet on screen* Motorcycle for my dark night detective and gun touting vigilante?
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