Forget the iconic Akira Slide.Today I learned that the massive diagonal elevator lifts that seem to be everywhere in video games and nowhere in real life, can also be sourced to the Akira manga.TMNT, Resident Evil 2, Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, they’re everywhere, and among game developers in the 90s they were known as “Akira Lifts”
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Those exist in real life, they're called funiculars. But yes, most of the time they're in video games they're a reference to Akira.Most real ones are fully-enclosed, not just a little railing.
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THUNDERBIRDS! 1965! youtu.be/ORCPk…
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Oooh! That looks kinda close actually! I know that funiculars (enclosed trams that are lifted diagonally up a slope) used to be quite common, but I wasn’t aware of anything that looked like an Akira Lift.Although much smaller, these are still a good find!
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Been looking for more, thinking 'surely there must be others', but no, it seems modern quarries are all about the conveyor belts and massive dump trucks! Relic of a bygone age, it seems
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In Hamilton Ontario there was once what was called the “Incline Railway” which went up and down the escarpment before the roadways were built but it shut down in 1936, less elevator like, more train 🤷🏼♀️
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Yep! That was a funicular, which uses two enclosed cable cars that act as counterweights and is operated by pulley and wheel. A little different from what appear to be hydraulic Akira Lifts, but definitely similar :)If that funicular was still in operation I might make the trek to Hamilton more often!
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Nothing says Sonic like standing perfectly still during a lengthy elevator ride
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Yep, funiculars are similar, and probably were the inspiration for the Akira Lift. But the large, non-unenclosed platforms are very rare and many video games source Akira as the inspiration :)
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I mean, yes. The large scale, industrial looking lift in Akira is unique to the manga/anime, but the concept has been around for over a century.
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There is one version (albeit a bit smaller version) that was built for a NATO facility and is now a tourists attraction in Norway
gaustabanen.no/en/ab…
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It wouldn't surprise me to find out that things like this were used in mineshafts. We went on a coal mine tour a few years back in Pennsylvania and it was basically a diagonal funicular like that which took us down.
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You’re right! I believe that’s a funicular, which are similar and probably were the inspiration for the large Akira Lifts.
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That's it! I'm sure they have them in various other hilly places in Europe. Switzerland?
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I did a report on this in the 5th grade , been waiting to use this knowledge I have about it for 35 years haha
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This is the Johnstown incline plane which I believe is still active in Johnstown Pennsylvania. There were also incline planes that moved railroad cars and railroad engines from one side of the Alleghenys to the other until the horseshoe curve was completed in 1854. So they've been around for a while
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Yep! Those are funiculars I believe. They used to be more common. Funiculars are two enclosed cars that work on a pulley system with each car being a counterweight. That’s slightly different than the hydraulic, massive open platform in Akira, but probably was the inspiration for it :)
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Wait? Seriously? My first thought when seeing this pic was RE2. Btw, closest I've seen this in real life is an elevator at Hudson Yards on the 7 line in NYC. They have an elevator that moves diagonal.
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Yep! Those small diagonal elevators are called funiculars, and used to be very common. But the large, non-enclosed lifts originated with Akira
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It’s a funicular. Plenty of them exist in real life thanks to Victorian engineers.
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