In August 2001, Paul Hartzog announced he was sponsoring a “HoverThing” contest. The Contest announcement and rules were posted on LUGNET and many people submitted entries, including myself. Here are the 4 HoverThings I came up with.
I didn’t win, but here are the models I built for the contest. The official contest website shows all the entries, including the winning one.
- Astro-Pumpkin
- A very silly entry for the contest. The main point was to employ an unusual color scheme and to find a use for the angled part in the nose.
- Pocket Rocket (Blue)
- Equivalent to a hot motorcycle today.
- Pocket Rocket (Black)
- Even cooler if it’s black.
- Hover Patrol
- A simple police cruiser
There’s a separate album for each one, plus an album for all of them:
Migrated from my old blosxom blog, formerly at bill.wards.net/blosxom on 2026-04-12
