This Honda Pokémon motorbike based on Koraidon is genuinely amazing

The Pokémon Company has revealed a bizarre collaboration with Honda, featuring the legendary star of Pokémon Scarlet.

Pokémon is one of the highest-grossing media franchises in the world, so naturally it has spawned a mountain of weird collaborations over the years.

Whether it’s clothing team-ups with Levi, the upcoming collaboration with Wallace and Gromit’s Aardman Animation, or that Pikachu-themed song by Katy Perry, Pokémon is a prime source of cross-media oddities, as it cements its transmedia dominance.

However, a company collaboration we didn’t have on our bingo cards was Honda. After the Japanese car company teased a Pokémon motorbike last week, it has now revealed a life-sized bike based on Pokémon Scarlet cover star Koraidon.

The bike is sadly just a concept, but it is on display at the Honda Welcome Plaza Aoyama in Tokyo, from today until Sunday, March 9.

As such, images of the bike have emerged online and it looks really impressive. The model is described as an ‘almost life-size reproduction’ of Koraidon in ‘both weight and size’.

While the model on display is stationary, it uses ‘proprietary self-balancing technology to enable Honda Koraidon to walk on all four legs’. The model Koraidon also has changing ‘legs, neck, and facial movements’ which can be adjusted, along with its ‘sprint speed’, according to a description on the Honda website.

In the game, Koraidon is a legendary pokémon which you can ride just like a motorbike and it’s surprising just how much Honda’s design looks like it. As usual for Pokémon, Scarlet and Violet are almost identical but the equivalent of Koraidon in Violet is the creature Miraidon, who works in a similar way.

Miraidon has already been turned into a motorbike, but one created by Toyota rather than Honda. It was shown off in a similar manner last year, but it’s unclear if either bike will ever be shown anywhere outside of Japan – at this point it seems unlikely though.

As for the future of Pokémon, beyond motorbike replicas, the next major game is set to be Pokémon Legends Z-A later this year. A new game, titled Pokémon Champions, was also recently announced during the latest Pokémon Presents.

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