Highlights
- Starfield's ship builder allows players to recreate iconic sci-fi vessels, like the flying taxi from The Fifth Element, showcasing its vast capabilities.
- The replica of the taxi is an impressive feat, considering the limitations of the ship builder, and is designed on a much larger scale.
- The growing list of high-effort custom ships created by Starfield players includes popular spacecraft from Star Wars, Batman's Batmobile, and even Pokemon-themed ships.
One Starfield player with some serious design skills managed to recreate the flying taxi from The Fifth Element in Bethesda's latest game. Apart from exemplifying the vast capabilities of Starfield's ship builder, their achievement also serves as a stellar callback to Luc Besson's enigmatic sci-fi classic from 1997.
Between Starfield's hard sci-fi inspirations and in-depth ship construction mechanics, Bethesda's newest RPG offers a prime opportunity for science fiction fans to recreate some of the genre's most iconic vessels. And though the likes of Star Wars and Star Trek have unsurprisingly dominated such community creations to date, that's not to say other sci-fi works haven't already inspired some impressive spacecraft in their own right.
The latest example of that diversity comes from Reddit user RADiCALRUX, who managed to design an authentic recreation of the flying taxi from The Fifth Element in Starfield. While that's far from the only hovering vehicle seen in the 1997 classic, the futuristic New York City cab operated by Bruce Willis's Korben Dallas is instantly evocative of the sci-fi flick, and this Starfield rendition of the iconic car does a remarkable job at capturing the essence of its peculiar retrofuturistic aesthetic.
That feat is all the more impressive given how Starfield's ship builder doesn't allow players to construct a functional vessel the size of an actual car, meaning that this replica had to be much larger than the cab that inspired it. Faced with that requirement, its author decided to go all out with the size of their recreation, designing an absolutely massive spacecraft spanning four floors. The vessel also appears to be around 80 feet long, given how its lower body consists of six All-in-One Berths, three-by-one blocks that are approximately 13 feet in length each.
And while the final result looks remarkably similar to the taxi from The Fifth Element, the replica's driver's cabin actually houses its pressurized entrance on top of some amenities, while the ship's true cockpit is situated just above its bumper recreation, between the would-be headlights. Hundreds of fans impressed with the taxi-shaped ship voted to bring it to the front page of Starfield's largest subreddit earlier this week.
This inspiring homage to The Fifth Element adds to the already substantial list of similarly high-effort creations authored by the game's fandom. That growing list of vessels already includes a Starfield version of the Naboo N-1 starfighter from Star Wars, several flying Batmobiles, and even some Pokemon-themed spacecraft, among many other custom ships.
Starfield is available now for PC and Xbox Series X/S.