A Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has built a Hyrule version of the speedy Podracers from Star Wars. Tears of the Kingdom has been out for two weeks now, and fans have been sharing fun videos of themselves diving into all that the latest blockbuster Zelda game has to offer. A new gameplay feature that has earned plenty of buzz is Link’s new Ultrahand and Fuse powers, which allow the hero of Hyrule to combine various resources to create interesting new tools, weapons, and even vehicles to help him explore Tears of the Kingdom’s open world.
Naturally, players have been taking full advantage of these new abilities to dream up some truly wild contraptions to help in the quest to defeat Ganondorf. Some of the more imaginative creations to come from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom include hovercrafts and flying attack drones that can unleash devastating laser blasts on Link’s enemies or working catapults that can launch the hero to anywhere he is needed. Plenty of fans are even building Zelda-fied versions of vehicles from existing properties - and as always Star Wars is a prime source for inspiration.
A Reddit user by the handle of meatswipe posted a short video of their latest Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom creation. Using various wooden logs and wind turbines, they manage to piece together a spot-on recreation of one of the Podracers seen in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, and while this version isn’t quite as fast as the ones Anakin Skywalker and company rode across the dunes of Tatooine, it seems to work just fine as a means of transport through Hyrule.
While Podracing hasn’t been featured in a Star Wars movie since 1999, the very fast and very dangerous sport remains popular among Star Wars fans - especially when it comes to video games. The cult classic Star Wars Episode 1: Racer was released alongside the movie and managed to win over even Prequel-era detractors with its smooth racing gameplay and various vehicles and courses. There haven’t been any new Star Wars podracing games since 2002’s Star Wars Racer Revenge, but an updated port of the original Racer was released on last-gen consoles back in October 2020.
Star Wars and The Legend of Zelda share many of the same classic fantasy tropes, so it’s only fitting for one Tears of the Kingdom fan to use Link’s new vehicle-crafting powers to recreate the iconic Podracer from The Phantom Menace. Hopefully Link has the Jedi reflexes needed to properly handle the powerful racing machine he has just whipped together, or his latest quest to save the kingdom of Hyrule could be a very short one.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available now on Switch.
