Spotted In Video: Steelcraft Strider 4

(Or is it?  See the update.)

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno is a pretty awful film.  I don’t think it’s obscene, exactly, but it’s definitely crude and completely juvenile — and not in any good way.  The Guardian pretty much got it; the header on their review says that the movie is “is a product of Sacha Baron Cohen’s bourgeois sexual neuroses”.  (Class war!) (The review itself is quite graphic:  You’re forewarned.)  I’m afraid the reviewer makes a good case for his thesis; Baron Cohen is bright enough and witty enough to actually be funny sometimes, but this wasn’t one of them.

However, that’s not why we’re here.  Sex and neurosis aside, there’s a pram in Brüno:

brü-bdy-400The laptop’s an add-on, and so is the optional gold lamé diaper bag (which matches fashionista Brüno’s shoes, visible in the background).

Intrepid researcher that I am, it still took a bit of serious snooping to scope out the model:

stri-by-300It’s an Australian Steelcraft Strider 4 that’s been heavily, and interestingly, modded.  This image, the one that demonstrates the genealogy best, is from eBay Australia.  The film was a bust, but the pram modifications are quite clever; more about them later.

(Note, 3/13/2010:  As hinted above, this may actually be an UPPABaby Vista.  Details here.  It’s a sad day for stroller forensics.)

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