JackMProductions

1 hour ago, vegasfest said:

what van stack?

Jim Jack's Van Stack

Front wheels wouldn't spin afterwards

Coming soon

Here's a thread for those of you who have collected pics for a few years.

I know there's a thread on Mayhem from 2009 that's called something along the lines of Monster Jam Graveyard, with pics of a lot full of destroyed and scrapped monster truck bodies from various monster truck shows. However, I also remember seeing shots from a warehouse that had been taken prior to those, showing even older monster truck bodies, such as Sting and Nitro Machine. Might have been a Live Nation warehouse from the mid 2000's. It's been years since I saw the pics and I haven't saved them. If anyone knows which pics I'm talking about or has them, feel free to post. Other pics would be appreciated as well, showing trashed bodies/parts in a lot or storage area from various times or places.

http://www.monstermayhem.org/forums/showthread.php?10593-Monster-Jam-Graveyard

Here's the original thread. Also very interesting to look at.

9 minutes ago, Pink Guy said:

Superman?

That'd probably have to do with DC, not Netflix.

21 minutes ago, litl_e_fan said:

I have literally no actual information on this but just wanted to put my ideas down. I have no clue why, but I feel like it's Boogey Van. Probably completely wrong, but whatever.

Well Boogey Van is for sale currently and I don't think Feld or Netflix are buying it.

Since it's Netflix, it's like we have to think back on all the TV/movie themed trucks of the past.

Any idea what that Netflix truck is gonna be?

One of the earlier pictures from this thread, I showed the former Cre8tive Cre8tions Max D that I had bought. Now after over 6 years of collecting dust, the truck lives again...

A few poorly-taken action shots of Digger from yesterday.

7 minutes ago, LordFrosting said:

Custom Chass? Looks good

Actually it's a hot-rodded Wheely King with Crawler King links, shafts, and body mounts. I originally had Clod wheels on there but I couldn't get the truck geared right for them.

Grave Digger got some new wheels today, courtesy of Ross Hinshaw at RH Designs.

Super ClodBuster putting in more work

That guy in the background needs to calm down, for real.

Well that makes travel a hell of a lot easier when it comes to taking days off for the trip. That's why I never enjoyed the 3 day concept.

41 minutes ago, litl_e_fan said:

kill me

http://www.monsterjamsuperstore.com/Monster_Jam_Fidget_Spinner_p/00027407.htm

Don't worry, the meme will die soon enough

7 hours ago, mdemko said:

meents run in 04 was complete sh*t.... all he did was stuff the truck into obsticles. No air, no anything. 

The reason that run is so profound is because nobody (at least not that I'm aware of) had run a truck that hard, that broken, for that long, up until that point. It's not great for anything technical at all, clearly.

Usually a bad one

Being at World Finals 10 after Tom did his over-rotated backflip. He came into the stands, grabbed the Max D puff truck I had, and spun it around backwards in his hands before giving it back to me.

If Ford Tauruses were an endless resource and cost a few hundred dollars a piece, I'm sure they'd still have cars in the jumps. Honestly most of the changes Monster Jam has made really aren't deal breakers. I mean a lot of the nuances and special things we enjoyed in the past are gone, such as unique courses and most of the cars, but it's not really too big of a deal when it comes down to it. Except for backflips. Those got stale a long time ago. (Unless it's a back-to-backflip or corkscrew)

He could have done 10 backflips and it would have been just as repetitive. You've gotta do something new

It is sad. Gunslinger is legendary, but I understand why the name change was made. It's easy to blame it on people being overly sensitive, or on "PC culture", but in reality it's most likely to avoid controversy and/or poor taste. Since there's so much gun violence and gun controversy in this country, I'm sure Monster Jam doesn't want to be in the middle of it all when they bring out a truck promoting guns after the next mass shooting happens, if it happens. Sorta like how they waited a year to debut Maximum Destruction after 9/11 happened. However, renaming the Young Guns Shootout is bizarre because that's not even about any literal guns. They didn't have to be this extreme, but this is the surest way to cover their backs.

2 hours ago, Crazyboy335 said:

 

Aztec

2 hours ago, Mr. Self Destruct said:

They even made the rear wall protection a backflip ramp. Like c'mon, you took out the fun of seeing cars crash into a wall after a close race.

Doesn't sound like fun to me, or for anyone involved.

I mean eventually we're gonna run out of Ford Tauruses and E150's to crush, right?

Honestly the lack of cars isn't a deal breaker by any means. It was disappointing at first, mainly because we are so used to seeing cars be such an integral part of the courses. Honestly I don't mind the lack of cars, just the lack of originality in each course design. I'm not saying that every course has to be vastly different and unique from the last, but a little change in the designs doesn't hurt, even if its just shifting a few ramps around. The jumps are a little overly steep too. Still, not a deal breaker.

The only things I actually have problems with are the backflips and the World Finals track.

Backflips were awesome back when they were newer, but I feel like the novelty has worn off for me. I think they've just over-saturated it and there isn't really any excitement anymore for me. It's too fixed and predictable.

The current World Finals freestyle track is really just two giant islands of dirt made of all these mashed together ramps with no real breathing room or strategy available. It's like if the double box jump from WF11 was an entire course. The World Finals being a 2 day event is a drag too, but I know why they do it.

As far as your comparison goes, I cant imagine the World Finals 2 track being used today for any promotion with a budget, because the trucks would eat it up in seconds. That's literally why they started making bigger, stronger jumps 10 years ago.