JackMProductions

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.

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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.

You know, Maximum Destruction just doesn't sound right with those mufflers. It's like it wasn't meant to be

To clarify I never said the ROR engine has better physics. The BeamNG engine killed ROR. It's just that the truck physics in ROR are more polished for the time being, and Beam doesn't have multiplayer yet.. It's starting to look better than I remember it being a few months ago with the trucks being less loose and floaty. BeamNG runs like hell on my pc, which isn't a bad system, but that's just me.

The ROR physics are better, not to mention ROR is easier to build for I believe and has multiplayer. The physics for the trucks in BeamNG is still pretty rough and it doesn't seem like anybody plans on working on that.

That's probably what it's gonna be, and unless they say Rob Knell (sarcasm), there's nothing big or surprising about it.

Yeah I had a Parma Dodge body and an SCX10 roller lying around, so I ordered the decals, put on some longer shocks, wheely king wheels, and some leftover electronics. Runs about as well as a stock Wheely King

Sounds like you need to hit some ranch, mulatto.

Eric Andre > Alex Jones

All these Trump posts are a total boner-killer We need some of those real SYP fights that we all know and love. That's why I came here

The reason that run is so significant is because I don't think anybody had run a truck that was that broken, that hard, for that long, until then.

I think the tailgate is supposed to be translucent, like it has been in real life.

Some action shots of that backyard thing I did last month. Building a new course this weekend so I'll post new pics of that and show my trucks in better detail, as well as my first build.

I think it's less about people getting offended at the sight of a gun, and more about preventing bad timing. Meaning, if there was a big shooting somewhere in the US, and a truck comes out with Gun on it, it would probably be in poor taste in the audience's eyes. Sorta like how they didn't debut Maximum Destruction directly after 9/11. Personally I think the Soldier Fortune turret should stay on because that's just part of the military aesthetic.

It would suck to have the seat in the center for that one.

Those things are dying for a set of Proline Brawlers