Bobamatic

I got my normal fifth of whisky and I may have more booze by the end of the day.

I found this today. A great freestyle on a great track.

Where in Michigan was that race?

Too bad I don't have the bearfoot stickers I got at the 93 world finals anymore. They had all the logos and the bear stuff and could have easily been scanned. I hate how many MT collectibles I destroyed when I was a kid.lol

I agree about the tracks, they need a big new change on those. The other thing I don't like is the under 2 hour big stadium shows.

I'm going to bet their not going to change The Legend scheme this year. The merchandise for it has probably been made already and there wouldn't be enough time to make up new stuff before the start of the season. I think we're stuck with it. I'm glad BJ will be driving again. I can't wait to see what he can do in a Feld truck.

I'm the new measuring stick people.lol This is why I can't do anything past modeling.

My thought's on the legend are that if it was blue I would probably like it. Purple has nothing to do with the legend Ford body and makes no sense. It sucks seeing Joe in Bad Habit only running a limited schedule this year but at least he's still running. It sucks he's not coming to Detroit at all this year.

Stuff like this is why I have no faith in any of Monster Jams hype anymore. Last years version was one of my favorite MJ trucks to date and they go and do this to it. This should have been made as a Hot Wheels toy only. I bet the devil doesn't like having his name tied to this.

All I can say is there better be a night and day difference with the tracks compared to what it was in the past. If they do have something different then it will probably be a style of track that another promoter has been doing for years now.

Well it's not a marvel truck. It looks like a space skull.

USA-1 will not be returning. "The "team" that purchased the truck, has it here undergoing a identity change to something pretty darn kewl. You are correct in the fact that this name will never run for a major promotor, as "EJ" is not realistic in the value of the name. The deal was offered via lease or purchase to this "team", and was declined, considering you could purchase ALL of Shafers names for the same amt as "EJ" wants for one. I really could care less what he does with the name in the future, as it wont help sell tickets in todays market. MH"

From what I can see Tom and Neils schedules are pretty much done. The TBA Max D driver will most likely be whoever is announced as the third driver. I get to see whoever it is at Ford Field.

Monster Mutt now looks like a VW Beetle.lol It'll probably look cool zooming around the track but it looks more like a bug than a dog to me.

I got it and it's actually a really fun game. I found it for 10 or 15 bucks. It's not really realistic but it's a fun arcade style game with some real mt features like bracket racing and somewhat realistic tracks. The graphics are great and I can run the game at the max resolution that my monitor will allow which is 1900X1200. It's way better than any of the Monster Jam games so I'm not disappointed about the money it cost seeing as it was about the same price I paid for them. It still needs some work but it's a good start.

So I tried my hand at some truck painting. Still needs a ton of work but it was easier than I thought it would be.

I guess it's time for the media to start blowing this out of proportion with incorrect facts. This is 100% on the promoter. No safety precautions at all. It doesn't matter what truck or driver are involved, when you run you're show like this something bad is going to happen.

The finish line cars are crooked and in the wrong place compared to where they were in real life. With the way you have it here the lanes are way uneven. The cars should be parallel to the center of the outfield wall.

It looks good to me in the video so I'll definitely be getting it. Physics look a lot better in this version than the android and ios ones. Also it's cheaper than what I paid for MTM 1 and 2 when they came out so the price isn't bad at all.

It's hard to see in the Blender pic but everything is already beveled which makes the jump look steeper than it actually is I want to see how it does the way it is. It was made for old school trucks to climb originally and I want to keep it that way.

Thanks guys. Dalton, the one good exported track that I built doesn't really lag for me or those who have tried it (even RKM) and it has dual ten car sets and my models have improved 100 fold since then. You can model some pretty complex looking stuff and make it work if you delete every unnecessary face and line and make sure everything lines up perfectly. When people make step up jumps and have 1/4 of the car sticking out of th dirt and 3/4's of the car in the jump that can't be seen that's what causes lag on obstacles. You can't copy and paste cars or anything into an obstacle and leave the parts that can't be seen inside of it or you're asking for trouble. The more faces in between the top face of you're obstacle and the ground the more laggy the obstacle will be. Those faces will also grab you're truck when you reset on the obstacle and make you have to go back to the start point because you can't break free. The stadiums and tracks I do are a basically a sheet formed to a shape. There is nothing behind every face you see from the track all the way up through the stadium. You could flatten everything and it would have no double faces anywhere. I am very confident that this track won't lag. This is what the underside of the car heavy Tombstone obstacle looks like. Nothing but backfaces.