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I want a fedora truck that rolls over often

It could be called M'onster

That's gonna be pretty awesome

Legitimization is awesome...I don't suppose this means that shows would be broadcast live or in any timely sort of manner

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This is the first time Meents hasn't been at Indy in like 15 years though. I'm a little disappointed

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Holy crap that announcer is annoying.

Even Scott Douglass is annoying live over the PA

Whoever designed those bodies shouldn't take acid on the job

From Straight Up Racing, the Skeletor body has been painted.

 

 

 

 

That is wicked looking. It's like zombie Bulldozer

He wasn't let go for being the nice guy you see in public. He was let go because of the person he was BEHIND the scenes. 180 degree complete turnaround from what you've seen.

I find that really hard to believe. Jim Creten's the one who seems like he'd be kind of a nice lady

He ran like he was in it the whole run. If you're going to replace a driver for Digger, atleast pick one that can drive like it.

Yeah, I was really disappointed I didn't get to see Pauken driving. 

Plus the kid who replaced Marc in El Toro flipped after 8 seconds trying to turn. 

Wrecking Crew had the craziest freestyle in Indy but Jim Koehler won the show. 

 

In other news....

 

Backflip ramp in Indy

 

 

Pauken, Meents, and Koehler in Indy. My 3 favorite drivers; my first live show since 2008. I can't wait. 

It was probably some of the white powder hitting the hot header.

 

Linsey went for a wild ride in San Diego!

 

http://instagram.com/p/jVkRF_ME7Z/

Sure that wasn't Pablo Huffaker? 

BEFORE THE ANDERSON BOYS?!?! WWWWWWHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY??????

Oh, you think it means something? That's cute.

Scott Beutow with one of the best freestyles of the year so far, if not all time.

God I love the baseball field tracks. So much space

Photoshop version of World Finals 14 as background:

http://www.monsterjam.com/garage/

Regular Monster Jam website background:

http://www.monsterjam.com/Garage/

Why?

lol they forgot the boxcar on the bottom left

Yep, believe it was.

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151600605453039

So are they just leaving broken trucks scattered on the track from now on?

Kinda annoying. 

If that was a shot at the constant red and yellow theme, then I'm sure you will be hounding YouTube for a video on the Houston, TX show on Jan 4th (I think is when it is), as will I, in hopes of new track design and colors. What I'm wondering is without a title sponsor, will they have a new one? Did they even have one before AAP? Would also love to see some new truck bodies, instead of all these mid 2000's trucks, almost ten years later.

Very excited for that. 

Hopefully they won't have a new one, or at least a less imposing one. I don't think they had one before; they never modified the actual logo for a sponsor before.

The font looks kind of awkward. The S looks too small as well as the hole in the O and R

AAP was the title sponsor of Monster Jam?

I thought it was McDonalds

I'm pretty excited for this one. 

I don't think they'll change the racing course both because of tradition/fairness. A trademark of WF racing is high speeds, which would be screwed up with hills in the straightaway and things. Changing the course would also ruin what little integrity the competition has. 

Freestyle will probably have some huge/impressive stuff now that they don't have to have racing space. Hopefully more interesting than red and yellow hills this time. 

What would really be great is...now, I know this is a lot to ask, as obviously most major sporting events don't actually get live broadcasts....but if they could show this live on Fox Sports 1 or online that'd be amazing. So I don't have to wait until July for the DVD.

BTW just got my World Series 2013 blu-ray in the mail. So glad the Red Sox won. Damn Cardinals. 

Maybe I'm just getting old and comparing the present to the highly nostalgic past, but I feel like the USHRA (or whatever it's called now) is much worse. 

• The incredible lengths they go through to nice lady out AAP. 
• All red and yellow cars
• All ramps red and yellow
• Tracks are mostly just dirt hills, no more interesting/notable obstacles
• All tracks look the same (I can't even tell the difference between the recent world finals ones)
• Trucks don't break as easily (no wheels falling off, not even the bodies fall off as frequently)
• Hell, even the runs are hardly distinguishable, because of all of this
• New trucks are ugly/gimmicky/overcomplicated

Just felt like complaining, I guess. Anyone else feel these feels?

That track seriously looks so bloody boring. 

Everything's the same color and there are barely any cars. 

Glad there's a new racing champion at least. 

Sigh. The track looks the same as last year. 

And I suppose it'll always be too much to hope for to have it shown live somewhere. 

It'd be a 24 truck field based on a point system from the racing and freestyle during the normal tour. Not a popularity contest/sponsor whoring. 

It would be broadcast live on Speed. 

Qualifying and racing would be on Friday. 

First of all, the dirt is entirely brown. Green paint on the ramps, white outlines. Red, white, yellow, and blue cars. 

Racing would be different.

There'd be 6 cars after a slightly bigger than average ramp. 

There would be a small dirt jump entering thunder alley. 

Freestyle would be on Saturday. 

Between the cars would be a semi trailer (like from WF1). 

Left side freestyle obstacles would be a trailer stack then a bus stack. 

Ride side would be a dirt jump (with those balloon dice in the middle) then another trailer stack.

At the end next to the pits would be a railcar stack.  

All of these obstacles are primarily cars, and maybe 15-25% dirt. 

There would be 4 RVs to place in the straigtaways throughout freestyle. 

There would be another two to place in front of the middle jump. 

Scoring would be done by 15 non competing drivers, 5 fans, 3 officials, and the two announcers. Final score would be an average of the 25. 

Signs, flags, and other such things would be banned. 

So what do you guys think of it?

 

I hate it.

Why do they have to screw with everything every year?

Things were great in 2002, it got worse with moving to Speed, it slowly grew better, then AAP started inserting itself into everything possible and they started to appeal to kids more than ever and it's just so awful now. 

/complain

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Where was that?

That one always confused me as a kid becase I'd never seen an event outside of a stadium.

I remember I think it was 2003 Tom meents took maximum destruction and in the last round in racing racing against Dennis he ended up barrel rolling the truck IN THE AIR and then hitting hard on the ground and barrel rolled again. I remember seeing it at the end of crash madness 4 or one around their.

That was in Indy in 2004.