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On that topic, I'm surprised we haven't had another live broadcast after Atlanta 2010. The biggest reason for not doing them was always downtime during the shows and they've been working to minimize it for years now.

On 4/14/2019 at 6:30 AM, Mark Iron said:

Not the first time someone tried that.  Ryan did it at a show a while back I believe.

Ryan was jumping onto the backflip ramp from the cars beside it but I don't think the officials liked him launching his truck at the crowd too much.

Instagram is throwing exactly the kind of hissy fit I expected but I honestly couldn’t be more indifferent about the cars if I tried to be. They contribute nothing to the entertainment value of a show and in arenas it’s honestly frustrating watching the track crew waste time bringing them on and off the floor multiple times throughout an event.  

I don't understand what a racing only series would bring to the table that the many other mixed discipline series already do.The only thing I can see from your ideas that might be unique is the field size, assuming that's 20 trucks on track at once. We've already seen that more than 2 in a stadium doesn't really work, in which case you have to go to speedways. Monster trucks have no business racing as a pack on an oval track for a wide variety of reasons. If you mean a head-to-head bracket competition like we have from pretty much every promoter today, how do you fill the time left over from cutting out more than half of the elements of the show?

I was initially skeptical of the switch but Spin Master has already put out a better product than Mattel produced for at least the last 5 years of the partnership.

I can't believe it took four years for Monster Jam to start building backflip ramps into the arena pads.

NBC (most likely NBCSN specifically) is the new home for Monster Jam TV broadcasts. 

18 hours ago, Mark Colineri said:

So, not sure how something like this flew completely under the radar, but Kreg Christensen will be attempting to break Joe Sylvester's current World Record long jump. It was apparently supposed to take place this past Saturday, but due to rain it has been delayed to this upcoming weekend.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2132531670394998/

That seems like a pretty small venue for that kind of thing. There won't be a lot of shutdown space.

what year is it

Wouldn't be surprised if Collette isn't back. Her deals with Kia and RedBull are probably a lot bigger than Monster Jam.

New build:

Intel Core i7-8086k

Corsair H100i V2 AIO CPU Cooler

PNY Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070Ti

ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-E Gaming

ADATA XPG Z1 DDR4 16GB@3000MHz

500GB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 NVMe SSD

2TB Seagate Solid State Hybrid 7200RPM Hard Drive

NZXT S340 Elite

Another less than stellar performance out of my camera and myself, but it's like 10 years old and I got it for free so I'm not complaining.

Took some vertical shots of Lee standing it on the front tires and I'm quite pleased with them.

If you really want to see everything...

https://imgur.com/a/dK73lPf

https://imgur.com/a/olG5Uxf

Mark Galloway was just on the video boards. It was a sight. 

Please make it stop. 

it's time to stop

That Pontiac pile pains me. 

Donald Epidendio and Titan competed at the Washington State Fair tonight. 

22 hours ago, leggster said:

At my skillset and rate of painting, this won't be done for a while, buuuut "Grinder"

I don't even know if it's possible, but I'd love to see the rotating G that the truck had in 2012-13.

Assuming it's after 6:30 EST...

Jacob Silvia

litl_e_fan #1181

Mutant (Todd)

Gave the DW12 a proper send off.

A look at how the backflip ramp reset itself as well as the left kicker breaking. 

5 hours ago, P3ForLife said:

Anybody have a good video of Cole's roll in racing?

19 minutes ago, racingrichardYT said:

Wow Monster Jam has gone to sh1t...

Or they’re looking to move the event into a market with a higher capacity, more modern facility. 

Oh my

Well if this ain’t just the coolest thing I’ve seen today 

My predictions: