TheRetroStyle

7 minutes ago, Stephen Hopkins said:

Why on earth is the seat made for a hamster on that Grave Digger? The headrests are below the top of the door. 

This vid = Me. The hamster part on that comment got me good, even though, talking non-expressions, it really isn't, which is why I say, "You serious?"

Also, don't bully around Blake. In my opinion, it looks fantastic. I just wonder if there will be a chrome version of it.

Just now, steiale said:

 

 

Somebody call an ambulance -- we got a hater going insane here.

18 minutes ago, fernBurn said:

wanted to keep these a secret. Looks like i'll have to work on Cole's metallic purple flames a little bit more according to the pic above.

Since im throwing underwraps stuff out there....

Still very jealous of your Sway Bar Arms Blaise! Really nice to see someone improving upon their content and taking every criticism without crying about it. Nice work Man! Proud to see the content maker you are becoming.

 

Shall we start the hype train for these four trucks? All we need now is the yellow and skeleton Zombie, blue N.E.A, Coty's Monster Energy for 2016, and the 2016 Dalmatian, and I say we're good to go to start some Amsoil Series!

14 hours ago, Charlie H. said:

Didn't mention Tom anywhere in the post I saw... it could be assumed it's him but it could very much be Neil too (especially since he'll be in the Philippines if the source of the website is correct). Also I doubt the Japanese crowd will be pissed that he's only jumping five trucks, it's their first big monster truck show in... bloody hell 26 years if I'm right on the date... 

I know that, it's just that wouldn't it be even more cooler if he or whoever jumped over seven? Like we wanted him to do for Santa Clara?

According to Monster Jam's Facebook, I have some good news and bad news regarding Japan this year.

The good news is that Tom Meents will be jumpin' over some trucks as an encore after Racing.

The bad news is that it's the World Finals encore repeated; he's jumping five trucks there.

"The more realistic, the better!"

-TheRetroStyle

Confirmed by Monster Jam. Meents will jump the truck over six trucks in Levi's Stadium (You came one truck too far if you guessed seven).

To make this even more special, if the attempt is successful, then if I'm right, he's going in the 2018 edition of "the book", if you know what I mean.

http://www.monsterjam.com/news/record-breaking-stunt-attempt-levis-stadium

47 minutes ago, ARF said:

My thoughts:

The track played out pretty much the way I thought it would, and I've stated my feelings on that already so I'll just say this: the drivers should be competing with each other, not with the track.

There were still some good runs though, despite the track. I thought Damon's was the best, Adam just didn't do enough in bonus to get the win, in my opinion. Dennis and Ryan also had great runs. It was cool to see the old man put together a run that warranted the reaction "holy s***," for the first time in a long time.

In the future I think it would be good for Monster Jam to move to 20 judges (10 pro, 10 fans) with each giving a score 1-10 for a total regulation score out of 200 points. They can have 10 more judges score bonus 1-5 for a total possible score of 250. The more judges there are, the more likely they are to get it right (that's been mathematically proven). And I think we can all agree that getting it right is what's most important, even if it breaks the tradition of having the scores be out of 35 or 45.

That being said, while Adam didn't have the best run last night I do think he was pretty deserving of a Freestyle championship based on his performances all season.

Also, interesting to note that back in the day (~2005-2012), when Dennis and Tom were the best in Monster Jam, they very rarely came up big in the World Finals freestyle. However, the 3 best right now, Damon, Ryan, and Adam (imo) seem to put together runs that compete for a championship every year. What does this mean to me? It's going to be very difficult to win a freestyle championship in the near (and possibly distant) future if you're name isn't Adam, Ryan or Damon.

Or Scott. How could you forget about the guy that many claim should've won this year?

But hey, at least we got some history in the books:

GRAVE DIGGER HAS PULLED OFF THE FIRST WORLD FINALS DOUBLE DOWN SINCE 2002!

Okay so we now know that this year's champ will be an Anderson. The question though. which one? Adam or Ryan?

WAIT A MINUTE. MIKEY'S NOT LAST! HES ON RIGHT NOW!

LOL I'M LAUGHING MY LUNGS OUT WITH THE REACTIONS OF THE 21.5 MISTAKE

Yet it gets the same bad luck as last year.

Point proved. Adam Anderson takes the lead!

Just now, ColorfulCrayons said:

One of the things they want to see is someone doing something new, not repeating something in a run over and over. If it were a backflip contest, then maybe he gets more than a 30.5. Shouldn't be a surprise anyway, these judges are all over the place.

Yeah, but that run has massive air! it should've gotten the lead.

I'm predicting some of the drivers that didn't go yet are nervous about this.

EDIT: ARE YOU F**KING KIDDING ME WITH THE SCORE OF SCOTT BUETOW'S RUN!? That had THREE backflips, and it got a 30.5. 

Jim Koehler on the track in the Big Kahuna look-a-like Avenger,

EDIT: Terrible judging strikes again! Marc McDonald with a 28. Should've taken the lead or at least 2nd

GAS MONKEY!!!!!!!! I had to. BJ Johnson is out on the track.

WOW. THEY'RE BRINGING DENNIS OUT ALREADY.

EDIT: Dennis takes the lead.....yet the crowd is booing the scores. I think they think it should've been higher.

They clearly stopped doing that after 2009. Maybe because they thought DK may have been a problem left there.

Titan scores a 23.5. Score that I expected, since he broke the front end early.

4 minutes ago, cp2013 said:

horrible fan judging strikes again! Zombie is underscored with a 23, personally he needed at least a 30

AAARRRGHH!!!!!!!!

Edit: They changed the theme for JUNKYARD DOG

Scooby went for the flip, but failed

EDIT: First terrible score by judges. Scooby gets a 19.

CHAD FORTUNE SIDEWALLS IT!

Jimmy just came out, and broke off the rear axle early.....ouch.

They are shutting off the livestream on Facebook. Everyone, get to Twitter now!

Cole Vernard, with arguably the greatest "first guy out" freestyle in nearly a decade (hint 2008) scores a 30.5.