Junkyard Wars: The Next Generation 300
A reader writes: "The makers of Junkyard Wars are starting up a new series called Ultimate Machine Combat. 30 teams and 30 days each to build "ultimate fighting vehicle" to battle in a "secret arena". This is attracting gear heads of all genres, including my local Jeep Club."
Deadline past (Score:2, Informative)
The deadline for sending in applications is Monday 28th January 2002.
That's unfortunate timing, need to /. these things quicker in future :)
Maybe if you can get enough /.ers interested and write to them (quickly) you might be able to extend it a week or so.
The application procedure [junkyard-wars.com] is pretty cool :-)
Al.
Re:Dangerous? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:EMP, the ultimate feature (Score:3, Informative)
The EMP assemblies I've seen take up a lot of space for relatively poor performace -- the entire cargo area of a minibus in exchange for making some monitors flicker. I'm sure this could be miniturized, but I think you'd need something pretty serious to cook a car's electronics.
If the arena's fairly small, you could use a couple of tanks of halon to give anyone using a gasoline engine a nasty shock -- suffocate the engine. Otherwise, I've seen a device in testing by the police that fires a contact under the chassis of a fleeing vehicle to make contact, hitting 'em with a jolt of juice. Car taser.
Re:Deadline past (Score:4, Informative)
For those who didn't bother to read the page (Score:4, Informative)
Survival Research Laboratories (Score:5, Informative)
been building massive destructive machines
since 1978, staging large outdoor events
generally involving shows akin to "let's shake them in a jar, and see if they'll fight".
Flames, jet engines, crushers, all the things this new program would want.
Re:cool..but (Score:3, Informative)
Re:EMP, the ultimate feature (Score:1, Informative)
A Reply (Score:3, Informative)
Virg
Re:Pro-Wrasslin' for Geeks (Score:2, Informative)
I let my four year old watch Junkyard Wars. Actually it's his favorite show! We have a bunch on tape (they had a marathon the day after Thanksgiving) and they hold up to repeat viewing. He's probably seen each episode six to ten times.
But there is no way is he allowed the death-and-destruction bot shows. From what I've seen of them, I fail to see where kids are:
Well, other than in a very second hand fashion. Junkyard Wars on the other hand shows the teams in action using such skills on camera.I'm not all that encouraged by the description of the new show, but I guess I'll reserve judgement for now.