Adam Savage Meets a Life-Size Animatronic T-Rex!

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Adam steps into the massive workshop of Animax Designs, a character design and fabrication company that he’s been working with for his velociraptor costume. One of Animax’s specialties is the build of fully animatronic dinosaurs, and Adam gets up close with their massive Tyrannosaurus Rex mech that’s just about to be animated for the first time.

Shot by Joey Fameli and edited by Norman Chan
Additional production by Shay Willard
Music by Jinglepunks

Special thanks to Chuck Fawcett, Jay Rottinghaus, Michael Schupbach, and the rest of the team at Animax Designs for making our visit possible! https://www.animaxdesigns.com/ https://www.instagram.com/animaxdesigns/

All Eyes On Perserverance – This is Only a Test 587 – 2/18/21

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We get excited for the Perserverance rover Mars landing happening later today in this week’s episode. Jeremy finally watches In and Of Itself, we get hyped for The Last of Us casting, and try to deciper the new Chevy Bolt announcements. Plus, Kishore gets a Pelaton and we wrack our brains around reverse engineering the source code to GTA III.

Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: Life-Size Velociraptor Costume!

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Adam embarks on one of his most ambitious builds yet: fulfilling his lifelong dream of a wearable life-size velociraptor costume! With the help of the amazing designers and builders at character shop Animax Designs, Adam begins his raptor costume build in the cave with some materials experimentation and figuring out the movement of the tail. Follow about this epic journey that will take Adam cross country in a build that spans an entire month!

Shot by Adam Savage
Edited by Joey Fameli
Music by Jinglepunks

Adam Savage’s Favorite Tools: C-Thru Triangle Ruler!

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Adam shares another essential tool that was one of the first specialized tools he fell in love with when he was working in graphic design: the transparent grid triangle. Anyone who does any kind of making with layouts should have a few of these rulers of different sizes in your toolset! C-Thru (now Westcott) 12″ Grid Triangle: https://amzn.to/3qoy2iA

Shot by Adam Savage

Adam Savage’s King George Costume!

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Adam recently completed a build of the royal St. Edwards crown inspired by the one worn on stage for Hamilton, and he pairs that prop with a full King George costume! It’s Adam’s first time trying on the full getup–crown, cape, and all–and we take the costume for a photo shoot at the beautiful Sydney Goldstein theater in San Francisco to see what it looks like on stage!

Adam’s making of the crown for this costume here: https://youtu.be/lUwMEjh2-78
Watch Adam’s visit to the backstage of Hamilton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=351DxQghbh0

Shot by Adam Savage and Edited by Norman Chan Watch

Adam Savage in Real Time: God of War Leviathan Axe Blade

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Viewers often ask to see Adam working in real-time, so this Tested membership preview video features 25 minutes of Adam working on the blade portion of his God of War Leviathan Axe, straight off Adam’s phone! This is just one example of the kind of exclusive video we offer to our members. Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks like this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiDJtJKMICpb9B1qf7qjEOA/join

Original One Day Build here (this scene appears as time lapse): https://youtu.be/apeZO6C0ZeA
MEMBERS ONLY: Real-Time God of War Leviathan Axe Handle Carving: https://youtu.be/w1UiNQQ5f-E

Mandalorian Blaster Prop Replica Kit Assembly!

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Adam and Norm assemble a beautifully machined replica prop kit inspired by the hero blaster from The Mandalorian. It’s a lovely prop that has all the hallmarks of a blaster from the Star Wars universe, designed with the same sensibilities of the propmakers from the original trilogy. This aluminum kit comes together with a combination of screws and glue, and we add some real weathering to it to make it worthy of our favorite Mando bounty hunter!

Find this Mando blaster replica kit here: http://www.warmachinepaintball.com/product/fieldmarshal-aluminum-bergmann-mandalorian-blaster
Thin insta-cure CA glue: https://amzn.to/3d9TsfA
Insta-set glue kicker/accelerator: https://amzn.to/3qiUcm6

Shot by Gunther Kirsch and edited by Norman Chan

House of MCU – This is Only a Test 586 – 2/11/21

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The gang gets together to recap their favorite bits from this past weekend’s Superb Owl, including the new camera tech used for the broadcast and the best chicken wing recipes. Kishore shares tips for streamlining your streaming services, and Will guests this week to dive into the mind-bending implications of the latest WandaVision episode. Thanks to Will for guesting this week! You can listen to Tech Pod at https://techpod.content.town/ Kenji’s oven-fried chicken wing recipe: https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/02/the-best-buffalo-wings-oven-fried-wings-recipe.html Locast: https://www.locast.org/

Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: Royal Crown of England!

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One of the ways Adam has been getting through lockdown has been binging television shows, including Netflix’s The Crown. And in the midst of his obsession with the show, Adam builds his own replica of the most important piece of The Crown Jewels: St Edward’s Crown used for the coronation of British Monarch. Adam’s replica is based on the stage prop made for the Hamilton musical, and will be the centerpiece for his King George costume!

Shot by Adam Savage and Edited by Joey Fameli

Adam Savage Tests the AIR Active Filtration Helmet!

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Adam unboxes and performs a quick test of this novel new helmet designed to provide active air filtration while giving the user a wide field of view with its big plastic dome. It’s evocative of a spacesuit helmet you’re meant to wear around in the world, and Adam checks out how well it works with a walk around the neighborhood. Air filtration helmet: https://microclimate.com/

Shot by Adam Savage