This week, Will, Norm, and Jeremy discuss landing spaceships on comets, Disneyland, Amazon’s speaker thing, Taylor Swift, net neutrality, and a whole lot more. Enjoy!
One Day Builds
Adam embarks on one of his most ambitious builds yet: fulfil…
Show And Tell
Adam recently completed a build of the royal St. Edwards cro…
Making
Viewers often ask to see Adam working in real-time, so this …
One Day Builds
Adam and Norm assemble a beautifully machined replica prop k…
One Day Builds
One of the ways Adam has been getting through lockdown has b…
Making
Adam unboxes and performs a quick test of this novel new hel…
Making
When Adam visited Weta Workshop early last year, he stopped …
One Day Builds
Adam tackles a shop shelf build that he's been putting off f…
Show And Tell
Time for a model kit build! This steampunk-inspired mechanic…
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Adam reveals his surprise Christmas present for his wife--a …
I love how Will was just itching for Norm to stop talking about his trip to Disney, and to get on to more important things – that being the fact that there is a lander now sitting on a comet. 😄
JIBO!
Is it just me or is Will kinda harshing on Norm ?
There actually was a looping wooden roller coaster, it was the Son of Beast at King’s Island in Ohio. Can see the ride here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AU1TdhP6e0 The loop itself actually had a metal frame but the rest of the coaster was wooden. It was also the tallest and fastest wooden coaster in the world.
Sadly it was torn down a few years ago because it had a lot of problems. Wooden coasters just can’t handle the speeds it would hit (78+ mph!) and it was constantly in need of maintenance. They also removed the loop some years after it opened in an attempt to make it less problematic, but ultimately it was closed and torn down.
I had a chance to ride it long ago while it still had the loop and unfortunately the dream of a fast looping wooden coaster is far better than the reality. It shook so much it physically hurt and really wasn’t fun to ride at all.
There’s a sound like someone scratching their head, all through this. Apart from that, great show. Oh, also, not so interesting to hear about services you can only get in the US.
There is a wooden roller coaster that has corkscrews if not loops in Branson MO at a park called Silver Dollar City its called Outlaw Run. You can see the ride here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2FfVADMq9U
The Tower of Terror in DisneyWorld is at Hollywood Studios, which is one of the 4 major parks there.
I’ve been to Silver Doller City. Outlaw run goes upside down three times and has a few of the records for wooden coasters. It’s really ridiculouse that they are able to make an old school wooden coaster go upside down.
Norm was pretty good with his facts, but I’m pretty sure that Tower of Terror at DCA was never an up charge attraction.
Also, in the past few years there have been multiple wooden coasters built with inversions. It’s kinda the popular thing to do right now in the coaster industry.
OK. The DJI Inspire does look a bit sinister, but the kicker is that the camera and B&W motif make it totally looks like something GLaDOS would’ve deployed on test subjects.
DJI, Phone Home..
i like ‘s knowing looks at the camera from time to time.
I hate to be, “that”, person but if you have the money to afford $2900, then another $500 on top does not seem like it would be a problem. If the $500 is too much, then rethinking spending $2900 might be a good idea.
On that note… Do you know if there are insurance plans for drones. They seem to be expensive on the “toy” front. I am sure that people who are using them in a professional application have their own business insurance that covers their equipment.
For the guy who asked about things to do in SF, even though I am from Portland, OR, here is what I would say. Check out the SanFran section on Reddit because it is super helpful. Also Adam&Jamie have an episode of Mythbusters where they talk about their favorite places to go shopping in SF, it is a really helpful guide. I would also go to China Town, good luck parking in that area of town but I would not skip it.
I’m probably just a tool, but are there show notes for this episode. The gang ripped through cool SF attractions and I’d love to get them in list form. And I’m from the Bay Area, but I hadn’t heard of all of these!
This is a amazing thing to happen after all the bad stuff that’s been happening in the space industry.
You guys, there’s a game room set up in Vancouver in Canada and they have the clues change very often and some are the same objects but importance changes so even when you try again you can fail.
http://e-exit.ca/
highly suggest it if you are up North.