JSK
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Dunno guys - maybe worth watching.
NEW DISCOVERY SERIES "WEAPONIZERS"
From the producers that brought you MYTHBUSTERS comes an explosive new series, WEAPONIZERS premiering on Discovery Channel US, May 11, 2009. The pilot series is expected to gain enough audience attention that it will turn into a Discovery staple feature.
This new program combines creativity, military-like strategy and engineering as two teams of master builders -- dubbed Weaponizers -- turn ordinary vehicles into remote-controlled machines of destruction. With the pace and intensity of a video game, the vehicles are completed with live-ammunition machine guns and other seemingly ordinary objects that are transformed into powerful weapons. Building on the teams' expertise -- hot rod restoration, pyrotechnics, special effects, crash engineering and military weaponry -- the opponents harness their ingenuity in a competition face off where the goal is to achieve victory by creating an indestructible vehicle. In each episode, the teams convert regular rides such as a shuttle bus, an ice cream van and muscle cars into vicious vehicles. Using science, special effects, engineering, metal fabrication and a bit of fantasy, they construct and test their vehicles to ensure that they pack the biggest punch and are fully remote-controlled. Once all testing is complete, each team descends into respective underground control bunkers to command their vehicles for the two-round competition.
In round one, the teams undertake a challenge-based phase where the vehicles race to destroy or defend exploding targets such as medieval castles or Mad Max style fuel depots. Then in round two, the Weaponizers are thrown into a Carmageddon Round -- the rules are there are no rules. It's a gloves off test of what expertise these teams can draw on to achieve victory, which in WEAPONIZERS' terms means there is only one vehicle left standing!
http://steampunkworkshop.com/discoverys-new-show-weaponizers
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/discovery-channel-screening-room
5/11 – 9pm – Medieval Mayhem
• 6:00-7:00PM Pacific & 9:00-10:00PM Pacific / 9:00-10:00PM Eastern & 9:00-10:00PM Eastern
The Weaponizers teams are turning an RV and a shuttle bus into remote-controlled machines of destruction. Axes, rockets, spears and machine guns are just some of the weapons these teams will use to destroy each other in this medieval match-up!
5/18 – 8pm – Carbecue
• 5:00-6:00PM Pacific & 8:00-9:00PM Pacific / 8:00-9:00PM Eastern & 11:00-10:00PM
Eastern The Weaponizers are cooking up vehicles and the Carbecue is on! The teams turn a meat truck and an ice cream van into remote-controlled war wagons decked out with machine guns and insane destructive devices in order to annihilate each other.
5/18 – 9pm – Mad Max
• 6:00-7:00PM Pacific & 9:00-10:00PM Pacific / 9:00-10:00PM Eastern & 9:00-10:00PM
Eastern Fuel is scarce but destruction is in full supply in this Mad Max Special. The Weaponizers turn two regular rides into vicious remote-controlled vehicles ready to destroy each other with machine guns, rockets and other devastating devices.
JSK
NEW DISCOVERY SERIES "WEAPONIZERS"
From the producers that brought you MYTHBUSTERS comes an explosive new series, WEAPONIZERS premiering on Discovery Channel US, May 11, 2009. The pilot series is expected to gain enough audience attention that it will turn into a Discovery staple feature.
This new program combines creativity, military-like strategy and engineering as two teams of master builders -- dubbed Weaponizers -- turn ordinary vehicles into remote-controlled machines of destruction. With the pace and intensity of a video game, the vehicles are completed with live-ammunition machine guns and other seemingly ordinary objects that are transformed into powerful weapons. Building on the teams' expertise -- hot rod restoration, pyrotechnics, special effects, crash engineering and military weaponry -- the opponents harness their ingenuity in a competition face off where the goal is to achieve victory by creating an indestructible vehicle. In each episode, the teams convert regular rides such as a shuttle bus, an ice cream van and muscle cars into vicious vehicles. Using science, special effects, engineering, metal fabrication and a bit of fantasy, they construct and test their vehicles to ensure that they pack the biggest punch and are fully remote-controlled. Once all testing is complete, each team descends into respective underground control bunkers to command their vehicles for the two-round competition.
In round one, the teams undertake a challenge-based phase where the vehicles race to destroy or defend exploding targets such as medieval castles or Mad Max style fuel depots. Then in round two, the Weaponizers are thrown into a Carmageddon Round -- the rules are there are no rules. It's a gloves off test of what expertise these teams can draw on to achieve victory, which in WEAPONIZERS' terms means there is only one vehicle left standing!
http://steampunkworkshop.com/discoverys-new-show-weaponizers
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/discovery-channel-screening-room
5/11 – 9pm – Medieval Mayhem
• 6:00-7:00PM Pacific & 9:00-10:00PM Pacific / 9:00-10:00PM Eastern & 9:00-10:00PM Eastern
The Weaponizers teams are turning an RV and a shuttle bus into remote-controlled machines of destruction. Axes, rockets, spears and machine guns are just some of the weapons these teams will use to destroy each other in this medieval match-up!
5/18 – 8pm – Carbecue
• 5:00-6:00PM Pacific & 8:00-9:00PM Pacific / 8:00-9:00PM Eastern & 11:00-10:00PM
Eastern The Weaponizers are cooking up vehicles and the Carbecue is on! The teams turn a meat truck and an ice cream van into remote-controlled war wagons decked out with machine guns and insane destructive devices in order to annihilate each other.
5/18 – 9pm – Mad Max
• 6:00-7:00PM Pacific & 9:00-10:00PM Pacific / 9:00-10:00PM Eastern & 9:00-10:00PM
Eastern Fuel is scarce but destruction is in full supply in this Mad Max Special. The Weaponizers turn two regular rides into vicious remote-controlled vehicles ready to destroy each other with machine guns, rockets and other devastating devices.
JSK
