My wife and I took our 5-year-old son to a monster truck show as a belated birthday present. He's always watching CGI monster truck videos on YouTube when he's at my mom's house. He has four different monster truck Lego sets, five or so different monster truck toys, and a remote control monster truck. To say he's obsessed is an understatement.
We got there an hour early to get a good parking spot. It's a good thing we did. He wanted to buy a toy version of his favorite monster truck, Zombie.
I waited around 25 minutes in line, just trying to get a pretzel, popcorn, and a couple of sodas. I got back to my seat just as the show was starting. At first, I thought the noise wouldn't be too bad since the engines didn't sound that loud. Silly me. They were just idling. As soon as I heard the engines rev up, I popped in my SureFire ear plugs, and all was good.
Big Air
I was seriously impressed with how much air these monster trucks could get from just a short run. Apparently, they run on methanol and have a crazy amount of torque to be able to pull everything off.
This one is called Grave Digger.
This one is called El Toro Loco.
This one is Zombie, my son's favorite.
Donuts
It was fun watching them do donuts. The scoring was all done by the crowd using a QR code.
This one is called Soldier Fortune.
Freestyle
The Freestyle session was my favorite. This gave the drivers of each truck the freedom to do anything they wanted in an effort to rack up as many points as possible.
Surprisingly, El Toro Loco didn't lose its balance pulling this off.
Zombie stole the show by pulling off a backflip!
I was surprised the decorative shell survived the flip.
This one is called Megalodon. Not only did they balance perfectly upright on their front tires, but they even drove forward like this about four or five feet!
Accidents Happen
With all the tricks and stunts, accidents are bound to happen.
This one is called Thunderoarus.
Hopefully, the shell can be easily reattached. It didn't appear to be in bad shape when they removed it from the arena.
Soldier Fortune managed to flip completely upside down and had to be slowly tipped back over. Fortunately, it didn't sustain any damage and was good to go.
My son had a lot of fun watching monster trucks in person. I do think he was slightly disappointed that they didn't perform the tricks he's used to seeing in the CGI YouTube videos, but that's life. What we see on a screen is typically not what reality looks like, but in this case, it was still very fun! We'll likely go again, and in a few years, our two-year-old can join us and experience all the mayhem and fun!
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