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Rayman FREAK · 02-10-2008, 03:38 PM

You know, it was actually more fun than I thought it would be. And yes, it was rather loud, Tazy (we were right up front).

I went with three kids from my rowing team. We didn't have any real clue what to expect. All we knew was that Grave Digger would be there, which is supposed to be some famous truck or something. So we were going to make the best of it, whether or not it was any fun. We get some old clothes, dirtied them up, and cut holes in them as if we were going to a costume party... with monster trucks. The venue was in Hartford (CT), a fair drive from school. It started snowing as we got closer, so I was just sitting in the car with only a muddy T-shirt and shorts thinking of what an idiot I am. We managed to park pretty close to the arena though, so I didn't have to freeze my kiester off for too long.

When we got there, almost everybody else was dressed completely normally, and we were a little confused by this. In the end, it was more fun that way. We looked like morons, and we knew it, so we completely played it up. Whenever we were just walking around, we were constantly shouting "GRAVE DIGGER!!!" and high-fiving each other. Some of the little kids, of whom there were many, were visibly worried about us. One of my friends was really drunk, so he understandably felt like a jack*** about frightening the children. I just thought it was hilarious.

The actual show was pretty fun. In all honesty, what isn't fun about watching giant trucks walk over cars on just their back two wheels? There wasn't any major breakage of the trucks themselves, which was a bit disappointing, but shouting like idiots whenever Grave Digger was crashing into things made up for it. There's some sort of obviously rigged contest between all of the trucks that uses a completely inane scoring system, but no-one pays attention to that. We also got to see a motorcycle pull of a backflip at halftime, which is a lot more impressive in real life than it is on TV.

In the end, for mindless entertainment, the whole experience was a really good time. If you ever get the opportunity to see one of these things, I say grab some friends and go for it.

02-10-2008, 03:38 PM	#6
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