Yesterday I went to Toronto to meet up with my City-dwelling friend, Ian, and five of his closest friends to go see Monster Jam at the Skydome. This year it was the regular trucks ( I can't remember what they called them) , Freestyle motocross jumping and of course the Monster Trucks. Curiously missing from the line up was the demolition derby.
The trucks were a lot of fun to watch this year as the drivers were really try and made some spectacular circuits. There were even a couple of cars contending as well but couldn't make the cut. No crashes in this but one guy did an extra lap and almost crashed into the other competitor, and other guy spun out off the side.
The freestyle guys were pretty good and did the whole gamut of tricks except backflips. It was pretty impressive but I think I prefer the Quad-bike racing from the previous years.
The monster trucks did quite well in their racing this year. Most races were pretty close and there were a few close calls. Unfortunately, the one I was cheering for, Predator, blew his transmission in the final against Grave Digger thus making it a bit anticlimactic.
The monster truck freestyle where they just drive around and smash stuff and do tricks and jumps, was okay but "Safe Auto" and Grave Digger went all out. Safe Auto went over every obstacle and then went for an extra minute afterward. VERY nice. Then Grave Digger came and did a similar run but jumped much higher and crashed the truck at the end and thus won.
Overall the show was quite good and everyone seemed to enjoy it quite a bit. The number of lackluster Monster Truck performances were just barely made up for by "Safe Auto" and "Grave Diggers" freestyle runs. I don't understand why they didn't have a demolition derby either, they have been there every other year and are a ton of fun to watch. Oh well, hopefully next year it will be better. Here the official recap.
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