Are staged model train wrecks humorous? Not necessarily, but they may possibly be staged humorously. Just as I don't think it is necessarily funny if someone slips on a banana peel and gets hurt. But if a person is a pompous (insert word that is unfair to second-class equines), and makes a point of how they are more dignified than everyone else, and then while criticizing someone else's clumsiness, falls on a banana peel...THEN it can be funny. Model train wrecks could possibly be staged not to be humorous but to be exciting or thrilling, or as realistic as possibly. My experience was when I was five years old and got this wonderful scratchbuilt truss bridge for my Lionel trains, built by my Dad from hand-fabricated sheetmetal channels, and soldered together. And then we went to see a movie about brave pilots bombing the bridges, and I thought, HEY I can duplicate that on my own, with mynnew bridge and some bricks. It got partly unbent and reassembled. I display it as a keepsake 60 years later. It is only my childish naivete that you can't enjoy blowing it up and still have it too, that is humorous.
Which goes back to me... 2 words. Rocket Train! Man that was fun. Also we were sort of drunk when we hooked the fireworks up to the new brite train. Plastic bits everywhere. I still have a piece of the shrapnel in my leg they couldn't take out because of how close it was to nerve tendons. Yeah, that's not bragging rights either, it friggin hurts. But the pain was worth the fun.
Maybe you should have tried a model rocket engine.... something that's meant to burn and produce thrust, rather than simply explode...
More Staged Train Wrecks Funny or Not, there seems to be alot of staged train wrecks on you tube. This time I will be listing the top 5 stop motion model train crashes. Video #1: A guy at work told me about this one. It's based on a Lionel Train set and the train hits a semi-truck at a crossing, what makes this one different is the train is sooo looonngg, that the freight cars never seems to stop coming in to crash and pile up on top of each other. you tube link > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3mw2kaIbx4&feature=related Video #2: Is a recreation of the movie called "The Fugitive" where a train hits a bus. This one is well done and features a wooden train set with modern Santa Fe and Rio Grande diesel locomotives you tube link > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDJ6rfq_5Vk Video #3: Is called the great Bonocal Train crash and is based on a HO train. What also makes this one different is it actually has a plot and story line. The Bonocals attack and steal a HO train from the Lego Guys, then battle is declared to get the train back you tube link > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUMeQJY5WFQ&feature=related Video #4: Is called Conrail and Freinds. Based on none other than Thomas and Freinds and even plays the them song thru out the show. A head on collision is staged you tube link > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CRUW5pdreM Video #5: This particular video got over 1 million views which shows people must love staged model train wrecks. This one is based on a wooden thomas the train set. Although the movie is called Thomas the idot tank engine, it sure isn't based on the real show. you tube link > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUdHyLUa9CE&NR=1 ____________________________________________________________________________ Special Mention: There are sometimes movies that came on TV that you liked so much that you never will forget them. For me as in the orginal post, one of them was "Smokey and the Bandit". Well I found another Very Well Done of another one of my favorites which is the movie "Covoy". It is NOT stop motion and does NOT use and R/C motorization at all to move the trucks. How did they do it??? They used all fishing line and pulled them along. With the real movie sounds in these Convoy movies made with 1:32 scale ratio trucks they were thumbs up. Convoy Intro Movie in 1:32 scale ratio > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JewBZcY27Zo Convoy New Mexico in 1:32 scale ratio> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgSCTUfbuf4&feature=related
Or the infamous Jump over the moving Georgia Southern train in the first episode of the Dukes Of Hazzard, I think they actually did a real stunt jump over that flatcar.
Uuuuummmm, yeah. I think you meant to post this reply in the More Model trains in TV show post maybe? But yeah I watched that show all of the time, another favorite of mine. Idea: (light bulb over head) Lets take a Dukes of Hazzard R/C car and we can jump it across a G scale train load with empty paper towel rolls loaded on flat bed cars while the train is moving and play it to the Dukes of Hazzard song and then post that on you tube. I have not seen this one done on you tube yet............yeah All you need is the USA Trains EMD NW-2 swithcher which they used a switcher on the show to pull the train, a couple of box cars in front and the stage the flat cars behind them. It would be great, now all we need is someone who owns a R/C General Lee and someone who owns a USA Trains NW-2 loco and a couple of flat bed and box cars who doesn't mind someone taking a chance jumping a R/C car over that train knowing the stunt could go wrong and take out the train...........right? Any volunteers????
I was half asleep when I posted that, I was going to suggest trying that with an R/C Car and see how it would work.
