1988 Terminator Competition

September 1988. Long before Robot Wars, BattleBots or the band called "Dangerous Toys", Los Angeles toymakers created the ultimate battlefield. State-of-the-art toy vehicles were designed to battle to the death using man's oldest, most destructive weapon: FIRE. The rules were simple: build onto a specified toy car chassis using tether control to avoid R/C interference, use minimum plastic armor, and limit combustibles to road flares and charcoal lighter fluid. "Two man enter, one man leave." This original VHS video was the first of many covert contests, and led to two appearances of the "Dangerous Toys Team" on Late Night with David Letterman in Dec 1988 and Dec 1989.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• terminator
• competition
• contest
• death
• destruction
• fire
• melt
• plastic
• toy
• car
• dangerous
• toys
• robot
• wars
• battlebots

[sparkey989]

forgot about this stuff.