Monster Trucks

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My all time favourite hobby, ever since I was a little kid. My first ever exposure to Monster Trucks was when my parents had those VHS tapes of Monster Trucks in the 80s, in particular, Battle, Return, and War Of The Monster Trucks. But my favourite, and the one that I've seen first, was none other than Bigfoot King Of Monster Trucks. It was that VHS tape, and from here on now that Bigfoot would be my all time favourite monster truck growing up, right alongside Grave Digger and others.

Since 25 years ago, I've seen numerous monster truck events throughout my time, of course, living in Australia, these first events are all homegrown, with Aussie trucks like Tropical Thunder and Outback Thunda being the centerpiece of the Australian monster truck scene, it wouldn't be right up until 2013 when the top American show, Monster Jam, would head to Australia for the first time ever, and mate, was it a show I will never forget!

I wouldn't get the chance to see Bigfoot right up until last year when Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live came to Australia for the first time ever, it was then I finally got to see my childhood hero for the first time ever.

I've collected all the Hot Wheels and Spin Master diecast over the years, and let's just say it is quite massive at this point, and I'm still not done collecting.

And of course, my favourite all time video game known as Monster Truck Madness 2. Despite being 27 years old at this point, it is still the best monster truck game ever made, and every other game after that hasn't even come close to it ever since, mostly because of the numerous shovelware and gimmicky garbage with some of the worst monster truck physics imaginable that has been mostly present through every recent release ever since, by the end of the day, MTM2 is still on top of everything else.

 

Was wondering if there's anyone else on here that loves monster trucks just as much as much as I do. What was your first show? Who is your favourite truck? Any other discussion on here would be awesome.