As a child my family was into offroad motorsports, and we attended some big 4x4 meet over in Indiana for a weekend. There was a big car show (well, truck show technically), mud bog races, tough truck competition, and the like. And quite a few monster trucks including the biggest name of them all at the time, Bigfoot. And while there getting to talk to the drivers and look at the trucks up close they were handing out pamphlets for a new show idea they were working on. Combining monster trucks with this new at the time thing called paintball. The trucks would drive around an obstacle course, over cars the the like, while a gunner sat in the passenger seat (this was back when monster trucks were a bit closer in design to actual road trucks) shooting paintballs at the other trucks. They said they were working on a system where when a body panel on the truck got hit a charge would blow it off of the vehicle. A heck of an idea, especially for the late 80's when I heard about it.
There would be two teams. One led by Bigfoot with two new trucks, Futurefoot and Brass Eagle. Yes, that Brass Eagle, which would be a major sponsor. The other team would be Snakebite (who was being promoted as Bigfoots "rival" at the time, even though they were both built by the same guys), and two new trucks, Junkyard Beast and Sharkrusher.
Now I hadn't even thought of this for decades, part of my brain thinking this was some fever dream or weird combined memory thing. But this is the internet, and sometimes you wander down a random wiki rabbit hole and you find things...
From a temporary tattoo sheet they handed out, the lower left truck was the Brass Eagle truck, though hard to see.
So they were still working on this in late 1993, but it was inevitably canceled. Interesting how they were promising full auto 30mm paintball canons, when Brass Eagle at the time barely had a functional semi auto. Though some Golden Eagles ca-chunking out the side of a monster truck would have been a heck of a thing to see.
There would be two teams. One led by Bigfoot with two new trucks, Futurefoot and Brass Eagle. Yes, that Brass Eagle, which would be a major sponsor. The other team would be Snakebite (who was being promoted as Bigfoots "rival" at the time, even though they were both built by the same guys), and two new trucks, Junkyard Beast and Sharkrusher.
Now I hadn't even thought of this for decades, part of my brain thinking this was some fever dream or weird combined memory thing. But this is the internet, and sometimes you wander down a random wiki rabbit hole and you find things...
From a temporary tattoo sheet they handed out, the lower left truck was the Brass Eagle truck, though hard to see.
So they were still working on this in late 1993, but it was inevitably canceled. Interesting how they were promising full auto 30mm paintball canons, when Brass Eagle at the time barely had a functional semi auto. Though some Golden Eagles ca-chunking out the side of a monster truck would have been a heck of a thing to see.