Title:
Master Blasters: SCI FI Channel Original Series Premiere
Stars:
Dan Stroud and Terry Stroud
Director:
Bowden Hunt
Executive
Producers: Mack Anderson and Bradley Anderson
Running
Time: 43 minutes without commercials
Media:
SCI FI Channel Original Series (NTSC DVD Screener)
Series
Premiere Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at 9pm (ET/PT)
Network:
SCI FI Channel (Check your local cable/satellite listings for channel)
TV
Rating: Not Available At The Time Of Review
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
“Master
Blasters” is the new addition to the original night of programming known as
SCI FI Wednesdays. The reality series follows the father and son team of Dan and
Terry Stroud as they take on challenges in building the best rockets that they
boast are out designed, out built, and can out perform any other team of rocket
builders’ creations in the world. (Does that include NASA?) With an
open challenge to the world, each week competitors from all walks of life travel
to the Master Blasters home base in Dallas, Texas and try and out do the rocket
wizardry of the Master Blasters and their brilliant support team.
The
premiere episode pits the Master Blasters in a contest that recreates the famous
Wizard Of Oz scenario where Dorothy is supposed to be whisked up inside her
house and spun around within it in the air until the house crashes down on the
surface of Oz. The test runs and the apparent effects such an act would have if
these events were to actually happen are quite interesting. There is no doubt
when seeing the remains of a Dorothy dummy amongst the other debris from the
test run that only in Oz could she ever survive such a crash.
The
series itself is somewhat reminiscent of programs on The Discovery Channel. In
particular I found myself thinking of “American Chopper.” The science is
interesting and the series could be educational as well as entertaining.
“Master Blasters” will premiere as a part of SCI FI Wednesdays on July 27,
2005, at 8pm (ET/PT).
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Copyright 2005 By Mark A. Rivera
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