Hello there, I'm Gav.
I'm Dan.
We're The Slow Mo Guys.
Dan, one of my favorite treats back when I lived in the UK
was a lovely pack of Maltesers.
Yeah, never used to be able to get them in America,
but they've recently launched in the U.S.,
so they're all over the gaff now.
So we thought, being from England,
why not give them our own Slow Mo Guys launch?
Yeah, at 800 feet per second with this massive air cannon.
Hello, America.
I'm here!
And we're gonna film it at ridiculous frame rates
on the Phantom V2511.
Shall we start with a melon?
Lets, I've got one right here oddly enough.
Let's do it.
All right, so how does this device work then?
Kinda complicated, but we got high pressure nitrogen here,
fed through a tube all the way into here,
which is like a regulator valve.
Now this, when it makes a sound,
That's a good sound.
That's filling up the chamber with pressure, okay?
Up to 150 PSI, which is regulated by that.
When it stops making noise, that means it's full.
All right.
Okay, so now we got our gas in here,
and this is like our valve to release it,
so it's armed and then you press fire,
and that's what releases the gas.
Solenoid?
Uh, it's called, yes, solenoid valve.
That's right, well done. Yes!
Venturi here, increases the pressure
going into the chamber,
and this here is our chamber where we load the Malteser in.
Oh, okay.
So that's where we're going, and if it fits, it sits.
So you put it in there,
screw it up.
Yep.
And then we've got our tube here,
gets fired along here with the pressure,
and our object that's gonna be
imminently destroyed sits here.
That's the goodbye zone.
Yeah, this isn't going to be here for
when we're shooting stuff,
but this is a tester to find out how far stuff goes.
What's our highest Malteser so far?
Fluke one, 900 feet per second,
which is faster than a .45 caliber round
that comes out of the muzzle of a pistol.
Phew.
So, it's pretty intense.
We might as well be using a firearm.
Might as well just be sitting there with a pistol.
Yeah.
And then we got a backboard over there to catch the mess.
Yes, absolutely.
Malteser, as you can see.
Ready to get loaded in, just pops in there.
Screw this up, that's our chamber.
Cool, okay, so I'm gonna gas the tube.
Arming.
Three, two, one.
Oh!
Goodness me!
I think we need to clean our glass.
Oh, that's the air?
Oh!
What's that, is that just
all the air being released?
It comes with a lot of air.
Whoa!
I need to adjust the exposure,
there's a lot of air and spray that's so bright.
Yeah.
All right, I think we should do that again.
So we've seen what happens with one Malteser,
but what happens if we do two Maltesers?
Got two here,
let's see if we can bung both of them in there.
One, two.
Ready for gas.
Good sound, innit?
So meaty.
Three, two, one!
Whoa!
Bloody hell, that was a different spray.
You got hit over there?
I got watermelon brains on me.
Here's our unsuspecting watermelon just chilling out.
That was a really good escalation.
Yeah.
Oh, wait!
One after the other!
What do you think determines that gap?
I have no idea.
I mean, Maltesers aren't perfectly round
so maybe that's just, like, the different shapes
cause them to come through at different times.
That's opened it up like an absolute beaut there.
Definite evisceration.
Look at the chunks!
How does something as light as a Malteser,
or sorry, two Maltesers, do that to a watermelon?
You'd need to use a sledgehammer to get that affect
as a human, wouldn't you?
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
Oh, is that the furthest chunk?
That's the furthest chunk I've seen.
That must be 30 meters, or something like that.
Go see if our Maltesers will go through a soda pop can.
Ready?
Yep.
Three, two, one.
Whoa!
The second one is so funny to me.
Yeah, it's always, like, way too late
to do anything about it.
It was like the can was a human and got punched in the gut,
the way it buckled down, like oh!
Yeah it did.
I'm controlling the laptop today because we're indoors.
I'm gonna reduce the resolution on this one to 512 by 320,
not remotely HD, or even SD.
I'm gonna shoot 118,000 frames a second,
just to get that crushing impact of the Malteser
around here.
Arming.
All right, three, two, one.
Oh!
I like how it seems to make you jump every time.
You're the one doing it and you're like, oh!
Yeah, oh come on!
This is 120.
Whoa!
Did you see the tear on the can go around there?
Yeah!
That must have been so quick.
I almost want to see that frame by frame.
Yeah.
Oh, wow!
Oh!
That's amazing.
God.
Look at that flowering effect.
That's so cool.
The way it just sort of popped it.
It flattens itself
so a lot of the energy is absorbed by itself,
but it still has enough force.
Is that Malteser there?
Just bits of Malteser crushed?
Yeah.
So I was lookin', and I was wondering if I could find
the piece of can that the Malteser hit.
I wondered if it just, like, shattered the can?
I would've thought it would just split it and go through.
Apparently not,
because I found the exact piece that the Malteser hit.
It's even concaved like a sphere from the Malteser.
Look it.
Yeah.
Perfectly hit.
So we're going for something
a bit more substantial this time.
Ping pong bat here.
Do you think it'll go through?
I think it will go through.
I have faith.
You don't think it'll go through?
No, 'cause plywood is always layered isn't it?
It's layered to be strong.
It'll go through.
It'll go through?
Yeah. All right.
Three, two, one.
Oh!
What?
Did it go through or did it go through?
It went straight through like it was nothin'.
I owe you 10 bucks.
You do.
Bugger me!
It couldn't be cleaner, it's like a bullet hole.
Geez.
Look at the exit there.
That is nasty exit wound.
A perfect Malteser size though.
I was a bit worried because I thought,
is it going to ping back and hit me?
See you later!
Geez!
Did you see the ripple of the rubber there
and the wood just flying out the back?
Being hit by a cannon.
Yeah, we've been shootin' a lot of stuff that's, like,
I knew would go, like a melon or a drink.
That surprised me.
I don't know why it surprised me considering the speeds.
The air from the cannon is going like.
Yeah.
Got the fast camera, got a fast Malteser,
perfect for smashing some glass.
How do you feel about vases?
Yeah, I've got a few of them at home.
Yeah? Yeah, I like 'em.
Why do you hate this one so much?
It's rank isn't it?
Three, two, one.
We've yet to beat these Maltesers.
Ah, what can't they destroy?
This glass is thick.
Goodness me.
Now that was weird.
It went and hit and it looked like it stopped,
and then the Malteser sort of went into itself,
and then it went in more.
Yeah, it was like it, the vase,
it absorbed all the Malteser's power
and just shattered.
I want to see that frame by frame, hold on.
There's one frame in there that looks astonishing.
Or maybe, there, that's the one.
Look at it!
The motion blow on that.
So, we've done a vase.
Right, so we've done a vase.
I thought we could do a vase
but filled with different colored paint.
I just, I feel like you're trying to make
the biggest mess possible.
Yeah.
Three, two, one.
Whoa!
That is a bigger mess than I was expecting.
That is a monster. Look at this tripod.
Oh no!
Whoa, straight through.
The second just doubles it up.
God.
It's amazing how much it went forwards.
Yeah.
That's just blowin' it completely away.
It's like a black hole
would go off on a planet.
Imagine if you hadn't covered the camera
with plexiglass.
So now we've made this giant mess,
let's revisit the ping pong bat,
and get a gnarly exit wound, shall we?
Yeah, see if we can see all the wood flying out the back.
Bet you 10 bucks it goes through.
I'm not taking that bet.
I might put another Malteser in there,
just to see it come through the hole
that we've already made by the Malteser.
That's a good idea.
So it's like, exit wound, and then, hello.
Yeah!
I like that.
Three, two, one.
Whoa!
It just took the bat off.
Bloody hell!
It just removed the bat instead.
Oh, and it went through as well.
It went through too?
I wonder if just the left over air
from the blast.
Oh, it just destroyed it.
Straight through, it's dust.
The other one turned to dust as well.
Oh yeah!
The other one came through the hole,
but it was all, sort of, ripped up,
so it just became nothing also.
And then now the air's blowing it off the handle.
Yeah.
But I think a lot of it is to do with,
on the other turn, it was nailed,
but also, a lot of the paddle was behind the plank,
because it was on the other side
it had less strength in that direction.
So, we've fired through quite a lot of stuff
with Maltesers right?
So far, we've found
that it seems to obliterate on the first hit.
Yeah.
So I thought we could do a test
where we put 3 Maltesers in the chamber,
and have three pieces of glass,
and we see if the first one will smash the first pane,
second one will smash the second pane,
and third on the third.
So we're gonna see if it's like a one to one,
three for three sort of basis?
I'm wondering if we can go bang, bang, bang,
because we know they follow quite soon after.
But here's the thing though, by the third one,
it's gonna be going through the shards and debris
of the first two panes,
so I don't think this one will break.
You don't think it will, that's your prediction?
No, I think this one will definitely,
that one, yeah, no.
Yeah.
Three, two, one.
Oh!
Wow!
Damn it!.
Gone through all three.
Now I wonder, if it will be as I hoped,
where each individual one smashed it's own pane of glass?
That was safety glass.
I know.
You can hear the lovely safety glass popping.
Okay, here's the first one.
Malteser one.
Through the first pane.
Oh, it's just nothin'
Oh come on, come on.
Yes!
Oh it's done it.
Malteser number two.
Where's the third one? Where's the third one?
Is the third one gonna thread the needle?
Oh, here it comes.
Wait, if it shatters beforehand.
It did.
Oh, it shattered beforehand.
The third one's made it through though.
Is it gonna make it through there?
It comes bustin' through.
It's so fast that the tiny shards
of chocolatiness and glassiness
actually destroyed the third pane.
Now what we need to do is load it up with 20,
and get 20 panes of glass.
How many can we get through?
Now we're gonna switch up the camera and the angle
to get some much wider, higher resolution shots
of the destruction, but we've run out of Maltesers.
That's all right, we'll just open another bucket.
Let's do it.
Three, two, one.
I like how all the air has gone in through the hole,
and out through the lid.
So the Malteser went in, smashed it all up,
air filled it, and the lid blew off.
Yeah.
Through the Malteser hole.
You know what I like about pineapples?
Go on.
Pretty much everything, but I would prefer it
if this pineapple was over there and a bit on the wall.
Luckily, we have the perfect contraption for that.
Three, two, one.
Oh!
Have a look at this footage.
This is a perfect example
of why we needed to use the other camera.
Because this is the Malteser.
What?
You caught the frame of it.
The Malteser, apparently, is this long.
So our exposure time here,
is about a three thousandth of a second,
so in one three thousandth of a second,
it moved from there to there.
Goodness me.
It moved that streak.
So it's a good job we got all the other shots
on the first camera.
This is a slow motion camera that can't even see it.
One frame of Malteser.
So this is our pineapple.
Before,
after.
It just looks like someone has taken a big bite out of it,
except it was a Malteser, sort of, sized bite.
If horse took a bite out of it.
Three, two, one.
So, one thing I've noticed while using the Phantom Flex
at, like, 1,600 fps, is that the Malteser is fast as heck.
It's just like one streaky blur.
It's like a streak of, yeah.
So, now we're gonna film it from a standstill
as it accelerates all the way up to the end of the pipe,
and I think for nice scale speed reference,
if you just drop a Malteser at the same time,
so you can sort of see, that's gravity,
and that is how fast that's moving in comparison.
Yeah, so I've got to trigger it and drop at the same time.
Yeah.
I think by the time I've let go,
it will already be out the end.
Yeah, just don't trigger it before you let go.
So I let go and trigger.
All right, cool.
I think I can manage that, yeah.
The thing is, I wonder if you could tell
the acceleration as well, like if it's a small blur here,
and then a faster, bigger blur here?
Should be.
Malteser grabbed.
Right?
Three, two, one.
I hope I timed that right.
It looked like you did.
Yeah.
The Malteser has been released.
Releasing Malteser.
It looks like it's space, doesn't it?
It looks like I'm in space here,
like I've let something go in zero G.
Malteser inside hasn't started moving yet.
I reckon it'll be about there before it does.
Whoa!
Wait, what?
I think I missed it.
Do it again, do it again.
God!
All right, you have to tell me,
because I completely missed it.
Okay, ready?
Yep.
Vroom!
Oh yeah!
So how far did it move when it was dropping there?
A centimeter maybe?
Like from there, to there.
It moved like one length of itself.
So it moved one Malteser.
So in the amount of time it took for it
to get from the beginning to the end of the barrel.
That is a very good speed comparison.
It took one Malteser.
Well Dan, I thought
that was a fantastic amount of destruction.
Made a nice piece of art as well.
As we usually do.
Yeah.
Do you think a Malteser has ever gone that fast?
Absolutely not.
There is no way a Malteser has gone that fast before.
You'd have to, I don't know,
fire it into space or something.
Or just take packet of Maltesers on a plane,
and technically that would be faster wouldn't it?
Okay, fine, fine, I mean, maybe like,
relative to someone else three feet away,
one's never moved faster.
Okay, yeah, all right.
Thanks to Maltesers for sponsoring this video.
Yeah, I always appreciate a company
that let's us advertise their products
by absolutely trashing them.
Always good, yeah.
Until there's none left, it's dust.
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