- Hello, I'm Gav. - I'm Dan.
And welcome to the final episode of "Planet Slow Mo."
I feel like it'd be a crime if we didn't go out with a bang.
Well, how about multi-colored bangs?
- I like it. - Yeah. Strong.
Today, we're in Bastrop, Texas.
Yeah, we thought we'd have a celebratory episode
after being bombarded by some online video.
Something called daytime fireworks.
Just looks like giant plumes of colored powder shooting up.
So, essentially what's happened is
someone's seen our airbag powder paint video
and thought that looks amazing.
Let's copy it and make it better.
Yeah, that's how it happened. They copied us.
- Yeah. - Now, the video we saw
was at a speed that was enjoyable by the human eye
but we're shooting ours in super slow-mo.
So, we're gonna set ours off much much faster.
I'll show you what we mean.
Daniel, explain to us how on Earth this works.
This is a firework cake.
And each cake is full of tubes.
And each tube has one of these little wads in.
And now there's a little charge underneath the wad.
On top of the wad is our colored powder.
When we initiate it, it fires the wad up
and the powder comes out about 140 miles an hour.
Each one has 25 individual tubes.
And we have 60 of them.
That's a total of 1500 individual tubes.
And they're all gonna go off in less than half a second.
Might be kinda tricky
to do it with a little lit fuse here
running along with a lighter.
So we're gonna do it electronically with these
and a little sort of radio controlled thing.
I think we should set up the Phantom.
Yep.
Well, here we are.
We're stood in front of the entire 40 yard run.
We've been told that to propel the paint up
there's actually six or so feet of just white smoke.
So in order to see the color,
we've gone pretty wide on the shot.
Look at that head room. ( laughs )
Not often you need that much head room for one of these.
Are you gonna try a jump?
I'm gonna do a little jump.
I'm not sure how good it's gonna be.
- I might be distracted, but-- - Okay.
- Yeah. - I might just do a cool pose.
- All right. - Like, I can't do that.
I don't know how a cool pose looks.
So I'll just-- I'll figure it out.
We know this already. Are you ready?
- Yes. - You got your pose ready?
- Yep. - Okay.
Everyone ready?
Man: Ready.
Three, two, one, fire.
Bugger!
That is amazing!
I love how many explosions there were in the air.
It was like three, two, one. I went like this...
Nothing happened. I came back down,
they went off and I went...
I knew that that was gonna happen.
So I waited. I was like...
- Did you feel the heat from it? - Yeah!
I was like I feel like my legs were singed almost but they weren't.
- I'm fine. - That was mental.
That was wicked.
- Listen to that. - Oh, that one didn't go off.
- I'd stay away from that. - Neither did these.
Oh, the blues didn't go off either.
- Ugh! - All right.
- Okay. - Well I think we've got enough for one more run.
- Okay. - But first, let's have a look at the footage.
Okay, so it's clear that some didn't go off.
Thankfully our high speed footage can tell us exactly what happened there.
Okay, so, it was meant to start this end with the yellow.
But the ones right behind me decided to go off.
These are going off.
You know that smoke is a lot higher than six feet.
- Dan:
Dan:
Gav:
And blue's my favorite color.
So we have to do it again.
Dan:
All right, how about this? Instead of just standing in place or jumping,
why don't we just peg it?
- Just run. - Absolutely leg it.
Well that'll be really cool 'cause it'll show us
exactly how quickly it's going up.
- 'Cause we'll probably not be moving. - Yeah.
- You ready to run? - Yep.
Okay, so we're gonna have a delay.
So, it should-- we should be ahead of it
- and then it will overtake us. You ready? - Okay.
- Yeah. - Let's do it. Okay, we're ready.
Yeah.
Go!
( screaming )
- Duck. - Whoa!
- Ooh! - Whoa!
Gav: Dan.
Dan: Chill out.
- That was warm. - That was warm.
Did they all go off? These ones didn't.
Oh, all these did, though. Look.
Oh, that's sweet.
- You hear the sizzle. - Yeah. Oh, that's a nice sound.
Those didn't go off.
It's weird 'cause the fuses must not go off on some of them.
All of these went off so it's just the ones at the end
that didn't go off.
- That was pretty scary. - Let's get a look at that footage.
Where were we do you think when it caught up?
I think we were quite far, actually.
I reckon I wanna say about here.
- ( laughs ) - Hang on.
I wanna say like we were here.
- You could feel the wave of heat rush past. - Yeah.
- It was quite nice actually. - I think I was just screaming the whole time.
How expensive would it be to have that
as, oh, I'm feeling a bit chilly.
- Very expensive. - Should we sell some of these?
Okay, let's play it. Look at us sort of small down there.
Teensy.
- Gav:
I feel like a lot of the time when we're doing stuff like this,
we always cover each other up. So give it some--
give it a bit of distance, a gap there.
( music playing )
It went pretty quickly, actually.
I thought we were further ahead than that.
Wow! Look at that.
That's wicked.
Oh, I was right, it was about the blue.
Gav:
I like all these little flayed out bits.
Madness.
These are cool.
What a surreal looking shot.
Look at those colors. That's wicked.
It's kind of weird how the green color
like they have the explosions still in the air.
Instead of a big sort of rainbow mushroom cloud,
it looks like a rainbow volcano.
Dan:
Gav:
Dan:
Gav:
It looks like the Muppets dropped a nuke.
( laughs )
That is the prettiest cloud I've ever seen.
Dan:
Gav:
That was really exhilarating to run next to.
You're telling me.
I was slightly closer than you were.
I was like have I got some singed leg hairs here?
- Yeah. - No, I think I'm all right.
Wouldn't wanna be any closer.
Probably not.
Well, that is the smell of success I think.
Carnage, I would say.
That was such an insane moment in time.
- It was wicked. - Like when all the cloud was together in the air.
So it only lasted a few seconds
- and then it blows away. - It looked like--
- Oh, we should probably put that out. - Oh, goodness.
This is fully on fire.
- Give it a little squirt. - Oh!
I think we're good.
Well, I thought that was a lovely fitting end to "Planet Slow Mo."
We ended up back in Texas where we started.
That was insanely colorful.
Hopefully you enjoyed the series.
Feel free to subscribe to the Slow Mo guys
and check out all the previous episodes.
What we made.
Should we go and clear up that massive mess?
- Yeah, all right, probably should. - I'll get a rake.