hello everybody adam savage here and behind me are a bunch of mythbuster props for an
excellent reason they have just spent the last decade traveling around the united states as part
of a science museum exhibit called mythbusters the explosive exhibition and it was a groundbreaking
exhibition it did many things that had never been tried before and i hope you got a chance to see it
because it's over now but unless you get sad just know that now is your chance to add a real piece
of mythbusters history to your house because we are auctioning all of these off through prop store
to benefit the grant imahara steam foundation good objects a good cause what could be better now i am
highlighting some of the specific items on these videos and this one we answered so many different
questions on mythbusters not just the questions of each individual myth but each of those
had sub questions to answer and this mask that i'm holding here answers the question
how do you ask a bunch of volunteers to show up dressed as zombies and shoot them in the face
safely seriously that's what this was for we wanted to do um
gun versus axe which would you rather have in a zombie apocalypse and this is
this i think this exemplifies to me my favorite kind of myth
towards the end of the show completely absurd it's a fictional thing zombies are fictional but
we all kind of agree how they move and the rules of zombies like you gotta shoot them in the brains
and if we do then we can actually test some propositions about zombies right you can't
do harrison ford's fictional rock from raiders because who knows what weight or size it could be
you can't isolate that but with zombies we we have an agreement culturally about how they operate and
so yeah i love the fact that we did this so we wanted to test axe versus shotgun and the issue
we had is for both of them is that in order to incapacitate a zombie you have to shoot it in the
brains or you have to split their brains with an axe so uh i designed an axe that was effectively
a big sponge that had liquid in it that would mark the zombie when i got them so we could see who was
dead and who was not the zombies themselves could feel that they'd been hit we had some green blood
flowing all over the place it was good and gory but with the shotgun that jamie had the question
is how do you shoot someone in the face you can't use nerf gun you can't use anything a zombie is
going to wear safety glasses that's weird and so we had this back and forth and i was like what
if we vacuformed a bunch of uh masks for everybody and jamie thought that would take too much time we
had a big disagreement about it i simply waited for until there was a day that he wasn't in the
shop and i ran down to the vacuformer and threw a thing on it and tried it out and lo reader 060
p-e-t-g my favorite vacuum clear vacuum forming material and these were our zombie masks this
piece up here was to provide it's a little bit of foam and it's provided just a little extra cushion
so that when the paintball hit you on the forehead it didn't transfer through the plastic and hit you
in the forehead yeah just a little bit of a soft spot and the volunteers could all see through the
masks they all looked horrifying through the masks like it's it fit all of our mills so we made about
a hundred of these and i believe that one of the things we gave to our zombie volunteers
wait a minute a carve out here to tip my hat to our zombie volunteers if you are watching this
and you dressed up as a zombie and helped us out during any of our zombie miss i would like to say
thank you our zombie volunteers were just the most amazingly dedicated humans they showed up
in the most horrific makeups with tattered clothes and we've established the zombies are fictional
however i will tell you that when you're standing in an empty warehouse and you have a circle of
zombies that are 25 feet away from you and someone says start the clock and the zombies
start shuffling towards you slowly making their zombies out and you've got an axe or a shotgun
it feels genuinely awful and weird and awesome i mean it's just like an amusement park ride
zombie volunteers you made our experience so much more personal and disgusting and awesome
thank you um and yeah one of the ways we tipped our hat in person was each zombie volunteer got
to keep the mask that we custom made for them and it's really simple pulled plastic over a form
put the foam on the back the x was just a little bit of an aesthetic choice and then a little bit
of elastic and each zombie got to keep their own we ended up with about a half a dozen extra
i kept one i don't know if jamie kept one this is one that you can get and again propstory.com
mythbusters is the address and all proceeds from this auction go to benefit the grant
yamaha steam foundation thank you guys so much and i will see you after the zombie
apocalypse