Bigfoot

These days, even at my old age, I'm still in the toy car loop because of my five-year-old nephew.

He loves the Hot Wheels monster truck toys that feature characters like Bigfoot, Grave Digger, and Mega-Wrex.

They also come in mutant varieties with neon tires, fire and ice versions, and a gold edition.

These Hot Wheels monster truck cars are pretty awesome, and I would have gone crazy for them as a kid.

The first time I did that Penda thing, when I went over the first sets of cars, the thing, we, you never let off the throttle so you, you would, you would hit some pretty, pretty high Gs when you, when your tires landed and you took off, and you would actually kind of fuzz out a little bit.

And I said something to Andy Brass, which was a Bigfoot driver.

He goes, "Oh, that's just normal." And so I kinda went back to my, pulling the funny car days, 'cause you know, we'd, up, the cars were always up in the air and you kinda drove by the seat of your pants.

But your focus would come in [laughs] about the time you got to the second ramp and you were about 60 mile an hour.

And you put a steel or aluminum plate on top of it and you roll the tire up on it, and you can rotate the things around, push it in and stuff.

Yeah.

And um, I mean, Bigfoot, um, uses just some pipes and pushes air in, but that doesn't work too good in the grass.

And then, um-

Yeah.

So tell me, Ricky, you've got Bigfoot, like Bigfoot mobiles there for kids to ride in and all that, and you've got a bounce house.

Talk about everything that's going to be there for the kids.

Oh, you bet.

It was Grave Digger there."

Or Bigfoot there.

[laughs] Yeah, Bigfoot.

There's another one.

Bigfoot's a tire.

[laughs] Okay.

All right.

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they called every monster truck Bigfoot.

Hilarious.

Big- Bigfoot was the baby face of the, of the federation at the time.

Whoa.

And, uh, one of my favorite toys when I was, like, a little kid was the Hot Wheels Bigfoot Crunch Arena.

I, I, I described this on a previous episode where basically you had, like, a piece of tinfoil with a car printed on it, and then you had a plastic car shape, and you would put the tinfoil over the car to...

so that the tinfoil was shaped like a car.

Like, at my school, it, I work at a pretty nice school, and there's parents rolling through in all [laughs] kinds of nice Broncos.

Sasquatch Bronco.

[laughs] Yeah.

And I'm just like, "Oh man, that looks really good."

Well, that's the Aspen Sasquatch Hellcat edition.

[laughs] Yeah.

Yeah.

This one is, like, Outer Banks.

Now, Bob, I know because you were my best friend growing up.

You used to have the blue Bigfoot Power Wheels.

I did.

Just iconic.

Yeah, this guy's on an Indiana roadway.

51-year-old man was pulled over around 9 p.m. when Indiana State Police noticed him driving a blue Power Wheels without lights or reflectors.

Maybe he had the old Bigfoot one that you had, man.

Remember that blue one? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

You had the Bigfoot power wheels, I remember.

I did.

I did.

Yeah, there's added value.

I also think, you know, obviously I don't have my finger on the pulse of all the off-road enthusiasts, but you look at very well-engineered factory setups like Ford's Sasquatch package and all that.

these are much more engineered than like an aftermarket piece.

These are designed to go over a hundred thousand miles.