Withh every thing Buster has been thrue...

Watching Mythbusters, i am left wondering, How many "Buster" dummies have they gone thrue, or what has been replace and how many times, if it has stayed at one and only true Buster?

Heh, I remember a fairly early show where they had to rebuild him by making a bunch of new joints and body pieces. I think it's like that old "I've had this axe 25 years!" joke.

J

I am a fairly regular watcher and I believe they completely rebuilt the original one once but did get an entirely new one recently.

aircooled wrote: I am a fairly regular watcher and I believe they completely rebuilt the original one once but did get an entirely new one recently.

thats a myth

Busted!

In that "New Buster" episode, they built mold so they could replace his "body" with new ballistics gel bits, and I believe most of the skelatal structure is modular as well.

Jay wrote: Heh, I remember a fairly early show where they had to rebuild him by making a bunch of new joints and body pieces. I think it's like that old "I've had this axe 25 years!" joke. J

Yeah, Buster's lineage is a whole lot like that thread a while back where there was a lot of discussion about how far you could go before a restoration was no longer a restoration. Buster and Pamela Anderson are neck and neck in the replacement plastic race.

I think the funniest things they have done to him are the exploding pants and the Chinese rocket chair.

I believe Buster has been replaced twice.

Buster 2.0 was substantially rebuilt from Buster 1.0 with cedar wood "bones," aluminum joints, and Dragon Skin.

In the episode where they test if you can ride down a zipline with your jeans, they said Buster 2.0 was retired and replaced with a crash test dummy resembling a mannequin or Simulaid. This is the current Buster.

Buster sure does take quite a beating. The rocket chair was one of the better ones, as was the 'jumping off a building holding plywood' myth, where for the 1st test they just dumped him off of the top of the building.

My favorite was one of the early episodes, where they tested the barrel of bricks on a rope and pulley story.

IIRC all that's left of the original "Buster" after the first rebuild is the face. I can't remember what episode it was but he was recently blown to smithereens and many parts were lost, so there may be an all-new Buster.

Oh I remember, the Exploding Pants myth.

I remember the episode where they tested human bones for the breaking points (it was creepy to know people legally sell human bones!) and then they compared a bunch of different species of wood to find some with similar breaking points.

thrue

Seriously dude. I'm just sayin'.