Poor Buster
as the title says
Death to shakeycam directors!
Traveling over the speed of sound directly into a brick wall, what a way to go.
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I'm going to miss Buster.
If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now.-Loki (Marvel's Avengers)
Oh, and the pogo stick in the broken elevator
Death to shakeycam directors!
That's exactly the way Buster should have gone out. He died doing what he loved.
The idiot formerly known as Heez.
In one of the shots you can see an upward movement of something similar in size to a head. I think that it was more drama than truth, He Lives on in Adams basement for sure!
shareI know Buster has gotten new bodies over the seasons, but has the head always been the same?
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'his face' has been tacked on to numerous bodies as the face was the only thing to survive.
so in the end they seemed to have made a plastic body for buster that would by design disintergrate on impact and the remains where probably just some scrap of the sled.
I would say he had to be made of metal. Plastic wouldn't have sparked like that as he smashed into the wall.
ETA: Fixed typo
plastic sparks ? wtf.
shareFixed the typo.
shareBusters 'shell' might of been plastic but the sled wasn't, also buster probably still had some metal to keep him rigid / fix him to the sled, either way with how they rebuilt him over the years to withstand all the punishment, i reckon they just made a new one that would break up for 'spectacle'.
shareI just thought it was interesting that as soon as his fist hit the wall he just started to disappear in a small shower of sparks. For that to happen there was has to be a ton of energy expended.
shareThey stuck the original Buster's face onto the new Busters at first (like a sort of mask, attached with a cable-tie). That got forgotten after a while and there was none of the original left by the later seasons. ISTR the original's face could be seen occasionally as one of the bits of stuff scattered around in the plan room thereafter.
When they made the second Buster, they originally called that "Buster 2", but eventually every crash-test dummy used then became straight "Buster".