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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for kids!
My 12 year old, science-minded son and I love this show. It's a great introduction to applying science, math and technology to real-world problems in innovative ways. It teaches creative problem solving and the reality that not all innovative ideas work. We wish there were more.
Published on October 21, 2008 by Always Learning
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Wants to be Mythbusters
The cast wants to be a mythbuster but they continuously make silly and stupid mistakes. The create a small house to see what happens when a tornado/hurricane hits. (They fail to secure the building to the ground and the house gets blown away. They are testing the strength of a 2x4 versus a 2x4 wrapped with carbon fiber... their testing is conducted by the four of them...
Published 3 months ago by Peter Obrien
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Wants to be Mythbusters,
This review is from: Smash Lab Season 1, Vol. 1 (DVD)
The cast wants to be a mythbuster but they continuously make silly and stupid mistakes. The create a small house to see what happens when a tornado/hurricane hits. (They fail to secure the building to the ground and the house gets blown away. They are testing the strength of a 2x4 versus a 2x4 wrapped with carbon fiber... their testing is conducted by the four of them standing on the board... the regular 2x4 snaps with the three guys and the girl standing on the guys feet. The carbon fiber covered 2x4 doesn't snap but the 4 of them are lined up and the weight is distributed differently.How do you make a house wild fire proof? You wrap it in a fire retardent material like the stuff worn by nascar drivers... the stuff works... except when you leave the frayed edges exposed to heat... they light up... duh... stupid bad science spelled the doom for this show.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible, don't waste your time.,
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This review is from: Smash Lab Season 1, Vol. 1 (DVD)
This show was cringe-inducingly bad. The lack of chemistry between the co-hosts is overcompensated for with either awful writing or awful adlibbing. They make glaring mistakes from an engineering and scientific stand-point and it just doesn't work. They're trying too hard to be MythBusters or something. I'm definitely happy this show got canned. It was insulting of Discovery to think that people would enjoy this tripe.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for kids!,
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This review is from: Smash Lab Season 1, Vol. 1 (DVD)
My 12 year old, science-minded son and I love this show. It's a great introduction to applying science, math and technology to real-world problems in innovative ways. It teaches creative problem solving and the reality that not all innovative ideas work. We wish there were more.
2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
One of the worst shows on television...,
By Jordan Lund "Jordan" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Smash Lab Season 1, Vol. 1 (DVD)
Let me be frank here... there's only one reason to watch this show... If you want to see vague pseudo-scientific solutions to non-existent problems fail in spectacular ways.
That's it. The producers of this show took real world problems then saddled their cast with "solving" them by applying unworkable solutions. It was almost like I could feel IQ points being forcibly sucked from my body every minute as I watched this show. The second season got better because they allowed the cast to come up with their own solutions instead of pre-assigning one. But still... Terrible show. |
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Smash Lab Season 1, Vol. 1 by Chuck Messer (DVD - 2008)
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