Savage Builds
Adam Savage combines his insatiable curiosity and nearly unparalleled inventiveness as he attempts to build working, innovative items. Each episode will focus on one project as Adam collaborates with notable experts in their fields, friends, colleagues and others.
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Ep 1Building Iron Man
Adam calls on Richard Browning, the inventor and chief test pilot of the Gravity Jet Suit, which is powered by five 1,000-horsepower mini jet engines, to help get Adam’s titanium Marvel Studios’ Iron Man-inspired suit to fly.
Ep 2Wheel of Death
Adam Savage and a NASA engineer team up to build a rocket-propelled experimental superweapon that could have changed the course of World War II, and using cutting-edge tech, they try to make this notorious engineering failure an explosive success.
Ep 3Mad Max Melee
Adam Savage and genius inventors team up to build a fleet of junkyard vehicles that look straight out of Mad Max, and using scrapyard materials and wicked-smart engineering, they face off to see whose motorized monster packs the most vicious punch.
Ep 4Forging Excalibur
A swordsmith tries to forge the Excalibur and see if the legendary sword was made of iron from somewhere else.
Ep 5Nitro Explode-aganza
Adam Savage and his team determine the danger of nitroglycerine.
Ep 6Hollywood's Deadliest Weapon
Adam Savage teams up with Gary Oldman to build one of Hollywood’s deadliest weapons, the ZF1 Multi-Artillery Gun from The Fifth Element, a weapon so lethal that it features both a rocket launcher and a flamethrower.
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