Putting his insatiable curiosity and nearly unparalleled inventiveness to the test, Adam Savage will take on the biggest and baddest builds of his career.
Episodes
S1 | E1
S1 | E1
Building Iron Man
Adam Savage teams up with a daredevil inventor to build an authentic Iron Man suit that flies and stops bullets just like Tony Stark's.
S1 | E2
S1 | E2
Wheel 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.
S1 | E3
S1 | E3
Mad 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.
S1 | E4
S1 | E4
Forging Excalibur
Adam Savage and a world-class swordsmith team up to forge King Arthur's sword Excalibur, and their investigation could reveal if the legendary blade was made from iron brought to earth by an extraterrestrial visitor.
S1 | E5
S1 | E5
Nitro Explode-aganza
Adam Savage and a demolition expert team up to test one of the most dangerous and explosive substances on the planet, and cutting-edge science and tech will reveal if nitroglycerine really deserves its notorious reputation.
S1 | E6
S1 | E6
Hollywood's Deadliest Weapon
Adam Savage teams up with Oscar-winning actor 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.
S1 | E7
S1 | E7
Dogfight Derby
Adam Savage teams up with Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson to restore a deadly fleet of fighter planes, and using cutting-edge tech, they stage a high-flying dogfight straight out of WWI.
S1 | E8
S1 | E8
Mega Food Fight
Adam Savage teams up with MythBusters pal Tory Belleci to stage the world's most epic food fight, and using the latest science and tech, they build a rapid-fire weapon that turns hot dogs into destructive projectiles.
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