If you know of the Mythbusters (and I’m sure you do), you almost certainly know of Grant Imahara. What you may not know is that in addition to his time on the show, he’s also worked for Lucasfilm’s Home THX division, as well as for Industrial Light and Magic. He’s credited on a number of films, including Jurrassic Park: The Lost World, the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. He has additionally competed on the televisionseries BattleBot, with his robot Deadblow.
Grant will be giving us a ring at 4:00PM, so make sure to be watching, and have your questions ready to go!
Team Edison or team Tesla?
What is your favorite explosion ever on Mythbusters?
So Grant, on the matter of TV, what do you watch on the tube/web.
What is the best myth you have ever put to the test?
Dear Grant,
Do you have any plans to upgrade your robot skeleton, Geoff Peterson, any further?
If you had to build a Bus Themed Battlebot, what weapons would it have?
Dear DR Grant,
Did you watch Top Gear, play Minecraft and get pig?
Have you and Jamie ever battled your bots at M5 Industries?
What is your favorite thing to do when not working?
Note: When you did the snow plow splitting a car at MGA Research you worked with my brother.
What has been your favorite robot or contraption you’ve made for Mythbusters?
Dear Grant Imahara:
How much longer until your robots take over the world?
What’s your favorite episode of MythBusters?
Most esteemed Dr. Grant,
What was the first robot you ever built?
Bonus question: How difficult would it be to make a robot that can drive a bus between Vegas and Tuscon?
What was the craziest/weirdest myth you failed to bust?
Dear Grant, how come you don’t do myth with Adam and Jamie anymore?
Dear Dr. Grant,
Who cleans up the fields after the massive explosions? Or are there still truck parts lying around California?
Grant, if you could rid the world of one vegetable, which would it be?
What was the biggest “Oh Shit” moment (IE when something that utterly and completely wrong) that you experienced while working on Mythbusters?
What first got you interested in robotics?
What movie, one you’ve worked on or not, is your favorite in terms of technical movie magic and why?
Dear Grant.
Have you considered testing the myth that is going around, that, if you invite me onto Mythbusters, I will do, and/or say, something embarrassing? I suggest just going full-scale: fly me over to San Francisco and see what happens
Were you really lying about building a robot girlfriend? If no, how’s the relationship going?
what do you think of autonomous open-source robotics?
some of them can fold towels now, is that just the first step in a bigger plan.
Is there anything that you can’t get the old sword swinging rig to do, I think I have seen that thing show up so many times I lost count?
Dear Grant: not a question, just *SQEEEEEEE*
Dear Dr.Robot Master Grant
What is the most unexpected result you have gotten while testing a myth? ,
also will we see the return of the decapitation hazard sword swinging robot?
Do you happen to know what Mythbusters/Discovery does with their older,
slightly exploded high speed cameras when they are retired?
(Graham: Nudge nudge, wink wink)
Dear Grant,
Adam and Jamie destroyed my dreams of having a Batman style grapple gun, and I am holding you partially responsible >:(
How shall you make it up to me and my fellow potential Batmen/Batgirls?
Have you ever built any flying robots? Something built onto a RC helicopter or plane, I mean.
(on a more serious note)
What would you say is the most shocking result you’ve ever gotten out of a myth?
Dear Grant,
I live in Australia, where bushwalkers are (as you may know) plagued by drop bear attacks. These drop bears are vicious, carnivorous relatives of the koala that wait for unsuspecting hikers to pass by below, drop onto their heads and savagely attack them. One of my best friends lost his scalp to a drop bear attack. I want to know if drop bears a) can really be repelled by the smell of Vegemite, and b) will really be impaled if you hold a pointy object (a fork, a knife, a screwdriver) above your head when it attacks. Please examine these myths on Mythbusters.
Hey I’m a High school student with an interest in Engineering and Robotics. Do you have any advice for me? Thanks Btw Hi Kathleen
Are you still doing stuff for FIRST this year?
Dear Dr.Grant,
Bronies?
If so, which pony is your favorite?
Sincerily, The Herd.
Is it a Myth that Ponies can fly?
Y U NO JAMIE?
What is the most disastrous myth you’ve done that never made it onto the show?
Dear Grant.
Has there been times when working with Torry, that you have felt scared for you or his life?
Where did you hear of Desert Bus?
Is there any chane you will complete your robot army this year, and we shall see the Imahara regime?
Favorite thing that got blown up on Mythbusters? (please say the cement mixer)
Are there any myths that don’t get show on TV?
Dear Dr. Grant,
Are you still Mentoring with FIRST Robotics? If so, Hello from Team 74!
Dear Dr. Grant,
Out of all of the things you have not blown up yet, what would you most like to blow up?
No question from me just More Explosions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it a myth that DB5 Will reach the $500,000 dollar? (considered that we are twice as high as last year at this point…)
Grant,
Are you a Loading Ready Run fan?
Dr. Emeritus Grant: Battlebots or Robot Wars?
Do you have a Favorite Super Hero?
Who is he/she?
Are you the reason the ending of Matrix Revolutions was so unsatisfying? I hope you aren’t, but you’re the only member of the production crew I’ve tracked down yet.
Dr. Grant
I remember that Jamie had issues with testing Airplane on a Conveyor Belt because he thought it was unnecessary. Are there any myths that you have felt didn’t need to be tested?
Dear Dr. Grant, what’s been the most unexpected result you’ve seen on the show?
Are there any Myths that you’ve wanted to bust, but couldn’t do it on the show for some reason?
Dear Grant,
Can you build a Desert Bus robot to auction off on Desert Bus for Hope 6 next year?
Have you ever worked with Octopuses? if so what did you do?
Dear Dr. Grant,
What’s your favorite way to donate to Child’s Play?
Dear Dr. Grant,
Does Mythbusters need help from a software developer?
Dear Lord Graham Imahara,
What are the most interesting facts learned in the course of busting myths?
Dear Dr. Grant,
What’s your favourite movie you’ve ever worked on?
Dear Dr. Grant,
Like Bill Nye before you, Mythbusters is inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers. How do you feel about this?
Dear Grant,
Have you seen daily drop? Why haven’t you done a cross over with LRR
Dear Grant,
What is your favorite kind of explosives?
-Kate
Have you ever done somthing with your stuffy…..tecy……gerrrrrrr………that you wish you did not?
Dear Grant
why still no adam and jamie mechs? we all know u can do it ant it would be awesome. so whats the hold up?
Azaze243
Dear Doctor Robo-Cop Grant: What robot (that you built) are you most proud of?
Dear Professor Grant,
How does it feel to be part of a very popular show like Mythbusters, which seems to be an important part of nerd culture at this point? And what are your feelings on explosions?
Dear Dr. Grant,
Of all of the movies you have worked on, which had the most difficult special effect to pull off, and which scene was it?
Thanking you! I’m a big fan!
Was there ever a time when you were really afraid that you’ll get hurt during Mythbuster?
Could you make more excuses to blow things up? Preferably big things? With more explosives?
Dear Dr. Grant,
Are you going to do any more building for the Late Late Show?
Do you interact with Craig a lot?
Any Myths that you Have Wanted To Test, but haven’t been able to?
Dear Dr. Professor King Emperor of Contemporary Sciences et. al, Grant:
Is Jamie’s mustache prehensile?
Dear Super Professor Lord of Mythbusting Dr. Grant,
Has anyone who has met you in real not recognise you and were rude to you?
By the way your super amazing
Dear Dr. Grant,
How would you go about creating a combustible lemon?
Sincerely,
Aperture Science Tech Division
What is your take on the phenomenon that Mythbusters seem to have made explosions comedic
What’s it like working for Mythbusters?
How many cameras get busted in a series of Mythbusters?
If you had to choose between only doing explosions or crashing things into other things for the conclusion of every experiment, which would you choose?
Dear Dr. Grant. How many fans/watchers get furious at the show and send in hate spam?
favorite improvised mythbusters projectile?
Will you ever try anything with combustible Lemons on the show?
Dear Dr. Grant,
Purely hypothetical situation here, if I wanted to raise an army of not-at-all-real undead zombies who do not exist, how would I go about unrealistically doing this? Purely hypothetical, I do not have a secret lair in a volcano, no need to be alarmed.
are you prepared for the zombie Apocalypes?
Do you have a degree or degrees in something like electronic engineering or any other field?
So what happened with the RFID myth?
Dr. Grant,
Do you have a favorite w00tstock story to share with us?
Good day Dr Grant.
Do you see the movie industry swinging back from CGI to real props that actors can interact with?
Dear Dr. Grant,
What’s your opinion of Bill Nye?
Dear Dr. Grant: Do you know what DFTBA stands for? NERDFIGHTERS!
Has anyone ever been seriously injured while testing a myth?
Dear Dr. Grant, Do you see yourself as a brony?
Are there any myths you haven’t been allowed to do? Anything too gross for television or that the insurance wouldn’t let you do at all?
Who is your favorite pony?
Have you done, or will you be doing a desert bus related myth?
Dear Grant, Do you play any nerdy games such as D&D or Magic The Gathering?
Hello Grant.
I just wanted to ask, and this has been asked quite often on your forums I guess.
Are you ever going to test a Formula 1 car driving upside down?
Dear Dr. Grant,
Have you ever done anything for the show you truly regret?
Dear Dr. Grant, how long did it take to build Geoff Peterson the robot for Craig Ferguson?
Can you trebuchet someone into the pacific ocean and they can survive?
Dear Dr. Grant,
Who is your favorite pony?
Dear Dr. Grant: East Bay or SF? (Please say East Bay; I grew up in Albany and still get excited every time I see the Bone Room on the show.)
Would you ever use FOOF?
You sometimes have to speak lines in a rather… cheesy manner on the show. Does that bother you?
Dear Dr Grant: #TeamAshton or #TeamKroze?
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