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He started the Stamford Santa Fun Run a couple of weekends ago.
He wandered past us as we were walking to the start - I said to my Wife, "that's Colin Furze" and she looked at me, like who the hell is he?
He hung upside down at the start with magnetic boots on and had a Makita powered air-horn with about 5 horns on it.
colin goes caving....
He started the Stamford Santa Fun Run a couple of weekends ago.
DNF?
a Q & A vid
I'm starting to regard the volume of materials he uses for a few 20 minute YouTube videos as a bit excessive. When it was drift trikes and mad fast bumper cars, fair enough but that's tonnes of steel and ply used for the wall of death, and god knows the concrete and other materials needed for the tunnels and underground garage.
It's still great entertainment mind, so I'm quite the conflicted hypocrite. 😊
Yeah, I mean I can't believe he used all those materials, which must be insanely expensive, and didn't do something as basic as overlapping the ply in layers which would have prevented that sketchy pulling apart.
With all the cash thrown at it, it would have been better built outside with a cover to keep it going for future stuff.
must be insanely expensive
He's not paying though. He has 13 million channel followers, so has a massive reach for sponsors and advertisers. The cool duvet thingumy makers will have covered his material costs and a handsome pay cheque too.
I suspect it will be dismantled and the undamaged ply stacked and reused for a future project. The box section steel will get weighed in at the very least, if not used in some other madness.
must be insanely expensiveHe’s not paying though
Oh yeah I know. I meant more that given the cost, you'd think it might have been put together in a way that would avoid missing the fundamentals of ramp building the first time.
He’s not paying though
That wasn't my point really, more basically the carbon cost of tonnes of steel and concrete for a YouTube video.
For a long time I have thought that YouTube/insta etc should pay the content creators based on the carbon footprints of their content.
Flying to the US to review a car? No money.
Flying to just review a planes first class offerings, pffft! You owe us money.
Travelling around the world to see hotels from $1 to $ 1000000 a night? You guessed it (though Mr Beast would be paid more for the charity vids he does).
This isn't a YouTube phenomenon. It's more obvious with Colin's stuff because he shows you the making but virtually all TV is like this. They make loads of stuff that gets binned. Years ago I worked for a company that made sets for adverts. Great for them as they were paid handsomely to make things that only needed to last a day or two for filming. Huge numbers of people involved too, getting driven or flown around, put up in hotels, fed, etc. if anything the YouTubers are leading the way in cutting costs and consequently carbon footprint
The underground garage gets bigger!
His next door neighbour at the very least appears to be been purchased by him - in the videos he’s now freely using their front garden and drive on what looks like a semi permanent basis.
Sadly the house he 'lives in' is empty and has been for yonks. It wouldn't surprise me if he's bought the house next door to avoid aggro. Not sure where he's moved to be he's a local boy so probly somewhere else in Stamford.
If you like Colin Furze you might like an Australian channel called I Did a Thing. He's way less talented, with fewer resources and much more dangerous.
I want one of these
I wonder what happened to @Klunk ? I used to always be amused how they would post in this thread the moment Fuze uploaded a new vid with zero comment, almost as if they felt they needed to replicate the YouTube "Subscribe" button.
He has very understanding neighbours !
furze X pilgrim
He does a little bit about that crossover on his latest garage video. At the end he mentions that he wants to give the wall of death away if anyone is looking for one.