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| Cathy | Henry | FMC engineer | |
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Cathy Rogers How did you get involved with Full Metal Challenge? Well, it started with an ideas meeting at work in which a researcher, Dominic, who might have had too much caffeine, came up with the idea of a new machine show: we would get teams from all over the world to build ultimate combat machines and then we'd drop bombs on them, fire cannons at them, dive them in helicopters — bascially put them to real extremes. We had him admitted to a special hospital but then got thinking about his idea. And FMC is what it evolved into. What was filming FMC like? It was like a summer camp! Well I've never been on a summer camp actually but it's how I imagine one. There's a particular feeling when a huge group of people are living together in a very bizarre place (in our case a power station in Ramsgate) and are all engaged in some shared endeavour. Everyone gets really involved in the process and — well, it's fun in kind of a childish way I suppose. What was your favourite team in FMC? That's naughty isn't it? I mean I should be impartial. Oh, ok then. Well we all loved the Chilean Desert Pumas and we all loved the Chinese Flying Horse team — they both brought such cheer and excitement and a resolute desire to win at all costs. The Russian Bears have the most contagious laughs of anyone I know. And the Law Dawgs are — well what can I say but — pretty darn loveable for cops! What was your favourite vehicle in FMC? I loved the Country Boys' Southern Crusher for its highly deceptive cute appearance, the Washburns' Agrivator for its originality and the Aquaholics' Octopush for the fact that when it arrived I saw it and thought 'What the hell is that? It looks awful!' But I learned to love it through seeing it in action. I guess you shouldn't judge by appearances bla bla ... What was the scariest moment during the filming? Jiang (Chinese Flying Horse) falling off the rollercoaster. Henry talking about his deadly snakes. Keith Country Boys' face when he lost at Sumo. Oh but what am I saying? Of course the chimney of doom was by the far the scariest thing — the heat from that thing when the cars explode. Wow, it could knock your eyeballs out. What car do you drive? Have you modified it at all? A mini. But it's got a mean streak. If George Bush, Kim Il-Sung and Saddam Hussein were competing in FMC in identical vehicles, who would win? Oh, you mean in a new version of the show called Axles of Evil? Ha ha. Well, I think Kim would take it actually hands down — though of course the world would be convinced that Bush had won and Saddam would be disqualified on the start line. Has being involved in FMC changed you Yes. I now know how to say 'there is an elephant in my garden' in eight different languages. | |||
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