Monster Wars
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Monster Wars was a syndicated television show featuring United States Hot Rod Association monster truck racing. The show aired for one season in 1993 and 1994, and was the successor to the popular Super Trax. The show was hosted by Lou Ann Lee, with Joe Lowe providing voiceover for races and Jim Davidson as a pit reporter.
The show was controversial within the monster truck community for its use of superhero-style mascots for several trucks. Before individual matchups of trucks, these mascots would often appear on screen, trash talking to one another. These trucks were also given new paint schemes, and in Predator's case, a new body, to match their characters (except for Grave Digger, which was the most popular truck on the show). Many saw the personification of trucks as representing the sport as similar to professional wrestling, and although a toy series and video game followed, the show was cancelled after one season. Interestingly, the champion of the series, Bearfoot, had no mascot.
Trucks with mascots were:
- Grave Digger - Grim Reaper character in a graveyard
- Invader - Alien robot in outer space.
- Predator - Half man-half cat (with the ability to morph into a panther) in an urban back alley
- Equalizer - Traditional superhero in a snowy landscape
- Carolina Crusher - Construction worker in a construction zone
- Taurus - Cowboy in a desert
- First Blood - Vampire in Transylvania (only appeared in roughly half the episodes, as the truck was sold mid-season).
