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Building Iron Man

Episode number: 1

Overview: Adam calls on Richard Browning, the inventor and chief test pilot of the Gravity Jet Suit, which is powered by five 1,000-horsepower mini jet engines, to help get Adam’s titanium Marvel Studios’ Iron Man-inspired suit to fly.

Wheel of Death

Episode number: 2

Overview: 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.

Mad Max Melee

Episode number: 3

Overview: 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.

Forging Excalibur

Episode number: 4

Overview: A swordsmith tries to forge the Excalibur and see if the legendary sword was made of iron from somewhere else.

Nitro Explode-aganza

Episode number: 5

Overview: Adam Savage and his team determine the danger of nitroglycerine.

Hollywood's Deadliest Weapon

Episode number: 6

Overview: Adam Savage teams up with 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.

Dogfight Derby

Episode number: 7

Overview: Adam Savage teams up with Peter Jackson to restore a fleet of fighter planes. Using cutting-edge technology, they stage a high-flying dogfight straight out of World War I.

Mega Food Fight

Episode number: 8

Overview: Adam Savage teams up with Tory Belleci to stage the world’s most epic food fight. Using the latest science and technology, they build a rapid-fire weapon that turns hot dogs into projectiles.