Purple Panda and her father with the Team Muse pumpkin capsule: basically, a big cardboard box on the outside, a ten-pound pumpkin in a smaller cardboard box on the inside, and lots of popcorn in between.
Same shot, with Purple Panda and Robert.
After hours of waiting in cold wind and rain, the big moment arrived. On the roof of West Virginia University’s 11-story engineering building, Pan used a rake-like pusher to shove the capsule into free fall.
The capsule smacked down near the target intact, and the ground crew went to work extracting the pumpkin. For a few anxious seconds, we feared that our elaborate packaging would cause them to exceed the 30-second time limit, but they made it.
Alas, the news was bad: our pumpkin had not survived. The capsule wound up in the debris pile along with about 80 percent of the other entrants’ devices.
After a hot lunch at Applebee’s, we drove north to the fabled hamlet of Muse, Pennsylvania, where Pan filmed everything.
WHY CAN”T I SEE THEM?????????
Sorry! I uploaded the captions first. The pictures should be there now.
oh nevermind! there they are!
Aww, too bad it didn’t make it. But still! Pushing pumpkins off buildings! *envy*
Hehehe! That was so awesome.
that looks awesome! wish I could have been there! mayhaps we can try again next year and make it?
Wow! I would soooooooooo liked to have been there… the Midwest is pretty boring compared with the East Coast.
Ooh, ooh, ooh! Fun, fun. You’re all REAL PEOPLE! *wishes I could make it* I can’t wait to see the rest!
Phooey. And it rained too. Anyway, who else was there? I can’t see anyone but panda in the pictures….
They should have a pie drop…
Red-tailed HAWK
I wish I could have gone. Alas, there were other things to do. *sigh*
8~ Of course we’re real people! Didn’t you see the Kokonvention pictures?
10-Yes, I did. I know you’re real people, too. Really. Still, it’s always exciting to see, I don’t know, evidence…? It’s just fun to see musebloggers. (No, I’m not a stalker…)
I wonder why it didn’t work……..
purple panda isn’t purple????????????????