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Well I read a article in the January 10th 2008 edition "Machine Design" that confirms ALL the Tundra commercials are real and have no fake filming of any kind. Here's the article link. Engineering an ad
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A very good friend of mine does all of the commerical work for Toyota. He is responsible for everything related to the vehicles for commericals, trade shows, etc. The cool thing is I get to hear all of the stories from behind the scenes of upcoming commericals. It would surprise you how many trucks they go through sometimes. He told me they were adamant that the Tundra commercials be true life and based on actual tests. Some of the actual footage would have to be "mocked" such as a close up of action where there was no way to get a camera there.
A very good friend of mine does all of the commerical work for Toyota. He is responsible for everything related to the vehicles for commericals, trade shows, etc. The cool thing is I get to hear all of the stories from behind the scenes of upcoming commericals. It would surprise you how many trucks they go through sometimes. He told me they were adamant that the Tundra commercials be true life and based on actual tests. Some of the actual footage would have to be "mocked" such as a close up of action where there was no way to get a camera there.
Pass on those stories to us, we will be glad to hear them!
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Billy Bob, Where did you get Machine Design, I read it all the time and have for 30 years. Cool. Machinist by trade. Make the machines that make Tatter Tots. Run and program a CNC mill. Idaho Steel Products
Do you guys think the copycat Ford commercial was as effective??? Physically it is possible to stop any amount of weight with any car/truck, it's the distance it takes to stop that matters... Ford didn't say how far it took to stop the aircraft. Horray for Toyota keepin' it real.
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Brent, the one he referred to was the close up angle of where the I beam passed in front of the grille. Naturally the camera would have been destroyed if it were really there, so they did a slow pass of the I beam in front of the grille in order to get that one quick look, which was a simulation of what actually occurred, so it wasn't "faked" as some might be led to believe.
Some of the stories some Tundra owners might not like hearing..lol. Such as he pretty much destroys every bed that something is put into, not that that is any surprise though for most truck commercials.
One of my favorites was when he told us the story about the Loch Ness Monster Tacoma commerical. Some of you probably remember seeing that one over the past year. Guys kickin' it on the bank, Loch Ness Monster grabs Tacoma and takes it under the water, fighting ensues under the water where then the Tacoma comes flying out of the water to the bank.
Originally they wanted to actually go to Loch Ness to film it. To cut costs, they decided on Lake Casitas. Some of you SoCal fresh water fisherman might be familiar with Deep Cat and Airport at Casitas. This was filmed between the two. To make a long story short, my friend had to go around the state and buy every red four door Tacoma 4x4, which in total was something like 21 I believe. A tractor trailer flat bed was anchored in the water with an air-charged ram acting as the launching device. Turns out they obliterated 4 or 5 Tacomas just trying to get them to blast out from the water. Then another 4-5 more on the landing once they figured out how to get them to shoot out of the water in one piece. From what I was told this was a costly shoot because nothing seemed to work right, and then they had to scour the bottom of the lake picking up truck parts that got blown off the trucks on the launching.
The riding the rails Tundra commercial which was the last one of the series was quite challenging I guess. First they had the fans on both sides, but it didn't simulate hurricane force winds because the pressure was even on both sides. They then went to the one side. My friend told me the stunt drivers were getting the pucker factor about driving on those thin rails so high off the ground. I'm probably not supposed to say this, but according to what I was told, they installed railroad clickers on the inside of the suspension so the driver could hear when he was getting off center of the rails, which makes some sense in reality because apparently it would have been very easy, and catastrophic in the event the driver couldn't realize where he was on those skinny rails at high speed.
Billy Bob, Where did you get Machine Design, I read it all the time and have for 30 years. Cool. Machinist by trade. Make the machines that make Tatter Tots. Run and program a CNC mill. Idaho Steel Products
A friend of mine subscribes to the magazine and he was very impressed with my truck when we went for firewood. He works for CONAX TECHNOLOGIES in the Buffalo area.
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Horray for Toyota keepin' it real. 
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