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13 unusual facts about Mad Max


Battlecars

Battlecars is a simple wargame based upon the Mad Max genre of a post-apocalyptic world dominated by aggressive, warring gangs.

Carmageddon

This was signed by SCi in 1995, but the banger-racing angle was soon dropped and for a while the game was to use the Mad Max license.

Clunes railway station

The station, along with parts of the main street, were famously used in the film Mad Max when the bikie crew pick up the Nightrider's coffin.

Deadlands

This game features elements from the Western genre as well as elements from Mad Max-esque post-apocalyptic fiction and, of course, horror.

Dorob National Park

It has been alleged that filming in the park in 2012 for the Mad Max sequel Fury Road caused significant damage to the park's habitat.

Heard 'em All

The video is Mad Max-themed with a huge budget and pyrotechnics involved.

Little River, Victoria

Little River also featured in the movie Mad Max, with Little River Road being used as the movie's infamous "Highway 9".

Melissa Jaffer

She will be playing a role in the upcoming film Mad Max: Fury Road scheduled for release in 2014.

Namaqua chameleon

In 2012, the filming of the Mad Max sequel Fury Road caused significant damage to Namaqua chameleon habitat in Dorob National Park and Namib-Naukluft National Park.

Road Kings

Several prior designs had been tested before Williams settled upon the George Miller directed Mad Max movies as a theme for this machine.

The Slim Dusty Movie

Directed by Rob Stewart (whose credits include 1983's For the Term of His Natural Life) and with cinematograhpy by David Eggby (Mad Max, 1979), the film features Australian landscapes prominently and is essentially a biographical documentary.

Vernon Maxwell

The nickname "Mad Max" was bestowed upon Maxwell by color commentators for his clutch three-point shooting, which reached its pinnacle in the deciding game of the 1994 NBA Finals between Houston and New York.

Wyndham Vale

Wyndham Vale is located close to the site of many original Mad Max scene locations.


Ford XB Falcon

In the movie Mad Max, Mel Gibson's black Pursuit Special was a limited GT351 version of a 1973 Ford XB Falcon Hardtop.

Graeme Brosnan

While at NIDA Graeme studied under such luminaries as George Ogilvie (Mad Max, Bodyline) and George Whalley (On Our Selection, Harp in the South) and worked on Whalley’s Jane Street Theatre production of Waiting for Godot which starred Mel Gibson and Geoffrey Rush.

Hard Truck

A completely different take on the hard truck games, developed by the Russian developer Targem Games, released on June 26, 2006, this game takes place in an apocalyptic, Mad Max-like future.

Joanne Samuel

Joanne Samuel (born August 5, 1957 in Camperdown, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian actress who remains best known for her role as the screen wife of Mel Gibson in the 1979 film Mad Max.

Kawasaki Kz1000

The Kz1000 was also featured heavily in the 1979 movie Mad Max, in which a 1977 Kawasaki KZ1000 was ridden by the Main Force Patrol officer Jim Goose, played by Steve Bisley.

Kenshiro

Now turned into a full-grown adult, Buronson has stated that he based the revised Kenshiro on actor and martial arts legend Bruce Lee and the character Max Rockatansky from the Mad Max series.

According to Buronson, Kenshiro's character design was inspired by the character of Max Rockatansky from the Mad Max film series and martial artist Bruce Lee.

Mel Gibson filmography

Gibson was a part of the Australian film renaissance of the 1970s and 80s, beginning his acting career with a role on TV series The Sullivans, before starring in films, such as: Mad Max (1979).

Mutoid Waste Company

Influenced by the movie Mad Max and the popular Judge Dredd comics, they specialised in organising illegal parties in London throughout the 1980s, driven at first by eclectic assortments of fringe music such as psychedelic rock and dub reggae, but then embracing the burgeoning acid house music movement by the late 1980s.

Steel Monsters

Produced in 1986 and 1987 by Tonka, they were well-made and colorful 3-3/4" figures, each having its own mini-comic. Sub-labeled as "The Only Survivors", they were very reminiscent of the Mad Max genre, with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome coming out the year before.

The Last Continent

It also parodies Australian people and aspects of Australian culture, such as the Crocodile Dundee, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mad Max movies, the Australian beer XXXX, Vegemite, thongs, cork hats, the Peach Nellie, and the popular Australian songs "Waltzing Matilda" and "Down Under".