Undertaker's Lighting Bolt effects

[Taker666 0]

I often wonder how the WWE does the Lighting Bolts Speical effect during Undertaker's segment. We saw it countless times. during Taker's Judgment Day entrance, When Heyman called out Taker after the great american bash, and last week on SD!. I always thought that they do the explosion pyro live and add the thunder bolts effects digitally. But I'am not to sure. They always look pretty cool.

[Use Your Illusion 0]

Duh, Taker has magic powers, idiot.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

What part is confusing to you? The string of lights or the pyro?

[Guest MikeSC]

Are you implying that he CAN'T really throw out lightning bolts out of his hands at will?

-=Mike

[ChrisMWaters 0]

If Taker really had the powers, I could almost picture him having lightning strike beer cans to open them up.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

If Taker really had the powers, I could almost picture him having lightning strike beer cans to open them up.

Who wouldn't use supernatural powers for that? That lightning bolt power also comes in handy when you have to jump start your car.

[Guest MikeSC]

If he had those powers, would he settle for his horse-faced wife?

 

I mean, really people.

-=Mike

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

I think it's required that bikers have ugly wives.

[Guest MikeSC]

I think it's required that bikers have ugly wives.

Not superhuman bikers who can throw lightning around like a baseball...

-=Mike

[ChrisMWaters 0]

I think it's required that bikers have ugly wives.

Not superhuman bikers who can throw lightning around like a baseball...

-=Mike

See, that's part of the curse of his powers.

 

She's the second piece of the puzzle for his powers. The Urn and her are what keep Undertaker with the ability to sit up and such.

[Guest MikeSC]

I think it's required that bikers have ugly wives.

Not superhuman bikers who can throw lightning around like a baseball...

-=Mike

See, that's part of the curse of his powers.

 

She's the second piece of the puzzle for his powers. The Urn and her are what keep Undertaker with the ability to sit up and such.

Man, we're flushing out his character in better ways than the writers.

-=Mike

...How do we explain his fondness for Limp Bizkit? The shittiness of the music depresses his powers so he does not explode?...

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

Fred Durst and the Undertaker were in the same meeting with Satan for their careers and became friends.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

I think it's required that bikers have ugly wives.

Not superhuman bikers who can throw lightning around like a baseball...

-=Mike

See, that's part of the curse of his powers.

 

She's the second piece of the puzzle for his powers. The Urn and her are what keep Undertaker with the ability to sit up and such.

Man, we're flushing out his character in better ways than the writers.

-=Mike

...How do we explain his fondness for Limp Bizkit? The shittiness of the music depresses his powers so he does not explode?...

Eh, he just liked the song.

 

Remember, he had Kid Rock before he had Limp Bizkit.

[Guest MikeSC]

Fred Durst and the Undertaker were in the same meeting with Satan for their careers and became friends.

Then why did Taker and Hunter not get along? HHH HAD to be at that meeting, too.

-=Mike

...Does this also mean that Taker and Ben Affleck are BFF?

[Guest MikeSC]

I think it's required that bikers have ugly wives.

Not superhuman bikers who can throw lightning around like a baseball...

-=Mike

See, that's part of the curse of his powers.

 

She's the second piece of the puzzle for his powers. The Urn and her are what keep Undertaker with the ability to sit up and such.

Man, we're flushing out his character in better ways than the writers.

-=Mike

...How do we explain his fondness for Limp Bizkit? The shittiness of the music depresses his powers so he does not explode?...

Eh, he just liked the song.

 

Remember, he had Kid Rock before he had Limp Bizkit.

That certainly doesn't help his case.

-=Mike

...Is UT a wrestler, or a whore?...

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

He's jealous that HHH got the better deal.

[Guest Gary Busey]

I think the lightning bolts are thin metal wires with some sort of special coating on them. They are ignited at one end by some sort of electronics, and the chemicals on them quickly burn away in a flash.

 

Edit: They aren't digital, because he was doing it around 97/98, before they had the money for special effects.

[Guest LooneyTune]

They've been doing the lightning for nearly a decade. They had the lightning strike his grave at Buried Alive (October 1996) IIRC.

[Gary Floyd 0]

How do those lighting bolt effects work? Simple, he's related to this guy

[Guest Just Looking]

*marks out*

[Guest Quik]

Two words: Tom Savini.

[what 0]

Are you implying that he CAN'T really throw out lightning bolts out of his hands at will?

-=Mike

Well, his duh bestest restler alltime!

 

-Taker666

[Ravenbomb 0]

If Taker really had the powers, I could almost picture him having lightning strike beer cans to open them up.

All he needs is a Delorian and a flux capacator and he's in business.