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Shelby, Montana Thunderstruck II Premier

Posted on August 5, 2011 by in Events, News

Shelby, Montana will be rocking simultaneously with the Missoula Show as Doc Shawn Nesbo hosts THUNDERSTRUCK II, The HIGHLINE at the Alibi Lounge in Shelby. Watch the monster sleds of Team Thunderstruck rattle the walls at the Lounge and enjoy a wonderful evening of fun afterwards!

Also, The Big Easy in BOISE, IDAHO will host a public Premiere of Thunderstruck II next Saturday, September 20:

Saturday night, September 20th, at 6:00pm Team thunderstruck has RENTED BOISE’S PREMIER PARTY HOUSE, The Big Easy, for a HUGE night of food, fun, TSII on the big screen, and 4 hours of dancing and partying afterwards!! This night will be huge!!

Doors open at 6:00pm for dinner. Around 7:30 pm we’ll introduce the riders and throw out a ton of awesome prizes from COOL companies like KLIM, FLY RACING, SOBE, BIG SKY XTREME, and perhaps a few local companies!!

Around 8:00pm we’ll throw down the COOLEST INTRO EVER to a sled film!!! If logistics go right in the next day or two, 13th STEP will play the intro to TSII LIVE over the FILM!!! Then, they’ll relax with us as we watch the next 55 minutes of the movie. Then, 13th Step will take to the stage for 45 minutes of FREAK music before the BIG EASY DJ takes over and plays dance and hip-hop and top 40 alternative for the rest of the night!! Remember, the 13th Step thing is in the works but it’s looking good right now!!

If they cannot make the 20 hour trek, we’ll start the show with the original TSII intro!!!!

All else will go as planned and this night will be a night to never forget!! Bring your cameras, bring your adrenaline, bring your dancing shoes. Lots of vendors and big names people will be on hand to chat before and after the show!! (Including some OAKLAND RAIDERS and DENVER BRONCOS!!)

Special thanks to SnoWest and Steve Janes for coming to the premiere in Helena and allowing me to put up this notice on their awesome forum!

Tickets on sale this week at local sled shops and at The Boise Snow Show at the Thunderstruck Booth and several others to be announced!

Only $5.00 to play!!!

- September 9, 2003

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Premier Thunderstruck II in Missoula, MT

Posted on August 5, 2011 by in Events, News

Team Thunderstruck will be visiting Missoula, Montana on Friday, September 12th to Premier Thunderstruck II simultaneously on 2 huge theater screens! TWO shows will be screened…first at 5:30pm and again at 8pm. Several of the riders will be on hand, door prizes will be given away, cash drawings will be held, and videos and other Team Thunderstruck products will be available for purchase and autographing if you so desire.

Tickets are available at the door for $5 per person. Go to the St Patrick Hospital Conference center, located at the south end of the hospital complex at 500 West Broadway in Missoula. Door prizes are being sponsored by Fabcraft Aftermarket Snowmobile Products, High Country Mini Motors (Arctic Cat dealer), Sages Performance, Western Power Sports, plus other local merchants. Afterwards, plan to join the crowd down at the Microbrew festival, then off to one of Missoula’s fine evening establishments!

- August 21, 2003

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Thunderstruck 2 Coming Soon

Posted on August 5, 2011 by in News, Videos

Wow. That says alot for Team Thunderstruck these days. Since I last updated the news updates much has changed! Let’s run down a few things:

First, I finished editing the new film, Thunderstruck II. With an amazing new soundtrack, better editing, better filming, better riders, and awesome footage, this film is an honor for me to produce. And with the amazing pre-order response and awesome internet reviews the film has received I couldn’t be happier! Thanks to all you who support our riders and our film and we hope you meet us at one of the many snow shows we will be attending this winter.

Second, I had an enclosed trailer FULL of films, both DVD and VHS, arrive in my driveway on Saturday, August 16th. Team Thunderstruck hillclimber’s Doug Anderson and Wes Little and Doug’s lovely wife Tracy pulled the enclosed from Utah just in time for our huge premiere kick-off event in Helena. We had a huge BBQ before the Premiere at my house where all the riders showed up and reminisced and just had a blast! Then, off to the premiere where we packed the Myrna Loy Theater in Helena with 400 excited fans. With almost 1500 horsepower parked on stage, Wade Durbin from FLY RACING and I threw prizes and freebies out to the crowd. The movie went on at 7:15pm and it was an absolute riot! Thanks to all who came and joined us in the celebration.

Next came FILLING orders! All day Sunday, Monday and Tuesday we invoiced, billed, packed and shipped thousands of films to make sure those who ordered had them before this weekend! What a fun job!

Finally, about the DVD. There are special sections on the DVD that can only be accessed with a little bit of work. Also, Fabcraft, Cutler’s, Van Amburg, Western Power Sports, and Highmark Recreation all have special films dedicated to them under the sponsor section. Under the “Extras” section the Avalanche link does not work but if you go to DISPLAY on your remote, hit Title 10, you’ll enter into the audio-only Avalanche Story. Also, witness the new Acid Lake music videos and a few movie trailers.

We are looking forward to a fun fall with more premieres, public showings, snow shows and the like. Next is a whirlwind trip to Haydays in Minnesota so look for the Team Thunderstruck riders to answer any questions you might have! See you there!

- August 21, 2003

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Spring Riding 2003

Posted on August 5, 2011 by in News, Team

What an absolutely CRAZY spring! I’ll talk about the riding and the avalanche later! For now, just in time for 13th Step’s “Paint Your Face” party in Anoka, Minnesota, Big Sky X-treme Productions presents the world premiere of the new music video for their song, ACID LAKE. This video combines elements from the band’s weekend of filming in Bozeman and Island Park with new extreme video from Team Thunderstruck and other riders. You’ll see the likes of Dan Gardiner, Alex T, Shawn Hastings, Josh Marshall, Kyle Armbrust, Shane Hedden, Dan Pate and many more. These are all NEW SLEDDING CLIPS dedicated to the August release of THUNDERSTRUCK II. I just got off the phone with Matt from 13th Step (he got his copies today, party is tomorrow!) and he was ecstatic at the evolution and outcome of this video. Enjoy it while it lasts! A couple notes, better to download the larger version, much better quality. Windows Media editions coming soon. I haven’t edited the adult language out of the video yet, please do NOT watch around children or if offended by adult language. The “G-rated” version should be up soon. Please leave feedback on what you think of my first ever music video production. E-mail me at jim@bigskyx.com!

- June 20, 2003

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Snow and Filming Since EXPO

Posted on August 5, 2011 by in Events, News, Team

Wow, how awesome has the snow and filming been since EXPO?? Team Thunderstruck has been VERY busy the last couple weeks travelling all over the west and we just keep getting busier and busier! The great snow and low avy danger has put us back on the steep slopes, tearing up the tight chutes of the Rockies! We filmed a couple days with Josh Marshall and Shawn Hastings from the EXTREME TEAM and just had a ball! I now know why their last movie was called Adrenaline Rush! We also tore up the Centennials with the Utah Turbo Hounds again and Tony hit an EPIC day in the sun with untracked snow down there!

We also hit Bozeman, Montana for several days of production work on a new type of video. Hint: Check out 13th Step’s website! What a ball! We dragged these guys from their home in Minneapolis out to lil’ ol’ Montana for some of the funnest and most incredible filming I’ve ever done. Look for the finished production on THUNDERSTRUCK II. It will be AWESOME!

From here we keep our trips fairly quiet as we know good snow (especially untracked snow) is getting harder and harder to find. But if you see us out on the road stop and say hi!

I’ll be updating the picture gallery this week and the THUNDERSTRUCK II teaser will be up soon! Keep checking back!

- April 21, 2003

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Thunderstruck 2 Coming Soon

Posted on August 5, 2011 by in Events, News, Team

Well, I guess snow conditions have been really strange this year. This, and the horrible avalanche conditions, have made filming THUNDERSTRUCK II quite a remarkable undertaking. Normally we ride and climb some pretty crazy stuff but after a few avalanche brushes we have really become timid in the steep and deep. Spring snow has finally arrived and our big mods are hitting the stable bowls and hills but we want to remind everyone that avalanches can and will happen during the spring also. We would also like to say we miss you JASON.

We have been travelling a bunch and meeting some awesome new people. We have also been filming some great new riders and some veterans who are as crazy as the day is long! We spent a week in SW Wyoming and Utah and also travelled to Island Park several times. West Expo has also come and gone with tons of fun and some amazing riding and filming.

Congratulations are in order to Team Thunderstruck’s WES LITTLE who was the first rider EVER to climb The Threadmaker on Mt. Jefferson’s north face. It is a CRAZY line and a do-or-die chute. Wes pulled several other amazing climbs that day and lo and behold this will all be seen in THUNDERSTRUCK II.

We’re going to be filming around home until next weekend when we will travel south to play at The FAIRVIEW SHOOTOUT in Fairview, Utah. This non-sanctioned race brings out the biggest and baddest sleds in the world and is always a blast to watch and race in!

After that we will be shooting closer to home for the rest of the year as snow conditions here are awesome and ready for some rockin’ mods to tear up the mountains.

The THUNDERSTRUCK II teaser will be up on this website here in the next couple weeks so WATCH for it!!

-March 25, 2003

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2011 Thunderstruck 10 Premiere Dates

Posted on August 3, 2011 by in Events, News


2011 Thunderstruck 10 Premiere dates: This list will change a lot over the next couple months, please, keep checking!

AUGUST 20 : Spokane, WA – World Premiere at the Bing Crosby Theater
AUGUST 27 : Ogden, UT – At Peery’s Egyptian Theater
SEPTEMBER 9 : HayDays, MN – location TBA
SEPTEMBER 17 : Edmonton, AB – At Bo Diddly’s Roadhouse
NOVEMBER 5 : Boise, ID – At the Egyptian Theater

- August 3, 2011

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Happy New Years 2003

Posted on July 30, 2011 by in News

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Team Thunderstruck has been abuzz with dreams of finishing our mod sleds before the snow gets too deep! But we haven’t had the need to get too excited as snow levels all around the West (except California) are the worst in years! But we are getting ready for the snow and 4 of our new mods will be unveiled this weekend at a SPONSOR/RIDER meeting, the location of which is CONFIDENTIAL!! If you do see our trailers pulling into town, say hi!

On other fronts: There was a large avalanche in the main bowl in Copper Creek this Saturday (Jan 4) where we normally ride. It piled almost 30 feet high at the bottom and over 1000 feet of mountain slid. YUK! With the snow pack so unstable this year please be prepared while in the backcountry. Please get yourself an AVALANCHE BEACON, probes, shovels, saws and a small, portable emergency kit. The life you save may be your best friend or even a family member!

Next stop: Confidential, then Utah, then Boise!

- January 3, 2003

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Guest Rides With Thunderstruck

Posted on July 30, 2011 by in News

ShaneAs we continue to put the finishing touches on our sleds and hope for deep snow in the mountains, the Team wants to thank all of our fans for the amazing support. It’s nice to go to the shows and meet you all. Many of you have asked about GUEST RIDES with Team Thunderstruck. We do have guest rides at certain times during the year. We DO NOT take large groups, we keep the groups small. We also ride familiar haunts repeatedly throughout the year and welcome you to show up in those places and ride with us for the day. You may call in advance or send us an e-mail from our contact page. But please do NOT ask to be in our video. You will be along as a spectator only, not to be a part of our video. Thanks for understanding.

Next stop: Island Park, early December!!

- November, 12, 2002

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