Bettendorf – NBC's America's Got Talent introduced the nation to the self-proclaimed "greatest purveyor of chain reaction gadgets in this and the 17 known universes," the Kinetic King. Viewers fell in love with the Minnesota charm ("you betcha" / "whoo hoo") and the impressive chain reactions made from tongue depressors, ping pong balls, plastic cups, and more. View his debut appearance on YouTube. The King will be packing his gadgets and heading to the Quad Cities to build several super-cool kinetic structures at the Family Museum in Bettendorf, Iowa. He will host daily detonations Thursday, March 21 - Saturday, March 23 at 4:00pm.
Last year at the Family Museum, the Kinetic King broke the world record for Clever Levers with a total of 728 - watch the YouTube video here.
The Kinetic King, aka Tim Fort, holds the Guinness World Record for the "Largest Stick Bomb" using 3,864 tongue depressors. It was detonated on June 20, 2010 at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Fort creates displays all over the country (some successful and some not). Many of these attempts he posts to his YouTube page (username LunaTim). The Kinetic King placed 13th overall in season 6 of America's Got Talent.
"Oh wow!" -Howie Mandel, Season 6 America's Got Talent
"Wow!" -Nick Cannon, Season 6 America's Got Talent
"Do it again!" -Nick Cannon, Season 6 America's Got Talent
"Weird, but interesting." -Sharon Osbourne, Season 6 America's Got Talent
"Whoo hoo!" -The Kinetic King, Season 6 America's Got Talent
Find out what the buzz is about March 21-23 at the Family Museum. "It's way beyond your grandma's domino tumbling!" -The Kinetic King
Sponsored by the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs
