Mythbusters airs brand-new episodes

MANILA, Philippines - Over the past 11 years, Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters has tested more than 925 myths, filmed over 7,600 hours, created more than 840 explosions and used in excess of 50 kilometers of duct tape.

This month, Discovery Channel brings back your favorite cool geeks — Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage, Tory Belleci, Kari Byron and Grant Imahara — for brand-new episodes from season nine of Mythbusters. Together with guest appearances by Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead), Sophia Bush and world record-setting tightrope walker Nik Wallenda, the gang will sort out facts from fiction by using their signature brand of real-world scientific experimentation. Join them every week for explosive new episodes as they prove or disprove popular myths, misconceptions and legends starting July 16 at 9 p.m.

The season kicks off with an hour-long, epic toy-themed special Dangerous Toys, executive produced by Jamie and Adam. After years of working together, the two are finally squaring off against each other in a no-holds-barred, all-out war! Jamie and Adam are taking their talent for building awesomely destructive gadgets and crossing it with kids’ playtime to compete in an elaborate child’s game of war. Their ultimate goal is to try to take each other down.

To create their twisted adult interpretations of fortifications, vehicles, weapons and other child-play favorites, the two will draw inspiration with their “Dangerous Toys brain trust,” a pint-size think tank made up of a group of imaginative pre-teens who offer up limitless ideas including a 25-foot couch fort, combustible robotic armies and a thing Jamie affectionately calls “The Kraken.” With ingenuity and innovation, a sandcastle could be a fortress and a cardboard box can open an entire universe of possibilities. Jamie will do whatever he can to conquer Adam’s fort, while Adam does the same, as each man fends off a succession of blistering attacks to be the last one standing.