The Untold Truth Of Tory From MythBusters

You probably know Tory Belleci from MythBusters - but the popular show isn't the only feather in his cap. He was cooking up awesome stuff long before he became a familiar face, and he's kept super-busy ever since leaving the myth-busting 'biz. This is the untold story of Tory Belleci.

It's a career path that certainly befits a man who's famous for blowing things up: Tory Belleci worked in special effects for quite a long time before becoming a TV star. In fact, he contributed to the god-king of all geek franchises: Star Wars. Belleci's online portfolio is chock full of photos featuring him painstakingly building models of the massive Federation battleship and one of the podracers for Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

And he worked closely with one of his future MythBusters cohorts at Industrial Light & Magic, the special effects company founded by George Lucas in 1975. In the past, Belleci's former colleague Adam Savage has talked about their work together on a particularly difficult set piece: Tipoca City from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. That's where Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jango Fett fought each other, in case you haven't checked out the film recently.

Savage even posted a photograph to his website Tested, which features them both dutifully building a Tipoca City model — although he reveals the image isn't quite what it appears to be, writing that

"The photo of Tory and me is actually one we call a 'model shop reach.' These models are completely done, yet it looks like Tory and I are still doing model-making with tools. In reality, we were asked by the ILM photographer to come back over to the set and make it look briefly like we were working on the models."

That's show business for you.

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Flying Anvils | 1:45
Gumball 3000 | 3:07
An impressive resume | 4:34
Writing and directing | 5:43
Life after MythBusters | 6:51
The LAX shooting | 8:34
His private life | 9:44
He's religious | 10:55
He's a humanitarian | 11:49

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