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Watch Your Gifts: The Grinch Has a Rocket-Powered Sleigh

Watch Your Gifts: The Grinch Has a Rocket-Powered Sleigh photo
Watch Your Gifts: The Grinch Has a Rocket-Powered Sleigh photo

A lot has changed since the holiday classic The Grinch Stole Christmas debuted in 2001. Taylor Momsen, the actor who played Cindy Lou Who, is the leader of a punk band; Christine Baranski (Martha May Whovier) sang in two Mamma Mia movies; and the Grinch himself, Jim Carrey, tried out a new career as an artist.

Who knew (you see what I did there) that the Grinch himself would find himself astride a pair of skis strapped to a pulsejet engine? Robert Maddox, also known as The Rocket Man: that’s who. Equipped with an Insta360 X3 camera (a GoPro competitor) securely fastened to the rocket-powered sleigh, Maddox is dressed as the Grinch and completely encased in costume.

Maddox bills himself as the world’s top pulsejet engine designer, builder of pulsejet engines, and pulsejet-powered machines. His engines range from 14 pounds of thrust to over 1000 pounds, and he says his pulsejet bikes have sold for $25,000 or more. Right before Christmas 2022, the inventor dressed up as Santa Claus for another promotional video, ripping across his favorite testing grounds.