The Space Cowboy

**The Space Cowboy** was a Daredevil act from FantasyAGT: Once Upon A Time. He was eliminated in the Semifinals.

## Background

The Space Cowboy (real name: Chayne Hultgren) is a world record-breaking sideshow, street, and freak show performer born in Byron Bay in Australia on 13 April 1978.

Hultgren is 'Australia's most prolific record breaker' and as of July 2016 he holds 44 official 'Guinness World Records' for his unusual skills. Some of his records include: 'Most chainsaw juggling catches on a unicycle', 'Most weight dragged with hooks in the eye sockets', 'Most targets hit with throwing knives in one minute', 'Most swords swallowed underwater', 'Most blowtorches extinguished with the tongue in one minute (temperature of flames reached Guinness World Records as one of the top 100 records of all time, since then he has broken this record many times and his current record for multiple sword swallowing is 27 swords swallowed at the same time. He is featured in many 'Guinness World Record' and 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not' books and TV shows. Bronze life cast statues of Hultgren swallowing swords are exhibited in the Ripley's Museums.

He also performs a number of acts, including juggling a sickle, machete and fire torch, or a battle axe, jungle machete and a butcher knife, whilst blindfolded on a 10-foot unicycle (And he also holds the world record for 'Most blindfolded juggling catches on a unicycle'), catching flaming arrows blindfolded shot from a crossbow, suspension (the art of dangling from hooks in your flesh), seven ball juggling, hat manipulation, spoon bending, levitation of himself and other objects, sword swallowing, psychic surgery, Human Blockhead Trick, knife throwing (the usual victim is his girlfriend and part of his show, Zoe Ellis). His theater act has included swallowing a 60 cm 2000-volt neon glass tube with a microphone on the end (his heart can be heard beating as the light shines through his skin from the inside). [1]

## Judge Cuts

The Space Cowboy's Judge Cuts performance in Episode OUT02 consisted of him catching an arrow after it hitting a series of targets with his bare hands while blindfolded. While his first attempt was not successful, his second attempt was. Luke, guest judge Saf, Pennies and Fuz all gave him standing ovations. His performance was strong enough for the judges to send him to the Quarterfinals instead of Anthony Gatto & Kris Kremo, Mitch & Cally and Fatmir Mura.

## Quarterfinals

The Space Cowboy's Quarterfinals performance in Episode OUT08 consisted of standing on top of a lightning machine allowing electricity to flow through his skin with his only protection being a set of thimbles on his fingertips to prevent his fingernails from melting. Afterwards, he held a block of wood to test the heat of the electric charge which set on fire. Finally, he swallowed a sword while electricity ran through him. Mikey, Luke, Pennies and Fuz all gave him standing ovations. He received enough votes to advance to the Semifinals along with Kevin Li, instead of MozART Group.

## Semifinals

The Space Cowboy's Semifinals performance in Episode OUT09 consisted of having 28 motorbikes run over him while laying his back on a bed of nails in which he successfully broke a world record. Mikey, Luke, Saf and Fuz all gave him standing ovations. He did not receive enough votes to advance to the Final, eliminating him from the competition instead of Sean and Kaycee.