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[Perknose]

Rube Goldberg strike a familiar note?

 

[Mo0o]

The chess piece movement was pretty cool

 

[slayer202]

holyyyy shit lol. that is pretty insane. can't believe it would work consistently every time though

 

[2Xtreme21]

That was one of the COOLEST things. I love Rube Goldberg machines.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Multiple takes = fail. Would be cool if it was all one take.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

What is the deal with the chessboard?

This is pretty amazing - IMO the use of cell phones was especially clever.

 

[Atheus]

*applause*

Well there's the next three days gone.

 

[sactoking]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Multiple takes = fail. Would be cool if it was all one take.

Agreed. There were at least a half dozen takes. I believe that the whole machine never existed at one time. Based on the takes, complexity of the machine, and sheer size and inconvenience it would cause to those living there, I hypothesize that they made part, did a take, took it apart, made the next segment, did a take, took it apart, etc.

 

[Kirby]

I bet that was a bitch cleaning up afterwards. :Q

 

[zinfamous]

Mod REpost!

 

[johnjohn320]

Pretty cool, but

(1) i dont get the chess piece thing. They just moved somehow?

(2) Isn't the idea of a Rube Goldberg is that it completes some simple action, ie turning on a light bulb, opening a door, blowing a whistle, etc? This one ended with small dumbell rolling down something.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

(2) Isn't the idea of a Rube Goldberg is that it completes some simple action, ie turning on a light bulb, opening a door, blowing a whistle, etc? This one ended with small dumbell rolling down something.

It ended with opening up window shades (line connected to dumbell?)

In High School I was part of a Rube Goldberg competition. We got 3rd place in Wisconsin for our contraption that put items representing the 20th century into a jar and screwing on the lid (the assigned task).

 

[Ika]

Rube's the man.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

(2) Isn't the idea of a Rube Goldberg is that it completes some simple action, ie turning on a light bulb, opening a door, blowing a whistle, etc? This one ended with small dumbell rolling down something.

It ended with opening up window shades (line connected to dumbell?)

In High School I was part of a Rube Goldberg competition. We got 3rd place in Wisconsin for our contraption that put items representing the 20th century into a jar and screwing on the lid (the assigned task).

Ooooooh. I was too distracted by the CG credits.

 

[FelixDeCat]

First I was like:



But then I:

 

[mxyzptlk]

awesome. Next time, they should somehow incorporate solving that 4x4 rubik's cube.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: sactoking

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Multiple takes = fail. Would be cool if it was all one take.

Agreed. There were at least a half dozen takes. I believe that the whole machine never existed at one time. Based on the takes, complexity of the machine, and sheer size and inconvenience it would cause to those living there, I hypothesize that they made part, did a take, took it apart, made the next segment, did a take, took it apart, etc.

They should have made it loop back and start itself up then.

 

[Brainonska511]

I thought it was going to be how TridentBoy turns on his computer.

 

[TallBill]

Definitely not one take, and would have been cooler if it actually had something to do with the alarm clock going off.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: TallBill
Definitely not one take, and would have been cooler if it actually had something to do with the alarm clock going off.

What do you mean? The back of the alarm clock was turning something as it was ringing and undwinding.