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Rube Goldberg Honda Ad
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Date: 
Sat, 31 May 2003 11:56:07 GMT
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A friend of mine forwarded me this URL to a Honda Accord ad that is pretty cool.

http://www.honda.co.uk/newcars/accord100k.html

It’s making me think that it might be fun to build something like this out of LEGO. It might be an interesting topic for a building competition: build the funkiest (non-electric?) contraption that takes the longest possible time to “domino” and achieve some final effect, like dunking a minifig in a glass of water or something.

- Chris.



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(...) I think this may have been mentioned before somewhere on LUGNET, I forget. But at any rate it bears repeating, it's an amazing feat. I seem to recall it being said that (it being shot in one long take) that it took a lot of takes and this was (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)

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