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Re: Rube Goldberg Honda Ad
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Date: 
Sat, 31 May 2003 15:02:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Chris Phillips wrote:
   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.

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 the only take where everything worked.

A rube goldberg contest sounds pretty nifty to me! Mayhaps someone could organise one for BrickFest! (not me, unfortunately... details later)



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A friend of mine forwarded me this URL to a Honda Accord ad that is pretty cool. (URL) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)

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