Rube Goldburg

[LoudMusic]

Office creation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J16dyV4Du8&eurl=

Honda commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkzr0naZnZ0

Rube Goldberg was a crazy inventor type fella that had fun with building elaborate mechanisms to accomplish remedial tasks, and bringing lots of entertainment in the process.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_goldberg

So, has anyone here ever built a Rube Goldburg style contraption? Was it successful? Have you ever built one incorporated into a train layout? Or a train layout incorporated into it?

 

[shaygetz]

So, has anyone here ever built a Rube Goldburg style contraption? Was it successful? Have you ever built one incorporated into a train layout? Or a train layout incorporated into it?

No. but sometimes I feel he's had a silent hand in some of my trackworkops: Great links:thumb:

 

[Twiget]

The old Milton Bradly game "Mouse Trap" was based on a Rube Goldberg device.
Aloha
Tom

 

[Ralph]

Fantastic stuff! The Honda ad was brilliant. I had to wonder about the amount of time the folks in the office segment had on their hands to work all that out, however!

 

[Knighthawk]

The Honda commercial was great!! The office segment must have been filmed in a Government Agency somewhere, in order for them to have that much spare time!sign1