Group Rube
November 8, 2018 6:11 PM   Subscribe

What do you get when life gives you lemons? If you are Sprice Machines, Hevesh5, DrComplicated, DoodleChaos,TheInvention11, 5MadMovieMakers and SmileyPeaceFun, you get The Lemonade Machine
posted by growabrain (18 comments total) 18 users marked this as a favorite
 
"D'aaahhh!"

The pacing could have been tightened up a bit in places, but that was marvelously inventive.
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:28 PM on November 8, 2018 [2 favorites]


I've accomplished nothing in my life.
posted by rhizome at 8:04 PM on November 8, 2018 [4 favorites]


My apartment was never even that clean until I was married for at least a year.
posted by Cris E at 8:09 PM on November 8, 2018 [1 favorite]


Boy, its lucky that they had all that stuff laying around their house in just such a position as to result in them each getting a glass of lemonade. Possibly that is too long a process to get lemonade on a regular basis, but their mileage clearly varies. I can totally understand them having to get the lemonade ... what... a quarter mile from their house? That place is a deathtrap filled with balls and chutes precariously placed - and who keeps their toilet paper on the toilet like that?!?! Screw the sitting vs. standing thing - that is a Metafilter WTF if I've ever seen one.
posted by Nanukthedog at 9:20 PM on November 8, 2018


Boy, its lucky that they had all that stuff laying around their house in just such a position as to result in them each getting a glass of lemonade

By the way, does anybody know what that marble track with the hexagon tiles is?
posted by rhizome at 9:26 PM on November 8, 2018 [5 favorites]


My friends and I made a Rube Goldberg machine as part of an application to play in a 30-hour long puzzle hunt back in 2011. It was like 1/30 as complex as the one in this video, and I can say it was a lot of work!
posted by aubilenon at 9:27 PM on November 8, 2018 [3 favorites]


Kaplamino just dropped his latest marble machine video. I'm sure his channel was featured here before.
posted by growabrain at 10:14 PM on November 8, 2018


I was irrationally afraid that the phone would go to voicemail before it had a chance to vibrate off the table.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:57 AM on November 9, 2018 [3 favorites]


rhizome, I was wondering the same thing! I think it's a GraviTrax set.
posted by ectabo at 6:41 AM on November 9, 2018 [1 favorite]


Not pictured: them being evicted after months of noise complaints from the downstairs neighbors.
posted by goatdog at 6:45 AM on November 9, 2018 [1 favorite]


Hevesh5
posted by growabrain at 7:20 AM on November 9, 2018 [1 favorite]


Wait....so, did the guy in the shower get any lemonade?
posted by RhysPenbras at 8:03 AM on November 9, 2018 [1 favorite]


This is a brilliant example of Chekov's Gun . Right there at the beginning there's a bright yellow lemon press and, voila! at the end there's lemonade.
posted by chavenet at 8:29 AM on November 9, 2018 [1 favorite]


Today I discovered that there is a limit to how long I am willing to watch a Rube Goldberg machine do its thing, and that I reached it in the bathroom of this one.
posted by egypturnash at 9:17 AM on November 9, 2018


rhizome, I was wondering the same thing! I think it's a GraviTrax set.

Good find, thanks! I came across that one but got sidetracked by the track bits for the main kit and didn't dive into the site. Here is the expansion set that looks identical.
posted by rhizome at 12:42 PM on November 9, 2018 [1 favorite]


Today I discovered that there is a limit to how long I am willing to watch a Rube Goldberg machine do its thing, and that I reached it in the bathroom of this one.

9 minutes is too long. I was watching at double-speed and it was still a bit long.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 1:04 PM on November 9, 2018


I appreciate that we're past the point where anyone building a Rube Goldberg machine at all is impressive and now there's best practices to ensure that the machine works reliably, and there needs to be a little bit of wit to it (the slime cup, for instance)
posted by Merus at 4:03 PM on November 9, 2018


I liked the part with the marble.
posted by flabdablet at 4:23 AM on November 10, 2018 [3 favorites]


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