Because every good marble track needs a Volcano World

December 23, 2023 2:57 PM

BUILDING THE WORLDS BIGGEST MARBLE TRACK TO EXPLOIT THE GAME - Marble World Is Perfectly Balanced [50m] is completely entrancing. Nearly 1000 marbles begin the run, only a few will make the winner's circle, and many end up in the gutter. The Spiffing Brit has done this before [previously], but this one is even more unhinged than the first.
posted by hippybear (5 comments total)

9 minutes into the video, in case you're impatient like me.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 3:06 PM on December 23, 2023

Oh DutchVictim, we hardly knew ye.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 3:45 PM on December 23, 2023 [1 favorite]

I thought this was going to be REAL marbles, not computer graphic ones....
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 4:31 AM on December 24, 2023 [1 favorite]

I definitely watched the whole thing, how delightful and strangely compelling.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 4:47 PM on December 24, 2023 [1 favorite]

Quite a few more "previouslies":

Oct 2018: Captivating, calming competition: it's the 2018 Winter MarbleLympics!

Feb 2020: Marble racing is now the pinnacle of motor sports

March 2020: Scandal rolls the marble racing world

April 2022: The new e-Sport? (linked above)

and so on, and so on: https://www.metafilter.com/tags/marbles

(Many of the links to the original Jelle's Marble Runs channel on YT were broken when the guys apparently deleted it by mistake, but they reappeared under the new YT channel. They also set up a website.)
posted by intermod at 7:53 PM on December 24, 2023