Amazing Honda Ad Recalls Rube Goldberg

[k4kyv]

This is one of the most amazing ads I've ever seen, truly a thing of beauty. Fully two minutes long, it's a Honda commercial called "Cog," the most elaborate Rube Goldberg device you've ever seen set to film, all made entirely of car parts. It required 606 film takes to get right. It's so perfectly filmed, you can't imagine it, you've just got to see it.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/honda-ad.html

[W8KHZ]

Very cool ad but I thought it was a bit odd that they had the tires rolling uphill... fun to watch anyway...

[K1JJ]

Very cool ad but I thought it was a bit odd that they had the tires rolling uphill... fun to watch anyway...

Yep, a very nice display of perfect planning.

As for the tires rolling uphill, if ya look closely you will see that they appear to roll weighed/biased - with probably some weights hidden on the other side at the top that causes the tire to roll forward for 1/2 turn. They get a push to start the roll forward.

It always amazes me how much $$ they spend on car commercials. And all the waste.  As a rule, as soon as I realize it's a car commercial on TV, I switch to another channel as a personal protest.  :lol:  

However, this one was clever without the usual hype - hope they air it.

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[wa2zdy]

Yep, that's a good one.  One cannot take one's eyes off of it so it is effective.  I had to sit and watch in wonder just to see what would happen next.

8KHZ - funny you're from Traverse City.  I found out not too long ago that's where my great grandparents were raised and lived until moving to Chicago about 1900.   Small world.