Thursday, September 20, 2012

Designer spends 600 hours creating jaw-dropping Lego masterpiece

Designer spends 600 hours creating jaw-dropping Lego masterpiece:

Taking more than 600 hours to create over two years, this mind-blowing contraption has been dubbed 'the most insane Lego machine ever built.'


Lego Great Ball Contraption, YouTube, AkiyukiThe astonishing contraption took 600 hours to build (Picture: YouTube/ akiyuky)

Created by brick-building genius Akiyuki, the visionary has taken Lego construction to another dimension.
The machine, put together in the construction fanatic's living room, has been designed simply (or pointlessly) to transport miniature balls across over 101ft at a rate of one ball per second.
Lego Great Ball Contraption, YouTube, AkiyukiSection one: The ball factory (Picture: YouTube/ akiyuky)

Simply named the Lego Great Ball Contraption, its design and construction are of a rather more complicated nature.
The magnificent Lego device features 17 unbelievably detailed modules all linked together to effortlessly guide the mixture of footballs and basketballs around the course.
Lego Great Ball Contraption, YouTube, AkiyukiThe machine has been built to transport 500 balls across 101ft (Picture: YouTube/ akiyuky)

Beginning in the ball factory, two items at a time are placed in plastic pots before being sent to the zigzag stair section of the gadget.
Other sections of the course include the balls being fired into mini basketball nets, riding along a train track, sent zooming around various fairground attractions and being transported in a digger.
Lego Great Ball Contraption, YouTube, AkiyukiThe video has attracted 70,000 hits online (Picture: YouTube/ akiyuky)

While the machine took two years to build, it took the just two days for the video of the finished product to go viral.
It has already racked up over 70,000 hits on video-sharing website YouTube receiving thousands of likes.
One amused user joked: 'This is how the lottery should work'
While another added: 'Completely useless. I love it.'

VIDEO: Watch the jaw-dropping Lego masterpiece in action

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