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Honda Commercial----Amazing!! Read the text before you click on the link!!!

There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film. Everything you see really happened in real time exactly as you see it. The film took 606 takes. On the first 605 takes, something, usually very minor, didn’t work. They would then have to set the whole thing up again. The crew spent weeks shooting night and day.

By the time it was over, they were ready to change professions. The film cost six million dollars and took three months to complete including full engineering of the sequence. In addition, it’s two minutes long so every time Honda airs the film on British television, they’re shelling out enough dough to keep any one of us in clover for a lifetime.

However, it is fast becoming the most downloaded advertisement in Internet history. Honda executives figure the ad will soon pay for itself simply in “free” viewings.(Honda isn’t paying a dime to have you watch this commercial!).

When the ad was pitched to senior executives, they signed off on it immediately without any hesitation - including the costs. There are six and only six hand-made Accords in the world. To the horror of Honda engineers, the filmmakers disassembled two of them to make the film.

Everything you see in the film (aside from the walls, floor, ramp, and complete Honda Accord) are parts from those two cars. The voiceover is Garrison Keillor.

When the ad was shown to Honda executives, they liked it and commented on how amazing computer graphics have gotten. They fell off their chairs when they found out it was for real.

Click here to view this amazing ad… http://www.steelcitysfinest.com/HondaAccordAd.htm

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i saw that a couple of weeks ago, its nutz, supposedly the most expensive car commercial in the world

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I saw this years ago. No joke.

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As did I, but it never stops amazing me every time I see it. Not only for the fact that it works, but the creativity in some of the moving parts. The cylinder opening the window, the connecting rods swinging around, the fan pulling itself forward, etc. Very cool! :smiley:

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Very old. The internet is amazing. …amazing at churning up old news. H aha ahaha.

Still cool however.

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I like those walking washer assemblies… remind me to make an army of those…

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It’s entirely computer graphics, but still very cool :slight_smile:

Unless some law of physics changed where wheels can move uphill, against gravity, on their own :drinkers:

  • Mike
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Yeah I noticed that too, if you keep an eye on it, the wheel will hit once, go down and come up back up again! Looks wicked though but its an older one

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The sequence where the tires roll up a slope looks particularly impressive but is very simple. Steiner says that there is a weight in each tire and when the tire is knocked, the weight is displaced and in an attempt to rebalance itself, the tire rolls up the slope

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if you read there were weights in the tires, so they’d hit a tire, which would cause it to go off it’s weight balance and it would adjust by pulling the tire up the hill. obviously not a light weight.

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http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/rube-goldberg-machine2.html

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Woot woot honda powah! :lol: