Metropolis - a K'nex Ball Machine

Presenting, "METROPOLIS"
My tallest K'nex ball tower up to this date.

* Building time *
Oct '09 - Aug '10

Number of pieces: 29.873

* Dimensions *
Width: 1.40 m
Depth: 1.15 m
Height: 2.40 m

Weight: 48 kg

Link to picture slideshow:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Metropolis-a-Knex-Ball-Machine/

Instructions for most elements used in this ball machine can be found here:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Metropolis-Knex-Ball-Machine-Elements-and-Lifts/

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[perryschnabel]

How did I land here??? It is wunderful but actually I looked for watches ^^

[lghtng2080]

sickest knex thing on youtube

[DefinitionIsGone]

If you made a gumball machine like that, but small scale with transparent moving parts.

I'm almost 19. I'd pay to see it go up and down a few times. I'm not ashamed to admit. But seriously, I'd drop a few quarters for the shitty gum for that. XD

[fuzzyjem3]

You have the mind and imagination of a genius. I envy you.

[Srlancelot39]

@SEZIUREMAN245 pretty much impossible to create instructions for that in a reasonable amount of time. why dont u try to build one thats different?

[XxdragicexX3]

You must have a fuckload of extra time :P

[arminask]

@SEZIUREMAN245 what's with the begging. there's one person like you on every interesting video.

[arminask]

@krux02 you obviously never had both

[Nazgul8111]

I think 4 designers of LEGO disliked this... (LEGO is great though!)

[JaredBuckleyApps]

Extremely epic

[SEZIUREMAN245]

can you PLEASE make a video on how to build that. i dont care how long it takes to do that but PLEASE i need to build this.