Great Ball Contraption(GBC) at Japan Brickfest 2018

[@LucheriniHD]

I'm honestly blown a way that a train system with junctions and a pressure system *you* designed makes the entire GBC SELF SUFFICIENT!!! Incredible

[@broughy1322]

This is genuinely one of the best things I’ve seen. I was transfixed. GG.

[@legomasterbuilder9118]

Wow it’s so awesome to see all of your contraptions put together like that. All of them better than the other. Cool stuff!

[@joshmyer9]

It's great to see all the modules working together! Such a neat bunch of mechanisms, kudos to you and the other collaborators in not only making them, but also making them work together! I'd guess that getting them to transfer cleanly is half the work, and probably gets done on-site, not earlier ☺

[@PlaywellBricks]

What an display of amazing engineering! Thanks so much for sharing this with us!

[@ElkiLG]

This is great! The kids around must love it.

[@sawyerklegr]

Love that elevator module, you have made me want to build one :)

[@shlibookensteppah]

Really excellent. I could watch it forever. :]

[@CathodeRayKobold]

Why are the Japanese modules always so much cooler than the American ones? Nobody ever themes a belt lift over here. Oh well, at least we have a 6-foot Ferris wheel.

[@notmuch_23]

That's the *first* time I've ever seen any American/European-type modules in a Japanese GBC! The American/European modules tend to be mechanically simpler, probably for ease of service. Japanese modules tend to be mechanically complex, which are cool, but if *one* thimg breaks, that builder likely has to spend HOURS taking the module apart to fix it.

[@MultiAlphasquad]

Magical as ever!

[@CharAznableLoNZ]

Another amazing GBC.

[@JTCF]

And that's why I want to visit Japan Brickfest.

[@EonsHD]

I've seen the original video for that train car rotator module, but it looks so much cooler here in action

[@meehdrescher]

0:46 I am a german... do I need to say more about what this reminds me of?

[@joanbohlman1679]

That basket shooter is next level

[@aone9050]

I had the impression that the tables weren't as level as the ones used in akiyuki's demonstration videos, or the constant stress of operation breaks down a lot of akiyuki's fine tuned builds. There were a lot of ball collection points I noticed, largest that comes to mind being the six heads (5 heads?) right at the beginning. They should have leveled those tables better for you akiyuki! Great builds besides. I like how you dominated the event by quantity and style!

[@JamesKaret]

wow... if you keep all those ball modules, how big your storage is?

[@cyborgzloth]

Let's play "did akiyuki make this?"

[@rolfvanrijckevorsel]

I have a question: i want to start building gbc mudules butt is don't have those balls in those size. So my question is: where can i buy those foot/basket balls or just balls in the correct size?

[@tildeissobieberlike]

Rolf van Rijckevorsel its official Lego balls. Check bricklink

[@MERKURETlegostudio]

All by Akiyuky 😆

[@princesspeachakasupermario3709]

Escalator, Railway System, Catch and Release, Six Heads, Manji, Pink Rocker, Aqueduct, Spiral Lift Type 2, Strain Wave Gearing, Basket Shooter, Fork to Fork and Snake Slide, Bucket Wheel Tower and Marble Run, Archimedes Screw Type 3, Egg Process Machine, Flywheel Launcher, Archimedes Screw, Ball Launcher Type 2, Rotary Car Dumper, Geneva Drive Type 1, Archimedes Screw Type , Wheel and Steps, Cup to Cup Type 2, and Spiral Staircase.

[@jTYN]

Ball Launcher Type 2 so amazing ^^

[@AlanBurchill]

Can any one display at this event? Is it open to international exhibitors?

[@Cazher]

It's sad that Japan GBC mostly just Akiyky's units. It feels lonely. Playing a online game that only few are still playing...

[@SnowTerebi]

cup to cup type2?!

[@RealMrTea]

Awesome !

[@donschnulione6646]

0:50 *INTERESTING MESSENGE*

[@Rowan_Maladeus]

Also, the Nazi one is the mirror image of the one shown.

[@braydenh190]

Donschnulione *German music intensifies*

[@donschnulione6646]

funny is, i am from Germany xD

[@thibautdalez4247]

indeed...

[@rodrigoteresa7944]

EERRRIIIKKKKKA

[@technocracy90]

It's dominated by Akuyuki

[@ghornisbae1653]

If you look at the US one during the tour 99% of the time they say this one is based on an Akuyuki idea/ design.

[@lucasbune]

You truly live in a different world/culture in Japan than in the west. That 0:50 swastika would never have gone down well in an American lego-con, or lord forbid it a Central European one. I know of the differences, just pointing it out. That said, it is always interesting to see the "history of akiyuky modules" that these videos end up being, with some spice provided by how they interlink with other people's designs, both in the litteral sense and in the grander design challenge of the order that the modules go in.

[@hansmuller4338]

plus japan was part of the nazi axis, so the uncritical handling of a swastica is espacially bad. germany guy here. this is just a no go.

[@Matze239]

Thats not a swastika, its a so called manji. In Japanese slang, manji now has an array of meanings. According to My Navi, kids say it when they’re taking photos like the English word “cheese,” and it’s also used to refer to mischevious or excitable personality. As with the the original character, which can mean mercy or good fortune, its slang version has various definitions. It’s not to be confused with the Nazi swastika, which certainly could happen. This character is the manji. www.google.de/amp/s/kotaku.com/the-buddhist-swastika-becomes-popular-slang-in-japan-1822404738/amp

[@lucasbune]

FELIX Same symbol, different meaning. Just as i said, different culture. Not good, not bad, simply problematic if it was done in many other places. Call it the Swastika or the Manji, the symbol persists even if the symbolism does not.

[@Matze239]

LucAs Bune its not the same symbol. The nazi swastika is turned clockwise, not counter-clockwise

[@lucasbune]

Ah, so they are. Do forgive, it has been long since i saw either last.

[@pqrstzxerty1296]

Nice new machine types

[@goodguys8956]

GBC Rails, Modules, Etc.

[@TheBrickGuy7939]

So cool!

[@sitearm]

cool!

[@CamelliaOleifera]

あきゆきさんやり過ぎたww

[@LainhaltAstrea4532]

あきゆきさんの別格

[@danielpignuola478]

0:50 ooooof oouch that’s not going through youtube’s filters in one piece...

[@JTech_._]

how is this powered? does it have like an adruino board? or rasberry pi? or does it come with prebuilt motherboards and you just connect them?

[@josephdavis2695]

Probably all just LEGO Mindstorms

[@JJTheDev]

If you saw those big black boxes with yellow knobs, those are battery box type things that go into power function motors. Each one has their own (because they need the amperage) but there are some exceptions, some use mindstorm (sometimes multiple), though I didn't see those in this video (didn't finish), while others use but in battery boxes, namely the train modules.

[@JJTheDev]

Each module uses just rotational energy and turns that into other types of movement

[@KamiKatzeCos]

0:47 Im a simple German. I see a reversed Hakenkreuz i press "Gefällt mir"

[@txm100]

You're a fucking Nazi.

[@og8162]

Willst du mich eigens komplett verarschen Und ch will auch wieder mit Lego bauen 😰

[@Combaine]

0:41 oh no

[@arthur850_]

0:42 you are japanese and then that thing so you are german?

[@kennyb0y1597]

The Nazi swastika came eons after the Buddhist one

[@robertschrader8207]

I might to remember that the Sunwheel from hindu or buddism religion have a golden color but the german cross is still black.. that's german humor🤣🤣🤣 crying while laugthing🙄. Btw that Moc iss engeniering at this best, only a genius can create that stuff in that perfection you got my highest respect👍

[@NoFaceNoFace]

Pls censore 0:42 or video will be forbidden in Germany

[@Matze239]

No Face its not a swastika. Firstly, its mirrored and secondly, the module is called manji. In Japanese slang, manji now has an array of meanings. According to My Navi, kids say it when they’re taking photos like the English word “cheese,” and it’s also used to refer to mischevious or excitable personality. As with the the original character, which can mean mercy or good fortune, its slang version has various definitions. It’s not to be confused with the Nazi swastika, which certainly could happen. This character is the manji. www.google.de/amp/s/kotaku.com/the-buddhist-swastika-becomes-popular-slang-in-japan-1822404738/amp

[@NoFaceNoFace]

FELIX I know but KZbin filters will think it is

[@LordDragox412]

No Face No they won't, so you don't need to worry about non-existent problems.

[@skog4437]

it is windmill of peace

[@user-takuele00]

なにがすごいって外国のやつより全然ボールが下に落ちてないってところ

[@diatomsaus]

Next on the Huffington Post: Lego convention features spinning SWASTIKA!!111!!1 OUTRAGE

[@timepasteque]

0:49 is quite embarrassing...

[@LordDragox412]

Indeed, it's embarrassing that you know nothing of the symbol and you think it's a swastika. Please educate yourself :)

[@timepasteque]

LordDragox412 I wasn even saying dat it wuz a nazi symbol y u has 2 be mad

[@pooplayer1]

Time Pasteque you're implying it is

[@timepasteque]

TF2 scout memes As a random dude who doesn't know this culture because I have a life somewhere else, I can say that it is embarrassing

[@Vode_ika]

Time Pasteque. Could you please explain why you think it's embarrassing?

[@BVH-tje]

That swastika might not be that appropriate....