Domino runs are fun and all, but they’re a real pain to set up. Hours or days are spent lining up the little plastic bricks, painstaking work which is all over in a few seconds, an orgasmic explosion of tumbling tiles. It is spectacular, but somehow leaves you with an empty feeling inside.
What if there were a way to make setting it up as much fun as knocking it down? Unless you are on a very slow connection, you will have seen the picture above and now be way ahead of me. The Auto Domino Building Truck is a toy truck which drops dominos out of its rear end, lining them up in neat rows, ready to tumble.
200 dominoes sit in a rather long and top-heavy hopper. As the AA batteries power the lorry forward, it lays the bricks one by one, tick-tack, onto the floor behind it. You can choose a straight line (boring) or a curve by locking in the truck’s steering. I like to imagine toppling the first domino when the little truck is only half-way through its job and then watching as it panics, trying to outrun the cascade as it inevitably rushes forward, one tiny falling tombstone at a time.
As it says on the vehicle’s side: Action domino wonderful! $25.
Product page [Brando via BBG]
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