Hasta La Gadget!

With all of the crazy awesome stuff to see at the World Maker Faire in New York City this weekend, you’d have to put on quite the spectacle to draw a line. Mark Perez and his roaming crew of clowns, human-sized mice, one-woman band, and a guy in a gorilla did just that.

The San Francisco-based crew assembled its Rube Goldberg-esque machine on a lawn outside the Hall of Science in Queens, NY. The contraption has sixteen major pieces that weigh a total of 30,000 lbs. The mousetrap is based on the 60s board game Mouse Trap, substituting bowling bowls for marbles–the bathtub, on the other hand, is still fully in tact.

All of it leads up to the crushing of a junk car with two-ton safe–in honor of the big apple, the car was a New York City yellow cab this time out.

There’s also tap dancing mice, a musical intro by the aforemention one-woman band, Esmerelda Strange, and some good, old-fashioned carnival barking. Check out videos, after the jump.