do you think this Robots domino scene is realistic or impossible?! leave your guess below before watching the entire video! (spoilers are in the rest of the comments so don't scroll down yet!)
My favourite part about the spiraling photo reveal is how they've used 6/6 and 5/5 dotted dominoes to create highlights (more white dots) and 2/2 3/3 etc to shade. It's ingenious!
The movie starts with Robot babies, which they keep re-building to be bigger every few years, you just don't make these kind of questions in this movie.
I have seen a picture of an actual robot torso someone built specifically to mimic human expressions that also had a pair of pumps to simulate breathing. Combine that with the fact that computers literally need fans to keep from overheating, and suddenly it actually seems justifiable in a weird way.
Meanwhile, all I could thing was "why did HE blow on the domin- why did YOU blow on the dominos!?" Like, she's saying "why would he do that" when she knew not to do this, but still did it! lolol Mistakes happen, and sometimes, in the heat of the moment, you forget physics exist.
In my head Big Weld had everything domino manufactured and weighted specifically for its place in the domino line. Like I feel like the guillotine domino wasn't the same as the lever dominoes.
It's pretty realistic....Till it gets to the domino tsunami. 4:00 I've seen people do ramps, you have to tape the leading (front) edge of the domino. Granted that ramp did look a little steep even for that. 7:00 lol, I never noticed the guillotine cut the domino in half, I always assumed it was 2 dominoes that were pushed away.
About tsunami I think its kinda posible If the floor was made from elastic and springy material it will act like a wave if you hit it with a lot of force. And it will cause dominos that are laying on this floor to act like a wave too, maybe not as exactly as in movie But simillar to this
At 4:50 if you look at the positioning, the dominos are not lined up with the threaded post, they are further back in the shot, but still perpendicular to the camera, so the arm would not be hitting them at 90 degrees. It would make perfect sense that it would work the way it shows when you take that into consideration.
As far as the complaints about "what are the odds?" Can be explained away with both the guy who set them up was a great inventor so he'd definitely have the math to back up the skill, and he also had plenty of years to perfect his craft
Yes please recreate this whole sequence someday! That would be amazing. You could compare it side by side - what was animated vs real life. Damn that'd be cool
I think most of the unrealistic parts of this scene were just put in to make the animation look snappy and exciting in action, or to add a whimsical flair by doing a couple things that are extremely precise. The dominos going up a ramp have no excuse tho.
Even as a kid I knew a good number of segments were too fantastical to be feasible in real life, but I always came back to this scene 'cause it was still really fun to watch. Should you follow through with recreating as much as you could of this, would you get dominoes with pips, or just reimagine it in solid color dominoes? The monochrome visual texture of the former in a field is rather unique. Also you gotta honor Bigweld's desire to build it all again but bigger immediately afterwards. :P
Oh my, THIS domino scene. I watched this film multiple times when I was really young, and this was my favourite scene. The great thing is that... I started getting interested in dominoes after watching this film, so it is very important to me. The fact that at some point a giant domino falls and makes all the others flood is a thing that... well it's kinda obvious that it isn't possible, not that much of a tsunami. But for a 6 years old person as I were, that made me thinking, so this is like a circle that closes itself. Thank you for this content :)
Ever since I first watched the movie, I always questioned just how large the room was supposed to be, because it becomes an infinite blue void during the tsunami scene. The movie is otherwise a grounded in a reality without pocket dimensions… I assume… so that scene always seemed a bit off.
Yeah, but the chain was created by someone with infinite* money, in a building as big as he wants. If we can suspend our disbelief that a scrooge mcduck type character can have a money swimming pool, why cant bigwell have a ballpit room filled with dominos? As for the scale of the project, is it really hard to extrapolate that the chain goes through a multitude of rooms, despite the fact we see no thresholds between them? the scene has cuts and follows the domino trail itself, not the people observing it, and the one to start the chain moving is such a fanboy and the project is so large it is hard to believe they would IGNORE the consequences of the first domino falling. Heck, even the other person in the scen at the time would want to keep the fanboy in check if he went too far geeking out over the project... at least until she gets sucked into it herself.
Aside from the elaborite scene, I also love the stealthy pun afterwards. "Who the heck are you?" "I'm Rodney" "Oh, I thought you were the dominoes delivery boy"
I had a domino set as a kid that had a piece with dominoes on hinges attached to a baseplate… a piece of clear tape at the bottom of each domino on the edge that retains contact with the table surface could make that a reality if the slope isn’t too much… but that slope in the movie is way too much, the dominoes would have to be spring loaded or something
14:35 Note that the levers start moving before the domino hits it. As far as blowing on the first domino, it may not be the proper way to start a fall, but I think that is realistic.
I think both the apparent energy gain in the flings and the domino ramp could be explained by the dominoes being made of different materials with varying weights. The ramp could be magnetic; it is suspiciously metallic. Some of the dominoes even make distinctly metallic sounds when hit while others don't.
At 4:00 I’ve been able to do this by taping the dominoes. As long as the angle isn’t too steep so it doesn’t lose momentum it can work. The domino portrait had some small discontinuities in its flow. It was beautiful though, and they used the dots nicely for the effect. I don’t think I’ve ever watched this movie. Maybe I should.
I imagine that, given that everything in the Robots world is pretty much made of metal, that ramp is probably slightly magnetized to allow the dominoes enough stickability.
You question how he got a domino that big, i question how the house is all a sudden big enough to fit it, it looked like from a lab room to a void all a sudden. Btw this movie was my childhood also
Maybe the reason there was no gaps is that the guy filled them all in and was about to knock them over. That would explain why he didn't mind someone else doing it, and why he was ready to start surfing.
Such an under appreciated movie! I kinda low key need to watch it again, now! And, yeah, looking at the giant field fall, some of it was certainly "fudged" but much of it was actually far more plausible than the rest of the scene! The trick would be... affording that many game style dominoes, just for one amazing field. But if I were Blue Sky Studios? I'd fund you to do that! Perhaps they could do it on Robin Williams' birthday to commemorate his life! They'd more than make back their investment! Just saying! I know that's far fetched, but a guy could dream, right?
@@rattyeelyright but it is now owned by FOX which in turn is owned by Disney 🙂 I see a Havesh-Disney Collab in the future. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞 This should definitely happen
This video just showed up in my recommended, and it's so nice to see. I do want to add that one of the games on the DVD allows you to build a domino-setting robot that can set up crazy patterns similar to the giant Bigweld pattern in the movie. As a kid, I assumed that Bigweld spent a lot of time inventing the domino robot, and while it would set up the large image, he could set up all the little tricks at the start by hand. Best scene in the movie, 10/10
I have nothing to add about the realism vs fantasy of the dominos, but I think, considering Big Weld's personality and the amount of time he's spent in this room with no interaction with other people, that Big Weld purposely set up the start of the line in the hopes that someone curious would come over and knock it down, just to see what happened. He has spent years trapped in here with nothing but time, his own mind, and many many dominoes. Plenty of time to build, rebuild, test, retest, design, until he went insane with the efforts and the isolation. Thankfully, Rodney has arrived to rescue him from his prison of dominoes.
Since no one else commented about this, I will: 8:47 If you look carefully, you’ll notice one of the main starting spots of the domino mural of Bigweld links to one of the knobs which is basically apart from the domino stream. It basically starts out of nowhere! Given if you would ever attempt to recreate this scene in real life, I’d say make a few adjustments to how the Bigweld domino mural unfolds and adjust the starting spots. The movie also comes with an in-movie domino robot you can make! And successfully making it will give you 3 different domino scenes which are Rodney, Piper, and Bigweld designs. Adding those would be a nice bonus! Here’s a video link to this movie minigame: ruclips.net/video/PoYOnId5bts/видео.html Either way, I’m looking forward to seeing you at least attempt this masterpiece!
Due to the camera cuts (or whatever its called) you could do each part/section separately and although it wouldn't be completely connected like the robots one supposedly is, it would still give off the exact same feel (With some alterations to make sections actually possible).
My observation is that, since they are robots, what if the ones they make are naturally magnetized and made of metal? That would lend to the speed of the dominoes' fall and would validate the possibility of being able to stand upright at an angle. Though I agree, the choice to have the tip of the medal instead of the underside of the brass bell was not a smart move. So if this arrangement of dominoes were tweaked a smidge, it could be plausible. But yeah, SO MANY DOMINOES.
First of all: I love that you did this video. It's really something I've been waiting for. Robots is such a great movie and I love that scene! Also (of course apart from everything in this being super tightly measured which would be close to impossible in real life) it looked to me like the spinning this actually hit the domino in the right spot so it could fall over but it just looked like it hit it from the side because of the camera angle. But that's just how I saw it.
when I was little I legitimately couldn't find this movie after watching it for the first time, and when I finally thought about it again years later I was like "it's about robots... what if it's just called Robots." and I felt so stupid after it popped up immediately
This is a question I didn't realize I NEEDED the answer to. Robots is such an underrated film. Also, I think the film is an exaggeration of what would happen. You could definitely topple a huge domino, but not create an avalanche of dominoes because of it. Also remember it was created by a genius, so all the elements that are risky will be created with immense precision and never fail. Most of it seems to be able to be adapted to be possible, but not quite the same as the film. And please please please replicate it to the best we all know you can. 3:32 Tiddlywinks idea of clipping the edge and flipping it. That's what it looks like. 5:00 That always bugged me. Physically impossible.
3:52 I personally think, that the scene with the dominoes on the ramp can be recreated in real life. But you need to do a trick, which is to stick a piece of tape to the upper flank of the domino and to the ramp, just in the right spots. If you place dominoes pretty close to each other, it could work. Something to try out for you, Lily? 😉
This was seriously my favorite part of the movie next to the transit system scene! I always wanted to attempt to make this into a real setup but don’t have the patience lol
So either Big Weld is a GOATed engineer (the dominoes sound magnetic at times, which makes me think that some of this is partially magnetics) or the laws of physics are completely awry.
Maybe the dominoes on the ramp are magnetic. As for some of the more precision-based stuff, whether realistic or not, could possibly also come partly down to the characters being robots. They can probably calculate whether or not certain things would work at a glance far better than humans. Like the corner with only the single domino. Risky though it may be, Bigweld probably knew it would work simply because his mind was able to calculate all the probabilities associated with it. And while that may be over-thinking it, to me that always came off as part of the point of the scene. That it's impossibly elaborate for humans to create, but since the characters in this film are robots, they can achieve that impossible.
It's probably impossible for a human to do, certain parts with the dominos flinging off the tables and landing precisely where they need to are certainly too risky. Since Big Weld is an advanced robot I imagine he has some kind of super-human motor control that allows him to precisely place dominos without any concern, so he can get away with using super tight domino configurations.
4:43 look at the center of the "spinning thing" and how far "up" it is, the angle is correct on the tap, it isn't hitting the side. Like the old movies that would use platforms to move cameras forward and backwards and elevate to avoid seeing a reference for size. Draw a line on the table that is left and right from the spinning thing's hole in that table.
I think with many modification it’s possible. The seesaw portion can maybe be modified with loaded springs? So they don’t actually “bounce,” the domino just triggers the spring to launch the other domino. It’s obviously quite hard to aim how the domino will fall tho, it’s probably better if the launched object isn’t a domino, but a sphere. The other dominoes falling can also be replaced by sphere to make it more predictable where the trajectory is going to go
I don't want to defend this movie but have you ever stop to think Its a robot movie and some pieces mat have been made of metal or and magnets, I mean I haven't seen plastics in that movie but I seen ceramic. So metal dominos? Which makes it more imposable to make maybe or I forgetting something more related to metal and magnets?
The dominos could be made out of a kind of metal, plastic or wood. Something light or heavy enough to get cert results, maybe something like loaded dice.
What if the dominos had small magnets in the bottom keeping them on the ramp? Also, I don't think the spinning thing was directly behind the domino, it could have been off to the side, causing the tip to impact from behind, which, to me, is what appears to be happening. This is most noticeable by the angle of the shadows and the slight blur on the dominoes themselves indicating one object being in the foreground and one in the background. I've seen plenty of Rube Goldberg Devices/Machines using this exact setup as well.
Seriously! When I saw the way dominoes are falling, I am thinking 🤔 that it looks like it is animated but when I saw th domino that fall from the table I am pretty sure that it is 100 percent animated but when I saw the the field representing the picture of robot, my mind was🤯 also the guy who make this he/she is so amazing 🤩 and at the earthquake of dominoes like if I have that much of domino it can be set in the whole city like there are so many dominoes. So, this is animated. Keep on building
You know I didn't really look all that closely at the guillotine scene, but is it just me or does the guillotine ACTUALLY just splitt a domino piece in half?
my headcanon is that for the ramp, bigweld used the same concepts as the anti gravity 2 liter bottle holders and took advantage of carving notches into the plank he used as a ramp.
This domino scene is amazing to watch, and your breakdown is what mostly what I thought it would be. But there's one small detail I'm sure you missed: the guillotine actually slices a domino in half! I don't know what you would say, but I think that would be impossible unless you either had a really sharp and sturdy blade or a domino that was made out of plastic or something.
Great video! I've really been enjoying this real or fake/realistic or impossible series so far, I would love to see you analyse more projects like this. And yeah, a remake of this particular setup would be amazing!
Some of your issues fall back to artistic and operational simplification reasons. You also have to keep in mind that this is set up by a highly skilled robot. The robot in question has physics knowledge and the ability to detect with high accuracy the location where a domino should land. The domino ramp may have been a bridge that for artistic reasons got changed. The domino flip trick might work if the ramps were spring loaded and the domino hitting was all that was needed to cause the latch to release. You're right that the falls from the table are dramaticised, however, the bottom would flip above the table under the circumstances shown because it would hit the corner of the table as it fell.
Back in the day when my younger brother and I were building actively with express dominoes we often used the straight express tracks for two things: Field starters and ramps to go up without needing to build stairs. As long as the Angle isn't slowing the dominoes down too much, I does work very well. And about that big field in the end: That would be great to recreate in real-life, but probably also a pain in the ass to set up since it's so huge and dense.
they look like they are above the table because they flip so when they are horizontal they would be in between the top of the table and the top of the domino.
I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS FOR SO MANY YEARS! YESSSSSSS!! Seriously this video is like a childhood dream of mine come true. I always wanted to try this but it's just not possible for me to do domino build thingys in general XD Anyways, instant subscribe!
5:16 Pause it and look at where the spinning thing is not quite hitting the domino. (pause it at 5:16 and use period and comma on the key board to frame forward and backward. Find the frame where it's touching the top of the domino. once there frame forward to the first frame of it falling. then frame back and forth watching those two frames. Then watch you talk about how it would not work. Thank you. .
Honestly the dude was stuck in a room for gosh knows how long with a lot of time on his hands so all I can imagine is him meticulously trying this over and over until he got it how he wanted it lol
6:55 what if you made little domino launchers that have a base with a magnet and another magnet on the underside of the lever? So when it is set up, the magnets are far enough apart that they are not attracted towards each other, but as soon as a domino brings the end of the lever down, it gets pulled down the remainder of the distance with force generated by the magnets.
Ohh there's a lip on the edge of the table. Maybe it can bounce. I tried to work out how to make the ramp work. I figured how to make the dominoes stand at that angle, but then the chain reaction doesn't work, so that's not possible. The newton's cradle just looks badly drawn. The domino is under compression, increasing horizontal friction, so it stays. The levers can't work unless some super-bouncy material (there's a metal with better than .95 rebound on bounce) was used. They do exist, but those dominoes would be so heavy, which makes that a rat trap not a mousetrap. Even then you would notice as soon as it hits the next domino it's just wrong. The domino wave might be possible, but only by staging most of the dominoes in the upper floor. The giant domino lands on the floor, bouncing all the dominoes off it (mostly Bigweld's portrait), but also releases the wave source from above. And Bigweld is just waiting for somebody to set it off. It's only doable because these are metal skinned and metal boned robots. It would be lethal for humans. Even then, they're not going to act like water. We could almost backtrack and make the whole thing out of super bouncy material which ensures the wave really does work rather than being a maybe, but then it's lethal for robots too. Many of these "Improbable" looks like machine precision I'd actually expect in this world, but is not in evidence the whole rest of the movie.
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do you think this Robots domino scene is realistic or impossible?! leave your guess below before watching the entire video! (spoilers are in the rest of the comments so don't scroll down yet!)
This is tottally impossible!!
Its impossible 😅
Yes this is true impossible i liked domino with your hand
Impossible
So when are you gonna try it
the overall vibe here seems to be "realistic in concept but exaggerated for effect", which in an animated film is totally fair
My favourite part about the spiraling photo reveal is how they've used 6/6 and 5/5 dotted dominoes to create highlights (more white dots) and 2/2 3/3 etc to shade. It's ingenious!
There’s even 7/7 and 8/8 dominoes in the eyes and teeth of the Bigweld domino mural. There can also be 9/9 dominoes for artworks like this
How many sets of dominoes did bigweld have to get and use? Several hundred I have to assume
Edit: SEVERAL TRILLION OR EVEN QUADRILLION
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The "wave" by the end wa all the spares 😂
@@lettuceoverlord6768Would a Quadrillion Dominoes even fit inside any building ever made by mankind? Do you have any idea how big it is?
You asked "Why did he blow on the dominoes?". All I could think was...it's a robot, how is he blowing AT ALL?
trueee 🤣
Built-in fan inside the mouth?
The movie starts with Robot babies, which they keep re-building to be bigger every few years, you just don't make these kind of questions in this movie.
I have seen a picture of an actual robot torso someone built specifically to mimic human expressions that also had a pair of pumps to simulate breathing. Combine that with the fact that computers literally need fans to keep from overheating, and suddenly it actually seems justifiable in a weird way.
Meanwhile, all I could thing was "why did HE blow on the domin- why did YOU blow on the dominos!?"
Like, she's saying "why would he do that" when she knew not to do this, but still did it! lolol Mistakes happen, and sometimes, in the heat of the moment, you forget physics exist.
In my head Big Weld had everything domino manufactured and weighted specifically for its place in the domino line. Like I feel like the guillotine domino wasn't the same as the lever dominoes.
i like how the implication adds to his character as a whole
Which makes sense, hell I can imagine calculations may be easier for him
It's pretty realistic....Till it gets to the domino tsunami.
4:00 I've seen people do ramps, you have to tape the leading (front) edge of the domino. Granted that ramp did look a little steep even for that.
7:00 lol, I never noticed the guillotine cut the domino in half, I always assumed it was 2 dominoes that were pushed away.
It does cut... OH MY GOD IT CUTS THE DOMINO IN HALF.
I NEVER noticed it, even in this video, this... this is... oh my.
About tsunami
I think its kinda posible
If the floor was made from elastic and springy material it will act like a wave if you hit it with a lot of force.
And it will cause dominos that are laying on this floor to act like a wave too, maybe not as exactly as in movie
But simillar to this
Where would we buy that many black and white pip dominoes without spending a million bucks? Don’t ask Ratchet.
I was thinking magnets for the ramp scene. I mean... They are robots and all.
@@angelousmortis8041 I thought that too, but the dominoes still have to fall over or somethin
At 4:50 if you look at the positioning, the dominos are not lined up with the threaded post, they are further back in the shot, but still perpendicular to the camera, so the arm would not be hitting them at 90 degrees. It would make perfect sense that it would work the way it shows when you take that into consideration.
it is 15-30 degrees off from the worst position so 60-75 degrees from where you want it. Does not make perfect sense.
As far as the complaints about "what are the odds?" Can be explained away with both the guy who set them up was a great inventor so he'd definitely have the math to back up the skill, and he also had plenty of years to perfect his craft
Yes please recreate this whole sequence someday! That would be amazing. You could compare it side by side - what was animated vs real life. Damn that'd be cool
I think most of the unrealistic parts of this scene were just put in to make the animation look snappy and exciting in action, or to add a whimsical flair by doing a couple things that are extremely precise. The dominos going up a ramp have no excuse tho.
Even as a kid I knew a good number of segments were too fantastical to be feasible in real life, but I always came back to this scene 'cause it was still really fun to watch.
Should you follow through with recreating as much as you could of this, would you get dominoes with pips, or just reimagine it in solid color dominoes? The monochrome visual texture of the former in a field is rather unique.
Also you gotta honor Bigweld's desire to build it all again but bigger immediately afterwards. :P
Oh my, THIS domino scene. I watched this film multiple times when I was really young, and this was my favourite scene. The great thing is that... I started getting interested in dominoes after watching this film, so it is very important to me. The fact that at some point a giant domino falls and makes all the others flood is a thing that... well it's kinda obvious that it isn't possible, not that much of a tsunami. But for a 6 years old person as I were, that made me thinking, so this is like a circle that closes itself.
Thank you for this content :)
Ever since I first watched the movie, I always questioned just how large the room was supposed to be, because it becomes an infinite blue void during the tsunami scene. The movie is otherwise a grounded in a reality without pocket dimensions… I assume… so that scene always seemed a bit off.
It's very surreal, but it's kinda cool to see a vague void background in 3D
Yeah, but the chain was created by someone with infinite* money, in a building as big as he wants. If we can suspend our disbelief that a scrooge mcduck type character can have a money swimming pool, why cant bigwell have a ballpit room filled with dominos? As for the scale of the project, is it really hard to extrapolate that the chain goes through a multitude of rooms, despite the fact we see no thresholds between them? the scene has cuts and follows the domino trail itself, not the people observing it, and the one to start the chain moving is such a fanboy and the project is so large it is hard to believe they would IGNORE the consequences of the first domino falling. Heck, even the other person in the scen at the time would want to keep the fanboy in check if he went too far geeking out over the project... at least until she gets sucked into it herself.
I've never seen this movie but I love the big spiraling van Gogh-esque field. You should totally do that. Multiple times.
yessss I love that style of field
Aside from the elaborite scene, I also love the stealthy pun afterwards.
"Who the heck are you?"
"I'm Rodney"
"Oh, I thought you were the dominoes delivery boy"
I had a domino set as a kid that had a piece with dominoes on hinges attached to a baseplate… a piece of clear tape at the bottom of each domino on the edge that retains contact with the table surface could make that a reality if the slope isn’t too much… but that slope in the movie is way too much, the dominoes would have to be spring loaded or something
Sounds like Domino Rally, I had the same thing.
14:35 Note that the levers start moving before the domino hits it. As far as blowing on the first domino, it may not be the proper way to start a fall, but I think that is realistic.
I think both the apparent energy gain in the flings and the domino ramp could be explained by the dominoes being made of different materials with varying weights. The ramp could be magnetic; it is suspiciously metallic. Some of the dominoes even make distinctly metallic sounds when hit while others don't.
I love how in 6:30 the "ramps" that are "powered" the same way and built the same way can fling the dominos right or left with the same setting
One of my fav scenes in this movie 😍. Robots is awesome
At 4:00 I’ve been able to do this by taping the dominoes. As long as the angle isn’t too steep so it doesn’t lose momentum it can work.
The domino portrait had some small discontinuities in its flow. It was beautiful though, and they used the dots nicely for the effect.
I don’t think I’ve ever watched this movie. Maybe I should.
ooh yeah taping can make that upward line trick work! yess I recommend watching the movie if you ever get the chance :)
I imagine that, given that everything in the Robots world is pretty much made of metal, that ramp is probably slightly magnetized to allow the dominoes enough stickability.
You question how he got a domino that big, i question how the house is all a sudden big enough to fit it, it looked like from a lab room to a void all a sudden. Btw this movie was my childhood also
Maybe the reason there was no gaps is that the guy filled them all in and was about to knock them over. That would explain why he didn't mind someone else doing it, and why he was ready to start surfing.
Such an under appreciated movie! I kinda low key need to watch it again, now!
And, yeah, looking at the giant field fall, some of it was certainly "fudged" but much of it was actually far more plausible than the rest of the scene! The trick would be... affording that many game style dominoes, just for one amazing field.
But if I were Blue Sky Studios? I'd fund you to do that! Perhaps they could do it on Robin Williams' birthday to commemorate his life! They'd more than make back their investment! Just saying!
I know that's far fetched, but a guy could dream, right?
I'm already an hour into the movie. I had other plans today, but I regret nothing! Such a classic!
Unfortunately Blue Sky Studios is gone now...:(
@@rattyeelyright but it is now owned by FOX which in turn is owned by Disney 🙂 I see a Havesh-Disney Collab in the future. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞 This should definitely happen
This video just showed up in my recommended, and it's so nice to see.
I do want to add that one of the games on the DVD allows you to build a domino-setting robot that can set up crazy patterns similar to the giant Bigweld pattern in the movie. As a kid, I assumed that Bigweld spent a lot of time inventing the domino robot, and while it would set up the large image, he could set up all the little tricks at the start by hand.
Best scene in the movie, 10/10
I have nothing to add about the realism vs fantasy of the dominos, but I think, considering Big Weld's personality and the amount of time he's spent in this room with no interaction with other people, that Big Weld purposely set up the start of the line in the hopes that someone curious would come over and knock it down, just to see what happened. He has spent years trapped in here with nothing but time, his own mind, and many many dominoes. Plenty of time to build, rebuild, test, retest, design, until he went insane with the efforts and the isolation. Thankfully, Rodney has arrived to rescue him from his prison of dominoes.
Since no one else commented about this, I will:
8:47 If you look carefully, you’ll notice one of the main starting spots of the domino mural of Bigweld links to one of the knobs which is basically apart from the domino stream. It basically starts out of nowhere!
Given if you would ever attempt to recreate this scene in real life, I’d say make a few adjustments to how the Bigweld domino mural unfolds and adjust the starting spots.
The movie also comes with an in-movie domino robot you can make! And successfully making it will give you 3 different domino scenes which are Rodney, Piper, and Bigweld designs. Adding those would be a nice bonus! Here’s a video link to this movie minigame: ruclips.net/video/PoYOnId5bts/видео.html
Either way, I’m looking forward to seeing you at least attempt this masterpiece!
I loved all the little games they used to include on DVDs, this movie had one of my favorites for sure!
I think the ramps at 7:00 are actually mousetraps, which might explain the extra energy produced.
Due to the camera cuts (or whatever its called) you could do each part/section separately and although it wouldn't be completely connected like the robots one supposedly is, it would still give off the exact same feel (With some alterations to make sections actually possible).
I love seeing 2 opinions (flash domino's and yours) you can really see the different 2 perspectives
ooh wait I haven’t seen that video! gotta go watch it now!
@@H5dominocommunityAH!!! Rodney What do we do?!
I don't Know...
This is kind of a first for me!
My observation is that, since they are robots, what if the ones they make are naturally magnetized and made of metal? That would lend to the speed of the dominoes' fall and would validate the possibility of being able to stand upright at an angle. Though I agree, the choice to have the tip of the medal instead of the underside of the brass bell was not a smart move. So if this arrangement of dominoes were tweaked a smidge, it could be plausible. But yeah, SO MANY DOMINOES.
First of all: I love that you did this video. It's really something I've been waiting for. Robots is such a great movie and I love that scene! Also (of course apart from everything in this being super tightly measured which would be close to impossible in real life) it looked to me like the spinning this actually hit the domino in the right spot so it could fall over but it just looked like it hit it from the side because of the camera angle. But that's just how I saw it.
when I was little I legitimately couldn't find this movie after watching it for the first time, and when I finally thought about it again years later I was like "it's about robots... what if it's just called Robots." and I felt so stupid after it popped up immediately
If you could recreate this scene to the extent that it's reasonably possible to do so, that would be amazing.
This is a question I didn't realize I NEEDED the answer to.
Robots is such an underrated film.
Also, I think the film is an exaggeration of what would happen. You could definitely topple a huge domino, but not create an avalanche of dominoes because of it.
Also remember it was created by a genius, so all the elements that are risky will be created with immense precision and never fail.
Most of it seems to be able to be adapted to be possible, but not quite the same as the film.
And please please please replicate it to the best we all know you can.
3:32 Tiddlywinks idea of clipping the edge and flipping it. That's what it looks like.
5:00 That always bugged me. Physically impossible.
3:52
I personally think, that the scene with the dominoes on the ramp can be recreated in real life. But you need to do a trick, which is to stick a piece of tape to the upper flank of the domino and to the ramp, just in the right spots. If you place dominoes pretty close to each other, it could work. Something to try out for you, Lily? 😉
I think the tape would not hold, especially for time spans long enough for it to get dusty. My bet is to embed magnets in the dominos and the ramp.
Tbf, she can just recreate it into upward steps instead of ramps
This was seriously my favorite part of the movie next to the transit system scene!
I always wanted to attempt to make this into a real setup but don’t have the patience lol
So either Big Weld is a GOATed engineer (the dominoes sound magnetic at times, which makes me think that some of this is partially magnetics) or the laws of physics are completely awry.
Maybe the dominoes on the ramp are magnetic.
As for some of the more precision-based stuff, whether realistic or not, could possibly also come partly down to the characters being robots. They can probably calculate whether or not certain things would work at a glance far better than humans. Like the corner with only the single domino. Risky though it may be, Bigweld probably knew it would work simply because his mind was able to calculate all the probabilities associated with it. And while that may be over-thinking it, to me that always came off as part of the point of the scene. That it's impossibly elaborate for humans to create, but since the characters in this film are robots, they can achieve that impossible.
I felt they could be magnetic, but then the force to knock them over becomes bigger
@@Sh12pen True, but perhaps being magnetic, that also means those particular dominoes are heavier, and therefore drop with greater force.
One thing I have learned is when you learn more about a subject and watch something incorrect it will bother you to no end
It's probably impossible for a human to do, certain parts with the dominos flinging off the tables and landing precisely where they need to are certainly too risky. Since Big Weld is an advanced robot I imagine he has some kind of super-human motor control that allows him to precisely place dominos without any concern, so he can get away with using super tight domino configurations.
4:43 look at the center of the "spinning thing" and how far "up" it is, the angle is correct on the tap, it isn't hitting the side. Like the old movies that would use platforms to move cameras forward and backwards and elevate to avoid seeing a reference for size. Draw a line on the table that is left and right from the spinning thing's hole in that table.
I think with many modification it’s possible. The seesaw portion can maybe be modified with loaded springs? So they don’t actually “bounce,” the domino just triggers the spring to launch the other domino. It’s obviously quite hard to aim how the domino will fall tho, it’s probably better if the launched object isn’t a domino, but a sphere.
The other dominoes falling can also be replaced by sphere to make it more predictable where the trajectory is going to go
its impossible but still very aesteticly pleasing and sounds great lol
10:55 I remember, as a kid, I thought *this* was the part that was impossible in real life.
Well the Mythbusters did something like that irl
I don't want to defend this movie but have you ever stop to think Its a robot movie and some pieces mat have been made of metal or and magnets, I mean I haven't seen plastics in that movie but I seen ceramic. So metal dominos? Which makes it more imposable to make maybe or I forgetting something more related to metal and magnets?
The dominos could be made out of a kind of metal, plastic or wood. Something light or heavy enough to get cert results, maybe something like loaded dice.
What if the dominos had small magnets in the bottom keeping them on the ramp? Also, I don't think the spinning thing was directly behind the domino, it could have been off to the side, causing the tip to impact from behind, which, to me, is what appears to be happening. This is most noticeable by the angle of the shadows and the slight blur on the dominoes themselves indicating one object being in the foreground and one in the background. I've seen plenty of Rube Goldberg Devices/Machines using this exact setup as well.
If they had magnets then it would take a lot more force to make them fall
Seriously! When I saw the way dominoes are falling, I am thinking 🤔 that it looks like it is animated but when I saw th domino that fall from the table I am pretty sure that it is 100 percent animated but when I saw the the field representing the picture of robot, my mind was🤯 also the guy who make this he/she is so amazing 🤩 and at the earthquake of dominoes like if I have that much of domino it can be set in the whole city like there are so many dominoes. So, this is animated. Keep on building
There was a joke at the end of the scene about how Bigweld thought the MC was the Dominos delivery guy.
I like how there's a domino community uniquely prepared to answer this.
You know I didn't really look all that closely at the guillotine scene, but is it just me or does the guillotine ACTUALLY just splitt a domino piece in half?
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my headcanon is that for the ramp, bigweld used the same concepts as the anti gravity 2 liter bottle holders and took advantage of carving notches into the plank he used as a ramp.
Lily being the best explainer
It’s very clever how this has been animated but yes I think it is impossible
This is legit one of my core memories. Thank you for this!!!!!!
Realistic😊
How many domino packs did bigweld bye?
This scene made me to start with my domino mania as a kid. I bet I am not alone here :D
Ever since I’ve seen this movie I wanted someone to do something like in real life. This video comes close 👍🏻
Hi I’m from tiktok and you told me about the crossingdomino field so thank you
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I LOVE ROBOTS TOOOOOO!
my favorite character is Rodney.
This domino scene is amazing to watch, and your breakdown is what mostly what I thought it would be. But there's one small detail I'm sure you missed: the guillotine actually slices a domino in half! I don't know what you would say, but I think that would be impossible unless you either had a really sharp and sturdy blade or a domino that was made out of plastic or something.
The way I think the dominoes were standing up on an angle is that they used really sticky tape but you can’t see them.
Great video! I've really been enjoying this real or fake/realistic or impossible series so far, I would love to see you analyse more projects like this. And yeah, a remake of this particular setup would be amazing!
I remember Flash Domino’s take on talking about this scene about how animated dominoes get somethings wrong
Maybe the dominos have magnets that's why they look 50 degrees idk
Imagine setting up a complex domino setup and then waiting for someone(s) to randomly knock them over just to show off your surfing skills. 😆
(10:56) also during the turn a domino hits another one on the edge which is a bad idea so
Some of your issues fall back to artistic and operational simplification reasons. You also have to keep in mind that this is set up by a highly skilled robot. The robot in question has physics knowledge and the ability to detect with high accuracy the location where a domino should land. The domino ramp may have been a bridge that for artistic reasons got changed. The domino flip trick might work if the ramps were spring loaded and the domino hitting was all that was needed to cause the latch to release. You're right that the falls from the table are dramaticised, however, the bottom would flip above the table under the circumstances shown because it would hit the corner of the table as it fell.
Bigweld be built so differently that he made a physics defiying domino contraption
Back in the day when my younger brother and I were building actively with express dominoes we often used the straight express tracks for two things: Field starters and ramps to go up without needing to build stairs. As long as the Angle isn't slowing the dominoes down too much, I does work very well.
And about that big field in the end: That would be great to recreate in real-life, but probably also a pain in the ass to set up since it's so huge and dense.
Lily I haven't watch you like 2 years
30ft domino expecting in real life😅😅
6:40 Don't forget that each piece takes a different trajectory, but they're all launched in the same way
If your taking suggestions please please please do the scene from Malcom in the middle it defined domino art for me as a kid
not gonna lie though the scene is fake its pretty fun to watch..!!!
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true!! I love watching it regardless! thank you :)
Actually glad you did this for robots. I been curious about it too. Can you try to do this in real life?
I would like to someday!! Just need enough space, time, and dotted dominoes!
they look like they are above the table because they flip so when they are horizontal they would be in between the top of the table and the top of the domino.
I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS FOR SO MANY YEARS! YESSSSSSS!! Seriously this video is like a childhood dream of mine come true. I always wanted to try this but it's just not possible for me to do domino build thingys in general XD Anyways, instant subscribe!
When I was really little that was my favourite scene, and part of the reason I got into dominoes
This was a very interesting analysis!
5:16 Pause it and look at where the spinning thing is not quite hitting the domino. (pause it at 5:16 and use period and comma on the key board to frame forward and backward. Find the frame where it's touching the top of the domino. once there frame forward to the first frame of it falling. then frame back and forth watching those two frames. Then watch you talk about how it would not work.
Thank you.
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Honestly the dude was stuck in a room for gosh knows how long with a lot of time on his hands so all I can imagine is him meticulously trying this over and over until he got it how he wanted it lol
4:08 They could have used tape to make the domino fall in one dirction only
Try it and see! I would love to see this irl
Realistic
I feel like most of it will work in real life. For one thing, The domino’s falling upward can be done with a mini stairway.
6:55 what if you made little domino launchers that have a base with a magnet and another magnet on the underside of the lever? So when it is set up, the magnets are far enough apart that they are not attracted towards each other, but as soon as a domino brings the end of the lever down, it gets pulled down the remainder of the distance with force generated by the magnets.
this only scene made me crazy for dominos when I was younger 😂
Intresting video!
In my opinion, the slanted dominoes are possible; it can only work on Straight Pivot Tracks from Domino Rally or Domino Express.
I believe the method of art they used is called POINTERISM, look it up😎
Pointillism
So cool!
I think the Dominoes going up the ramp is already possible; just use the pivot tracks from Domino Rally.
Made me smile. 👍
Ohh there's a lip on the edge of the table. Maybe it can bounce.
I tried to work out how to make the ramp work. I figured how to make the dominoes stand at that angle, but then the chain reaction doesn't work, so that's not possible.
The newton's cradle just looks badly drawn. The domino is under compression, increasing horizontal friction, so it stays.
The levers can't work unless some super-bouncy material (there's a metal with better than .95 rebound on bounce) was used. They do exist, but those dominoes would be so heavy, which makes that a rat trap not a mousetrap. Even then you would notice as soon as it hits the next domino it's just wrong.
The domino wave might be possible, but only by staging most of the dominoes in the upper floor. The giant domino lands on the floor, bouncing all the dominoes off it (mostly Bigweld's portrait), but also releases the wave source from above. And Bigweld is just waiting for somebody to set it off. It's only doable because these are metal skinned and metal boned robots. It would be lethal for humans. Even then, they're not going to act like water.
We could almost backtrack and make the whole thing out of super bouncy material which ensures the wave really does work rather than being a maybe, but then it's lethal for robots too.
Many of these "Improbable" looks like machine precision I'd actually expect in this world, but is not in evidence the whole rest of the movie.
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Impossible and inspiring!
Good work!