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Creepy sand-powered animatronic figures

submitted by mintbbb

1 decade 3 months ago

'Warning: May contain terror.

A friend of mine, Alex Godfrey emailed me with the following message: “I just went to an odd little thing in a little park called the Clerkenwell Festival. Bands, bouncy castle, dog show, jumble sale. As I was leaving with a friend we came across this very strange and kind of scary little table with a cardboard machine on it, and these two terrifying dolls on the grass in front. Some little kids came along to look at it and the man at the table asked me to pour a bag of sand into the machine…”

What happened next seriously freaked him out. But luckily Alex found a clip online of these dolls in action. Enjoy.' (from : http://www.robertpopper.com/2014/08/24/enter-the-sandman/)

6 Comments

Interesting In ancient times these would more likely have been water powered, and obviously made with wood, leather, and bronze instead of plastic.

http://www.mechanical-toys.com/History%20page.htm (and particularly the short section on Ctesibius)

They are pissing out sand.

Moving this video to mintbbb's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

PlayhousePals

jokingly says...

Mr. Sandman?

ant

*art *engineering

Adding video to channels (Art, Engineering) - requested by ant.

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