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Giant Sticky Man Toy Going Down A Skyscraper In Japan

submitted by laura

1 decade 7 years 3 months ago

"Sticky man wall crawler toys have been around for years, but nobody had ever bothered to build one the size of a human being. They’ve all been cheap and tiny little pieces of junk, never having climbed down anything much taller than the average household wall.

All of that changed recently when the Japanese TV show Hey! Spring of Trivia decided to conduct a grand experiment. The procedure was as follows:

Build a giant sticky man
Find a skyscraper
Wait for a day without much wind
Drop the giant sticky man on the side of the building and see how far it can climb down
It seemed pretty simple, but their first attempt at getting the sticky man to climb down Akita City’s Port Tower was a disaster.
After rebuilding the giant sticky man and making its body to sticky stuff ratio closer to that of the actual toy, they tried again (getting much better results).
It wasn’t able to make it all the way down the tower, but the human-sized sticky man will still no doubt go down in history as one of mankind’s greatest achievements."
(from JapanProbe)

8 Comments

That was great

I've gotta get me some of that sticky stuff and get down from skyscrapers the hilarious way!

That made it farther down than I was expecting.

Any idea how much that thing weighed?

So this is where they got the idea for the Pepsi commercial!

Chaucer says...

the japanese have WAY to much time on their hands.

the japanese have WAY to much time on their hands.

And that's good news for the rest of us!

You think its the countries lack of a major military that give them the time to pursue such "things"? I heard they want a military again and with a Ron Paul movement of pulling are people back that could mean play time is over for Japan. Unfortunatley in their time they also pursue some amazing technological advances as well which will somewhat end

So the sticky man broke his leg and still was able to go to 55m before falling... they need to redo this stunt with a more stable sticky man that doesn't fall apart so easy...

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