May 19 2008Questionable: Huge LEGO Indiana Jones Boulder Rolled Down Hill In San Francisco
This is allegedly a 5 million piece LEGO boulder being rolled down a hill in San Francisco. I find it hard to believe it's solid and 5 million pieces because it seems pretty light. But who knows, stranger things have happened (my penis once fell off in the shower after I scrubbed it with a loofah). So these guys roll this big-ass LEGO boulder down a hill while some guy dressed loosely as Indiana Jones runs in front of it (and another in a fez that may or may not be Sallah makes bad commentary). Eventually the boulder bounces off a tree and stops after hitting a parked van. Now we could bicker back and forth all day long whether or not this is fake, so for the sake of argument we'll just agree that it should have been a lot cooler.
UPDATE: Turns out the boulder is styrofoam in the middle. FAIL. Thanks Detective Steph.
Thanks to Altaire, who could train horses to make more realistic LEGO boulders
Reader Comments
1. Morono - May 19, 2008 4:09 PM
lame
2. goob - May 19, 2008 4:15 PM
FAKE! look as the "boulder" first begins to roll...fake AND lame...lame...Holy Crap! Long Beach totally had this gay pride day march thing... There were the gays everywhere! I think one of them looked at me!
3. Dullard - May 19, 2008 4:18 PM
That just screams of viral marketing video.
*I put on my robe and tinfoil hat.*
4. DeMinimis - May 19, 2008 4:28 PM
5 million small lego pieces, and that "boulder" has a lower resolution than my GameBoy (yes, I still have one). Perhaps something slightly more spherical and less boxy might have convinced me.
5. Redd - May 19, 2008 5:04 PM
As gay as that was, somehow I think it's still 100 times more watchable than "The Crystal Skull" is going to be.
6. Josh - May 19, 2008 5:12 PM
If the average brick weighs 3 grams (multiple sites have the weight of a 2x6 brick at anywhere from 2.6 to 3.8 grams) and that ball was made up of 5 million bricks, it would weigh over 33,000 lbs. 16 tons. Even a million pieces would weigh well over 3 tons. the equivalant of rolling a full size ford F350 down the road.
7. Ian - May 19, 2008 5:21 PM
Yeah, you'd think this was fake, but they filmed this in front of my co-worker's house. I know this because he was late one morning due to something being filmed in front of his house, and his street was closed off... I'll see if I can't get the pics he snapped with his iPhone up somehwere to help validate this a bit more... as to the 5 million pieces being used part of this whole thing, I'm gonna have to say that's most likely shenanigans.
Just my 2 cents...
8. Anon - May 19, 2008 7:18 PM
Deminimis
We all still have one
9. pdrunk - May 19, 2008 8:08 PM
Well, there goes my freakin' car insurance.
10. Mista Yuck - May 19, 2008 10:10 PM
How does one explain that to insurance?
11. Scott - May 19, 2008 10:54 PM
Who would even bother putting an alarm on that shitty ass van. That is just plain unrealistic.
12. wads - May 19, 2008 11:48 PM
i did some quick calculations, and 5 million bricks makes since. i used 9feet tall, and approximated each brick to be a cube of length half an inch. gives you 5,253,120 bricks.
13. Alche - May 20, 2008 1:27 AM
real or fake, the people that made this have earned my ire and i hate them
14. LegoGeico - May 20, 2008 9:06 AM
"5 million Lego's could save you 15% or more on your car insurance."
15. What? - May 20, 2008 9:42 AM
LegoGeico....what?
16. Senseless Babble - May 20, 2008 11:17 AM
all I can think of is what a waist of Legos! I could have built a really cool space ship, or a massive city scape with all those bricks instead. sad!
17. jared - May 20, 2008 11:54 AM
i'm in the crystal skull for about 3 seconds of movie fame, don't diss it!
18. Momboelitist - May 20, 2008 12:10 PM
@17,
Since the rest of us are not in the movie we reserve the right to crack wise.
19. goob - May 20, 2008 12:51 PM
@18,
Or crack open a cold one... or crack open a crack vial and smoke the crack... which is what anyone who thinks this is real is doing right now...
20. Kayli - June 14, 2009 9:41 AM
Mythbusters busted this one wide open. As if it wasn't already fake. Still, it's amusing to watch the team spend 2 weeks building a giant lego ball only to see it fall apart not even halfway down the hill they rolled it down.
21. louis vuitton - September 29, 2009 2:16 AM
As gay as that was, somehow I think it's still 100 times more watchable than "The Crystal Skull" is going to be.