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This Gigantic Wooden Mountain May Be the Best Marble Run Ever

By John Wenz Apr 1, 2016 341 Share Tweet Text Share E-mail

In Kindergarten, we had Marble Run. It was the greatest thing. You could pile up a series of tubes, pipes, slopes, and curves to create an amazing way to get a marble to travel from the top to the bottom.

Ben Tardif has made the adult version of that. It's more amazing than I can fully fathom. At eight feet tall, the hand-built, electric powered Marble Mountain can haul marbles up to the top, letting them run down a course, jump over "ravines," make their way through MC Escher-esque staircases, and more.

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Tardif has spent years building the 25 part marble maze, and still says it's a work in progress—this video is the first time it's been close enough to completion to make an official marble run. It's kind of mind boggling to think what the actual end result will be.