Cool Honda commercial from a few years back

[bull]

I'm sure this is old news to many of you but I'd never seen or heard about it until today. What's cool about it is that they didn't use any computerized trickery to do it; it's all real. Of course it took them weeks of work and 605 failed attempts before they finally got it right but it's pretty cool IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo
http://snopes.com/photos/advertisements/hondacog.asp

[472 R/T SE]

Don't want to sound like Debbie Downer but that cost $6 million? 

[bull]

Don't want to sound like Debbie Downer but that cost $6 million? 

Yea, that seemed a bit steep to me too. I think I would have done it for 1/2 of that.

[ZSmithersCharges]

The tire/wheel part is impossible... it was done with CG if nothing else but for that part.

Edit: I take that back they were weighted according to wikipedia so that they would go up the ramp all it took was a bump to get them rolling... good idea, yet it is sort of trickery  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_%28advert%29

[Finn]

I was thinking the same thing.

[bordin34]

I think for the tire/wheel part they put heavy weights toward the top so that when they were hit the wheel rolled.

[68X426]

How come when that sequence happens in my garage it results in a complete disaster?

[ZSmithersCharges]

I think for the tire/wheel part they put heavy weights toward the top so that when they were hit the wheel rolled.

Ding ding ding... you must have been working for the film production team 

[The70RT]

Six million. No wonder why a lower strut nut & bolt for an 85 model is 20 bucks it the dealership.  

[bull]

How come when that sequence happens in my garage it results in a complete disaster?

Because you weren't properly motivated by a payment of millions of dollars.

[Tilar]

That's pretty good, Reminds me of this one by VW...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad4fagTyaM4