Mouse Trap: Reinvented 🧀 

Can you sell this as a new board game? Extreme mouse trap?

That was ridiculous...this better get millions of views. You can definitely tell this was 6 months of work, awesome job!

Wow. This is one of the best machines I've seen in a very long time, if not ever. Everything about this video is just astounding. You've created the perfect example of a machine that's amazingly intricate and clever without sacrificing the ability to understand most of what's going on when watching at regular speed, which, might I add, still doesn't take away from me wanting to watch it over and over again! I don't know how you come up with some of these multi-use elements, but I seriously admire the creativity behind them and the ability to make all of the motions so smooth. Not only are your machines creative, complex, and brilliantly designed, but they're all so accessible to people of all experience levels given how well everything is displayed and filmed. Simply revolutionary.

Bruh how you ever got that to all fit on one table is beyond me. One like isn’t enough.

The coolest parts of this machine are the tricks that you don't notice watching the first time.

*yeets the gameboard* Ain't nobody catching mice today

Dude! Have you ever played The Incredible Machine series or the spiritual successor Contraption Maker on Steam? I love your real life contraptions. I wonder what you could make in the games...

Joel: the king of ball multiuse

I always love all the double-triple-quadruple combos I see in your videos, you always amaze me with this content!

damn, this channel easily deserves like 100k! I've been a sub since I found this out from Reddit like 4 months ago and have seen every video since! Keep up the great work man, always enjoy watching these, they make my day a bit brighter for sure so thank you kindly!!

When everybody subscribes to Theinvention11 but nobody turns on notifications.

I love this reinvention.

Amazing machine as always, this is a fantastic concept as well for a machine. I also appreciate the effort to still make it recognizable as a variation of the original mousetrap. My favorite tricks are the sequences at 0:54 and 1:28. Both excellent combinations of foreign objects and multi use. Another thing I appreciate is how small scale your tricks are, makes them even more impressive for me. Again great job on this machine!

Watching these makes me wanna create a Rube Goldberg contraption.

Only a matter of time before the game companies start asking you to mass-produce this... Seriously, this is incredible. I have no idea how you outdo yourself EVERY TIME! One of the first things I noticed was that in this machine, every object was used to its fullest potential. In other words, every trick was "spiced up" as much as it could have been. Consider the trick at 0:44 for example. It would be cool enough to have the cheese pieces fit together to create a track for the ball, but then you open the pieces up so a marble could use the cheese pieces for a zigzag. Almost every single trick in the machine follows that format, and considering how compact the machine was, that's really impressive. Some tricks were even moved, rotated, or flipped 3 or 4 times! It's the little details like this that make your projects so entertaining. Simply put, AMAZING machine, you will always be a top machine artist in the community!

Impressive, like nothing more... nothing less.... I thought what did with knex was cool back in the day... I was wrong..

129 likes, 0 dislikes. That proves how good this is.

You my friend, have a fantastic imagination!

One of the most painful experiences in recent memory was seeing the notification for this video but not being able to watch it until we filmed later that night. I had such high expectations for this machine, considering I probably knew the most about it out of anyone. This machine certainly lived up to (and surpassed) my expectations for what it could be. Of course this machine is comprised of no shortage of insanely brilliant tricks and feats of motion that only a master chain reaction artist like yourself could ever create. But we've come to expect that from you by now (and honestly, we're still blown away). What IS new, however, is your increased focus on interesting nonlinear pathing, and a seamless flow from one element of the machine into the next. As you said, this was your effort to imitate my style of machine building, so I was beyond curious to see how well you were able to pull that off, and what your style would look like blended with those elements of my style. The result is a machine with a labyrinthine sequence of motion that still feels cohesive and understandable. As several commenters have said already, there isn't a single moving element of this machine that has only a single use. Every ball is used in multiple tricks, every track rotates or tilts, every lever serves multiple purposes. Despite being inspired by my style of building, what you've accomplished in this machine is far beyond the bounds of what I'm capable of. In fact, it's far beyond the bounds of what any person on the globe is capable of. The way you were able to manage each and every one of those miniature Mouse Trap parts is a talent unmatchable by anyone else. This is, without a doubt, my favorite machine of yours, and probably my favorite video as well. You put a lot of work into this, and you should be proud of yourself. I'm certainly proud of you. :)

I'm speechless.... Everything has an unexpected multi use utilisation!!

Imagine stepping in a trap and proceed to hear clanking sounds for many times before the trap caught you lol

Fool. You think we all don't know your secret? You think we don't know you're not human? Think again. You still have time to pass your judgment I'll be listening ~ A guy in awe srsly tho, this is indescribable. I really loved the zigzag part at 0:43 and the music is just great Mad props, as always.

You trigger so many things with strings and potential energy, but it looks so precise and careful! Also I think its super oddly satisfying that the whole things is about as compact as it feasibly could be given its complexity. Make a tutorial of your favorite simple machines and how / with what materials you make them! You're a mechanical master!

This is pure art. Well done!

Amazing. I love how compact everything is. Congratulation on this wicked machine.

Wow, that looks incredible! Awesome chain reaction machine! You have definitely smashed it!

So how do I build this?

So many balls!!!

One more thing: the music choice matches really well because the song is like so pyoom-pyoom-pyoom-pyoom and the machine is also really pyoom-pyoom-pyoom in its movements you know?

unique tricks

Mouse Trap: Reinvented (That’s really a game of ziny action on a crazy contraption)

Hey It's me Shakib (aka Alexander_13). I am inspired by your videos and my videos are all about rom hacking. I plan on hacking my favourite Gameboy game of all time Pokemon Red.

RIP skyrail tracks that got cut in half

Some assembly required*

Dude how do you only have 8,000 - 9,000 subs? You need like 100,000 subs

I can’t believe that the laws of physics support your projects every time - WHAT IN THE WORLD? 👀

Where the hell was this machine at ISMGO

Nice!

How do you even go about planning the design of something like this? This is absolutely incredible. Would love to see a behind the scenes in the design and construction phases!

Dude, that was so awesome! As you probably know, I have always been a huge fan of when people use pieces from Mouse Trap in their machines, and these were BY FAR the coolest tricks I have ever seen anyone do with them! I loved how you turned every piece into a multi-use element! Like I always say, I have no idea how you're able to think of any of these ideas! You have literally built a better mouse trap! XD

Don't worry this will pop up in everyone's recommended in 6 years

so many cool moments like the little blue slalom being used 2x in different directions love it

Beautifully done ✅ yeah dude 👏

The way you turn the original game of mouse trap into a whole machine that gets 0 dislikes Joel, I believe that's the most impressive machine you've made so far. The most interesting parts of the machine are: 1. How you used all the parts of the original game (almost). 2. How you use cheese wedges to make to make a path for a ball, and use those same cheese wedges to make a zigzag path for a marble. Now I've actually designed a lot of chain reactions involving that same game, but again, this is by far the best chain reaction I've seen so far. This definitely deserves a like.

This is starting to get beyond my conception. Im going to need to explain each step and the physics behind them to keep my mind from exploding.

doctor: you have 4 minutes and 24 seconds left to live me:

I never left a real comment on this before because I would have absolutely no clue where to start in picking apart this madness and trying to put it into words. A few things I'll mention though, bear with my wording... It's seriously pretty magical how you can make every single track and object be used in so many different ways at many times while still making every connection very neat and flow really well in a mechanical harmony so complex and complete. No connections feel out of place, and it's like designing a city with streets and businesses and places laid out so precisely in a way that congested traffic is an impossibility and vehicles flow like it's some utopian society where everything just fits into place exactly- that's what it feels like you're doing, and why I say that what you do is magic Also, I think the theme of Mouse Trap was incorporated really nicely - like the elements from the game were very recognizable and the machine as a whole had a very mousetrap kind of feel in its movements and how it neatly mixes in lots of small-scale swingy, turny and flippy motions. There's definitely a lot more to say about this machine but that would physically exhaust my fingers and mind to write all that. Your best work in my opinion; great job

This is awesome!

UNREAL!!! And you have far too much time on your hands! LOL

It's a tough choice, but I think your version wins. :) Not only was it complex, but it was clean and elegant. Truly a work of art. (1:28 was unbelievable!!!)

6 months of work in only a couple of minutes, I need more

Honestly, there's so much I have to say about this machine - truly one of the best full-length machines I've watched all year - but what I think best sums it up is this: This machine has immense replay value, especially for someone like me who loves getting engrossed in the details. There are so many subtle multi-uses, hidden elements that play a vital role, and clever paths to unpack; so many specialized mechanisms, fine-tuned motions, and objects whose physical properties are uniquely suited to the way they are used. Every time I watch this video, I will notice something new, something clever that I missed on *all* of my previous viewings. Most professionally produced films don't even have that kind of replay value! A couple other things: I loved the tight integration of Mousetrap elements (they were so naturally integrated into the machine that at first I barely noticed it), and I'm continually impressed by how you work with transferring impulse without being too reliant on height. This is honestly a work of art. Well done, as always!

If this was a real game, I’d play it every day!

This machine is absolutely insane! I really enjoyed the idea of upgrading the classic mouse trap game by incorporating the mouse trap pieces with your amazing building style! The compactness and length of the machine was extremely impressive because you had an incredible amount of multi use tricks. My favorite tricks included: -The first trick because of its super clean motion and how it was multi use (I also like how you use the starting crank from the actual game to start of the machine). -The trick at 0:44 also really stood out to me because of how creative yet simple it was. 0:54 was absolutely madness, the way you managed to reuse that simple piece is just beyond me. 1:29 was another example of a very unexpected multi use trick because of how the platform gets lifted up making room for the marble staircase to do its double motion. Also, It was nice to meet you at Reactica and hope you make more full length machines in the future! ;) P.s. How many takes did this machine have? And what editor do you use?

Now just watch children out that together as a board game lmao

you didn't really catch the mouse you just bopped him on the head

Mouse Trap Game in Baby Dolittle Neighborhood Animals.

Wouldn’t you hate resetting that!?!

All of your videos are fantastic. I like to turn the playback speed to 25% to watch it all work.

This is mind blowing! I loved how you made the tricks multi-use!

The most amazing is that it is so compact and objects are reused so many times!

So cool!, I can barely get regular mouse trap set up, cant imagine how long this took...

Is no one going to mention the aperture brand balls?

Gotta say now that's a zany action on a crazy contraption

Plot twist: This machine is a lot easier to break.

Mouse trsch fan 1

yo can i have a shout out

0:11 ouch...

THE 11 INVENTIONS..........

super cool so glad i came across this

Brilliant The creative reusage of the original games elements and the multiple uses of certain parts truly make it feel more interactive than most of these machines. Great work on this. P. S. So I guess those ping pong balls are owned by some science company in michigan