Awesome Meccano

Let’s go through the shrinker ray, and take a twisty, turny, disorienting ride on an awesome model roller coaster built by John and Michael Molden using Meccano metal construction toys. The spinning coaster cars were inspired by Reverchon’s real-life rides. Build video here.

Brian Leach shows off one of the coolest Meccano builds we’ve ever seen, a fully-functional slot machine built almost entirely from the 1970s metal building toys. More recently, he used the parts to build a Meccano pinball machine.

Meccano enthusiast Peter Ashby built this fascinating machine using the classic metal building toys, with motors, chains, and gears. It’s capable of taking individual strands of string and braiding them into a single, sturdy rope.