Could this be the world’s tallest Rokenbok construction? These guys have been building towers for a couple of years now.  Their latest creation is around 20 feet tall, has four working elevators, and a cool roof made of curved beams.

This video shows a simple monorail layout–basically starts high and goes downhill.  But it goes all the way out the door–it’s kind of long.  We liked the music.

We like this build a lot.  It’s a “horizontal conveyor”, like an elevator but instead of going up and down, it goes from side to side.  We think it’s made out of a tower crane, but mounted horizontally instead of vertically.  Very cool idea.  But what’s with the sound track?  How about some music next time instead of listening to the wife in the background

And there’s a brief visit from the cat.

This guy’s constructed what he calls a “ramp alternative”.   It’s an interesting idea.  Then he tries to drive several vehicles up and down the ramps.  It sort of works, but the ramps are really too step, as you can see when the vehicles skid headfirst down the ramps.  The Skiptrack can’t seem to make it up the ramp, but the creator has promised a “part two” to show what happens.

This three-part video shows an RC elevator, a loader, and a sweeper in action. Three quarries, a piston plant, and an action sorter conveyor are included in the build.

The video work is not the best–it could have used some editing to get rid of the shaky, blurry transitions between views. And some music would have been great. But it does show off some of the fun play options available with Rokenbok.

Here’s a nice review of Rokenbok.  The video starts out with a very cool time-lapse photography of a set being built.  Then the reviewer talks about the various features of Rokenbok.  The only thing we didn’t like was the ending–kind of an attempt at comedy, but it didn’t work.  They should just edit that out.

This Rokenbok representative is being interviewed at the Toy Fair 2008.  What we think is cool, though, is the really big build that he shows off, with two monorails running at the same time, a tower crane, and a loader.  The vehicles seem to be running by themselves for this demo display.

David and Ben show off their massive build in Ben’s basement.  I like the music on this video.  This build has elements from a lot of sets - chutes, elevator, Roklift, monorail, conveyors, and more.  Vehicles in the video include a dozer, skiptrack, and forklift.

These guys have a pretty good set up for tournament play. That’s where you try to knock the other vehicle off the platform. Good music, fun video. But we have one word of advice: tripod!

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Adrienne has built a cool set of Rokenbok.  She shows some great driving skills in the first half of the video, then her Dad takes over driving while she runs the camera.  Adrienne’s camera skills are a bit shaky, but we hear she is just under six years old, so her driving and videography is actually pretty impressive.

The video demonstrates a number of Rokenbok sets including a great looping Monorail track (and tunnel!), forklift, skiptrack, loader, dozer, sweeper vehicles, power Roklift, elevator, and ball sorter.

Wireless controllers would be huge! The long control wires get tangled up easy and get in the way of play. We’d love to see that change.

Maybe while they’re at it, Rokenbok could adopt a standard protocol like Bluetooth. Imagine being able to control vehicles from a laptop so that they could run through pre-programmed sequences. Or maybe you could record a run and then play back the control sequences to reproduce what you did. Add some sensors, and this could allow the vehicles to make the leap from “remote-control vehicles” to “robots”!

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Here’s an interesting “timelapse” video showing someone’s Rokenbok build over the course of several months.  We think this is a great way to show the development of a build.  It looks like the tricky part is keeping the camera location and the lighting consistent from frame to frame.  Let’s hope to see some more of these.

Balderdash and Blokus put together a nice build that includes a three floor elevator. I hope they post some more pictures soon.

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And oh, by the way, what is “tey”?