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Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown By the Insanely Complex Machine This Dad Built to Reveal His Baby's Gender

Photo credit: Facebook/Dude Dad Vlog (Taylor Calmus)
Photo credit: Facebook/Dude Dad Vlog (Taylor Calmus)

From Redbook

When it comes to viral gender reveal videos, everything that can be done has been done already, right? Well, not quite. One dad proved that there are still a few unique ideas out there with the incredibly elaborate contraption he built to reveal his second baby's sex.

Over the course of 3 days (and with some help from friends), actor and comedian Taylor Calmus (the man behind Dude Dad Vlog) set up what's best described as an adult version of the game "Mouse Trap' - a series of smaller domino effects, each designed to create a ripple effect and set off the next one in the chain. It's also known as a Rube Goldberg machine.

Using household items, toys, and duct tape galore, the soon-to-be dad of two created a contraption that ran throughout the entire three floors of the family's home. It starts off with their baby son Theo knocking over a sippy cup, setting off a chain reaction that ends in a cannon shooting out pink or blue streamers at the parents-to-be (and their freaked-out firstborn) to reveal their new baby's sex.

It's, in a word, insane. (And insanely impressive, hence the 8.7 million views it's racked up.) Just watch.

The set-up, which Calmus said he tested "too many" times in order to make sure that everything flowed properly before filming, was the dad's gambit for creating a reveal that he and his family would never forget. As he explained to The Huffington Post, the couple attempted to keep the sex of their first son a secret for the duration of his wife's pregnancy, but the surprise was ruined by a doctor who accidentally slipped up. By spending so much time and effort setting up this crazy machine, he hoped to make the announcement more memorable this time around.

Mission accomplished, I'd say.

And luckily for Calmus, his wife is (supposedly) pretty chill about the fact that he basically destroyed their house in order to pull this off. "Yes, building a Rube Goldberg machine through your entire house is very messy, but so is parenting!" he told HuffPo. "What better way to prepare for the chaos of two babies under two years old than purposely putting your entire house into disarray?" Fair point, but hopefully clean-up duty isn't falling onto his wife's shoulders.

(h/t Huffington Post)

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