Human-sized Wacky WallWalker scales Japanese skyscraper

Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 26, 2008 11:56 PM | permalink

Sho sez, "A Japanese TV show designs a 5'6" Wacky WallWalker, weighing about 154 lbs, to climb down a 110-meter skyscraper. The first try is not exactly successful, but a second attempt comes up with better results. Both videos are highly entertaining for the 8-year-old in all of us."

This is no ordinary reality show -- they've got enough cameras deployed to catch the merry mayhem from every conceivable angle. I love the school-group of little kids on one storey who are captured gasping and giggling as the WallWalker plummets past them. Link (Thanks, Sho!)

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#1 posted by joi , January 27, 2008 12:57 AM

This is the kind of stuff that makes me proud to be Japanese. ;-)

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#2 posted by linguafranca , January 27, 2008 1:12 AM

Go Japan!
Idea: Put the gooey stuff on your own hands and feet and go yourself. Anyone thought of that already?
Now, I bet someone will try that soon.

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#3 posted by elchucko , January 27, 2008 3:43 AM

That was entertaining! I'd love to see that up close. Well, not as the goo-man...

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#4 posted by dannysland , January 27, 2008 7:27 AM

Deviation! You don't "scale" downwards.

OED: "To climb, get over (a wall or the like); to ascend (a mountain); to get to or reach the top of."

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#5 posted by anthropomorphictoast , January 27, 2008 11:24 AM

Being a child of the 80's, this delights me to no end. :)

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#6 posted by Moon , January 27, 2008 4:31 PM

It wasn’t able to make it all the way down the tower, but the human-sized sticky man will still no doubt go down in history as one of mankind’s greatest achievements.

Hahahahaha! MANKIND'S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT!