Fantastic work with this one. Definitely brings a smile to my face!

If only they made quieter motors. The sound ruins the tranquility of this stunning piece. Really incredible work!

Imagine an entire Lego city with these surrounding it, just tons of parts making it feel so much more alive

You need to convince lego to make a set like this, I'd totally buy it!

This looks incredible! Especially in the lighthouse scene, it looks like you took a chunk out of the ocean!

One of the coolest things I've seen in a long time… all the form, function, and fun combined!

This is genius, thank you for making this come to life

The relaxing sounds of the ocean WHIIIIIIRL But seriously that water looks really nice. I never thought of using nets to simulate a liquid.

Absolutely amazing build. I just wish they would,make the motors a lil more quiet.

Would like to see it with all 3 mechanisms being slightly shifted in phase - that would give more realistic results I think.

The creativity and thoughtful engineering that went into this build is simply amazing.

You should make a 1 hour video with this just repeating over and over (muted) with chill beats playing in the background. It’s very calming to watch *Edit 10 seconds later after posting this comment* oh he already did but with Ocean sounds. Nice!

Truely one of the crziest minds in the Lego building world

Awesome! Next level of water building 😅

That is nuts to come up with this contraption from your mind. It's incredible and soooo satisfying to watch it work...

Incredible! The creativity, ingenuity and craftsmanship are out of this world! This deserves way more views and attention

Alright Grant this is amazing

This video deserves 10mil views AT LEAST!!

Ahhh love the sound of mechanical waves.

This is one of the reasons why Lego is one of the best things ever made. The possibilities are endless. If Lego is too expensive for you, there's countless off-brands that can be much cheaper for pretty much equal enjoyment in most cases.

Grant, I've been following you on Flickr for over 7 years and every time you create something - it completely blows my mind and makes me happy. Your wave machine is simply clever and the whole MOC is just amazing, it made me smile. Keep bricking! Best wishes, Ilya T.

Impressive!! 😱

It was an honor to see this in person and meet the creator at Bricks Cascade 2022!

The dog on the surfboard stole the show, it is a whole vibe that we aim to be. And this is a phenomenal creation, well done

Never would have thought that Lego could be used for something like this, that is awesome!

This was pretty awesome. Was so fascinated with the 2 major motions that failed to notice the lighthouse light! Have recently done a ocean-like scene with moving waves (pales in comparison to yours!) but also used the Spike Prime module to add sound like ocean waves and seagulls (in addition to motion controls) to muffle out the sound of the LEGO motors :)

Awesome build man. LEGO & Masterbuilders like yourself continue to amaze me.

Amazing, wish it could be a set to buy, even in much smaller scale.

This is incredible!!! The whole engineering behind the mechanism is simple but really nice!! Also, the beach section with the lighthouse is so beautiful. I can totally see this as a Lego set!! Good Job!!

Welp, that’s genius.

I LOVE the detail of the wet sand being darker to match the shape of the wave!

Things like this is what Lego should produce and sell for adults.

This is the coolest LEGO mechanism I’ve seen in a long time. Amazing build dude

Amazing. But shouldn't the water retreat most when the wave hits is closest to the shore? I think a little shift in the synchronization between wave and tide would make it ever more organic.

i love how simple the mechanics of this for a truly beautiful effect. it reminds me of the practical effects that get used on disney park rides.

We need more people like this in the world ❤

How did you get the periods perfectly in sync between the wave and the tide? Is there a direct connection on the drive train, or did you do some crazy gear ratio math to pull that off? This is endlessly fascinating and greatly inspiring!

That wave movement is mesmerizing!

Lego has come so far. We couldn’t build things like this when I was a kid.

this is the most creative thing I've ever seen made with lego. 10/10

Incredible mechanism! Great camera work. This is wonderful

This is fantastic! Very inspiring to bring more movement to MOCs!

This is so whimsical. I'd love to sit on that beach and watch the waves

by far the best lego wave machine ever! wish i had those net pieces to build this amazing thing

This is crazy cool. I would never be able to figure out the technic mechanics to get it to flow like that, great job. The build itself is super cool too, I love how clean the transition on the side is from rock to dirt and sand.

Very clever

This thing is amazing and the music makes its so much more better. Something really comforting about this

love the surf surfs but the rowboat skips. great build and vid.

I’ve seen a lot of LEGO stuff and this is one of the best motion pieces I’ve ever seen. Awesome job!!

Amazing

I love the mechanical works of this. Simple but cleaver

The moment I saw the light in the lighthouse turning, it was impossible to NOT like this video. Really great build and attention to detail!

Great idea with that wave 😍

It's vary impressive to see both, technical and artistic talent put into this build. Very nice.

This has been one of those "Oh I'll watch it another day" videos and weeks and weeks later, today I gave in ~ it's 0430BST and who needs boring old sleep? ~ I'm so very very pleased that I did. There's so much more to see than you catch from the initial snippet. Ingenuity and then some in the mechanism. Artistry and then some in the decoration. Bravo, bravo.

If there were a nobel prize for lego builds, this would win it

The absolute mad lad did it again.

This is such a fun and interesting design! Truly fantastic!

The guy surfing was super cool and it actually worked really well

I like how no one's talking about how chill the wave is

Such an awesome build, the function works perfectly after so much work spent iterating. Really love this video, seeing it get built up was really cool.

That’s awesome. Good job 👍🏻

This one of the coolest Lego builds I've seen! I love the small details like the foam on the water, how the wave pushes the branches up and down, the dark portion of the sand where the waves touch the shore, and of course, the dog riding the surfboard all the way to shore. Fantastic!

Thank you for this! I was so stunned to saw it last week on reddit and finally I know how you build that. Amazing work

So cool, thanks for taking the time share the behind the scenes! I attempted a similar concept (motorized lighthouse by water) a while back but this makes me want to take it back to the drawing board haha. Really clever mechanisms you've come up with here!

the scene so peacefull but the SOUND IT MAKES

Wow, in some ways this is the coolest lego build I've ever seen. I've seen plenty of very advanced lego engineering and plenty of beautiful dioramas but this I think is the first time I see the two combined.

It’s pretty good. It reminds me of the little moving dioramas that are in the LEGO Star Wars the Skywalker saga.

Absolutely genius. And I can only second the no.1 comment here: you made me smile genuinly. It's moments like these that make me forget my troubles and relax.

ummm.. this is probably the most brilliant thing I have seen someone do with Lego.

Fire, aeroplanes, cars and a lego wave machine. Just some of mans greatest inventions.

This is truly amazing, and endlessly mesmerizing! Can't wait to see the full video compilation!!

brilliantly done! i love the mechanisms under the wave!

Humans ingenuity never fails to astonish me, what an incredible build.

Yeah, the sound of the machine, aint machine it's actually cricket noise, makes it all the more better

Grant this is wild!!!! What an awesome job!

Looks insane man , great job on the mechanism and the build looks very cool also !

Literally a brainwave of genius. So tranquil and calming to watch. Marvellous engineering. Spectacular Congratulations

Yay a dog on a surfboard. This ist so great. Not only the mechanics also the whole look.

Amazing work! However, I’m curious to see a different syncing between the movements of the rolling wave and the breaking wave ( by that I mean the water on the beach). Here, you have them synced in a way that both go forwards and backwards simultaneously. But I wonder whether it looked better, if the breaking wave kept moving forward after the rolling wave disappeared. Because in reality, the wave comes rolling, breaks _and then_ the water of broken wave creeps up the beach. (Here I think it looks a bit weird that water of the broken wave on the beach pulls back immediately after the rolling wave disappeared) Furthermore, this way the next wave rolling wave would be headed to the beach, while the water is still “flowing” back from the beach into the ocean, which would be really realistic. Maybe my imagination is wrong but In my inner eye this would look even better.

I find it a bit strange and unnatural that the water is rising on the sand before the wave arrives: usually the water keeps going back to the sea until the moment a wave crashes on the shore. I wonder if this effect would be achieved by realigning the two systems or if this process would make the movement awkward in another way. Nevertheless, this is a very nice and cool construction. Well done.

Fall asleep to the relaxing sounds of lego waves.

This is so dope. Love the touch of the seaweed washing up onto the sand.

I've never been too impressed by Lego builds. Not Lego Millennium Falcon, not Lego Titanic, not even Lego Deathstar. But I AM impressed by this. Congratulations. This is wonderful! 🙂

Absolutely beautiful, it's comforting!

building a machine to make legos move fluidly - 👏👏👏 building the machine OUT OF LEGOS - 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 astonishing work dude!!!

This should be a world record forsure

Hey I remember seeing this at bricks cascade. This is a pretty impresses build, i love the details and how everything works.

This is so cool!! I love the design and the working wave is absolutely wonderful!! 😀

Helpful tip: if you dont have netting, you can punch holes in a peice of paper for the same effect!

There's no place I'd rather be , than on my surfboard out at sea. Lingering in the ocean blue! And if I had one wish come true, I'd surf till the sun sets beyond the horizon! 'Āwikiwiki, mai lohilohi . Lawe mai i ko papa he'e nalu. *Flyin by on the Hawaiian roller coaster ride!* Everybody gangsta...till you see the waves are being controlled by waterbenders

What a fantastic build!!! Every detail and mechanism are so well thought! 👏🏼 Lovely video too, it has a jk brickworks vibe

2:45 YOU CRAZY MAN, YOU CRAZY 😂

Whenever I see something creative like this, it gives me a little bit more faith in humanity.

Man, I love this so much--I would vote for it and "evangelize" for you if you put this on LEGO Ideas. If you make any future videos with this set or any other iterations of this wave machine, I'd love for you to consider using a song of mine in the background. Here's why it's so on-the-nose: When I was young, my grandfather (who was an engineer) would build my LEGO sets for me. My most epic memory of this was when I got the Black Seas Barracuda one birthday, and he sat for hours assembling it at the big wooden dinner table. Fast forward 25-30 years: My song "Tír na nÓg" is about his decline due to Alzheimer's/dementia. In the first verse, I reference him building the Black Seas Barracuda for me, with this lyric: "a ship that you built out of bricks, from a box when I was six". The ocean/ships/shipwreck theme continues throughout, with the last verse describing a trip to the beach together from the last time I saw him (2017); we stood serenely at Siesta Key Beach (Florida), watching fish and birds in the gentlest waves I've ever stood in. He was so at peace and happy in that moment, despite not know who any of us were. The relaxing flow/speed of your wave machine takes me back to that beautiful moment. Here's the song: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7B4oqh80sCdd2w.html (also has some pictures of me and him).

You’ve blown my mind again Grant 🤯

The detail with all the washed up junk on the shore was very clever, awesome work on this build.

I’m laying in bed watching this. It’s nights like these that I really enjoy life, watching something relaxing and creative

the bricks and peices order for this moc must have been expensive as hell

If this was a real set, I would pay good money for it!!! Well done, you must be a massive genius!!!