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Today I created a quick livestream to give this episode a video
overview. 
 Here is an overview of the old numbering system: 
 
 The first through seventh placed outer spiral supports were all named
correctly: 
 
 
 
 
 
 

This time I focused on GIMP to overlay GC on background images. It
took several minutes to recall how to do it with any sort of
efficiency; thanks to GIMP and ChatGPT for helping! 
 Using variants of this helped me label images so I could more easily
know which ones to use for what. 
 thunderrabbit@pop-os:~/db.mt3.com$ mogrify -gravity NorthWest -pointsize 172 -fill red…
After buying thread at Pandora House near 新百合ヶ丘駅, I retired some
lengths of the previous thread which is thicker (and slightly darker
(than the background)), but hanging
 G Choppy 
from it proved to be so fiddly
that I decided to try using an armature for it, and ended up having to
stop the livestream (while glue dries) after gluing two pairs of
alligator clip sticks…
Zero frames per hour, a new low! Wooo! 
 I couldn’t get the small bamboo rods to support
 Pinky 
where she had
been previously standing, so I rotated the stage toward me, and
 still couldn’t do it, so thought “hmm” and decided to glue the
 Triple Splitter Small Feeder Inner Guider 
in its place while I had the stage rotated and the…
Today is the day I forgot to take a photo of the
 Caret Splitter Feeder Extension Reflection Stanchion 
before ripping it out so I could re-place it about 1mm from where it had been
blocking medium marbles from flowing down
 the Lowest Small-Medium Splitter 
 The removal and replacement went quite smoothly, and saved Marble
Track 3 from an existential crisis: If I had…
Mr Greene has nearly put Small Marble Saver into place; just a few more steps to go! 
 After trimming Small Marble Saver , G Choppy is flying to his next task on the other side of
the track. 
 Candy Mama is now stable on her right foot (after an unstable arrival onto the
stage) after placing the Twentieth Placed Outer Spiral Support close to its place. Soon she’ll move
to…
G Choppy has certainly perfected his talents as a swordsman! He cut the
very finest edge in the Small Marble Saver so it may be installed after the Lowest Small-Medium Splitter to ensure small marbles reach the Decorative Walls after the Lowest Small-Medium Splitter . 
 In other news Super Spoony has gotten the green marble and will soon
be taking it up the ramp to test the Triple…
This livestream stopped before too long because I needed to let glue
dry on G Choppy ’s support so he can fly smoothly to Mr Greene to trim the Small Marble Saver . 
 More to come soon!
History: 
 
 2025 Jun 05: CM brought 19poss and Twentieth Placed Outer Spiral
support up the first ramp 
 

History: 
 
 2025 Jun 04 : G Choppy curved the top portion 
 

History: 
 
 2025 Jun 04 : Realized it would be needed right here: 
 
 
 
 2025 Jun 04 : Mr Greene scooped up the piece with his foot, walked off the track, and instantly had the piece in his hand as he arrived on the second bridge. 
 

Today in 2.5 hours: 
 
 Candy Mama removed debris from Sixteenth Placed Outer Spiral Support Seventeenth Placed Outer Spiral Support 
 Mr McGlue glued Zog Rails Support while Doctor Sugar held it in place 
 Reversible Guy tried to help Squarehead get off Paul 
 Super Spoony went to get the large green marble 
 G Choppy curved the lower end of the upper portion of the Triple…
The episode image is a top view of Marble Track 3 Studio. It shows
the newly placed extension for the Sky Support to rotate even further. 
 The Sky Support rods were taken from Dad’s old Shoot The Moon game.
They’re basically being used in the same way; they are pinned at one
end, and now instead of getting a large steel marble to the moon, they
let G Choppy fly…
Today, I spent most of my time trying to get the characters in place
and then making sure I knew what their motivations were in the movie
so that I could begin moving them properly. 
 The trickiest part was getting G Choppy in place as he is curving the Triple Splitter Small Feeder Inner Guider 
 It was quite a thrill once I took the first frame that would be used
in the…
In Real Life, I moved, changed jobs, started a book, and more, all
while Marble Track 3 waited patiently! Most importantly, the camera
and set stayed intact while I moved. It took a while to get the
camera pointing in the right direction, but that was the ahem, focus
of this livestream. 
 After just over three years of chilling, Marble Track 3 construction is back! 
 Next…
Because there are many Outer Spiral Supports, the demonstration Outer
Spiral isn’t able to sit on the stage, so I’m making a new demo Outer
Spiral which will not have legs holding it up in place, but an upper
structure that holds it intact as it rests on the existing supports
while the remaining supports are put into place. 
 This will allow me to more easily…
History: 
 
 2025 Jun 05: CM brought 19poss and Twentieth Placed Outer Spiral
support up the first ramp 
 
 
 
 
 2025 Jun 02: Still DNE 
 
 
 2022 May 03: Mistakenly identified as Zog Rails Support 
 

written 09:09 Tuesday 03 May 2022 JST 
 Pinky started jumping up. 
 Mr McGlue 
finished gluing
 Eighteenth Placed Outer Spiral Support 
(closest to top of triple splitter) 
 Mr Greene 
started heading down the middle ramp (after having held the
 Eighteenth Placed Outer Spiral Support ) 
 Doctor Sugar 
began to sit on
 Caret Splitter Feeder Extension…
Today
 G Choppy 
began curving
 Triple Splitter Small Feeder Inner Guider 
while
 Pinky 
prepares to pull herself up to help install the pieces. 
 In the foreground
 Candy Mama 
has delivered
 Zog Rails Support 
to
 Doctor Sugar 
who is holding it now until
 Mr McGlue 
can get over there to glue it. 
 She is now about to leave the…
Candy Mama got
 Zog Rails Support into place
after the stage rotated sufficiently far for her to step onto it. 
 On the left, Pinky has just tossed some thin sticks
(including Zog Rails ) onto the
 Triple Splitter Small Feeder , where
 G Choppy will curve the
 Triple Splitter Small Feeder Inner Guider . 
 In the back, Reversible Guy 
is wondering how to help…
Today was basically a continuation of last week. I took about 12 17 frames, enough for more than a single second of video. ;-) 
 Again, this week, I did not create a summary video nor even a
livestream; just the snippet shown above. 
 By the end of the snippet, on the right, Candy Mama has gotten Zog Rails Support rotated in a vertical orientation and will soon hand it to Doctor Sugar…
This small bamboo bar will extend from the
 Lower Zig Zag 3F Net Affector 
toward the lower end of the Triple Splitter Small Feeder Inner Bar 
 History: 
 
 2025 Jun 02: forceps hold the piece together while glue dries 
 
 
 
 2022 Apr 05: G Choppy begins to curve the piece 
 
 
 
 2022 Apr 01: G Choppy ready to curve the piece 
 

Zog Rails are two thin bamboo bars which will extend from Lower Zig Zag 3F Rails to guide small marbles from beyond Zog , over Zog and onto the Lower Zig Zag 3F . 
 Zog Rails will be supported by Zog Rails Support 
 History: 
 
 2022 Mar 15: Pinky lifted herself up onto Triple Splitter Small Feeder Outer Bar while holding the Zog Rails, Triple Splitter Small Feeder Inner Guider ,…
This vertical piece will support Zog Rails . 
 It shall be installed very close to Caret Splitter Feeder Extension Reflection Lower Right Protection ,
with its foot between Left Side Small Landing Zone 
and the Lower Curver off the Lowest Small-Medium Splitter . 
 History: 
 
 2022 Apr 27: Mr McGlue heads over to glue it once Doctor Sugar holds it 
 
 
 
…
The Eighteenth Placed Outer Spiral Support will be the second shortest support,
installed quite close to the edge of the stage, near the top of the
 Triple Splitter . 
 History: 
 
 2025 Jun 02 After Mr Greene walks down the 3rd ramp 
 
 
 
 2022 Apr 05: nearly glued by Mr McGlue 
 
 
 
 2022 Mar 08: brought into place by Mr Greene 
 

Lower Zig Zag 3F Rails will connect to Zog Rails 
to help small marbles transition from
 Zog to
 Lower Zig Zag 3F . 
 History: 
 
 2022 Mar 15: Pinky lifted herself up onto Triple Splitter Small Feeder Outer Bar while holding one of the Lower Zig Zag 3F Rails, Triple Splitter Small Feeder Inner Guider , and Zog Rails . 
 
 
 
 2022 Mar 08: Pinky brought the…
I didn’t create a summary video for today, and I haven’t finished the
summary video for two weeks ago,
so for now I’ll post the latest snippet (ID -jDKzYRmhkE)
and maybe finish the summary from last time and add it here
or maybe create a whole separate entry for last time. 
 Today 
 Zog 
finally landed and I glued Zog into place. 
 I’ve…
Zog touched down today (but will keep clattering for a bit next time)
as Candy Mama walks down the ramp, not even watching the success of
her perfect throw. 
 Oh just for the record, I didn’t write an entry for last week when I
got Zog to the apex, and had Candy Mama walk away (after bumping her). 
 I took frames from the apex of Zog ’s flight until it hit its…
(written 11:04 Tuesday 08 February 2022 JST) 
 I bumped Candy Mama while having Zog fly so I decided to have her walk away
without watching her toss land perfectly. 
 Here are the frames I took, about half of which were merged into the
rest to make Zog fly. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
…
It’s been three weeks or maybe 4?? I finally got a method for holding
 Zog steadily in the air as it flies up and over onto Lower Zig Zag 3F and el Lifty Lever Guider . 
 Today after about three weeks of false starts, I finally got everything sorted out
so I could get Zog flying. In previous weeks, there were issues with holding
 Zog firmly in place, with a minimum of…
I got the book of movements up to date and took a single frame, which
got deleted once I more carefully looked at how Zog needs to move. 
 Here is the frame I took (and deleted) today: 

On this day, I prepared Candy Mama to toss Zog . 
 Here are the frames taken today: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Today, Candy Mama ’s cookies bounced! 
I had been targeting the top of the
 Lower Zig Zag 3F 
and as they were nearly there I realized they are supposed to go onto
 el Lifty Lever Guider ,
so I bounced them over! Perfect! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
…
As Reversible Guy walked down the first ramp,
 Candy Mama waited a bit for the stage to rotate. 
 As Reversible Guy walked up the third ramp,
 Candy Mama lowered Zog for a
moment and at the last frame, flexed her right arm to toss the
cookie shaped feet that will rest on
 el Lifty Lever Guider 
and act as the upper support for Zog . 
 Frames taken today: 
 
…
On the high end, Zog
will rest
on
 el Lifty Lever Guider 
 On its low end, Zog
will feed
small marbles into
 Lower Zig Zag 3F . 
 History: 
 
 2022 Mar 08: Zog finished bouncing into place. The upper end (on el Lifty Lever Guider ) was glued in place by Mr McGlue 
 
 
 
 2022 Feb 01: Zog reached the apex of its flight 
 
 
 
…
My livestream didn’t work today, but I worked for 100 minutes
basically getting Zog moved most of the way up the ramp. 
 The most difficult part was getting
 Mr McGlue 
to walk through the
 Caret Splitter Feeder Extension Reflection 
 Here are the frames taken today, just about 2 or 3 of which had to be
reshot 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
…
In today’s session, I basically just rotated the stage as Candy Mama 
put her hands on her hips and Reversible Guy walked down the second
ramp. This was after spending some time to recreate the lines marking
how far to rotate the stage each time which is what I did at the
beginning of the video there. 
 Now it’s just a systematic process of
moving the character.…
I’m getting closer to having an (interim) replacement for
livestreaming.. I would prefer to livestream, but they keep getting
interrupted.. and have very few viewers, so I am going with summary
videos like the one above. 
 Today I got Paul installed. Candy Mama is about to cross
her arms as Squarehead is stuck on Paul . Mr McGlue is about to glue Paul (though…
I was super happy with the visual gag having Doctor Sugar , Reversible Guy , Squarehead and Candy Mama go off the stage on the left and then immediately come up the first ramp on the right, this time with Paul . Candy Mama is going to lift Paul with Squarehead still impaled on it. I wonder how Squarehead will get unstuck! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
…
Today I didn’t do a livestream, but I think I will go back to Youtube
for that simply because they keep track of the duration of videos. The video above is from 1 January 2019. 
 I’m reallly happy with the animation I created today. Things were
simple, so I was able to create like 4+ seconds of video in 2 hours. 
 Reversible Guy and Squarehead went off to the left and…
Today I nearly got The Third Arch 
installed. Lin named
 Paul ,
a vertical piece that
 Reversible Guy 
is going to get soon. 
 Frames from today: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Paul is a 10x10mm square length of hardwood, 192mm in length. It was probably a scrap of wood from somewhere. Curiously, it has a hole through one end of it, and a notch at the other end. I plan to place it with the bored hole at the top, in case it can be used to support something. 
 I plan to mount it between Caret Splitter Feeder 
and
 the Lowest Small-Medium Splitter
Today G Choppy cut the Sixteenth Placed Outer Spiral Support while the stage continued rotating. Candy Mama has started to move up the ramp to place the The Third Arch . 
 Here are the frames taken today 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

One of the shortest Outer Spiral supports, glued to the Lowest Largest U-turn Berm 
 History: 
 
 2021 Sep 24: Cut by G Choppy 
 
 
 
 2021 Jul 27: Glued by Mr McGlue 
 
 
 
 2021 Jul 6: Placed by Reversible Guy 
 

Today I had Reversible Guy bring the chopstick
in place and then decided to call in DC 48 because
today is DC’s 48th birthday. Not that I knew that, but looked up
famous birthdays, and he’s the only one I heard of! 
 Here are the frames I took today: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
…
DC 48 stands proudly in its field, carrying the weight of future track on its proverbial shoulders. 
 History: 
 
 2021 Sep 26: Glued by Mr McGlue 
 
 
 
 2021 Aug 24: Installed by Reversible Guy 
 

I am writing this the day after doing a short livestream, but got a
lot of photos taken as just a few characters were moving. 
 Basically, as Doctor Sugar flipped the switch to
rotate the stage so Candy Mama can install the
 The Third Arch , Mr
McGlue finished gluing the Caret Splitter Right
Hand Side Inner
Guider while G
Choppy turned around to go cut the…
Writing this a week after the fact. I think it was basically Mr McGlue going to the Caret Splitter Right Hand Side Inner Guider as G Choppy finished curving the The Third Arch while Reversible Guy came up with a chopstick that will be a new piece standing upright near bottom of the Triple Splitter . 
 Here are the frames I took: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
…
Today G Choppy started to float downward as he curved a few more joints on the The Third Arch and Doctor Sugar has backed away from the switch to watch. 
 Pinky has nearly made her way off the stage, and Mr McGlue has just finished gluing the latest two outer spiral supports, which were held by Reversible Guy . 
 They are then bamboo skewers, just outside the Lowest Largest U-Turn , with…
One of the shortest of the
 Outer Spiral 
supports, standing next to the
 Triple Splitter . 
 History: 
 
 2021 Sep 26: Cut by G Choppy 
 
 
 
 2021 Jul 27: Glued by Mr McGlue 
 
 
 
 2021 Jul 6: Placed by Reversible Guy