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All aboard 5MadMovieMakers' phone-filmed 3D train ride

Robert Carlson mounted an iPhone on a LEGO train to revisit the Odyssey layout in stereoscopic 3D.

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5MadMovieMakers Story of October 20, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Train Ride 3D

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0:00The camera leaves a miniature LEGO station on the brick patio.
0:41The railway passes through an arch built from colorful LEGO and wooden blocks.
1:30The route loops beneath outdoor chairs and tables.
4:12The train enters the house, crossing wood floors and rugs beneath living room chairs.
5:08The track enters the garage, passing a parked car and running beneath a partially open garage door.

5MadMovieMakers has given its backyard railway a new passenger: an iPhone 16 Pro. In "Train Ride 3D," Robert Carlson uses the phone's Spatial Video feature to bring the route to headsets, 3D TVs and red-blue glasses.

The camera slips through grass, passes beneath patio furniture and heads indoors before threading through the garage beside a parked car. There's no narration, just the little train's mechanical soundtrack. Carlson says the heavy Powered Up engine brick helped counterbalance the phone perched on the motor. The journey also required editing: the layout was built in separate sections, rather than as one enormous unbroken railway.

The week's only upload has drawn roughly 6,600 views, a modest audience for a channel with such widely watched toy-car and train adventures. In the comments, viewers are digging out old 3D glasses, discussing their viewing devices and singling out the sound of wheels on track. One has added the ride to an ASMR playlist.

Elsewhere, "I tried to make a video game" is the channel's busiest upload right now, adding about 102,000 views a day. Its subject is Raxon Rooms, Carlson's homemade mansion-exploration platformer. The original "Lego Train Odyssey" and the manually rotoscoped "Hot Wheels Flip Out" also remain active draws.

Subscribers held steady over the week, while today's viewing pace is below the channel's usual level. Even so, its weekly views were the largest among the nearby DIY and building channels here, including Engineezy and Blacktail Studio Uncut. For the new train ride, the distinctive experiment isn't a bigger layout: it's giving that familiar route another dimension.

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What viewers say

Hold up, let me go back in time to the early 2000s so I can grab my Blue Red 3D glasses.
@potterinhe11See it on YouTube
Classic! I love hearing the sound of that little train on the tracks! This one made it into my ASMR playlist. 🚄
@brightbiteSee it on YouTube
Broke out my (dusty) 3D glasses and watched on 3D TV, nice!
@Ampersand100See it on YouTube

5 more comments

Hi 5madmoviemakers you guys inspired me to make all sorts of hotwheel stunts and more and i hope you have a good day
@FrontrowrecreationsSee it on YouTube
hello 5 mad movie makers! I watched this on a computer and I don't have 3D glasses so I just watched in 2D but it was still fun to watch! also I didn't know that videos could be uploaded in 3D, that's really cool
@XaviLRSee it on YouTube
It's always a treat when I come across a video using YouTube headset mode.
@Bortalis4053See it on YouTube
I’ll need to dig out my red blue 3d glasses
@SKYCRAFTER2003See it on YouTube
So immersive! love it! I also like the natural sounds...
@alyssa_trulytreeSee it on YouTube