9-year old's cardboard arcade creates sensation

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A nine year old boy now has the huge college fund did it all started within -- -- created out of cardboard.

The boy's father says his son came -- built the arcade during his vacation last summer.

Inside the family's used auto parts store in Los Angeles.

A filmmaker happen to stop by that stored discovered -- -- -- now.

It's a movie.

Expand -- was a soccer game but not then I'm -- -- You have -- teens -- -- them up on the golf team in the land block things.

At home in the evening -- It's pretty hard they get to think making it can't.

Beginning at ports -- -- game times and he.

Four -- hard game challenging that short film within a huge Internet success sensation.

And -- arcade became famous almost overnight.

When his family open a college fund foreign visitors and fans of the arcade opened up their wallets.

Trace Gallagher is live in Los Angeles this this -- -- It's pretty fat -- attorneys.

-- seven this is just -- Easy dates on this he built it all you said used cardboard boxes around the shop and some spare parts.

He built for example a -- game you know where you use the lot of navigate mania pick up stuffed animals -- that he did all by using an old -- hook.

He built a basketball arcade game even built a ticket dispenser for winning tickets so here's the deal.

You get four tries for a dollar but if you pay to what you get something called a -- past.

And a fun pass is 500.

Tries here's the filming.

This film makes grown men cry.

-- makes gunman cried they see this film.

And it transports them immediately back to their own childhood and -- that time and place when they were a kid.

And then had an idea for building a business -- -- another world and just got so lost.

-- -- -- -- Roy by the way bill that cardboard arcade in four days -- and he started with just one customer Trace.

The filmmaker was his first and his only customer because his dad's auto shoppers auto -- shop is not east LA and really does most of his business now online so there's not much walking business so the -- created a flash mob without -- knowing take a look.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- I got some customers.

And.

Yeah lots of customers the reason they're trying to raise money for college -- because the filmmaker says if you look at that arcade.

Can you imagine what this kid could build -- engineering degree I mean my kids saw this film this morning -- runs eleven minutes now they wanna go.

The -- arcade he can't go the arcade at least go online check it out.

-- RK dot com is worth the eleven minutes I promise you that you've you've been through its Gallagher live in a lakers have a great weekend thanks fell.

-- -- it all right well.

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