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Check out this public art installation in Munich, Germany. It’s a regulation size basketball court with a mogul field surface and a light saber sticking out of center court. It’s from the firm Inges Idee it’s called 3D2. Looks like it would fun to roll around on.

Photos: Marcus Buck. [Source: Yahoo Sports ] – Thanks to Max Davis for the tip.

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  • Lots of mogul mazes like that just appeared around here one day…
    http://youtu.be/i2bvozq-KK8

  • masterochicken

    Still sounds skateable to me. If you want it bad enough, you find a way.

  • “The court consists of a soft orange-red tartan covering and two normed baskets and seems to be forced over the grid of the lamps that have been set up. The playable
    court has been

  • This looks like what Purkiss-Rose would do if you asked them for a basketball court.

  • Cool warping of the game. I’d like to see a basketball game on a court where the hoops moved around to different places on the perimeter and changed heights during the game. Or two games happening on intersecting perpendicular courts. Of course, I’m not a basketball player.

  • it seems to be covered in carpet

    • The Shralper

      my guess is that it’s probably made of a medium-soft rubber composite, like the stuff they use on playgrounds sometimes

  • talentlessquitter

    Nice! Equally impressive is the court’s surroundings,and absence of a fence.Creates a good approach for riding Inge’s hills.

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