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Basicly, a building suddenly starts to inexplicably move, but it's just [[Rule of Cool]]. Bonus points if it shows anything happening inside during the move.
See also [[Everything Dances]]. If it's a fortress designed specificly to move, see [[Base
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* This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVGvWGyh7wg Halifax] advert shows a building being launched into the sea like a ship.
* This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNX9nkHjbfM T-Mobile advert] shows a guy dragging his house. Another guy is dragging a shop, and we even see a lady inside a moving office building.
* This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0d31xR6MQk trailer] for ''[[Tony Hawks Pro Skater
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* In ''[[Film/Howls Moving Castle|Howls Moving Castle]]'', the titlar castle moves using various magical effects, and it has legs.
* In ''[[FLCL]]'' episode 1 "Fooly Cooly", when Haruko attacks Naota insde the hospital, the building starts moving around and finally jumps into the air and falls back to the ground.
* One of Team Rocket's mechas from ''[[Pokémon (
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== Film ==
* In the ''[[Monty Python]]'' short film "''The Crimson Permanent Assurance''", the building remains a building, but it's mobile enough to be '''used as''' a pirate ship.
* ''[[Top Secret (
* In ''[[Up (
* ''[[Monster House]]'', especially at the end of the film.
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== Radio ==
* [[The
** And also, the scene where Arthur and Ford are first exposed to the Infinite Improbability Drive. They briefly visit the holiday resort of Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Where the sea remains steady as a rock but all the buildings on the seafront roll up and down, like waves.
== TV Shows ==
* The World Space Headquarters complex in ''[[Fireball
* And then in ''[[Stingray (TV series)|Stingray]]'' all of the buildings in Marineville can be lowered underground on hydraulic jacks in case of an attack. This idea also surfaced in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.
* ''[[CSI]]'' had an episode where someone literally stole a house and dumped it in the desert.
== Video Games ==
* Most of the major Terran buildings in ''[[
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', {{spoiler|Balamb Garden and Galbadia Garden}} are buildings that can fly.
* Early in ''[[
* Some of the Sentinal Buildings in the ''[[
* The Boomsday Machine from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''.
* In ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[
* Mike, the evil living building in ''[[
* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' episode "Designs for Leaving" has [[Daffy Duck]] outfit Elmer Fudd's home with modern gadgets. One of these is an elevator that lowers the second story... which crushes everything in the first story. Also, the [[Big Red Button]] that Elmer is warned not to push {{spoiler|lifts the entire house hundreds of feet up in the air, in case of tidal waves}}.
* One episode of ''[[
** In the episode "Secret Box", Patrick says that no one must know what's in the box, "not even... Squidward's house!" And sure enough, the house is leaning in to listen.
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