Caine's Arcade: Cardboard Creation Inspires $90,000 Scholarship [VIDEO]

Caine Monroy has proven there's no limit to what you can create from a big pile of cardboard and an even bigger imagination.

The 9-year-old from Los Angeles built a fantasy arcade in his father's East L.A. used car-parts shop during his summer vacation. He created the entire arcade by recycling cardboard boxes and set up a pricing model: $1 for four plays or a $2 for a "fun pass," offering 500 plays in a month.

The problem was that no one walked by his arcade, because his father's business has gone mostly online.

Caine's first costumer, filmmaker Nirvin Mullick, was worth the 9-year-old's wait. Mullick came looking for a car part, but fell in love with Caine's story, which he has turned into a now viral documentary sensation.

The 11-minute documentary has been viewed 1 million times on Vimeo and almost 500,000 times on YouTube.

In the film, Mullick used Facebook and Reddit to plan a flashmob to surprise Caine at his arcade, in what would become "the best day of Caine's life."