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This is what a world record dominoes fall looks like

July 20, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This video shows some 275,000 dominoes in an attempt to break the world record. Not every domino takes the tumble it should. You’ll see that quite early on when one of the pyramid structures doesn’t fall. However, despite a few thousand dominoes staying upright this is still a Guinness world record. The total dominoes that […]

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The world’s tallest LEGO tower – more than 500,000 bricks

July 9, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What did you do this weekend? A team of LEGO fans took four days to build a 500,000+ brick tower. Built at Legoland Windsor, the tower is built from 160 different colour sections that were constructed at ground level before a crane was used to help get them into position on the tower. The Lego […]

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New World Record: Longest board game playing session

June 10, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Brett Carow and Sam Hennemann are reported to have successfully broken the record for “Longest Marathon Playing a Board Game”. According to CBS Local the two friends from Minneapolis played Strat-o-Matic for 53 hours and 59 minutes. Hennemann told the paper; “I’m just really tired. I’m glad that we made out. We set this goal […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Settlers of Catan, strat-o-matic, world record

Thriller World Record attempt in Leicester

August 30, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To mark Michael Jackson’s birthday a bunch of crazy people in Leicester have had a go at claiming the Guinness World Record for the largest ever Thriller dance. Organisers claim that over 500 people took part and that independent adjudicators were present. Proof is being sent in and they’re waiting to see whether or not […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: flash mob, world record

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