Monday, May 20, 2013 Longest Ferris wheel ride: Clinton Shepherd breaks Guinness world record (VIDEO) CHICAGO, IL, USA -- Clinton Shepherd, park operations manager at Navy Pier, spent 48 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds riding Navy Pier's Ferris wheel and setting the new world record for the Longest Ferris wheel ride (Longest Marathon on a Fairground/Theme Attraction),
according to
Monday, May 20, 2013 Most people playing pinball simultaneously: Stratford Festival breaks Guinness world record TORONTO, ON, Canada -- One hundred "pinball wizards" took over First Canadian Place in Toronto during The Stratford Festival; the participants synchronically launched their silver balls and played one complete game as hundreds of onlookers cheered from the sidelines, setting the new world record
Friday, May 17, 2013 Largest Collection of Cookie Jars: Edith Eva Fuchs breaks Guinness world record METAMORA, Ind., USA -- Edith Eva Fuchs, 77, has 2,653 different cookie jars on display at Grannie's Cookie Jars and Ice Cream Parlor in Metamora; the collection has garnered her the World Record for the World's Largest Collection of Cookie Jars
Friday, May 17, 2013 Longest football match: UK players smash Guinness world record Trafford, UK -- The marathon football match organized by Nick Rose, a salesman from Stockport based Midshire Business Systems and a group of amateur players from Manchester, at Stretford High School, lasted 72 hours, the equivalent of 48 ordinary games, and finished with a score of 603 to 'the reds' Stockport Albion and 462 to 'the whites' Manchester
Thursday, May 16, 2013 Longest Lego Railway: Denmark smash Guinness world record (PICS & VIDEO) Copenhagen, Denmark -- The Lego Railway built by 80 Lego enthusiasts in Denmark measures a massive 2.5 miles long,
(4,000.25 meters); the track use a total of 93,307 Lego pieces and took around 6 hours to build; it then took the train around 4 hours from the start to the finish, setting the new world record
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Most people making sandwiches: British Sandwich Association smash Guinness world record (VIDEO) LONDON, UK -- Some 607 sandwich-makers gathered at Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, England, to each make a sandwich in five minutes, as part of celebrations for British Sandwich Week, setting the new world record for the Most people making sandwiches simultaneously
(in a five minute period),
according to
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Most consecutive pirouettes: Sophia Lucia smash Guinness world record (VIDEO) POWAY, CA, USA -- During an event sponsored by Kids Artistic Revue and California Kisses and held at her home studio, San Diego Dance Center, Dance Moms TV Star & 10 year old Dance Prodigy, Sophia Lucia, managed 47 pirouettes on the first attempt, 48 on the second and a whopping 55 pirouettes on the third, final attempt, setting the new world record for
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Tallest Toy Train Track: TOMY breaks Guinness world record (VIDEO) NEW YORK, NY, USA -- Tomy, the Oak Brook-based maker of the innovative Chuggington StackTrack Railway System, set a world record for Tallest Toy Train Track, building tower that reached 17 feet 4 inches with innovative Chuggington StackTrack, in front of hundreds of excited kids and their families at Grand Central Terminal in New York as part of the Grand Centennial Parade of Trains