Tallest Popsicle stick structure - Stephen
Guman sets world record
WATERBURY, Conn., USA -- Inside the Mattatuck
Museum Stephen Guman, of Naugatuck, has assembled
a 12-foot tall medieval castle using 396,000 popsicle sticks-setting
the new world record for the Tallest
Popsicle stick structure.
"This castle has taken me almost one and
a half years to build," said Mr. Guman, "but it's so relaxing
that the world just disappears when I'm doing it."
Photo:The Tallest
Popsicle stick structure, which is 12-feet wide and
16-feet deep, took 396,000 sticks and four gallons of Elmer’s
Glue to build the castle. The previous Guinness world record
is 370,000.
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photo)
Sections of the gigantic 12-by-17-foot
castle, which are so large that they must be delivered by
tractor trailer truck arrived at the museum for final assembly.
Naugatuck resident Stephen Guman has been building
Popsicle Stick models since he was 9 years old when his aunt
gave him a bird house kit.
The inspiration came from birdhouses
and other kits. He wondered what more he could do with them,
Guman told the Waterbury Republican-American.
Mr. Guman has made replicas of the Eiffel
Tower and the World Trade Center, tanks, ships and cranes
with moveable parts. A heavy-equipment operator, he spends
his free time before and after work, up to four hours each
day, gluing four and one-half-inch sticks together and moving
toward his World Record for theTallest
Popsicle stick structure. "I actually found it pretty elegant,
to tell you the truth. When we heard it was coming, I had
mixed feelings about it," Cynthia Roznoy, curator of the Mattatuck
Museum, said.
"We have a drawbridge going into an
arched entrance way. We have different elements where the
knights would be fighting their battles. I think kids and
adults can use their imagination and really see a story here."