RECORDMANIALARGEST COVERED WAGON
At 40 ft (12.2 m) long, 12 ft (3.65 m) wide and 25 ft (7.6 m) tall, this scaled-up
covered wagon was hand-built from Illinois oak and steel by David Bentley
(USA) in 2001. Six years later, the Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of Logan
County, Illinois, bought the wagon for $10,000 (£6,147) and moved it from
outside Bentley’s home in Pawnee, Illinois, to Route 66 in Lincoln, Illinois.
A 12-ft (3.6-m) fibreglass Abraham Lincoln sits on the seat. In the picture
above, he is joined by Tina Rusk, from the local council’s marketing department.Business card
On 14 Nov 2016, a 45-sq-ft (4.18-m²) business
card – as big as a king-size bed – was unveiled by
Santosh Kumar Rai (IND) in Chhattisgarh, India.
It was a replica of Rai’s existing business card.
Envelope
Bhanu and Aaditya Pratap Singh (both
IND) exhibited a 23.93-m-long (78-ft 6-in),
13.5-m-wide (44-ft 3-in) envelope in
Chhattisgarh, India, on 24 Nov 2015.
Horseshoe
Abhishek Mazumder (IND) created a steel
horseshoe 2.36 m (7 ft 8.9 in) wide and 2.47 m
(8 ft 1.2 in) high, as confirmed in Mumbai,
India, on 20 Nov 2016.
Hurdy-gurdy
The “Bosch Hurdy-Gurdy” instrument made by
Steven Jobe (USA) measured 3.04 m (9 ft 11.6 in)
long in Warren, Rhode Island, USA, on 2 Jun 2016.
Key
On 15 May 2016, Ard Canaan Restaurant
(QAT) presented a 7.76-m-long (25-ft 5.5-in),
2.8-m-wide (9-ft 2.2-in) key in Doha, Qatar.Monopoly board
Studentenvereniging Ceres (NLD) produced a
900.228-m² (9,689.97-sq-ft) Monopoly board
in Wageningen, Netherlands, on 30 Nov 2016.
The scaled-up board game was nearly 3,500
times larger than the standard size.Ouija board
Blair Murphy and Team Grand Midway (USA)
unveiled a 121.01-m² (1,302.54-sq-ft) Ouija
board – about half the size of a tennis court –
in Windber, Pennsylvania, USA, on 28 Oct 2016.Screwdriver
Engineering student Aaditya Pratap Singh (IND)
unveiled a 20-ft 9-in-long (6.32-m) screwdriver
in Raipur, India, on 16 Jun 2016.LEGO®
· Mammoth: A LEGO brick mammoth 2.47 m
(8 ft 1 in) tall, 3.8 m (12 ft 5 in) long and 1.3 m
(4 ft 3 in) wide was built by Bright Bricks (UK)
at BRICKLIVE, Birmingham, UK, on 1 Nov 2015.
· Sculpture of a stadium: On 12 May 2005,
LEGOLAND Deutschland Resort (DEU) unveiled
a 1:50-scale model of the Allianz Arena soccer
stadium in Munich, Germany, made from
more than 1 million LEGO bricks. Presented in
Günzburg, Germany, it stood 5 m (16 ft 4 in) long,
4.5 m (14 ft 9 in) wide and 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall.
· Ship (supported): Denmark’s DFDS built
a 12.035-m-long (39-ft 5.8-in) model ship out
of LEGO bricks, as confirmed in Copenhagen,
Denmark, on 17 Aug 2016.
· Sculpture (number of bricks): Land Rover
(UK) built a model of London’s Tower Bridge
comprising 5,805,846 LEGO bricks, as confirmed
on 28 Sep 2016. Measuring 44 m (144 ft 4.28 in)
wide and 13 m (42 ft 7.81 in) tall, it stood at
Packington Hall in Solihull, UK.LARGEST PRAM
Jamie Roberts and
president of Kolcraft
Tom Koltun (both
USA) unveiled a pram
with an enclosure
length of 4 ft 6.3 in
(1.38 m) in Chicago,
Illinois, USA, on
19 Sep 2016. A
scaled-up version of
the Contours Bliss
stroller, it allows
adults to test how
the pram feels before
buying it! Kolcraft
manufactures
products for babies.Rocking horse
Created by Gao
Ming (CHN), the
largest rocking horse
measured 12.727 x
4.532 x 8.203 m (41 ft
9 in x 14 ft 10.4 in
x 26 ft 10.9 in), as
confirmed in Linyi,
Shandong Province,
China, on 7 Jul 2014
Spinning top
A team from the
Mizushima plant of
Kawasaki Steel Works in
Okayama, Japan, made
a top 2 m (6 ft 6.75 in)
tall, 2.6 m (8 ft 6.25 in)
in diameter and weighing
360 kg (793 lb 10 oz).
They spun it for 1 hr 21 min
35 sec on 3 Nov 1986.Teddy bear
Constructed by Dana
Warren (USA), the largest
stitched teddy bear
measured 55 ft 4 in
(16.86 m) long. It was
completed on 6 Jun
2008 and displayed at
Exploration Place in
Wichita, Kansas, USA.Yo-yo
On 15 Sep 2012, Beth
Johnson (USA) demonstrated
a yo-yo 11 ft 10.75 in (3.62
m) in diameter and weighing
4,620 lb (2,095.6 kg) in
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. The
disc plunged 120 ft (36.5 m)
on a rope attached to a
150,000-lb (68-tonne)
crane before rebounding.LARGEST NERF GUN
Mark Rober (USA) constructed a 6-ft-
long (1.82-m) Nerf gun, as verified in
Sunnyvale, California, USA, on 22 Jun- He also created scaled-up foam
darts from pool noodles (foam floats)
and sink plungers, which are ejected at
a speed of around 40 mph (64.3 km/h).
The power
to fire the darts
comes from a
3,000-lb-per-sq-in
(psi) paintball tank
inside the gun.LARGEST
PACK OF
PLAYING CARDS
On 14 May 2016,
Sweden’s Claes Blixt
(front) presented a
pack of playing cards
that measured 158.4 x
104.4 cm (5 ft 2.3 in x
3 ft 5.1 in) in Tranemo,
Sweden. In total, the
outsized pack – which
comprised 55 playing
cards altogether –
weighed 200 kg (440 lb
14 oz), around the same
as four real-life queens.