You could say Richard Plaud's dreams of making the world's tallest matchstick sculpture may have gone up in smoke.
The Frenchman spent the last eight years painstakingly piecing together 706,900 matchsticks to make a 23.6-foot model of the Eiffel Tower, easily beating the existing record by 2 feet.
But, he says, last week the Guinness Book of World Records had bad news for him: He used the wrong type of matchsticks to qualify for a record — because they weren't commercially available.
Pays to read the fine print, buddy.
What a heartbreak, because that tower is really rather pretty. Of course, he could always go for the world record in the tallest bonfire.
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ReplyDeleteMmaybe I'm missing something, but.... If the matchsticks weren't "commercially" available, then how did he purchase them. Instead of GBofWR denying him a record, why not create a new category.
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