The largest Christmas lights decoration in an indoor venue consisted of 449,658 individual lights sources and was achieved by the Sun Plaza shopping centre (Romania) in Bucharest, Romania, on 25 November 2010. The Sun Plaza is the largest shopping centre in Romania (as of today) with 209,000 m2 (0.08 square miles) of constructed area and 86 m2 (0.03 square miles) of retail area with a total of 109 shops. The lights installation was manufactured by the German company ‘First Christmas’. It took two weeks of
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The largest Christmas cracker pull was achieved by 1,478 participants for an event organised by Honda R&D KEN-YU-KAI Tochigi (Japan) at Tochigi Proving Ground, Tochigi, Japan, on 18 October 2009. The record attempt was held at the Honda Festival 2009 in Tochigi, Japan. They also attempted the record for the largest bon dance but failed.
The record for the largest cinnamon roll is 276 kg (609 lb) and was achieved by Second Floor Bakery (USA) in Holland, Michigan, USA on 4 May 2013. The completed roll measured 1.83 m (6 ft) in diameter and 17.8 cm (7 in) tall.
The largest Christmas tree structure is 127.99 m (419.91 ft) tall and was achieved by Energisa Sergipe – Distribuidora de Energia S/A (Brazil) with a creation presented in Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil in December 2009. The structure was decorated with 25,200 redhot lights and 3,144 strobe lights.
The greatest number of people participating in circuit training at a single venue is 1,165 and was achieved by participants of the Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on 19 May, 2012
The greatest number of participants in a circle formation dance were 6,748 who performed the Hokey-cokey at Bangor, Co. Down, UK, as part of the VE day celebrations on 6 May 1995
The largest clothes peg measured 3.5 m (11 ft 5 in) long, 65 cm (2 ft 1 in) high and 44 cm (1 ft 5 in) deep. It was created by Karl Josef Biller (Germany) and was presented and measured in Regensburg, Germany, on 9 September 2012. The peg was made out of wood. The peg was opened and closed in front of the witnesses.
The largest clog dance was achieved by 2,605 participants at an event organised by the Pella Historical Society (USA) in Pella, Iowa, USA, on 8 May 2010. The dance was part of the Tulip Time festival, which celebrate’s Pella’s Dutch heritage.
Since 2008, the Nepali Eco Everest Expeditions have involved annual trips to the world’s highest mountain to clear away garbage from previous climbs, removing a total of 12,000 kg of ropes, tents, food packaging, oxygen bottles, gas canisters and other discarded remnants of mountaineering gear. The 2008 expedition saw the removal of 965 kg of refuse; a record 6,000 kg (including 700 kg of debris from an Italian helicopter that crashed in 1973 and 115 kg of human waste) was cleared in 2009; and 5,000
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The largest claw game in the world, built on Discovery Channel’s BIG! television show, is 18 ft 9.25 in (5.72 m) high, 10 ft (3.04 m) wide and 8 ft 2 in (2.49 m) deep and was unveiled at the San Diego County Fair on 11 June 2004. The claw itself has a diameter of 3 ft 2 in (96 cm).