Man Builds 250-Pound, 6-Foot Tall Xbox Series X to Set World Record

Dreaming big: some people take it literally. Case in point, YouTuber Michael Pick, who dreamed of a giant Xbox Series X console, then constructed this 600% version measuring 6 feet tall, 3.41 feet wide, and weighing 250 pounds. The console took home the Guinness World Record for World’s Largest Xbox Series X console, presumably because who else would ever do this?

The console is basically a giant scale-size shell of an actual Xbox with the same comparatively small guts inside, but the power button works, and everything else is where it should be. I’m a little disappointed, but I guess that’s my own fault for expecting anything more from a giant Xbox Series X replica other than a bunch of empty space. At least they give it a cool paint job.

After completing the project, Michael donated the giant gaming system to the Atlanta YMCA Youth and Teen Development Center, so you can rest assured it found a good home. Would I have bought it if Michael had posted it on eBay? And paid shipping on that thing. Are you nuts?! I already learned my lesson buying that replica Raiders of the Lost Ark boulder last summer.

[via TechEBlog]

The World’s Largest Rubik’s Cube Is Over 8-Feet Square

Currently on display at the Nina Mall in Hong Kong, China, what you’re about to witness is the construction of the Guinness World Record holder for the largest Rubik’s Cube, measuring a very respectable 2.503 m x 2.505 m x 2.502 m – or about 27 square feet. So it’s not exactly square, but it’s very close. Or the measurements weren’t accurate. They used a tape measure, not laser beams.

I liked it better before they put all the colored stickers on the blocks. It looked way more…solvable. Now not only am I going to feel stupid for not being able to solve the cube, but I’m going to feel small too. Talk about adding insult to injury.

I remember the first time I ever solved a Rubik’s Cube. It was four years in the future from now, and I really felt accomplished. I mean more about building the functional time machine than solving the Rubik’s Cube, but still. It’s the little things.

[via GeeksAreSexy]

Twenty One Pilots’ livestreamed music video set a Guinness World Record

Twenty One Pilots' supposedly never-ending music video wrapped up last week and it set a Guinness World Record in the process. The band livestreamed a video for "Level of Concern," which pulled in fan-created content from more than 162,000 submission...

OmniVision wins Guinness World Record for its tiny medical image sensor

OmniVision is the new holder of the Guinness World Record for the smallest commercially available image sensor. The tiny device (pictured above in a camera module next to a grain of pepper) measures just half a millimetre squared, and will have a sig...

Guy Makes 660-foot Basketball Shot from Atop a Waterfall

I’m pretty good from the free throw line. Occasionally, I may even get nothing but net from full court, if I get lucky. But I’m not this good. Watch the guys from How Ridiculous take what should be an impossible 660-foot basketball shot, and make it look easy.

The only way to make a shot like this is to take advantage of a tall location like the towering Maletsunyane Falls in Lesotho, Africa. It looks like they hired some locals to carry balls up throughout a time period of six days, until they got the shot perfectly. We don’t know how many missed attempts there were while they tried to get this Guinness World Record, but now they are in the record books.

Basically this is a bunch of rich kids having fun, shooting some amazingly high baskets, and hoping for the best. The law of averages says that they had to get the shot eventually. Just saying. Anyway, they got the shot in the end, and it is impressive to watch it happen. I wonder if an NBA star could have done it any faster. Somebody get on that because I really need to know.

[via Sploid]

World’s Largest LEGO Ship Made from Over 1 Million Bricks

DFDS is the largest shipping and Logistics Company in Norther Europe. They are celebrating its 150th anniversary in style by building a giant LEGO ship! The employees created the world’s largest LEGO ship, named Jubilee Seaways using 1,015 million bricks. That’s like an aircraft carrier to minifigs.

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And they’re not just saying it’s the world’s largest. That’s certified by the folks at Guinness World Records. You can check out Beyond the Brick’s video below where LEGO artists Warren Elsmore and Julie Broberg of DFDS explain the process of building this massive model. It took over 900 hours to build this 39+ foot-long, 8.9 foot-tall, 2.2 ton ship, or you can just cut to the chase for a time-lapse of the build in the second video.

A build this size took several different groups working on sections of the ship. When it was done, the entire thing was assembled in Scotland. Because it is so heavy, the ship is built around a steel-frame and is inside a trailer that lets them move it to different locations. It is currently on display at Brick Live Birmingham 2016 if you are in the area. Congrats to everyone who made LEGO history.

[via Damn Geeky]

Cat Sets World Record for Most Tricks in One Minute

The 2017 Guinness Book of World Records will have a brand new entry for the cat who can do the most tricks in one minute. My cat should hold the record for the cat who can do the least. Yeah, just keep sleeping. What a champion.

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Meet Didga, short for “didgeridoo.” Didga likes to skateboard, but that is far from the only trick she does. She just ends her routine skateboarding. She basically has been trained like a dog and can do all kinds of cool tricks. She recently did 20 tricks in under a minute, making her a record holder.

And just to be extra awesome, Didga has since broken her own record by performing 24 tricks in one minute!

[via Neatorama]

Robot Army Sets Guinness Record for Dancing

Have you ever wondered what an army of small robots would look like? What about an army of dancing robots? Well, we are here to deliver as usual. This is a fun sight, but also scary as hell. This is what it would look like if robots took over the world and turned it into a musical. God help us.

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This isn’t actually the start of the robopocalypse. Actually, you’re looking at the Guinness World Record for Most Robots Dancing Simultaneously. The 1,007 robots were organized by a team from Ever Win Company & Ltd. at the Qingdao Beer Festival in Shandong, China.

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They accomplished their task despite several robots being disqualified for falling down or failing to perform. There are always a few slackers. However, the total number was enough to successfully set the record and create a new robot dance phenomenon. You can check out the feat in the video below:

[via Laughing Squid]

Pizza Hut Makes Delivery at 19,341 feet

Pizza Hut has grabbed a Guinness World Record we didn’t know even existed – and now holds the record the highest altitude pizza delivery on land. Pizza Hut Africa General Manager, Randall Blackford and a team of Pizza Hut employees made the delivery to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, reaching an altitude of 19,341 feet.

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A six-day hike up a giant mountain to deliver a pizza doesn’t sound like fun, but at least the group also included several professional guides to get them there safely. The delivery was certified by Guinness and was performed to celebrate Pizza Hut opening a location in its 100th country.

The pie was a large pepperoni if you are wondering, the king of pizzas. It appears to have been carried in some sort of a heater oven thingy. I wonder if it tasted okay after six days of travel. Am I the only one who can’t think of Pizza Hut without thinking about Spaceballs?

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Dude Crushes Hoverboard Distance World Record with Actual Flying Hoverboard

One look at the image below and you should know that when I say hoverboard distance world record, I don’t mean those dumb “hoverboards” with two wheels that will burn your house down. I am talking about a real flying hoverboard that will get you into the air.

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This amazing flying contraption called the Flyboard Air was designed by Zapata Racing and piloted by Franky Zapata, and recently made the rounds on the internet with many questioning its authenticity.

Firmly disproving his cynics, Zapata stepped onto the Flyboard Air and proceeded to fly the device for 7,388 feet, destroying the previous Guinness World Record of a mere 905-feet, 2-inches set last year. During the flight, Zapata was about 164 feet in the air. He was followed by a jet ski and a boat since he flew over water. The record was set in Sausset-les-Pins in southern France. No video of the Guinness World Record flight has surfaced as of yet, but the test flight video shows the Flyboard Air in action.

Zapata claims his flying machine can reach 10,000 feet, a 93 mph top speed, and 10 minutes flight time. I’d so ride one of these to work every day, if I knew it wasn’t going to randomly toss me to the ground.

[via Guinness World Records]