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LEGOLAND® California to break Guinness World Record™ for Tallest LEGO® Tower
Theme park guests participate in record-setting event Presidents Day 2005
January 20, 2005 (Carlsbad, Calif.) – Thousands of children along with their
families will click together more than half-a-million LEGO® bricks at LEGOLAND®
California February 17-21, 2005, to break the Guinness World Record for the
tallest LEGO tower ever built!
The tower will soar over the theme park’s main entrance and will be built
entirely of LEGO bricks. Park guests will be able to participate in this
record-breaking event by constructing their own piece of the tower beginning
Thursday, February 17 when the Park opens at 10 a.m.
Park officials estimate the tower will take four days, 40 hours, nearly 50,000
guests and more than 500,000 LEGO bricks to complete! The construction of the
tower begins everyday during Presidents Day weekend when the Park opens at 10
a.m. and ends when the Park closes at 5 p.m. Witness the closing ceremony on
Presidents Day, February 21 at 10:30 a.m. when the final bricks are positioned
and the tower is measured and certified by an official from Guinness World
Records.
The current Guinness World Record is held by AS Rekato Ltd., the company who
organized the building of a LEGO tower built in Tallinn, Estonia in August 1998.
The tower took four days to build reaching a height of 82 feet and was made of
391, 478 LEGO bricks. LEGOLAND California will have to create a tower at least
83 feet in height to break the current record.
About Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on
record-breaking achievement. First published in 1955, the annual Guinness World
Records book is published in more than 100 countries and 20 languages and is one
of the highest-selling books under copyright of all time. In 2004 Guinness
World Records will celebrate its 50th anniversary (1955-2005) and the 2004
Edition marked the sale of its 100 millionth copy. Guinness World Records is
published by Hit Entertainment PLC, a fully integrated global studio with
divisions in the U.K., U.S., Canada, Germany and Japan, including broadcast
production and distribution, video and audio sales, consumer products licensing
and marketing.
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