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Guinness World Records has recognized Major League Soccer (MLS) with the record for the largest single location professional soccer tournament for the MLS is Back Tournament at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World.
Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi successfully set a new Guinness World Record for the “Largest Gathering of People Wearing Capes” in honor of Batman’s 80th anniversary on Batman Day.
To celebrate the upcoming release of New Line Cinema’s latest film, “Tag,” cast members Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress, Jon Hamm, Jake Johnson and Jeremy Renner gathered fans at Six Flags Over Texas to play a record-breaking round of the classic playground game. [Read more…]
Get your forks and napkins ready, because the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Key Lime Pie was just shattered by a 12-foot pastry at last weekend’s 7th Annual Florida Key Lime Pie Festival on Florida’s Space Coast.
On Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018, the World’s Largest Key Lime Pie was prepared by Florida Key Lime Pie Company in a custom pie pan using a secret graham cracker crust recipe. 480 cups of graham cracker crust and over 12,800 ounces of key Lime pie filling went into the pie, which had a total volume of over 180 cubic feet.
The World’s Largest Key Lime Pie was displayed at 7th Annual Florida Key Lime Pie Festival last weekend. pic.twitter.com/0pJi1omPUC
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In the end, the newest World’s Largest Key Lime Pie measured 12.25 feet across and weighed 1,220 pounds, beating out the previous winners from both the Guinness Book of World Records (7 feet) and The World Record Academy (8.2 feet).
The festival also featured additional activities in keeping with the event’s “Florida Family Fun” theme, such as a Key lime pie eating contest, pie toss and hula hoop challenge. The 7th Annual Florida Key Lime Pie Festival was held on Jan. 13, 2018, at Brevard Veterans Memorial Park in Merritt Island, Florida.
Gaylord Palms Resort will host couples to celebrate the seasonal tradition of kissing under the mistletoe during their “Kiss-Story in the Making” special event. [Read more…]
At the Celebrating Travel & Tourism luncheon hosted by Visit Orlando on Thursday, May 11, the City Beautiful took to appreciating all of those who supported and visited Orlando in a huge new way, as they accomplished a Guinness World Record for gathering the most hand-written thank you cards in 24 hours. [Read more…]
Smiles are usually huge when guests come to Orlando, but this one takes the cake. Five hundred smiling people from around the world gathered Oct. 1 at the new Amway Center to set the Guinness World Record for the biggest smiley face. Coinciding with the official World Smile Day, they formed the smiley face and stood shoulder to shoulder for 10 minutes on the top parking deck. [Read more…]
Smiles are usually huge when guests come to Orlando, but this one takes the cake. Five hundred smiling people from around the world gathered Oct. 1 at the new Amway Center to set the Guinness World Record for the biggest smiley face. Coinciding with the official World Smile Day, they formed the smiley face and stood shoulder to shoulder for 10 minutes on the top parking deck. [Read more…]
Against the backdrop of a world-record sculpture of canned goods at Epcot last Thursday, Disney Parks officials announced a major milestone with its Give a Day, Get a Disney Day program.
Since the program’s launch only six weeks ago, more than 600,000 people in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada have volunteered or signed up for volunteer projects in their communities, announced Tom Staggs, the new chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. The program’s limit is one million.
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