Matchstick Eiffel Tower given world record after ruling U-turn

Matchstick Eiffel Tower given world record after ruling U-turn | BBC News

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5 ай бұрын

A 7.19m (23ft) model of the Eiffel Tower built out of matches has been given a world record, after the Guinness World Records changed their minds.
Initially, French model-enthusiast Richard Plaud’s efforts appeared to be in vein, as it was determined the matches he had used were not "commercially available".
But, after filing an appeal, the authorities reversed their decision, admitting that the original ruling was “too heavy handed”, saving Mr Plaud from having wasted eight years, 706,900 matches and 23kg of glue.
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@Greenpoloboy3 5 ай бұрын

Happy for him! Worked hard. Heart must have sank hearing he'd used the "wrong" match after doing this for 8 years. He deserves this! Good job!!

@b.visconti1765 5 ай бұрын

This took him 8 years!

@peterpanini96 5 ай бұрын

Nah he said that to make it look like his life was worthy of it... 😂😂😂 probably been done in 6months... 😅

@ranorunadaira1452 5 ай бұрын

@@peterpanini96then do it yourself lmao. Where is the source that say he doing this for 6 months? This is equivalent to client that saying drawing is easy.

@JemZard 5 ай бұрын

@@peterpanini96Blud thought I can be fooled with this obvious rage bait lmao. Do better :3

@obi-nh9eh 5 ай бұрын

@@peterpanini96im gonna steal your sandwich

@politicsuncensored5617 5 ай бұрын

The man put a lot of extra fine detail into making this beautiful model. I'm glad Guinness World Records got their act together to make the right decision~! His beautiful model of the Eiffel Tower is amazing work. Shalom

@SirJimmySavileOBEKCSG 5 ай бұрын

So glad it didn't all fall down placing the last matchstick!

@leonleon2276 5 ай бұрын

They are not matchsticks that we know…

@hawk55732 3 ай бұрын

@@leonleon2276 Except they are.

@marcamusprime9513 5 ай бұрын

The wrong type of match. Then they realized that it is still made of matchsticks.

@knackerEv 5 ай бұрын

Very happy for him. The absurdity of the initial ruling was astonishing. It pleases me greatly to hear this news . Congratulations on great crafting.

@leedonlee5050 5 ай бұрын

🇸🇬❤🎉🇸🇬

@brendalee6983 5 ай бұрын

Amazing work

@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr 5 ай бұрын

There is hope in the world.

@DINHVANTAM-QTRI 5 ай бұрын

Amazing

@ChinaVideosViral 5 ай бұрын

Vive la France!!! 🇫🇷

@desigirlBea 5 ай бұрын

Wow what resilience and talent

@ipohtennischannel5482 5 ай бұрын

What a beautiful model. Clever guy!

@kahinakoffey3686 5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@SimonHardy-rt9ub 5 ай бұрын

Oh my original comment was delete but yes i do like the engineering and effort he put in. Its quite good

@InterestedCitizen 5 ай бұрын

Pretty cool work.👍

@user-gv2eh5er2l 5 ай бұрын

Does any one know how long it might of took?

@santafejack 5 ай бұрын

I read the story of the rejection and thought it was heartbreaking and arbitrary. Thank you for doing the follow up and the favorable new ruling.

@outdoorsy01 5 ай бұрын

Pretty cool

@sirensynapse5603 5 ай бұрын

That and a euro will buy him a quarter cup of coffee.

@DaleHartley 5 ай бұрын

Seeing your kid smile for the first time, or walk for the first time also will get you a cup of coffee for a euro. ;) Somethings cannot be valued with money, but simply in the actions.

@qmto 5 ай бұрын

Umm, yay?

@joelnehl 5 ай бұрын

The real Eiffel Tower was built in 2 years, 2 months and 5 days of construction.

@ActuallyHoudini 5 ай бұрын

YEAHH!!!!!

@Continentalmunkey88 5 ай бұрын

0:42

@raycenteno7698 5 ай бұрын

Ya. Read this like 2 days ago. Glad they gave him the record. If they didn't that would have been a big "FU!!!"

@Battle_Beard 5 ай бұрын

He must not have paid enough for the record.

@toulow 5 ай бұрын

Anyone want to work together to make a 8m tall Eiffel tower to get an easy Guinness World Record?

@ezflex 5 ай бұрын

123

@quietflintuk 5 ай бұрын

Well it's not as silly as the Guinness book was expecting it to be so they simply rejected it. Jokes aside this does need some real skill to make this beautiful piece of art but World records are a joke now if you watched the latest Guinness world record's videos.

@wheelblack35 5 ай бұрын

What kind of matches should he have used

@DaleHartley 5 ай бұрын

ones with the flammable igniter.... most it is the red bit. I have seen black and blue ones thought also.

@dr.consumerock6798 5 ай бұрын

@@DaleHartleyWouldn't that be more dangerous? Shouldn't him using the not bad ones be good?

@DaleHartley 5 ай бұрын

@@dr.consumerock6798 ? what are you talking about? He used sticks that never had the top applied...Not sure what "bad ones" you are referring to.

@dr.consumerock6798 5 ай бұрын

@@DaleHartley Sorry, I meant the ones that are able to be ignite. brain farted (also the "top part" was the red thing at the end right?)

@DaleHartley 5 ай бұрын

@@dr.consumerock6798 some matches are red, but I have seen blue and black ones as well. But it is the igniting part. Some ignite when rubbed on anything and some require a specific thing to ignite on. I do not have any myself, but I remember them well from my aunts and uncles ( they were really great aunts and uncles, but I was raised by my grandmother so... LOL)

@leedonlee5050 5 ай бұрын

❤🎉

@apokatastasian2831 5 ай бұрын

did they realize that encouraging people to collect that much concentrated match sulfur is essentially a bomb waiting to happen. I'd wager it's actually illegal or at least frowned upon in britain to spend 8 years collecting the chemicals from that many matches

@jameshoffa7085 5 ай бұрын

what a dumb country

@shivermetimbers6128 5 ай бұрын

Good for him! That said, I did think Guinness Records also had a point. He decided not to use commercially-available matches because it was too tedious to scrape away the coating on the heads so he found suppliers who had match sticks without the coating. Since the official way required more effort and he'd essentially tried to take a shortcut, I think they were justified in denying him the record. That said, 8 years is a bloody long time so I'm glad Guinness eventually relented and it wasn't all a massive waste

@lewis0705 5 ай бұрын

thats bullshit. stripping the matchheads off doesn't take any skill. its just extra work that anyone can do. the actual skill is in designing and building the structure

@DaleHartley 5 ай бұрын

@@lewis0705 Yes I think the skill and time should be rewarded, I understand standards, BUT who WOULD leave the igniter on the match? Did the other guy? ( who held the title before this) I have never seen anyone use that part.

@shivermetimbers6128 5 ай бұрын

@@lewis0705 I agree but it was still stated clearly in the rules and previous record-holders went to the trouble of scraping off the heads

@apokatastasian2831 5 ай бұрын

With all the rules and pearl clutching in europe... I would think ordering that many matches in one place then collecting the sulfur mixture would be considered making a weapon of mass destruction and banned

@DaleHartley 5 ай бұрын

@@apokatastasian2831 there was no sulfur mixture bud... your insult falls flat. He ordered the matchsticks without the head being put on....that was WHY they did not allow it at first. I guess you failed to watch the video.

@r8chlletters 5 ай бұрын

Scottish translator 😂

@FourDollaRacing 5 ай бұрын

Aye.... 🤔

@andrewjones-productions 5 ай бұрын

A Scottish interpreter actually. Translators deal with the written word.

@Simp_Zone 5 ай бұрын

Ewan McGreggor doing his job for once

@auro1986 5 ай бұрын

bbc lights fire without striking match

@Simp_Zone 5 ай бұрын

This is the kind of pointless shit that I live for

@FourDollaRacing 5 ай бұрын

I just sh💩t *so big* I had to light a match! 🤭

@Bunkerdwarfputin 5 ай бұрын

Well, at least you didn't set your farts on fire.

@MK8MasterJunjie 5 ай бұрын

TMI!

@christopher48778 5 ай бұрын

I would never waste my time.

@leonleon2276 5 ай бұрын

Unless they are match sticks that I use in the kitchen. The ones over the counter. Then they are not legal.

@cheese-power 5 ай бұрын

What’s the point of doing this for eight years? 😂

@Ugric 5 ай бұрын

wtf is that title

@FlagTheRef 5 ай бұрын

Its nice to see rules being bent so adults can win participation trophys

@knifetoucher 5 ай бұрын

YOU USED REDHEAD MATCH INSTEAD OF BLUEHEAD MATCH! I NO ACCEPT!!!!1111

@goldfinga786able 5 ай бұрын

No report on the tucker interview with putin...

@Sammyhasbigmuscles 5 ай бұрын

They have done?

@goldfinga786able 5 ай бұрын

@@Sammyhasbigmuscles when where ...what putting sating about Boris Johnson..da smack head

@Bunkerdwarfputin 5 ай бұрын

To sum it up.. Putin doesn't believe in religion... Putin didn't invade Ukraine because he was worried about NATO expansion... Putin doesn't support the GQP in America, he just wants to cause division amongst its citizens. Fvcker carlson used every bait tactic he could think of, to get putin to say what the GQP/right wing media have been lying about all along, and pooptin made him look like an even bigger azz than he a already is.

@Sammyhasbigmuscles 5 ай бұрын

@@goldfinga786able kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hpZhqKyirNOal3k.htmlsi=y6-ZEb4cjJ3RGZqT

@Sammyhasbigmuscles 5 ай бұрын

@@goldfinga786able there’s the link grandpa

@mecan2 5 ай бұрын

Sometimes, "art" is beyond my understanding. Why do you replicate a building with matches? It is so boring to me... Why is it significant to be in the news? Why does this human being spend so much time on this?

@Isclachau 5 ай бұрын

More filler for the stupid. How about talking about the disastrous sales of EV’s as people have realised that they are no good for the majority. …

@InterestedCitizen 5 ай бұрын

It's not at all stupid.

@ActuallyHoudini 5 ай бұрын

they have spoke about it

@Isclachau 5 ай бұрын

@@ActuallyHoudini Really, that is surprising. Fair play.

@Isclachau 5 ай бұрын

@@InterestedCitizen There’s an obvious joke but I won’t say it….

@leonleon2276 5 ай бұрын

Corrupt record. They are not matches , they sticks of wood

@goldfinga786able 5 ай бұрын

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

@liberals411 5 ай бұрын

3 words who f'ing cares!! This is news really??

@ActuallyHoudini 5 ай бұрын

when you spend years on it, i think he deserves the title.

@InterestedCitizen 5 ай бұрын

Stop spreading misery.

@Wherethereisnodarkness 5 ай бұрын

@@ActuallyHoudiniwhy are the BBC reporting it though? Cost of living crisis, war, lab-leaks, corrupt politicians. Where's the real journalism? Leave it to the guiness book of records social media pages to post about this eifel tower model.

@Wherethereisnodarkness 5 ай бұрын

@@InterestedCitizenhe isn't spreading misery. It's a valid point.