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This is splendid. No one can ever give such effort in setting up domino shows like this unless you're an enthusiast. It takes a lot of time and patience, I believe. Imagine how many domino pieces that you have to set up one by one, not to mention the sense of frustration of wanting everything to be in order, and worst if something goes wrong from even a very slight mistake. I’ve seen something like that on TV when a guy successfully stacked up thousands of dominoes to build a replica of the Leaning Tower of Piza about the height of a tall man. The guy was just waiting for the Guinness World Book of Records representatives to examine his work, but the reporter who interviewed him ruined everything with the cord of his microphone, much to the guy’s dismay. It’s a time-consuming and painstaking hobby.
These domino shows are apparently done all over the world as long as there are domino aficionados who want to try to show off or break records. The shows are of course done by setting up thousands, if not millions, of dominoes in a long line to create the desired chain reaction. It depends of the person’s design or idea.
These days, enthusiasts now use multi colored dominoes to create something unusual like mosaic patterns or pictures and even trigger mechanisms aside from the old fashioned tricks. We can see lots of techniques people employ to further wow spectators like the three-dimensional method with which spirals and letters and any other forms are created. They even have other styles like making mechanisms similar to mouse traps and stairs. I’ve also seen small balls and playing cards included in the chain reaction. It’s an amazing thing to watch. People never stop innovating in creating new crazy tricks, but absolutely entertaining.
Did you know that the first public domino show ever created was in 1976, from a domino enthusiast named Bob Speca Jr. when he was 18 years old. Speca holds the first official record for his domino show toppling down 11,111 domino pieces. Since then, people followed Speca’s hobby and began doing the same thing. It also sparked the dawning of domino-toppling around the world. It was a trend in those days that instantly flourished all because of one man. In later times, during the 80’s, a German named Klaus Friedrich made a new world record in domino-toppling single-handedly in 1984, and was the last one, at least for now. But on November 14, 2008, a new world record was set using 4,345,027 dominoes, making it the current record to be challenged.
Soon after, there came the creation of what they call Domino Day. It was created by the world’s biggest domino show company, Weijers Domino Productions, also knows as Weijers DominoDomain.com. Domino Day has become popular almost all around the world. Currently, domino-toppling shows are held everywhere on a yearly basis. With the help of the internet, it’s now possible to watch different domino shows and set up techniques more closely.
