Got toothpicks and six years?

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Stan Munro spent six years, used 6 million toothpicks, and 170 gallons of glue to create a 1:65 scale model of some of the most amazing structures in the world. I once built a volcano looking thing out of mashed potatoes and aliens came a few days later.

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5 Comments

Stewart little

Posted September 15, 2009 at 3:10 pm | Permalink

Well that is a lot of time invested in that. Some one get him a nice cold brewski!

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Sanchit goyal

Posted September 15, 2009 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

Quite interesting…..Too much patience reqd for that

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Olivia

Posted September 15, 2009 at 4:04 pm | Permalink

damn! that is insanity. did u get paid to do that?

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- Pony
  
  Posted September 15, 2009 at 4:43 pm | Permalink
  
  Guys works in a science museum or something in Syracuse, NY — so I am sure this was a paid gig
  
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serkan

Posted September 16, 2009 at 6:19 am | Permalink

süper olmus helal olsun…

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