It is a Popsicle Sticks Galore at Mattatuck Museum.Yep inside the waterbury museum stands tall an elaborate medieval castle towering at a 12 ft height.The castle is made of as many popsickle sticks it could contain to stay in tune with the shape and structure.
Stephan Guman is the man behind this popsickle wonder.He tells us that he has been tirelessly working for the past one and half years to build the castle.
He has used 3,96,000 popsickle sticks to erect a 12 ft tall castle .He has got himself completely involved in the project that he feels the entire world has disappeared from the scene.Further the castle is believed to be 16 ft deep and four galloons of Elmer's Glue has been used to stick the sticks together .
This substantiates the fact that Guman's popsickle structure has comfortably superseded the previous record which was made of a mere 3,70,000 popsickle sticks.
Sections of the gigantic 12-by-17-foot castle, which are so large that they must be delivered by tractor trailer truck arrived at the museum for final assembly.
A bird house kit was given as a gift by his aunt when Guman was 9 years old and that inspired him to get interested in bird houses and other kits.
This inspiration slowly turned in to a passion for popsickle sticks and Guman got obsessed with them.His obsession made him pursue to build popsickle structures during his free time.A heavy equipment operator by profession Stephan Guman spends four hours each day before and after work gluing four and half inch sticks together.Slowly by doing so his master piece reached to close proximity for the tallest popsickle structure ever.
Mr. Guman has made replicas of the Eiffel Tower and the World Trade Center, tanks, ships and cranes with moveable parts.
The Tallest Popsickle structure was set by Stephan Guman at Mattatuck Museum,Waterbury,Connecticut,United States of America on December 18,2009.
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