r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Story_Man_75 • 15d ago
Video Worlds biggest domino drop 10 Millions Dominos
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u/Jdslogin 15d ago
Gunna have to verify that count. Seems like a few were missed
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u/GudgerCollegeAlumnus 15d ago
I zoomed in and counted and it was actually one less than the record.
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u/sasssyrup 15d ago
Huh. I didn’t enjoy as much as I thought I would. Maybe was waiting for a more cascading display. But op does say domino “drop” so that’s on me.
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u/CaterpillarReal7583 15d ago
Tbh i think domino stuff like this people want to be cool but its not that amazing.
The actual built structure was far more impressive and interesting than it crumbling.
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u/bravebeing 15d ago
I think there might be a difference between artistic Domino structures and creative Domino drop courses.
This was more about building a huge structure with lots of pieces without having it drop during the build VS building a cool course with special effects and cause and effect sequences.
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u/Muffles7 15d ago
I will say the dominos climbing the domino landscape without knocking them down was neat to me.
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u/shitty_mcfucklestick 14d ago
They didn’t use the dramatic camera angles from the guy with the GoPro. That’s where the excitement was
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u/secretprocess 15d ago
This was more like my other favorite childhood activity, build a block tower and then knock it over.
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u/Twilifa 15d ago
Not gonna lie, that's a very disappointing way to do it. So anticlimactic. The structure was beautiful! The drop was extremely meh.
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u/ssketchman 15d ago
Also that guy with a small camera blocking the main shot makes everything look amateurish.
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u/ScuttleCrab729 15d ago
Yea I think I’d rather see his angle. He got the close up of the actual domino falling effects in the beginning
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u/No_Calligrapher_4712 15d ago
You could see a lot of fixed cameras sitting around. There's a better clip of this somewhere that captures the action at all the right angles...
This seems to be some bystander's video so might be underselling the event a little
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u/biochamberr 15d ago
Yeah I was hoping to see everything fall in graceful trails, but it seemed like they just wanted a big splatter finale. Not worth the wait after how much time that would have taken to set up!
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u/Random0s2oh 15d ago
I couldn't have done it. Last minute, I would have been throwing myself on that first circular part. The structure itself was beautiful. Destroying it was sad.
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u/AgitatedPatience5729 15d ago
I'm more amazed by the people who are able to craft something such as this.
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u/Zombisexual1 14d ago
Yah I wonder how you set all of that up without accidentally setting it off many times
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u/captaindomon 15d ago
Super annoying the guy was in the way for the first part. Get out of the way lol! Needs better camera planning.
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u/Historical-Fox1372 15d ago
To be fair, this vid was probably from an audience member. The guy "in the way" was the one getting the official and most likely better footage.
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u/mrselfdestruct2 15d ago
I was kind of hoping he’d trip and fall into it.
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u/LeticiaLatex 15d ago
When he got close, I thought he would inadvertently kick a domino into the tower
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u/Open_Youth7092 15d ago
This comment is the world’s biggest comment with 10 million characters.
Typing something doesn’t make it true. That’s nowhere near 10 million.
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u/The_JSQuareD 14d ago edited 14d ago
Yeah, exactly. This is what 4.5M dominos looks like: https://youtu.be/z7OzuXZ6U7s
And that video from 2009 is from the event that still holds the official world record: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-dominoes-toppled-by-a-group
(And yes, that's an hour and half long video. That should tell you how silly this '10M' figure for a 70 second video is.)
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u/UrbanScientist 15d ago
1, That's nowhere near 10 million dominos. A totally made up number.
2, The whole video was made by a total amateur. What a waste.
3, A lot of the dominos didn't even fall and the whole execution was a bit dumb. 0/5 satisfaction.
I didn't expect to be angry after watching something like this.
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u/Cpt_Jumper 15d ago
This was heavily disappointing from before the big 'buildings' even dropped. So many domino's left standing. Don't even get me started on the towers at the end. Smh
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u/NotQuiteinFocus 15d ago
That was so unsatisfactory.🤣 I genuinely thought the big structures will fall bit by bit. They might as well have just kicked the bottom of it. What a big meh.
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u/gormthesoft 15d ago
Yea it feels like cheating to have them all drop at once. If that’s allowed, I could break the record myself with just a pile 10 million and 1 dominos in the back of a dumptruck and dump them off the back.
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u/CobaltDestroyer 15d ago
Bullshit. I watched the 2009 record attempt for 4,8 million domino’s and it was several halls of a massive expo center and lasted for 1,5 hours.
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u/xgamer468 15d ago
Look up Domino Day! It was a German TV show and it was the absolute shit during my childhood. Not sure if they had close to the number of dominos OP claims this Had but the drops were a lot more thought through and well executed
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u/Terror_666 15d ago
It was a Dutch show/event from 1998 to 2009, held in Leeuwarden and rebroadcast around the world.
The record there, according to wikipedia, was 4,491,863 also that took a lot longer to fall.
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u/True-Emphasis8997 15d ago
Man domino day was amazing too bad they didnt do it anymore. I remember how when it was on tv the whole family was watching it. Good times
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u/Squire_Squirrely 15d ago
Title is bullshit, artist seems to be Raffaele Salvoldi, not 10 million and not dominoes (he has a similar one that was 130,000 planks and this isn't 10x bigger lol). I can't find anything about this build other than this video being reposted over and over, would be nice to see the other camera angles though
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u/MeropeGaunt 15d ago
The whole point is to have some kind of artistic design to the way the dominos fall, not how they are originally set up. This was disappointing!
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u/Intelligent-Ad-9669 15d ago
In terms of the efforts to the result ratio, that is by far the most unimpressive hobby out there.
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u/t4ctical_pot4to 15d ago
10 million, really?? I was expecting something built from 10 million Dominos to be...a little bigger
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u/woundedhandstime 15d ago
Why’d we get the angle with the fucker running around instead of getting his video?
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u/SnooKiwis1356 15d ago edited 15d ago
Without any intention to shit on their effort, because I'm sure that simply arranging 10 million pieces is hard enough. Planning the entire course is probably incredibly difficult and time consuming, but for a domino drop, this was pretty bad:
The camera planning was horrible.
The drop itself was terrible as it was hard to follow and the structure fell very randomly.
A big part of the structure remained intact.
IMO, unless they could really come up with an interesting way to make it fall, they should have just displayed it as a beautifully done structure.
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u/Grand-Bullfrog3861 15d ago
I agree with you here, it felt like the dominos were falling one by one, but when it got to the very cool structure it was just a case of it all falling over.
The best ones are the 2D ones that go wild, they stay in sync and the final piece isn't just a pile of dominos
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u/kajana141 13d ago
Incredibly satisfying but who goes through all that trouble for 30 seconds of enjoyment?
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u/Agitated-Antelope942 15d ago
Uhhh… ok… guessing it was supposed to do something more spectacular than that. Looked more like in the thousands than millions too.
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u/cockblockedbydestiny 15d ago
Not sure exactly what I was expecting, but it was kind of anti-climactic that the structures representing the vast majority of the dominos basically just imploded in mere seconds
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u/jackgrafter 15d ago
They’re not dominos.
It’s supposed to be sequential with cool patterns.
If it was meant to be a mess they still fucked it up.
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u/-hi-fin- 15d ago
Eh, doesn’t look like 10 mil plus the ending was whatever. Curious if whoever set this up used one of those setting machines to do it since the height of some of those towers suggests that it was tricky to take on by hand.
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u/cyclopspilot 15d ago
We could have been working on a cure for cancer, but this is a good use of time too I guess.
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u/presshamgang 15d ago
I'm such a privileged asshole. I would spend hours doing these as kids and watch TV shows with like 500 dominos and then I find myself underwhelmed with this.
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u/Brock938 15d ago
What do they do with all of those dominoes now that the trick is over. Seems like a waste.
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u/taintosaurus_rex 15d ago
The moment that first tower fell down I had PTSD kick in. Did not enjoy that. Apparently I didn't forget.
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u/ahm_ashour 15d ago
The guy with the camera, during the first part I was saying hey man move out of the way.
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u/friendly-sardonic 15d ago
I’m not sure what I was expecting, but the sculpture was infinitely more impressive than the fall.
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u/KeepLookingUp99 15d ago
Might have preferred watching a sped up version of the build.
The drop was a bit meh 🫤
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u/misterpickleman 15d ago
"Darn! It didn't completely fall down! Alright, everyone! Let's rebuild it and try again!"
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u/Outrageous_Artist394 15d ago edited 15d ago
Humanity has enough spare time for stuff this but like.. fuck it that we are cooking ourselves to death in a changing climate; that we are literally drowning ourselves with floods.
Look… dominos…
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u/Frosten79 15d ago
My first thought was “this will just be everything falling at once”
Then I watched as the first line left what looked like ruins of a Roman bridge or something, then I thought “this could be cool if it’s like all ruins of towers at the end”
Then it hit the first jenga tower and it just collapsed and I was back to “everything will just fall”
Then the dominoes started falling up the tower steps and I was back to “no wait this will be really cool”
Then everything just crashed to the ground
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u/-Laffi- 15d ago
How in the heck did they build all this :O?!
I mean it's not just putting the tiles on the ground one after another...there's freaking towers, with bridges, with tiles inside the tunnel of the bridges! How did they not fall down under the building?
Were there really 10 million tiles? If there were 10000 tiles for every builders...then it would require 1000 people working on this...
Someone explain this to me please!
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u/DarthErectous 15d ago
I had to make sure this wasn't on the kill the camera man sub or I would suffer a stroke
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u/hipskillybumbum 15d ago
So taking dimensions of a domino to be L=4.8cm, H=2.4cm, W=0.9cm we get a volume of 10.368cm3
10.368cm3 x 10,000,000 = 103 m3 That’s the cubic meters of volume 10mil dominoes would take up. That’s about the volume of a commercial semi-truck trailer. The pile on the floor at the end doesn’t look like it could fill up a semi-trailer.
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 15d ago edited 15d ago
I think the actual structure was more impressive tbh. The drop was pretty underwhelming.
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u/57696c6c 15d ago
I’m annoyed those two towers are still standing.