Biggest domino pyramid ever... almost

Four months after this, I teamed up with fellow domino-builder millionendollarboy to have another attempt on this - but it also failed close to the end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXdrFPC-CuI&feature=channel_video_title
I bet that was my last try... back to domino projects that don't include so much frustration^^

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This would have been the biggest 3D domino pyramid on YouTube and very probably in the world (not a Guinness record though, they don't have such a category yet), with a bottom layer of 27x27 dominoes and 13,482 pieces in total, but there seems to be some kind of Egyptian curse on domino pyramids. I didn't even make a mistake here, it toppled all by itself when it was more than 96% completed, with just 439 dominoes missing :-(
So 13,043 were standing when it toppled, which makes this my new personal domino record, beating the old one by almost 4,500 pieces! It's the first time I have toppled more than 10,000 dominoes, and more than the 11,111 that made the first world record in 1974.

Probably frequently asked questions:
- This took about 30 hours of actual work, spread over five weeks.
- I AM FINE. First, it would be much worse if I had actually messed it up -- but it wasn't my fault, as you can see in the video. Second, I've been a domino-builder for more than eleven years, so it's not the first time I have to cope with a project toppling too early. I wasn't even really sad, just dull. I was more frustrated when my video editing program (Magix VDL 15) crashed all the time while I tried to edit this video :-/
- Just for the few haters: I have a life... and you're not exactly the right person to judge that just from having seen this video without ever even having met me.

Biggest 3D domino pyramids in the world:
Inofficial #1 - This one and dcomimo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9xGKsTz1dI
(They say in their video that just 300 dominoes were missing, but you can see that they are still setting up dominoes at the bottom of the pyramid, which means that more than 300 had to be missing. Maybe they can clear this up)
Official #1 -- FlippyCat, 25x25 (with Domino Express dominoes, which is harder): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCum30c9Fdw
#2 -- TheDominoBuilder, 22x22: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGLvK6jhjWA
# Shared 3 -- spring476 and millionendollarboy, both 20x20: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZZK4JKDNE0 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZjQQav0GYI&feature=related

This video was shown on the Japanese TV show "Tokudane Toko Doga" on May 1st, 2011. Thanks to NHK for that :-)

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[BunnyWithAnAk47]

Its a phycological matter, the closer he got the more impatient he got, thus did it faster and with less quality when he was approaching to the end

[Annodomino2007]

@BunnyWithAnAk47 Interesting comment^^ But I don't think so: I've been a domino-builder for years, so I'm familiar with that effect and pay attention to staying patient until I've set up the very last domino. The domino that topple was in the middle and on top, and it's just difficult to set them up well there because have to reach in very far and you can't see very well if you have set it up properly, so that's probably what went wrong.

[PadrigVellca]

Now I know what the domino effect really entails, 4 months of hard work destroyed in about 5 seconds.

[Annodomino2007]

@PadrigVellca 30 hours, not 4 months^^

[msalta47]

40x40?



[Annodomino2007]

@msalta47 the mere thought of trying to start to attempt that is insane

[Annodomino2007]

@art4424 Hi there.^^ As you can see, they have internet on the island

[rattyfatty246]

you see there's no disappointment when you fail. if you succeed in a domino then you succeed but if you fail just post it as fail domino and you still get a bunch of likes so really there's no waste of all the hard work.

[nikola2158]

FAIL

[MeuleDomino]

@10asti10 1426778 views, is that nothing?

[10asti10]

oh... so big work ...for nothing

[Insulterz]

he got lots of time

[VisualiseTheFun]

LOOOL HIS FACE AT THE END

[Truskav54]

polak napewno powiedzialby kurwa

[azertyuiop69009]

trololol

[ANNE6978]

*putting the last domino* '' achooooooo'' dam it

[drunkaztec]

Ehhh fuck your life D:,

[OntreMuzik]

Hahahaha ! shamee in your face hahaha ! im sorry but that was just too funny ! you have to admitt im not trying to be tight but cmon' ; i couldnt help but laugh !!