Stacking Cup Noodles in an Attempt on the Guinness World Record®!
Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd. (President: Noritaka Ando) is set to launch a “Double Guinness World Record Challenge” at the Cupnoodles Museum in Yokohama on Monday September 7, with the aim of getting Nissin Foods Group employees to establish two new Guinness World Records by using Cup Noodles.
By way of an event to embody that message, the company is organizing a "Double Guinness World Record Challenge," as part of which Nissin Foods Group employees will attempt to break two Guinness World Records by using Cup Noodles.
The record for the "Largest packaged product pyramid" will involve stacking around 57,000 Cup Noodles to form a pyramid 7.4 meters high. Scheduled for completion on Friday September 18, to coincide with the Cup Noodle’s birthday, the challenge will get underway at the Cupnoodles Museum on Monday September 7.
Setting the record for "Fastest time to build a 20 instant noodle cup/bowl pyramid" meanwhile will involve stacking 20 Cup Noodles in the fastest time on record.
Event details
Timeframe : Monday September 7 to Friday September 18*
(10 days excluding weekends and national holidays)
Challengers : Nissin Foods Group employees working at the group’s Tokyo Head Office
Venue : Cupnoodles Museum (1F entrance)
[Address] 2-3-4 Shinko, Naka-ku, Yokohama, 231-001
[Opening hours] 10:00 – 18:00 (last entry at 17:00)
[Closed] Tuesdays, (the following day if Tuesday is a national holiday)
* Members of the public will also be able to view the record attempt.
2. "Fastest time to build a 20 instant noodle cup/bowl pyramid"
The aim is to stack 20 Cup Noodles into a pyramid shape in the fastest possible time (triangular layers, starting from the bottom: 10 cups, 6 cups, 3 cups, 1 cup). Preliminary heats will take place in 13 blocks nationwide. Employees with the best times will come together for the final, with the fastest registered as the Guinness World Record holder. As this is the first attempt at a Guinness World Record in this category, there is no existing time to beat.
Heats : Thursday August 20 to Monday September 7, 2015
Final : Friday September 18, 2015
Challengers : Nissin Foods Group employees nationwide
Venue for final : Cupnoodles Museum (1F entrance)
The aim is to stack 20 Cup Noodles into a pyramid shape in the fastest possible time (triangular layers, starting from the bottom: 10 cups, 6 cups, 3 cups, 1 cup). Preliminary heats will take place in 13 blocks nationwide. Employees with the best times will come together for the final, with the fastest registered as the Guinness World Record holder. As this is the first attempt at a Guinness World Record in this category, there is no existing time to beat.
Heats : Thursday August 20 to Monday September 7, 2015
Final : Friday September 18, 2015
Challengers : Nissin Foods Group employees nationwide
Venue for final : Cupnoodles Museum (1F entrance)
Guinness World Records*
Guinness World Records is an organization that certifies and gathers information on world records, which are summarized in a book that it publishes annually. Celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2015, the organization currently has a database containing roughly 40,000 records. Every year, around 4,000 of those records are selected for inclusion in the annual Guinness World Records book.
Ever since the first edition was published in the UK in 1955, the Guinness World Records book has become a much-loved international best seller, with 132 million copies sold to date. It is currently translated into 20 languages and stocked by bookstores in over 100 different countries.
* The term "Guinness World Record" is a registered trademark of Guinness World Records Ltd.
Ever since the first edition was published in the UK in 1955, the Guinness World Records book has become a much-loved international best seller, with 132 million copies sold to date. It is currently translated into 20 languages and stocked by bookstores in over 100 different countries.
* The term "Guinness World Record" is a registered trademark of Guinness World Records Ltd.
