A French man spent eight years building a 23.6-foot model of the Eiffel Tower from matchsticks, but his application for a Guinness World Record was rejected on the grounds of the matches he used.

Plaud scaled that up, multiplying the dimensions by six to get a sculpture that was 1/45th the size of the Eiffel Tower — 23.6 feet, sufficient to break Daher’s world record by more than two feet.

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The Guinness World Records awarded the man who built a nearly 24-foot Eiffel Tower out of hundreds of thousands of matchsticks with a world record weeks after he was disqualified.

Guinness World Records at first rejected a tower replica that Richard Plaud made from more than 700,000 matchsticks. But on further review, the organization said it might have been too "heavy-handed." ...

Weeks after disqualifying a 24-foot tower made of matchsticks, Guinness World Records apologized and said it had been too “heavy handed.” By Jenny Gross Richard Plaud toiled over eight years ...

A French man spent eight years building a 23.6-foot model of the Eiffel Tower from matchsticks, but his application for a Guinness World Record was rejected on the grounds of the matches he used.

Feb. 7 (UPI) --A French man spent eight years building a 23.6-foot model of the Eiffel Tower from matchsticks, but his application for a Guinness World Record was rejected on the grounds of the ...