The World's Biggest Hot Wheels Loop-the-loop is at a Shaker Heights Elementary School


Students at Woodbury Elementary School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, are confident that they've set a Guinness World Record for the largest Hot Wheels loop-the-loop in the history of humankind. #ThisisCle

At a fundraising ceremony yesterday afternoon, a Hot Wheels toy car traveled from a 24-foot platform and successfully completed the nine-foot, nine-inch loop. The previous Guinness Record was nine feet, three inches. (The dutiful souls at NEOMG reminds us that the students had parental help — SO DON'T GIVE THEM TOO MUCH CREDIT!)

Students raised more than $10,000 for the event, which included the ceremonial shearing of Principal Randall Yates' mustache, a mustache he reportedly had been wearing without interruption for 25 years.

Maybe these future engineers can help design a re-imagined Geauga Lake.

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Sam Allard

Sam Allard is the Senior Writer at Scene, in which capacity he covers politics and power and writes about movies when time permits. He's a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the NEOMFA at Cleveland State. Prior to joining Scene, he was encamped in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on an...
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