Residents of a Japanese town built 1,585 in one hour at a high school field to set a Guinness World Record.
The Iiyama Snow Festival Planning Committee said the "1,500 Snowmen Challenge," which was designed to commemorate the planned March 14 opening of Iiyama Station on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line, featured more than 500 people constructing a total 1,585 snowmen inside the 60-minute time limit imposed by Guinness World Records.
Officials said each snowman had to be at least 36 inches tall and be composed of three snowballs with eyes, a nose and arms.
The Sunday event was confirmed by Guinness adjudicator Justin Patterson to have beat the previous record of 1,279 snowmen set in Utah in 2011.
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