In the world's theme park capital crowd of 500 smiling people was gathered to smash Guinness World Record for the biggest human smiley face. Corresponding with and celebrating today's official World Smile Day, on the top parking deck of the new Amway Center mega arena, home to the NBA's Orlando Magic, all were formed with smiley face & stood shoulder to shoulder for ten minutes.
The gathered crowd raised $19,825 for the charitable organization, Smile Train, in the campaign of producing world's largest smiley face. Fund will be used to give more than 70 cleft lip or cleft palate surgeries for children so they also can smile. Few children who have got benefit from Smile Train's work had joined smile ambassadors from across the world at the Biggest Smiley Face Guinness World Record event.
'Smile and the whole world smiles with you', True to the saying. As a part of their World Smile Search campaign, The Orlando Convention Visitors Bureau had spent 6 months for searching people who had smile stories. They got over 20,000 smile stories, gathered from 77 nations at http://www.VisitOrlando.com/smile and the people behind some of those stories were flown in for the world record event.
The largest smiley face in the world was 50 feet in diameter, which is equivalent to the size of a basketball court. Participants were dressed in yellow and black ponchos, who were travelers from the various countries like United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and Brazil.
Gary Sain, president and CEO of the Orlando CVB said with smile "With our world-famous theme parks and more than 100 attractions, we thought we might just be the smile capital of the world. Now, it's official". "We have a world record and world travelers from the four corners of the globe told us that no other destination creates unique smile moments and memories like Orlando for families and friends to share for a lifetime", Gary added.
