World Records with Soap Bubbles

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How to Make Monstrous, Huge, Unbelievably Big Bubbles	Bubbleology: A Hands-On Science Kit with Toy and Other	The Unbelievable Bubble Book, with bubble-making equipment

Most People inside a Soap Bubble

All persons inside the bubble must be at least five feet tall and be standing upright.

8	Fan Yang (Canada)	Discovery Science Center Santa Ana (USA), 7 April 2004
18	Fan Yang (Canada)	Toys 'R' Us, New York, 18 March 2005
19	Sam Sam the Bubble Man (Sam Heath from Bubble Inc, UK)	Chessington World of Adventures London, 30 March 2006
22	Fan Yang (Canada)	Guinness World Records TV Madrid 25 May 2006
25	James Piercy (Great Britain)	Inspire Discovery Centre Norwich, 3 September 2006
26	Ana Yang (Canada)	Guinness World Records Special TV Show, Beijing, 16 December 2006
42	Fan Yang (Canada)	Live with Regis and Kelly, New York, USA, 7 August 2007
50	Sam Sam the Bubble Man (Sam Heath from Bubble Inc, UK)	Science Museum, London, 23 November 2007
94	Mac Donaldi (Hammou Bensalah) (Algeria)	Heide-Park in Soltau, Germany, on 24 September 2009 PHOTO
151	Fan Yang (Canada)	Discovery Science Center Santa Ana, USA, 5 April 2011 VIDEO

Note: Guinness World Records counted just those 118 of the 151 people who met the five-foot height requirement

Largest Bubble Wall

Fan Yang (Canada) erected a continuous soap bubble wall, spanning 47.7 m (156 feet) in length at the Kingdome Pavilion in Seattle (USA) on August 11, 1997. To create the bubble wall, Fan Yang and his two assistants used 51 m (167 feet) specially designed bucket, 1700 litres (400 gallons) of soapy solution and special designed bubble props of 51 m (156 feet) in length. The rules for this category specify that the wall mest have a minimum height of 3 meters, and it must stay for at least five seconds.
On 17 November 2009, Fan Yang broke his own record by creating a 50.9 m (167 feet) long bubble wall in Beijing.

Super Size Bubble Wall

Longest Chain Made from Interlinking Soap Bubbles

9	Fan Yang (Canada)	27 November 2001 in Stockholm
10	Francisco Javier Sanchez Miguel and David Gonzalez Vega (Spain)	28 January 2009 in Madrid
15	Jarom Watts (USA)	21 February 2009, Lincoln Center, Spokane (USA)
20	Matěj Kodeš (Czech Republic)	13 June 2009 in Pelhřimov (Czech Republic)
26	Sam Sam the Bubble Man (Sam Heath from Bubble Inc, UK)	12 April 2010 in London

Longest Soap Bubble

A 35 m (105 ft) long bubble was created by Alan McKay (New Zealand) on 9 August 9 1996.

Largest Free-Floating Soap Bubble

2.98 cubic metres	105.4 cubic feet	John R. Erck, the owner of XTREME Bubbles LLC DETAILS	9 October 2005 in Farmington, Minnesota (USA)
13.68 cubic meters	483 cubic feet	Jarom Watts (USA)	21 February 2009, The Lincoln Center in Spokane (USA)

Longest Rainbow-Shaped Bubble (an arc with both ends at the bottom)

11.2 m	Matěj Kodeš (Czech Republic)	13 June 2009 at the Record Festival in Pelhřimov, Czech Republic
12.8 m	Alexander Sakhno (Ukraine)	13 October 2009 at the Eifelpark Gondorf, Germany.
24.1 m	Matěj Kodeš (Czech Republic)	9 June 2010 at the Record Festival in Pelhřimov, Czech Republic

Most Bounces of a Soap Bubble

Sam Sam the Bubble Man (Sam Heath from Bubble Inc, UK) achieved 38 bounces of a soap bubble on 12 April 2010 in London.

Most Soap Bubbles Inside One Another ("Bubble Dome")

9	Fan Yang (Canada)	5 May 1999 in Los Angeles
11	Fan Yang (Canada)	29 March 2000 in Paris
12	Fan Yang (Canada)	20 October 2001 in Helsinki

Longest Lasting Soap Bubble

The physicist Sir James Dewar (UK) kept a bubble of 32 cm diameter for 108 days.

Largest Frozen Soap Bubble

Sam Sam the Bubble Man (Sam Heath from Bubble Inc, UK) produced a frozen soap bubble of 4315 cm³ in June 2010 in London.

Largest Object Inside a Soap Bubble

Matěj Kodeš (Czech Republic) made a soap bubble around a truck (length: 6 m, width: 2.8 m, height: 3.5 m) on 9 December 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic.

The Bubble Thing- World's Biggest Bubbles

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