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This is not what we meant by knocking them back.
A girl elicited gasps from viewers after toppling a near-world record beer coaster tower that took an artist over a month to build, as seen in a clip with millions of views.
“In total, I spent about 120 hours constructing the sculpture,” creator Benjamin Klapper, 49, told Jam Press of his opus, which was located at the Rhein-Center shopping center in Cologne, Germany.
The German artist reportedly constructed the impressive structure out of 63,000 beer coasters in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record.
He began constructing the work on Oct. 31 of last year and finally completed it on De. 8.
Then, on Jan. 10, his dream came crashing down.
In now-viral footage, the young gal can be seen pulling out a piece from veritable beer mat Mount Everest, causing it to fall like a house of cards.
Thankfully, fall is not as it seemed.
Klapper noted that the tower had partially collapsed under its own weight just before completion, so he invited guests to play “Beer Mat Jenga” with remaining part of the sculpture.
“Each person took a turn removing a beer mat from the structure until it fell,” he recalled. “The winner was the daughter of one of my helpers.”
“She brought ‘Inside’ down on her first attempt by pulling out one that was lying horizontally,” the artist added.
The German, who works runs the media company M-Vi 3D GmbH, said the footage of this roller-coaster drop amassed millions of views and garnered reactions ranging from “That’s AI!” to “What a shame it didn’t work out.’”
It didn’t matter in the end, as the structural snafu had already caused him to fall short of the Guinness World Record for the largest drink coaster structure.
That honor goes to Sven Goebel, also from Germany, who erected a 9 ft 10 inch-tall mat-terhorn out of 70,000 coasters in 2004.
Nonetheless, the beer mat monument marks a major milestone for Klapper, who began building beer coaster structures as a kid.
“Gradually, the constructions became larger and larger,” he explained. “I completed my first large project 33 years ago.”
Since then, he’s constructed Stein stand sculptures every few years, which he displays exclusively at public spaces, including movie theaters and art galleries.
“That’s also my main motivation for creating these sculptures: viewers aren’t only presented with a finished work of art, they can witness the creation process as well,” Klapper gushed.
