Domino Day
- RTL 1998-2002: Linda de Mol
- RTL 2004-2009: Frauke Ludowig
- ORF, Armin
The Domino Day was an event which annually took place from 1998 to 2009, with the exception of 2003 and in every time an attempt was made to achieve a new world record of most fallen stones in a domino chain reaction, the so-called domino effect, . Inventor and organizer of the event was the Dutchman Robin Paul Weijers. Since 2009, no Domino Day was held due to financial problems.
Company
The company behind the Domino Day Weijers Domino Productions was the B. V, which organized every year the world record attempt. Planning for this began in March and reached up into July. During this period, fields and projects were designed, developed techniques and worked on the show. In August, the auditions were held for the builders and a month later was mostly started with the preparation of the hall to be held in November to Domino Day. Back in July the dominoes were made and delivered for the week-long build-up of a Dutch company. The stones used are not available for purchase because they were melted down again after the record attempt for the next year. However, since the demand for dominoes rose steadily, the Weijers Domino Productions developed under the name of Mr. Domino new stones that are sold online since September 2009. In these the Mr.Domino logo is also engraved.
Following the cancellation of the Domino Days 2011 have both founded by Robin Weijers company filed for bankruptcy. Weijers Domino Productions Both as well as Mr. Domino, however, under the production company One 4 New TV, which also belongs Weijers, continued.
General
Dominoes
The original dominoes are 4.8 × 2.4 × 0.7 cm in size and color depending on the different weights, but they are at least 8 grams, in order to eventually fall under water can. They are available in 24 different primary colors and more than 250 secondary colors.
In order to achieve special effects when falling of stones, there were certain dominoes, where the front and back are different colors, some were covered with photo slides to make images appear. The total mass of 4,800,000 dominoes were set up at Domino Day 2009 was about 33 tons.
Effects
Robin Paul Weijers and his team worked meticulously in preparation for Domino Day of the many domino effects. During the chain reaction may no energy from the outside into the project feed (people, motors and other electronics), but each effect must be purely mechanically triggered by the originally initiated domino. This requires Guinness World Records for the recognition of the cup record and must be checked by the competent notary.
Method of construction
In connection lines the dominoes were ( are auxiliary tool for the builder that looks like a comb and put into the dominoes in the waves) in two rows with so-called " combing " next to each other. On the other hand curves or building have been constructed which are constructed, for example, with the aid of tweezers.
Theme song
The theme song of the TV show has been produced and has been used since the Domino Day 2004. The earlier version was a section from the song by Robbie Nevil Dominoes.
Domino halls
Since an attempt was made at each Domino Day, build more stones than the previous year and to bring you drop, more and more buildings were in course of time needed. The first record attempt was made in the FEC hall in Leeuwarden in 1998. The following year they moved to the Prinds Bernard Hall to Zuidlaren, where you can also hosted the 2000 record attempt. 2001 Domino Day was held in Maastricht in the MECC Hall. Since 2002, the world record event was housed in a fair complex in Leeuwarden. The Then used the hall has an area of 10,000 square meters.
Challenges
The so-called Challenges (Eng. "Challenges " ) are tasks in which the Domino builders usually two had, after initiation of the chain reaction set up a connection line in a certain time ( usually 2 minutes). Managed to do so, was a big domino field, which provided important stones for the record. Which of the more than 90 builders denied the challenge, decided inventor and organizer Robin Paul Weijers, final names were announced, however, always only a few minutes before the start of a challenge.
1) Just three challenges this year.
Security measures
In order to prevent the dominoes fall over too soon, several precautions were taken. So you bolted the hall prior to the start from completely airtight and conducted a thorough cleaning. The hall could be entered only by authorized personnel through an airlock to prevent drafts from passers-by that date.
Between the dominoes locks found repeatedly use that prevented a larger premature drop. Shortly before the start of contention opened Robin Weijers and his team the last holdout opportunities electronically.
Despite these precautions, it came on the eve of Domino Day 2005 to an incident in which a sparrow came into the hall, over 23,000 dominoes brought prematurely to case and was eventually killed by a hunter on behalf of Endemol. This led to protests and actions by animal rights activists and a display in which it participated, among others, also the German Animal Welfare Association.
Radiations
The program was now being marketed in several European countries. For each year, the event reached a nationwide audience of millions and was among the most popular live shows of the year.
Team
The team consisted of numerous employees of Weijers Domino Productions bv, which was responsible for the planning and organization and several bodybuilders who have undergone several weeks before setting up an audition, in which, among other things, the knowledge of English and stress resistance were examined. As the number of stones to be set up increased year by year, more and more workers were needed over the years. The auditions were organized and paid for by various TV stations.
Weijers Domino Productions is the founder and inventor of Domino Days. No mechanism and no domino field that has not been previously controlled by it, tested and found to comply could be incorporated into the chain reaction.
Was the chief notary, who throughout the evening counted all left standing stones with his 16 helpers and could therefore determine whether a new world record was achieved or not. He attended weeks before the kick-off at regular intervals the hall, in order to examine how best to count the stones.
Were mainly there to coordinate the farmer and help out with small problems. They were the main employees of Weijers Domino Productions and participated in part of the multi-week planning.
The Physio- therapists at Domino Day were under the supervision of Jochum van Brummelen at work. They helped the bodybuilders for tension, dislocations and other problems. Most builders were not used to the long hours working on the ground and the associated unusual body positions.
Information on the Domino Days
Already before 1998 there had been appropriate Weijers Domino Productions events of the two that had not yet been designated as Domino Days. The record of 1988 was at the same time that which was broken at the first Domino Day 1998.
Many of the listed side disciplines have already surpassed the part several times by Privataufbauern.