page_title: Where's Wally?
section_title: World record attempts
hierarchical_section_title: Where's Wally? / Real-life Where's Wally? phenomena / World record attempts
caption_attribution_description: Where’s Wally World Record Following the successful Space Hopper World Record which I photographed last year, today the SPWC (Street Performance world Championship) took on an even more ambitious world record attempt in the Where's Wally World Records. Tens of thousands of festival goers dressed as Wally in an attempt to break the record and become the largest gathering of Wallys ever! A super high resolution photograph was taken from a crane capturing all the Wallys and creating the first ever real-life Where's Wally picture which will be posted online as well as being included in the Irish Times on Monday. However, if you cannot wait have a look at my photographs and see if you can spot yourself.
context_page_description: Where's Wally? is a British series of children's puzzle books created by English illustrator Martin Handford. The books consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicting dozens or more people doing a variety of amusing things at a given location. Readers are challenged to find a character named Wally hidden in the group.
  Wally is identified by his red-and-white-striped shirt, bobble hat, and glasses, but many illustrations contain red herrings involving deceptive use of red-and-white striped objects. Later entries in the long-running book series added other targets for readers to find in each illustration. The books have also inspired two television programmes, a comic strip and a series of video games.
context_section_description: On Thursday 2 April 2009, 1,052 students, alumni, and members of the community at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, America, captured the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed as Wally. The event raised money for local public schools.
  On Monday 31 May 2010, Great Yarmouth attempted to break this record, but fell short of 1,052 with only 930 fans.
  On Sunday 19 June 2011, the previous record was broken when 3,872 people dressed as Wally gathered in Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland.
  The Waldo Waldo 5K has tried to break the record in a 5-kilometre fun run to raise money for the Waldo Canyon Fire burn area in Colorado Springs, Colorado, US, every year since the fire in July, 2012. The first attempt, on Sunday 21 October 2012, had just over a thousand  The second attempt, on Sunday 27 October 2013, had over 2,700. The third attempt, on Sunday 26 October 2014, hosted 3,104 participants. The fourth attempt, on Saturday 17 October 2015 increased the count to 3,400 participants. The fifth attempt was made on 22 October 2016, with a final count of 3,524.  The next race was held on Saturday 21 October 2017.
caption: Attendees at the 2011 Where’s Wally? World Record event in Dublin, Ireland
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