...for Mankind ..... Red Bull ....Felix Baumgartner.... and LEGO
The Red Bull Stratos skydive smashed YouTube records yesterday, as Austrian Daredevil Felix Baumgartne attempted a record breaking stunt from the edge of space to become the first skydiver to reach the speed of sound when he jumped out of a balloon 24 miles above New Mexico, achieving a top speed of 833.9 miles per hour reached eight million concurrent views on YouTube, marking the highest ever concurrent viewing figure on the Google-owned site.According to a Twitter spokeswoman, there were also approximately 3.1m tweets sent, relating to the The Red Bull sponsored stunt.
Shortly after he had completed this amazing feet - a brilliant, timely and tactical promotional video, hit the web - recreating the fantastic achievment using LEGO model figures complete with space vehicles and the flight balloon (1/350th scale) ... giving a birds eye view of the historic event.
The film was promoting (LEGO and) the Austrian Model Makers Fair taking place in Vienna (Austria) later this month.............One small step for mankind ............. and a giant leap in creativity!
