It may look like an ordinary old stagecoach, but, in truth, there’s nothing ordinary about this colorful masterpiece.
After seeing a smaller model of a stagecoach made from toothpicks in the window of a store, Terry Woodling decided he was going to build his own life-size replica. This was back in 1981, but he didn’t really get started until Thanksgiving of 1994. Also known as “Me. Toothpick”, 72-year-old Terry spent 15 years of his life working on his one of a kind toothpick stagecoach, in Warsaw, Indiana.
More than 1.5 million flat toothpicks went into the project, bound together by a whole lot of glue. The fact that it’s glued was actually why his stagecoach didn’t get acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records. But Mr. Toothpicks isn’t too disappointed and decided to donate it to the local Warsaw Museum. But his extraordinary creation caught the eye of Ripley’s Believe It or Not and got a place in their famous museum.
