Dance party for 1,000 dinosaurs follows Dundurn, Sask., challenge to world record

More than 1,000 people in dinosaur costumes gatheredin Dundurn, Sask., onSaturdayin hopes of breaking a world recordand a dino dance party broke out as well.

The crowd dressed in floppy Tyrannosaurus rex outfits wantedto break the Guinness World Record for most people dressed as dinosaurs.

Gary Grady organized the event. He alsoownsBig Mur's Tavern in Dundurn,about 42 kilometres south of Saskatoon. Gradysaid they counted 1,163 dinosaur costume participants meaning they blew the previous world record out of the water.

The Guinness World Record websitelists a 2019 event in Los Angelesthat had a mere 253 people dressed as dinosaurs as the previous official record. Grady hopes to soon claimdino-superiority once the numbers are verified.

"We will all submit our information to Guinness Book of World Records and then send everybody a certificate [saying]that they were in the challenge,"Grady said on CBC's Saskatoon Morning.

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More than 1,000 people wearing inflatable dinosaur costumes had a dance party in Dundurn, Sask.

Grady said after watching inflatable dinosaur costume videos on social media, the idea took off within the community, which has a population of about675 peopleaccording to Statistics Canada.

"I think November or February we got the idea," said Grady."We thought, 'Let's try and do it,' and we threw it out under our social media stuff, and everyone got traction with it andit went to fruition."

"It was a family eventand [they] really enjoyed it, and lots of children, lots of grandparents and dinosaur suits. It was super fun to watch," Grady said.

Everyone who showed up indinosaur attire was entitled to a burger and a beverage,Grady said, and was also given a numbered registration and a tamper-proof wristband.

At 5p.m. CST, they had a dance party co-ordinated by a friend of Grady's.

"We had a really great cheerleader, a friend of ours that was up on the stage and getting them all to dance to like Achy Breaky Heartand line dance and do the Macarenaand the chicken dance," he said.