September 18th, 2008 | Category: General
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Posted by: Turkey Hill Team
Remember when you were in the first grade and you made really neat things out of popsicle and ice cream sticks? Of course you do. There was the popsicle stick box. The popsicle stick house. And, of course, the popsicle stick picture frame. We’re sure mom still has that thing laying around somewhere.
An Ice Cream Journal reader forwarded us this story about a guy who took that art to whole new level by building a fully-operational replica of a Viking ship out of ice cream sticks…15 MILLION ice cream sticks to be exact. That’s a picture of his amazing creation on the right. Something tells us it’s not held together with Elmer’s glue and paste.
The builder, Robert McDonald, was helped by his own son and 5,000 other kids. Said McDonald, “If you can dream it, you can do it. I want to teach children that anything is possible.” Hard to argue with that!
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24 Comments
Is this eligible for the World Book Of Records? How about a challenge to build a giant cow out of popsicle sticks!
September 28th, 2008 at 8:15 pmWhen my nephew was in camp he made me a basket out of popsicle sticks it was beautiful, nothing as grand as a ship, but just as valuable to me. Linda
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:24 pmwow, my friend’s son makes me things out of sticks, but nothing as grand as that. I’m sure he would have helped in this project if he was closer. Great article.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:46 amWow …Totally Amazing !
September 22nd, 2008 at 5:47 pmthis is so great, and to think, last weekend I was at a girl scout event and they built centerpieces from popsicle and ice cream sticks to look like bridges, I came home with a covered bridge. I thought the bridges were super, but this is awesome.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:45 pmI can not believe anything that big could be built out of popsicle sticks.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:55 pmWhat an astonishing story. Proves if you want to do something bag enoug, you can do it. If Turkey Hill had ice cream popsicles, I would eat enough to build a ship also.
September 20th, 2008 at 12:53 pmThat is truly amazing. I wonder where this ship is located. It would make a stopover for a vacation. Wouldn’t it be great if they used ice cream sticks from Turkey Hill ice cream! How many people does it take to eat 5 million ice cream pop? Just kidding I know that the sticks had to be bought. But I will never look at another ice cream stick in the same light again.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:04 amWow! What a wonderful story. It is a great thing to teach kids. That if you really want to do something you can accomplish it if you put our mind on it.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:08 pmI bet those 5000 kids are proud of their accomplished along with Mr. McDonald and his son.
This is really an amazing story, good luck to Robert McDonald and his son and the other 5000 boys.Linda
September 19th, 2008 at 6:34 pmHi turkey hill fans and turkey hill family, This is the second best story. The first one was about Turkey Hill Family. Thank you for giving us another excellant story. This one of the reason wahy I love turkey hill ice cream so much. You out alot of in it when you make ice cream.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:38 pmAHOAY ,TO YOU MATEY , HA DID A WONDERFUL JOB,DOES SHIP ICE COOLER FOR TURKEYHILL ICECREAM///
September 19th, 2008 at 12:37 pmResearched on msn.com and “here is the rest of the story” according to their entry of 4/9/08 – Ship is 50 ft. replica named after Norse god Thor. Set sail from Netherlands to England. Build by stuntman Robert McDonald of Arizona. He planned to visit London’s children’s hospitals delivering cuddly toys which he stocked on the ship. As a child he was badly injured in a gas explosion that wiped out rest of his family! He said “if you can dream it, you can do it and that he wanted to teach children that anything is possible! Remarkable and inspiring example of the American “we can do it” attitude. Which, thank the good Lord is still alive and well! And to think that something as common as an ice cream stick was the building material! Keep making that delicious ice cream and marketing it using common items to set anyone’s imagination on fire to find another useful purpose for! Thanks, Turkey Hill for bringing this article to us!!
September 19th, 2008 at 11:41 amThis is an incredible accomplishment, which McDonald shared with his son and 5000 other kids! What a lesson is must have been for the kids to see this come to fruition! Can you get any more of the details? or give us a possible site to find them! Whoever ate all that ice cream to make the sticks available played a most important part too!! unless he actually purchased the sticks?
September 19th, 2008 at 11:02 amThere is a GOOD SHIP LOLLIEPOP. What did they call it GOOD SHIP ICECREAM ???
September 19th, 2008 at 9:37 amWhat a feat! And how wonderful to eat all the ice cream! Barbara
September 19th, 2008 at 9:26 amI checked his site too. Unbelievable.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:17 amGood luck to him
Did it float? I know that I could eat 6 choc ecclairs in 1 sitting times 5000 kids = 30,000 try this 5 days = 150,000 how long did this take are actually 5002 (him and son) do they still eat ice cream? Lol
September 19th, 2008 at 8:10 amThey must have started collecting the sticks in the 1950’s at the beaches when the Good Humor men went around with boxes and sold ice cream there and the slobs left the sticks in the sand.
ps How many of us remember that?
September 19th, 2008 at 7:03 amVery cool story. Good luck with your voyage, captain!
September 19th, 2008 at 6:24 amWow this is an amazing project. Thanks for sharing, what a great story. I hope he had lots of yummy Turkey Hill while he was building it.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:00 amwhat a great idea-would have loved to help him with sticks-all that ice cream-YUM!
September 19th, 2008 at 5:48 amWhere do you get that many popsickle sticks? I opened up the link and discovered the answer to my question. I don’t remember seeing anything in the paper about this back in April. I wonder if he made the attempt. It is quite a creation. It has to be in the Guiness book of world records.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:55 amWOW,HOW MANY YEARS DID HE EAT ONLY THESE CREAM STICKS FOR MEALS; REALLY OUT OF THIS WORLD;
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