This weekend at the Salt Lake Comic Con, epically mustached artist John Reid officially set a new world record for the largest balloon creation ever constructed by a single individual. It took him nearly 42 hours to create the 50-foot “Popitmus Prime” Transformer out of the more than 4,300 balloons. A gracious and extremely out of breath Reid told reporters after the event that he’d like to see the art of making balloon animals taken to the next level: “I hope that somebody else decides to try to take this art a little further and crush me. Trounce me. Wipe the floor with me” …
