Fun Fact: After Ripley’s Believe It or Not commissioned a diorama of Back to the Future‘s town square, one of Patrick’s challenges was making realistic leaves on trees. He decided to use matchstick shavings on the branches. His first completed tree seemed perfect; however, when Ripley’s requested he downscale the diorama for space in their museum, that first tree was unusable. It is now on display at Matchstick Marvels.
Turn sound up and click on video: “Lightning strikes the Clock Tower building!”
Journey Back to the Future with a diorama of the fictional city of Hill Valley, CA, as seen in the original movie. The diorama took 723,000 matchsticks to build and features the city as it would have looked in 1955. The model was started in 2022 and finished in 2024 and is on display at Ripley’s Believe It or Not corporate offices in Orlando.
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Matchstick Marvels, 319 2nd Street, Gladbrook, IA
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