50000 Matches Death Star Fire Chain Reaction

It took more than matches and 160 working hours to make this Death Star from Star Wars movie serial. Like the real Death Star, this one also features north and south hemisphere, a superlaser and an “equatorial trench“. Each hemisphere consists of approximately matches and there are additional matches (match heads, to be precise) inside the globe. Two pounds of hot glue were spent on gluing this sphere and two hemispheres were glued on both sides of equatorial trench using wood glue. Som