Updated Saturday, March 27th, 2010: The day has been confirmed as an official world record!

Opinion differs as to the world record for the most people dancing the Time Warp in costume. Many attempts fail because those taking part are not registered, or not wearing costume, or not dancing for the full amount of time. Well at noon on Halloween 2009, on Brighton seafront, 1,635 of us fullfilled the criteria (well subject of course to the Guiness people ratifying the result, but as Richard says he knows where they live). It was a great turn-out for the event as the weather was not as good as it could have been, having said that the small amounts of rain we got amounted to just a litle drizzle and the temperatures were very mild for the end of October on the sea front.

Everyone who registered for the event wore a wrist band to prove they had a right to be there and to help with the counting and everyone was rehearsed by Rocky Horror Show choreographer herself - Jenny Arnold, to make sure they were doing the same steps. In fact it took four or five rehearsals just to get through the people attending. Introducing the day and doing a fine job of keeping the crowd entertained was radio presenter Hannah Peckham.

Richard O'Brien plus the cast of The Rocky Horror Show were on stage to lead everyone through the five minute dance itself and we did it twice just to make sure. Watch out for the confirmation of the record soon!

Everyone wore a costume related to Rocky and there were t-shirts available to buy for the record attempt as well. A really nice touch was everyone that registered was given a stick of Rocky Horror Show Rock with the legend "Time Warp 2009" all the way through.

Nearly everyone it seemed took photos of the event and there were several television and radio crews there as well. If you have some images of the event and you'd like to send them to us for publication on the site please email them to timewarprecord09timewarp.org.uk, the more the merrier!

Updated Wednesday, 31st March, 2010.
Kara Lane (magenta in the 2009/10 tour has kindly given us permission to publish this photo of her holding the official Guinness World Records certificate for the record.

It reads:
"The largest time warp dance involved 1,635 participants at an even organised by Ambassador Theatre Group (UK) at the Old Paddling Pool, Brighton, East Sussex, UK on 31st October 2009."

Galleries of images from the day   [167 images]
Galleries link into each other so clicking 'back' or 'next' on an individual image page will take you through all images

Stephanie (42)		Selina (19)		David Gerrard (2)		John & Sue (11)
Steve & Skye (6)		John Langley (4)		David Clements (35)		Becky (34)
Tim & Claudine (9)

Videos on YouTube of the event   
Links to You Tube - open in new window, so you will be leaving the timewarp.org.uk site

A brilliant video from Nathan Amzi CLICK HERE TO VIEW		Dance part 1 from Suzie CLICK HERE TO VIEW		Dance part 2 from Suzi CLICK HERE TO VIEW
	High Definition video from Redboy120 CLICK HERE TO VIEW

Original Information sent by Rocky Horror Company to promote the event

To make it a valid record, you'll need to be recognizable as part of the Rocky group, so the more colourful a costume the better. Please try to at least be in a Rocky Horror tee-shirt and a boa and if you've got the high heels on all the better. Best to pre-register with RHCo on the link above.

Rocky Horror Co have also put a nice little guide of how to do the Time Warp up on their site click here for the link

You can also download an A4 pdf of the original Time Warp instructions click here

Now although it's been stated that the record was held by Melbourne at 1,500 - We think it was actually more like 192 in Stoke as the Melbourne one might not have met all the conditions needed.