Fall Out Boy had to abandon their record breaking feat of being the first band to play Antarctica, but now they're seriously contemplating a second try. The band was close to pulling the first-of-a-kind feat off, and they even had an official for the Guinness Book Of World Records there to certify it. After dragging a crew of 15, weather conditions forced the band out of their slot and they didn't have the resources to wait an additional week or so to pull it off.

At the time, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz was bummed, but does he think the band will make another attempt at the record?

Pete Wentz On Failed Antarctica Trip

"I think so. I think the interesting thing is that when you make an attempt...it's boring to watch people win all the time. It was a bummer when it happened, but I think the great thing about it, the attempt, is that you keep trying and hopefully we'll do it again."

Fall Out Boy recently released their first live DVD/CD ****: Live In Phoenix, and the collection features a cover of Michael Jackson's Beat It.


[source] - a very short video of Pete making the statement can be found at the website.

the second movie of the trilogy always keeps you hanging....

again tom documented our trip to atartica or rather our faulted trip. here are a few moments that stuck out. love makes us stick everything else out. it makes everything else easier.



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Fall Out Boy Plan Second World-Record Attempt, Promise To Play Antarctica: 'We're Going To Make This Happen!'
'This new plan is super crazy,' guitarist Joe Trohman says, following canceled trip.

By James Montgomery

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — Like all great endeavors, this one came with a T-shirt.

It's gray, and prominently features an illustration of a penguin, eyes X'ed out, lying flat on its back. A giant thermometer sticks out of its beak, the mercury rising and bursting forth like a gusher at an oil derrick. Above that, written in block letters, is the official slogan: "World's Worst Tour."

( Here we go again )

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Fall Out Boy In Antarctica Chile: Another Record on the Horizon? Published by James Montgomery on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 6:00 pm.

So, as you might have heard by now, Fall Out Boy didn’t quite make it to Antarctica, thanks to some rather uncooperative weather down on the frozen tundra.

Their management, uh, managed to get the band out of Chile today — Pete Wentz and Pat Stump, welcome home! — plus a few members of the crew. But thanks to returning spring breakers, there weren’t quite enough tickets to go around, so Andrew Hurley and Joe Trohman and a few key members of the Antarctic team got left behind in Punta Arenas.

They don’t leave until tomorrow, so in the mean time, they’re keeping busy by making clandestine trips to the grocery store (see Hurley and his Cheerios in accompanying photo), tossing drumsticks out the window of their hotel room windows, and — most importantly — cooking up another ploy to get into the Guinness Book of World Records.

I can’t go into specifics here, but let’s just say it involves all seven continents, a much shorter time span, and incredibly higher stakes. Trust me, if they pull it off, it’ll be worth it.

Yeah, TRUST me.


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Fall Out Boy Cancel Antarctic Trip Due To Bad Weather: 'It's An Utter Disappointment,' Pete Wentz Says
One-percent chance of improved conditions falls through.


PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — After having traveled more than 3,000 miles, spent nearly 100 hours trapped in their hotel rooms and survived roughly 76 borderline terrifying interactions with mobs of screaming fans to get to this very moment, the fate of Fall Out Boy's record-setting trip to Antarctica came down to a very small number: one.

( Sadface )

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Fall Out Boy In Antarctica: Andy Hurley Is A Brave Man

Last week, Fall Out Boy announced they were going to play Antarctica, to set the world record for shortest amount of time to play all the world’s seven continents. MTV News writer James Montgomery got to go, because he was the person in the office most in need of a pick-me-up. This is his latest dispatch via Blackberry - THE THIRD TODAY!

Did you know that McMurdo Station, the United States’ Antarctic research facility, is mentioned in John Carpenter’s icy, gory horror flick “The Thing?”

Well, it is. And given the reason Fall Out Boy are down here in Punta Arenas — coupled with the fact that they’ve been forced to spend most of their time as unwitting hostages in their hotel rooms (the screaming kids are everywhere) — the metaphor of “the Thing” is becoming more and more apparent. FOB, it seems, are trapped. And probably doomed.

Or so we thought.

Turns out FOB drummer Andy Hurley is tired of hiding. So, along with one of FOB’s crew members (the massive Kyle Chirnside), he’s decided to launch a covert mission to make it to the grocery store, no matter what the costs.

And luckily for you, he and Chirnside took a camera along with them as they left the safety of the Finis Terrae hotel, braving the screaming crowds, determined to get a hold of both long underwear and some choice munchies for the long nights ahead. Take a look.

 

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Edit: the videos will not embed correctly, so they have been removed. All of them are available at the source, however, so anyone outside the US should be able to access them there. If anyone can rip these for the non-Americans it would be a huge help.

total douche...

"We're on the edge of our collective seat here at Vulture today, waiting for news of whether Fall Out Boy will be able to pull off one of the greatest douche-rock stunts of all time: flying to Antarctica in order to set the world record for rocking out on all seven continents." ny mag.

this is the kind of blogging i am talking about. whenever you try and do anything outside of the box or a bit strange people call you a douche. its a bit like being in highschool and watching jocks call some dude a "fag" cause he is different. i mean if we have iphones and hybrid cars couldnt we invent some new insults.

"Weather isn't the only obstacle that FOB has had to face in their attempt to set this record. First lead singer Pete Wentz had to conquer his geographical ignorance. Wentz told MTV News, "Well, I was just sitting around and wrote [manager] Bob [McLynn] an e-mail saying, 'Let's be the first band to go to all five continents' only he wrote me back, 'There are seven.'" ny mag

then correcting an error with an error just doesnt seem like great journalism. i am a very ignorant lead singer. haha.

but really the truth is the "article" has included one of my favorite pictures of fall out boy of all time. so i cant really hate. i still love you.



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Fall Out Boy In Antarctica: Antarctic Shelf Collapses. Fortunately, We Have A Reporter In The Area.
Published by James Montgomery on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 10:43 am.

On Tuesday, when he wasn’t giving faux weather reports, Pete Wentz was, like the rest of us, reading about the collapse of Antarctica’s Wilkins Ice Shelf, a slab of ice reported to be seven times the size of Manhattan (but, you know, not nearly as interesting).

Located on the continent’s Western Peninsula (the island where Fall Out Boy are attempting to land is just off the tip of said Peninsula), the 160-square-mile chunk of ice — which may have formed more than 1,500 years ago — began collapsing late last month, but now it’s begun a fast dissolve, due in no small part to the effects of global warming, scientists say.

Fortunately, we have a reporter in the area. I asked Wentz what he thought of the whole thing and he said, “Someone sent (the story) to me and they’re like ‘Oh now you guys are going and this ice shelf fell that wasn’t supposed to fall for another 15 years.” And I’m like, ‘We didn’t even land there so that wasn’t even our fault.”

“Basically it’s more evidence of global warming,” he continued. ”Essentially our runway just fell off.”

I’ll have more on this trip here on the Newsroom blog later today, plus you can read more about the whole stunt in my column this week, as we make our way, hopefully, towards Antarctica.

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Fall Out Boy In Antarctica: The Antarctic Weather Report, Live From Room 215
Published by James Montgomery on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 9:38 am.

Last week, Fall Out Boy announced they were going to play Antarctica, to set the world record for shortest amount of time to play all the world’s seven continents. MTV News writer James Montgomery got to go, because he found a golden ticket at the bottom of his popcorn box while watching “Horton Hears A Who.” These are his stories.

( It never rains... )

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ahrensxd kindly dropped us a line to let us know that those not restricted by MTV's copyright laws, can check out all the videos from Antarctica here




We don't think Prince snuck in to these ones, either.