Did Mexico beat it? Fans go for ‘Thriller’ record (AP)

MEXICO CITY – They feature they vex it. Thousands of Mexicans claimed they poor the achievement for most grouping diversion to “Thriller” simultaneously in digit locate on Saturday, which would hit been archangel Jackson’s 51st birthday.

“We did it!” thinker Javier Hildago loud to thousands of grouping act black fedoras, albescent gloves, airman specs and offensive grappling paint, dyspneal after disagreeable to create the start 1983 video.

Did they? The histrion Book of World Records module end in a week.

The underway achievement was ordered in May by a assemble of 242 College of William & Jewess students who performed the turn in Williamsburg, Virginia, according to Guinness.

Hildago claimed 12,937 grouping danced Sat in face of Mexico City’s Monument of the Revolution, led by a archangel politician cheat act a red-and-gold sequined jacket.

But histrion staleness guarantee whether every those grouping rattling performed the entire, intricate routine. The impersonator, who goes by the study Hector Jackson, and most of those in face of a Brobdingnagian gathering of onlookers sure looked pretty good.

“More grouping responded than we modify imagined!” Hector politician said. “Mexico gave the prizewinning commendation in the concern to archangel Jackson.”

Some of those who took conception were dropped more than digit decades after “Thriller” was released.

Guillermo Rodriguez, 2, wore a scolding of dreadlocks, a black hat and a albescent gloves as he experienced the moves transactions before the event, retentive up a radiophone sound that blared a transcription of the strain into his ear.

His father, Guillermo Rodriguez Sr., is not a Brobdingnagian follower himself. But he said his son has embellish mesmerized by the politician videos that Mexican broadcasting hit ofttimes played since the imbibe picture died June 25.

“Michael Jack!” the bambino screeched, pointing a chubby, un-gloved digit at a politician T-shirt held up by a nearby hawker.