vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

http://bookishnature.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/p1100566.jpg

does the sight of a faceless cyborg looming on the horizon representing industrialism with fascist zeal not fill you with dread?

there's no medals for being wide though. the angel of the north has a similar pose to the cristo redentor

http://interspacedesign.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/rio-cristo-copa-beach.jpg

of the three statues of jesus in the poll, this is the only one where he is posed to look like a cross. jesus was of course executed on a hill, so he although you could argue he is in a state of perpetual execution, there is also something fairly benign. but maximum looming points for presiding so magnificently over one of the biggest cities in the world

As a huge fan of feeling overwhelmed by looming petrified monsters I wholeheartedly endorse this thread, and will vote for the statue I find most delightful

*benign about him

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4076/4745626513_e42f88b11b_z.jpg

http://www.tabathayeatts.com/Fencing%20Motherland%20Calls.jpg

http://en.ria.ru/images/16848/93/168489394.jpg

That Angel of the North picture is quite ominous, but I've never seen it in person. Likewise the giant Dream head in St Helens.

as symbols of man's ugly, hubristic dominance over nature I am more offended and terrified by the motorway in the first picture and the high-rises on the Rio beachfront than by the awesome and exciting statues

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/39023537.jpg

here's the Kristus kase Berkat terrorizing the people of manado. this hideous portrayal of jesus as a flying wizard casting some sort of hex over the city for eternity is mb too comical to win the poll, but surely you cannot find him a figure of delight

Rather fond of this old girl:

http://i.imgur.com/70SsCe2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gIK90p5.jpg

The one in Volgograd is probably more ominous, though.

yeah the motherland calls might be the winner

http://www.democratic-republicans.us/images/volgograd-the-Motherland-Calls-statue-Mamayev-Kurgan-hill-Volgograd.jpg

an armed titan striding across the steppe bellowing is a truly terrible sight to behold. it is unbelievably excessive, & idk what it says about russia to have such a pure & monstrous expression of patriotism

http://jakhongirshaturaev.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/4122002502_750_leshan-giant-buddha.jpg

sitting at the feet of the leshan giant buddha would be an infinitely more chill activity. despite its size, being carved out of the rock gives it a sense of intimacy, he's less exposed, his pose is relaxed, & his barely open eyes give him a serene & calming quality. this is my kind of giant statue

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9_iMNcLAXpg/TKNlQvn1ORI/AAAAAAAAAlM/qdTXrCp6geU/s1600/talos+01.jpg

the giant buddha of thailand is much less appealing, rising up out of the trees & inviting you to kiss the tips of his freakishly long fingers. are you delighted blandford?

http://i930.photobucket.com/albums/ad150/mimephotobucket/2010_Journey_3_Thailand/E_dscf0825_ji_ji.jpg

http://i930.photobucket.com/albums/ad150/mimephotobucket/2010_Journey_3_Thailand/E_DSCF0902_pano1_ji_patch_ji.jpg

xp yeah Ray Harryhausen is pure horror, he gets it

http://api.ning.com/files/BlSO3TVinjnHG0DiLLjQyVGahGtR3Adzxyd1UDU7CuIgIMaAEAFVmWpu5mPTBRShi1SMftGCKRq3iu6uofP3xzmpalxrhsU8/dreamsculpture.jpg

the dream makes me think of the terry gilliam cartoons from monty python

http://pmsamarshaward.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/dream-with-sutton-manor-village-in-the-foreground.jpg

http://brightcove.vo.llnwd.net/e1/pd/16991917/16991917_846147508001_img-ferguson-montypython-still-145304928236.jpg?pubId=16991917

i've not seen that, where is it?

seems appropriate that a culture saturated with monstrous giants would have the biggest statues of all

http://sutekisutekisuteki.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/img_1145-2.jpg

ushiku daibutsu looms in the most uncanny, slow motion, enormous way, I can't really imagine how odd it would be to live within sight of it

it's in St Helens

err..where's the statue of liberty ??
150ft tall (300ft from the ground).
and french, bien sûr !

http://laflaneuse.org/wp-content/gallery/statue-de-la-liberte/la-statue-de-la-liberte-a-paris.jpg

during its construction in paris...

I probably should have included the statue of liberty even though I don't know if anyone would vote for it. feels v unterrifying despite its size, seems more like a novelty lighthouse

mb statue of liberty fans could vote for the statue of Tiruvalluvar which is similarly worthy & surrounded by the sea

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7iZc_jhIoEE/S8VcC_pUzfI/AAAAAAAADtg/GIVBl07r9dM/s1600/800px-Tiruvalluvar_statue_LIC.jpg

xxxp I am very much delighted by the whimsical 'Jesus surprised by crane up the arse' statue, much less delighted by the big Buddha, mainly due to its gaudy colour than its melty fingers.

lol

relatively small but you can't argue with a sea demon luring you into the waves

http://www.huahintrip.com/images/phocagallery/beaches/thumbs/phoca_thumb_l_Giant%20statue%20at%20Puk%20Tien%20beach.jpeg

statue of Pee Seua Samut. will agree this one is delightful, it's too playful to be fearful

these are all awesome without exception and justify the human species almost

seems like genghis khan is finished terrorizing everyone & is content to survey his homeland for eternity. this is still uncannily huge though

http://i.imgur.com/YgIxXQ8.jpg

that's beautiful

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/pictures/636x441fitpad%5B237%5D/0/0/4/1665004_White_Horse_image6_ready.jpg

^ ebbsfleet horse pining for the days of equine domination

just realized I'm being slow and that nick b & soref were talking about the same thing. can't believe I've never heard of the dream. seems like quite an ambiguous statue. catches the sunshine well, as does the african renaissance monument

http://artasiapacific.com/image_columns/0000/9882/img_9436.jpg

idk really know what to make of it, seems somewhat unloved

idk i don't really know...

terrifying !

http://www.originalprop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/planet-of-the-apes-statue-of-liberty-blu-ray-disc-screencap-hd-1080p-05.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/11/06/article-1327239-0BF090FF000005DC-331_634x655.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/11/06/article-1327239-0BF05CD6000005DC-939_634x397.jpg

that's the Christ the King statue in Poland btw, largest statue of Jay-C in the world

http://joeorman.shutterace.com/Bizarre/bizarre_jesus2.jpg

http://aminus3.s3.amazonaws.com/image/g0003/u00002410/i00261642/1aa373d5950901bc3020778744cbbde1_large.jpg

aw man, that jesus looks chill as hell.

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/michael-jackson-statue-590x350.jpg

That Thailand Buddha is pretty terrifying.

http://images.travelpod.com/users/dabigeasymakers/1.1246228273.our-lady-of-the-rockies.jpg

http://thesaint.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/awakening-sculpture.jpg

^ terrifying reminder of the apaches PIF slurry pit scene

ahah Josh. great one ! did they destroy that statue of is it somewhere, in a hangar, taking dust ?

http://www.asianarchitecture.info/LegacyImages/M/MerlionSentosa-002a.jpg

Merlion of Sentosa, Singapore

Probably going for the Motherland Calls, though I might go old-school and vote for the Colossus.

I do quite like the Angel of the North, but it doesn't stack up to the competition.

did they destroy that statue of is it somewhere, in a hangar, taking dust ?

this is supposedly the statue used in Italy, now in a Milan theme park with its head replaced by Wolverine

http://i32.tinypic.com/5zh9d.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10786410/Man-crushed-to-death-by-giant-crucifix-dedicated-to-Pope.html

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9swSboK7gQc/S8nDkF1IRSI/AAAAAAAAAlo/mkTjUxPRkCM/s1600/Ron-Mueck-A-Girl-Sculpture.jpg

http://squnches.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/2644616537_129e7217ff.jpg

xxpost

wolverine -> werewolf -> thriller -> MJ (+ bonus theme park) = makes perfect sense !

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WAQNGjTALao/TaIYXAl_jPI/AAAAAAAAB90/wQvnT4cQjWI/s1600/Adickes-beatles-wide-houston1.jpg

A couple of these, especially that first Buddha way upthread, remind me of

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u230/ppcccaps/wotw5.jpg

I just picture them all awakening and roaming the countryside in a reign of terror.

amazing thread

http://lifevertical.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/jesus-statue.jpg

What a splendid thread.

http://thebrotherhoodofevilgeeks.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/12140-medium.jpg

out of this lot i'd probly vote for Genghis but really these guys shd be on here and winning:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s02HbvL35WM/UWdy4LX3_lI/AAAAAAAAAvY/7tWhJw5PZrU/s1600/IMG_6642.JPG

so serene and lovely

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/66473743.jpg

http://thesaint.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/awakening-sculpture.jpg

just reminds me of

http://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/giant-star-wars-han-solo-in-carbonite-silicone-mold-3.jpg

http://www.gianthropology.com/observatory/bigpicture/bigpicture001/20050710DSCN1887Viking.jpg

http://wideshut.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/bohemian_grove3.jpg

^ that is the giant spooky moloch owl thing being used in a bohemian grove club ritual btw

God this thread is ruling me so hard

gonna save a bunch of these pictures

Voted Sulawesi btw, that thing is demonic

Does the writhing Vigelund column of humans not qualify? How tall is that thing?

these are all amazing but that Genghis Khan statue is the greatest

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/101018/GAL-10Oct18-6095/media/PHO-10Oct18-260985.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Owgxo0uCZXA/S7lQbvL-jMI/AAAAAAAABDo/EjAfLUw4ZOA/s400/Yesus+Memberkati+-+Manado.JPG https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4073/4794075893_d0d59f4ec0_z.jpg

what is that giant adorable baby?

not nearly enough giant robots yet

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Mazinger_Z_Mas_del_Plata_anys_%2780.jpg

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazinger_Z )

yessssss

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1421/1393830115_a71fa3eefc.jpg

pic is not big but this thing really is impressive in person.

"The Tower of the Sun (太陽の塔 Taiyō no Tō?) is a building created by Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto. It was known as the symbol of Expo '70 and currently is preserved and located in the Expo Commemoration Park in Suita, Osaka, Japan. The tower has three faces on its front and back."

Honestly think that baby buddha thing is the scariest so far.

http://visit.guide-bulgaria.com/_data/_guide-bulgaria.com/d08_sights/945_statue_khan_krum_and_his_warriors.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/phototouring/2245174726/in/photostream/

^ khan krum statue in bulgaria

a better photo on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/phototouring/2268703256/

No Christ of the Ozarks, no credibility.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/09-02-06--ChristofOzarks.jpg/250px-09-02-06--ChristofOzarks.jpg

aw shit, missed it nevermind

look at me! i'm a plane!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haYApys-KSA

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100105193309/lossimpson/es/images/1/1f/Attack_of_the_50-Foot_Eyesores.png

http://www.wnd.com/images/jackson101231a.jpg

http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00008abP2DV5ju4/s/850/850/029-Kazakhstan-Semipalatinsk-2008.jpg

I like this statue of Lenin in Kazakhstan, it's less gigantic than some of the other statues in this thread, though

bonus non-gigantic Lenin statue

seems like genghis khan is finished terrorizing everyone & is content to survey his homeland for eternity. this is still uncannily huge though

http://i.imgur.com/YgIxXQ8.jpg

― ogmor, Friday, April 25, 2014 6:28 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://assets.hardwaresphere.com/uploads/2009/06/gundam-rx-78-life-sized-statue-night-views-light-up.jpg

there's something about the motherland calls that's spooky, maybe because it's also commemorating a battle where a million people died.

if only they'd finished the palace of soviets (where ganon lives):

http://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/031.jpg

lenin as the lonely groom on a stalinist wedding cake

this thread rules

Put 100+ hours into dark souls, about to pick this up next Wednesday (after I sit for an actuary exam which has been ruining my life the last couple months)

there's something about the motherland calls that's spooky, maybe because it's also commemorating a battle where a million people died.
--christmas candy bar (al leong)

Isn't it also positioned directly on top of the mass grave of those dead? It's an amazing statue and def my vote

the sphinx is pretty special, i like that its whole deal is Riddling, as in, what the fuck is THAT

Put 100+ hours into dark souls, about to pick this up next Wednesday (after I sit for an actuary exam which has been ruining my life the last couple months) _there's something about the motherland calls that's spooky, maybe because it's also commemorating a battle where a million people died.
--christmas candy bar (al leong)_

Isn't it also positioned directly on top of the mass grave of those dead? It's an amazing statue and def my vote
--building a desert (art)

Hey thanks iphone app for saving a post I didn't make days ago and attaching it to the top of this one.

http://www.pilotafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/stevejobs_statue.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/47893196.jpg

love the expression on this sheep's face

would live inside that sheep

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090709062212/wikiality/images/c/c7/MtRushmoreRearView.png

(warning: possibly not real, haven't seen in person)

eddie22.jpg

great thread.

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb252/DarkGothicDoom/The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings/argonath.jpg

Big ups to Minnesota:
http://family-travel.findingfun.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DSC_0008.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/45951952.jpg

weird in a way that so many of these are situated near pylons. seems to add another level of grotesque horror.

that ushiku daibutsu buddha seems especially jarring.

http://alcambronne.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/giant-muskie-national-freshwater-fishing-hall-of-fame-hayward-wisconsin.jpg

nobody posted the horse at the denver airport?
http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/horse500.jpg

that genghis statue is CRAZY and awesome

this thread is A+

ilx monument/statue threads always deliver imo

ok is that denver horse real, because holy shit that is a terrifying nightmare (geddit)

feeling this airavata one

http://www.asiaexplorers.com/pics/erawan-museum_samut-prakan.jpg

so many great things posted that I've missed, some statues have a v intense energy about them & depending on which angle you see them from, it can change. I don't know what the airavata is but it is pretty hectic

http://www.gothic.stir.ac.uk/documents/uploaded/image/Kasia%20pictures/grotesque/Erawan.JPG

the tian tan buddha in hong kong is on top of a hill and can looks like a bit of a loomer

https://jansenism.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dsc020851.jpg

but from above or the cable car that goes by, he's radiating peace

http://hongkong.panduanwisata.com/files/2013/08/Tian-Tan-Buddha-hongkong.jpg

the cristo del otero is the creepiest statue I've seen imo, jesus looking emaciated with haunted eyes

http://fotodenuncias.elnortedecastilla.es/imagenes/DSC00125_1.jpg

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4066/oteroc.jpg

alien jesus! there has to be an episode of ancient aliens covering this

http://texasgaga.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/sam-houston-statue1.jpg

AMERICA!

holy shit @ that jesus

ok is that denver horse real, because holy shit that is a terrifying nightmare

I've never been there but as far as I can tell Denver airport was built to fuck with people who think the illuminati is real. There is a popular conspiracy theory that it's the HQ of the New World Order, largely because of the bizarre architecture and decor.

The giant hand in the Chilean desert is odd

http://cdn.tripwiremagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/image_thumb445.png

idk if anyone itt is into these statues from a religious pov, it seems alien to me but clearly lots of people flock to them. curious how something can be a focus of religious attention as well as a spectacle. found this pic of what is apparently a buddhist temple in a theme park in ho chi minh city, vietnam, seems notable

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/29959831.jpg

http://www.laobserved.com/images/chickenboy.gif

chicken boy stalks the rooftops of LA

The scale of the Spring Temple Buddha is freaking me out:

http://oddstuffmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/spring+temple+buddha.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RiIzSGwtMCY/T4pxgx9vEJI/AAAAAAAACwg/ht6nC-J6DJs/s400/DSC03612.jpg

hanuman is a v charismatic deity, I love how he avoids monkey stereotypes & is always show as noble, devoted & heroic. also love the physiques on hindu statues in general. otoh he is armed & this statue is needlessly huge

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6uH7VsRmNXw/T_Yy6rPZWUI/AAAAAAAABUg/0N3QsYUg7Iw/s1600/paritala3.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oV1MoJWhBYI/T_Yy3733urI/AAAAAAAABUY/qnQ164BbZeI/s1600/paritala2.jpg

hopefully he is presiding over the landscape in his role as a scholar of grammar, my favourite of his attributes

http://sarahandgretchen.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/giant-morales-statue.jpg

Morelos statue, Mexico

http://m6.i.pbase.com/o4/78/599778/1/102563346.K35ccwna.56133235.0000471.jpg

Morelos statue, rear view

the denver horse statue actually KILLED its sculptor (its arm fell on him): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Jim%C3%A9nez_%28sculptor%29

http://lostcoastoutpost.com/media/uploads/post/6553/trees-of-mystery.jpg

xp murderous statues get a bonus point

http://www.incolo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/375015238_fc01f528921.jpg

the three-sided guanyin of the south sea of china is the most excellent seaside statue imo

http://www.chinatourguide.com/china_photos/sanya/attractions/nanshan_temple_buddha.jpg

i like the idea of "the observer of all the cries in the world" - seems less authoritarian than some statues

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7056/6870505353_205869d3b1_z.jpg

ppl race boats around her

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6403/137106206.a9/0_8b971_3d88554c_orig.jpg

and she has a rad light show

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20120516/001aa018f83f111d52015d.jpg

full marks

not sailed a boat round that but i have driven a car around dorking's inexplicable giant metal chicken...

http://www.summagallicana.it/lessico/d/Dorking%20giant.jpg

ooooh i like that one too

redwoods paul bunyan is pretty cool. everyone loves to touch babe's balls. the trees of mystery thing there remains a mystery to me b/c i do not want to spend the money

have to say though i am not very terrified by any statue on flatlands, you need some topography or a huge platform or somehting to bring the real terror

(meant that i liked the 3-sided guanyin)

these poor statues were blown up by the taliban around 2000-2001

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Taller_Buddha_of_Bamiyan_before_and_after_destruction.jpg

fuctional
http://media.trb.com/media/photo/2011-08/273455360-13124806.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/UAdR9qr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0e0DyLl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/yU0Em1a.jpg

Classic old-school ILX thread

Good work everyone

http://i.imgur.com/9L3wUnh.png

http://i.imgur.com/Vg99G2X.jpg

lol at the marilyn monroe pic

nothing says haunting spectre of the past like ruined soviet statues. makes me think of goldeneye

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130125140136/jamesbond/images/6/60/Goldeneye_-_Trevelyan_reveals_himself.jpg

Prior to this thread I had forgotten they based the space jockey in Prometheus on Lenin

All hail the Cosmoplanetary Messiah (Gilbert Bourdin to his mum):

http://i.imgur.com/JhA2qtM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ka4oxEi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zhmomCF.jpg

xp what's going on there?

this statue of former chinese head of state & wife of sun yat sen soong ching-ling was started and then mysteriously scrapped

http://www.giganticstatues.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Soong-Ching-Ling-Statue.jpg

The French authorities blew the statue up as the cult that erected it didn't have planning permission.

Yesssss this thread (highly recommend Boredoms 'vision creation newsun' while scrolling through) - I used love the Michigan ave Marilyn - I 2nd, Classis ILX goodness.

http://i.imgur.com/e6JgmfC.jpg

xxp amazing. none of the best statues have planning permission.

bamiyan buddhas yawning absence

http://tendtotravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Destroyed-Buddhas-in-Bamiyan-by-NRio-e1321178125666.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zarFXN3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/s514Pbg.jpg

maybe you could say the islamic prohibition on idols stems from a lack of sensuality or unworldliness but I think a god who is totally trascendent, who has 99 names, is a more potent idea. idolatry (shirk) is the single unpardonable sin in islam, because it compromises the oneness of god. there's something sympathetic about that to me

xp love the laozi statue

wowwww @ nanshan temple

ahaha thank you 龜
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542713/Chinese-restaurant-owner-told-pull-two-gigantic-50ft-naked-Buddhas-establishment-s-roof.html

(maybe nsfw (butts))

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/pic_2011_04_01s.jpg

there's something so wonderful about this, being indoors adds to the feeling he's in the bath

http://www.zhanghuan.com/images/work/sculpture/2011/pic_2011_04_05s.jpg

apparently his chest moves as if he's breathing (!)

what is with these ginormous buddhist affronts to the impermanence of all existence, kinda seems like someone woulda spoken up waaaay before all the laboring on stones & such ever got close to completion

who on earth is that giant head rising above the rock face? the photo with the chinese banners? what a weird image.

Here is a giant buddha in Sri Lanka who has people living in his head:

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/03/aa/6a/be/wewurukannala-vihara.jpg

In terms of statues I have to put up with almost every working day, this one's fairly terrifying:

http://media4.troverapp.com/T/4fcbc70dfeaf5e1e5d00006b/large_2x.jpg

Watching "Jason And The Argonauts" ruined me for life. I have never (WILL never) visit The Statue If Liberty and walking by that big statue at Rockefeller Center still gives me the creeps. I hate these things. Cool thread, though!

Mind you I saw that film the first time when I was around 4 and have watched it again since but that Titan...brrrr. CGI can never go there.

M. John Harrison's story "Settling the World" to this awesome thread.

Future contender, the 563 ft Crazy Horse memorial.

http://www.crazyhorsememorial.org/images/about-future2.jpg

Brest Hero-Fortress memorial, Belarus:

http://i.imgur.com/RCwzya4.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/S1hUikp.jpg

a monument to those valiant warriors who lost their battle with scoliosis the Wehrmacht. it may not be the biggest statue in the world, but it's certainly the biggest disappointed dad ("I died defending the Motherland against the Nazis, and what have you done with your day?"), and it must be extremely demoralizing to witness his great hulking disdain in person.

(CNN came under fire a couple of months ago for including it in its "world's ugliest monuments" listicle)

the sheep house is amazing btw

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6c/23/03/6c2303b1971bba110188089ddd6822f2.jpg

the mighty Johnny Kaw of Manhattan, Kansas, the local Paul Bunyan

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LQ-m6mr3vIw/T_BJFwcP42I/AAAAAAAAAZg/PEzMSju-yLA/s1600/IMG_5063.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Elefant_der_Bastille.jpg/640px-Elefant_der_Bastille.jpg

"Napoleon planned many urban regeneration projects for Paris and was particularly fond of monuments to his victories. He wanted to create a significant triumphal structure to demonstrate his military prowess and began the process of designing a 24 m (78 ft) bronze elephant. He planned to use the bronze from cannon captured in battle melted down and recast to create an imposing structure. A stairway would allow visitors to ascend one of the elephant's legs to an observation platform on its back.... The construction work stopped in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo."

http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/9a3d519c-1d2f-45d2-9316-fcddf23c9acc.jpg

oh i know that guy cos...

http://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/l/i/liveskull424969.jpg

where is it? what is it?

obviously he's moved since that record cover

http://i.imgur.com/NrBFaUZ.jpg?1

Friend of Lana Turner. It's in NJ, iirc.

ha that's awesome!

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Ffkzi3Kg--/c_fit,fl_progressive,w_636/18lp45ogzmriyjpg.jpg

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--iL_H-O3L--/c_fit,fl_progressive,w_636/18lp4psleuq2dpng.png

lol that doorway O_o

http://www.popfi.com/wp-content/uploads/middle-finger-statue.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/JFHZb0o.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/iaJ5m0Q.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/TlcTLnk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/svTQh9X.jpg

'Sup

wow!

The giant sheep (ram, really) isnt a house, its a horrbile tourist attraction. Australia has a bizarre fascination with Giant Things.

http://travelbieber.com/wp-content/uploads/mt-rushmore-at-nightbrian-wright-photography--night-visions-fli8elkt.jpg

http://www.mir.com.my/leofoo/Thaipusam/Batu_caves_KL.jpg

You have to walk up 272 steps to get to the cave temples behind Lord Murugan's head

that one's awesome

I always like the gentle reminders the Soviets left across the Axis countries about who won the war:

http://i.imgur.com/8FSxEDM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/hmHqsGH.jpg

^oversized games workshop model

NSFW
http://www.reuzeninvlaanderen.be/site/sites/default/files/010_1.JPG
http://hlnregiophotoprovider0.hln-cdn.be/photo/herve-missiaen-bij-de-reus-langs-de-e17-nbsp-nbsp-foto-henk-deleu/p1/img-NzM0MTg1MDQvYXQvNjY4NzExOS82NDB4NjQwL0ZU/6687119.jpeg
NSFW

Giant naked cyclops next to E17 motorway in Belgium (you can see the motorway on the right in the second picture) - it has been there before, about 2 years ago, but was set alight then. Has now been put back but the owner of the forklift company, who is an art lover who did this because he wants to promote art in his industrial zone, is getting threatening letters again.

as this thread has been sullied w/ plenty of ungiant unterrifying specimens already, the caganer can't really do any harm

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rb1TnWLyX4g/TRKeBHIw0BI/AAAAAAAAAVk/pbMBB4KeP8o/s1600/giant_caganer_medium.jpg

loool @ cyclops

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Fuck every one of these statues.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4076/4745626513_e42f88b11b_z.jpg

And yes, it's beautiful, but especially this one.

I can't even deal with this thing outside an RV park that used to be a novelty stop sign.

http://i.imgur.com/1beJ9sl.png

to be clear I love all the statues here & don't want anyone to think I was denigrating their contributions. anyway I think the most actually terrifying might have to be either to moai or the sphinx, on the grounds that having outlasted the systems of belief which led to their construction, they have this unknowable ghostly power.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-718a9zXxgNY/UOiN5JnED8I/AAAAAAAAASg/rNvg6myLLMc/s1600/Moai-Statues-Easter-Island-1.jpeg

apparently the moai originally had eyes. can't decide if that makes them more or less creepy. prob more creepy.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wAMI_vZQpUo/TGRgVCk4gBI/AAAAAAAAAXA/f9Cnn0u2nag/s320/moai_eyes.jpg

I can understand why you might want to topple them

http://31.media.tumblr.com/79f82a9afd47884a9d12a9a83fa32ef9/tumblr_mvqlx0LS031sh962to1_500.jpg

the arabs call the sphinx 'father of dread' which seems on point. imagining it lurking under the sand for vast periods of time is unsettling.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eU4S6AB_g7I/UnsGsYQbS1I/AAAAAAAALmU/BfwVLiRPLJg/s1600/800px-Sphinx_partially_excavated2.jpg

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

landslide!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hqhVcgVUwdw/UQ-n02OopHI/AAAAAAABAxk/ZyHIzb4wv_s/s1600/Motherland_Calls_021.jpg

it did inspire the poll in the first place

http://i.imgur.com/3jlSqXV.jpg

I'm gonna go see this tmr

This is the greatest thread ever. Good work, y'all.

wow @ this thread

not that gigantic, but kinda terrifying nonetheless:

http://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Planet-by-Marc-Quinn-650x403.jpg

Indeed, amazing tread.

Thread.

I get very uncomfortable just looking at these fuckers. It's weird and I don't know why. I don't have a strong feeling toward trees, rocks or buildings in the same way.

But shit like this ... ughhh

http://fineprintnyc.com/images/blog/old-new-york/part-1/1886-Statue-of-Liberty-face-waiting-for-installation.jpg

Feeling you on the discomfort and not knowing why. I was fascinated/terrified by renderings of Colossus of Rhodes in a book I had when I was little.

I don't think this one was mentioned upthread, but the Vulcan statue in Birmingham, Alabama is still a weird/scary sighting for me when I travel through the south:

http://cumberland.samford.edu/files/u52/Copy_of_vulcan.jpg

Yeah, I talked about that one too on Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue - Dude hid from me one summer.

it's nowhere near as huge as the ones itt, but pplains you would hate this one in Sacramento

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/ca/CASAChead_dk5435.jpg

(perspective on that photo makes it look like it's blocking the door, but it's set a ways from the front of that building)

I could just about deal with that one since she looks dead and not ready to eat me.

http://cbssacramento.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/matter-contemplates-spirit-google-maps.jpg

more of the pee seua samut statue

http://photos.worldisround.com/photos/30/309/440.jpg

http://photos.worldisround.com/photos/30/309/437.jpg

just saw this on reddit. felt it was appropriate-ish.

http://i.imgur.com/dbBVH7i.jpg

I lol'd

http://russiapedia.rt.com/files/prominent-russians/entertainment/zurab-tsereteli/zurab-tsereteli_3.jpg

Hey, why is Peter the Great aboard a ship?

(A: because he's actually a rejected and repurposed Christopher Columbus)

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Sculpture+Giant+Bather+Presented+Hamburg+90Ht2JgX213l.jpg

http://skyworld.com.ng/images/gallerypics/Calabar%20Art%20Nigeria.jpg

this thread is the best thing EVER

that columbus-nvm-peter the great statue is hilar

http://www.thekelpies.co.uk/wp-content/files_mf/cache/th_096770c1a3354ec7002315ab0be78ad6_kelpiesaerial.jpeg

of interest (via slate)
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/fabrice-fouillet-colossi-in-the-countryside

Tangentially I'm reminded of a photo project done in HK documenting the giant advertisements

http://www.domusweb.it/en/photo-essays/2013/02/26/hong-kong-layers.html

http://i.imgur.com/iA7dVwv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XJzze37.jpg

http://www.thedrum.com/uploads/news/tmp/37015/morrisons%20angel.jpg

^ gigantic statue + giant advertisement

i don't even really like the angel of the north all that much but that advert really pisses me off tbh

man next time I come up with an idea for a thread I should probably try to squeeze an exhibition out of it huh

Article possibly inspired by this thread?

ogmor you made it seem all interesting and natural and consensual but have you been clickbaiting us?? your own people???!

you can rely on my not having the wherewithal to make bank from ilx

Minimalist version, by Jaume Plensa in Nice, France:

http://www.likeatrippie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/IMG_5425.jpg

http://blogs.hudsonvalley.com/hudson-valley-photo-blog/files/2010/08/etbgnome1web.jpg

The most striking feature, however, is unarguably the towering jolly giant, Gnome Chomsky. He stands invitingly on the hill facing the highway, challenging one and all to come enjoy the scenery, visit the farm, and play a round or two of mini golf.

*Update (as of Aug 2011) Chomsky no longer holds the Guinness World Record. Reiman Gardens in Iowa is home to a Gnome that stands 15 feet tall. Although there is a Gnome in Poland who towers at 18 ft, but unlike Chomsky and the Reiman Gardens' gnome, theirs is made of fiberglass.

http://needled.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/dream6.jpg

this looks like a future sound of london cover

terrifying statue + abandoned theme park
http://signifyingnot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/abandoned_amusement_park_oukoku_japan-461x299.jpg
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--lvPnVXms--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/18lr3jo7cshxojpg.jpg

what the fuck

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3296/3087314618_e96f2068f7.jpg

Anyone mentioned the giant breastfeeding statue of Nami island South Korea? Some people find it disturbing.
https://sneakerssocksandsoju.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/south-koreas-best-kept-secret-namisum-island/

http://gawker.com/man-takes-stomach-churning-selfie-atop-brazils-christ-t-1584498025

hey you kids, get down from that savior!

Saw "The Awakening" posted by NickB upthread irl! It was moved from where it used to be (the corner of a far-out park in DC that doesn't get much foot traffic) to the center area of an outdoor mall developed a few miles south of DC (called the Nat'l Harbor). The context makes it all the more unsettling; children now play on it:

http://www.somdnews.com/storyimage/PN/20130102/NEWS/701029750/AR/0/AR-701029750.jpg

All I see is foot traffic.

heh, should have been more careful with my gis. But I swear it's true, trust me!

"Dream" in St Helens is magnificent

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2003/07/24_baxtera_thebigmove/images/paulkids_large.jpg

heh, should have been more careful with my gis. But I swear it's true, trust me!

Because there's a GIANT FOOT coming out of the sand, seewhatImean?

Joe Louis memorial in Detroit
http://www.blacksnowcomic.com/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/joe-louis-fist.jpg

and there's another big Joe in Cobo Hall, though maybe not by this thread's standards
http://www.detroitfunk.com/imagecopyrighted/FEB05/DSC01101.jpg

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77266000/jpg/_77266066_afp-warrior-by-night.jpg
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/111003025221-skopje-2014-warrior-horizontal-gallery.jpg

http://i58.tinypic.com/70wa5x.jpg

Apparently this is in Lebanon.

http://i62.tinypic.com/25547iv.jpg

that is actually terrifying

this thread

I hope the Lebanese aren't trypophobic

wow that is amazing

that is amazing and terrifying and straight off a Voivod album cover

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Voivod

http://boredomfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/01-underwater-city.jpg

magic - a whole season of Lost in just one shot

http://i.imgur.com/xDc34Et.jpg

http://balkanist.net/national-mothers-of-socialism/

Mother of Georgia looks like a nice lady, if frighteningly ripped.

http://i.imgur.com/C4Ot2UQ.jpg

My brain can't process what's happening there.

Vladimir the Great

if you angle the camera down just a little bit more it's like a mini-ringworld xp

Read that giant Vladimir has been nixed but it might just be a rumour.

i like this guy

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8bbbUtFCNw/VVIUdIrzHAI/AAAAAAAAo6U/TLcr4CnYjbI/s640/2.jpg

hi!

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/086E/production/_87485120_2f7b1318-2428-4dac-9ea5-0448d0ec01f4.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-35230137

http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1401946/mubarak-statue.jpg

http://www.orwelltoday.com/leninmaostatstand.jpg

http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/55c4be6a2acae7f4028be2cc-1200/chinese-artists-spent-two-years-creating-this-26-foot-tall-sculpture-of-marilyn-monroes-famous-scene-from-the-seven-year-itch.jpg

Looks like she's ready for the jump into hyperspace

have we done this one yet?

http://dougkerr.net/images/general/Unconditional%20Surrender_F19406R.jpg

Gross. Reminds me of these alien-headed mutants in St Pancras International:

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2279/2246361513_5e7901a51a_o_d.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/4b6a0236be9179758b3382379ce93ecfc1834be6.jpg

i know it was upthread but even more menacing picture of denver horse

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/t31.0-8/1146939_770318014890_547285615_o.jpg

Any picture of that bronco is pretty fucking menacing.

But yeah, some more than others.

I mean hell, this is just from the Google Street View car passing by.

http://i.imgur.com/4cFD3gM.png

lol

one time my friend and i had to pull off the highway near that bronco, we ended up in a parking lot that was specifically for people waiting to pick up people from their flights. i saw two fender benders in five minutes walking back from the porta potty in the parking lot... also we were passed on the shoulder by someone going 90+ mph on the highway right before

people in colorado are really bad at driving is what i'm saying

may or may not be related to the distended bronco looming over all

completely related, imo.

They're probably just trying to outrun it

That stormy pic of the bronco makes it look like it's situated on a council estate playing field in Doncaster.

donny bronco

Mansudae Art Studio

They moved the big sheep from above:

http://i66.tinypic.com/msg0bd.jpg

Without the horns, that is 100% the coiled poop pile emoji with a dick coming out of the top

Kristus kase Berkat

Christ, if I drove by this during twilight, I would probably soil myself

Oh God, Bluecifer. Everything about the Denver airport is horrifying.

also this is the scariest thread of all time.

Not terrifying, not gigantic, but I thought it strange (and fascinating, and about time) that a statue of Eric Dolphy adorns the campus of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/34208693.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/dqW2IFh.jpg

http://www.alltouristattractions.org/ala/2012/08/The-Swords-of-Qādisīyah-Baghdad-Iraq.jpg

still the most terrifying

http://artinrussia.org/wp-content/uploads/original19039207.jpg

i think there's something so fundamentally insane about the eastern front in particular Stalingrad, this army driven east beyond their limits by a tyrant and a large collection of psychopaths, coming up against a deadly winter and an army finally ready and able to destroy them, driven by another tyrant, and by circumstance the battle takes place in a city named after him. this statue comes as close as possible to capturing that insanity, i mean might as well have had a 300 ft tall banshee with a sword leading the charge against the Nazis, it would be only a bit more mad than the reality.

that statue is awesome

http://i.imgur.com/320ARVy.jpg

"Wait, did Frank get in that last shot with his helicopter? FRANK!"

Did not realize that the second-largest statue in the United States - behind only Lady Liberty - is going to be this:

http://i.imgur.com/2OhioH6.jpg

Wonder how many people that one's killed.

australia's rather good at terrifying large statua:

http://www.weekendnotes.com/im/004/06/the-big-lobster-big-thing-lobster1.JPG

also statue related recurring nightmares.

No sure that's a statue, if we're talking Australia here.

This giant crustacean will devour us all!

Unless we drown it first in melted butter!

I don't think my city will ever have a cool giant terrifying statue. That's sad.

all it takes is one committed lunatic Jeff

We have one of those in Rahm Emanuel, he just doesn't seem to be that big into statues.

Don't you have the giant dog that wears the McMahon headbands or whatever?

Pasadena has a couple of large heads, but they're not frightening (Jackie and Mack Robinson).

http://twointhemiddle.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Robinson-Memorial.jpg

Also a giant fork.

http://travelswithmaitaitom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/P1000972-487x650.jpg

Installed as a prank, but the people liked it enough that the the city re-mounted it and made it official.

I'm not sure Melbourne has any giant statues I can think of. Hm apart from this one I guess:

http://dyob.com.au/sites/default/files/experiences/Heavenly-Queen-Temple.jpg

And I'd hardly call that terrifying.

in jersey city, there's the katyn memorial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy%C5%84_Memorial_(Jersey_City)

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1308/4672535583_f49972756f_b.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/11526374.jpg

video of men rappelling down the side of motherland calls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAlyQqB2S1g

construction stills with terrifying head musculature at 1.29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dAje1XF94g

jersey city one terrifying for good reasons

I used to live in JC and was always struck by the Katyn memorial. Intense as hell.

http://roadtrippin.woelmer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSC04552.jpg

construction stills with terrifying head musculature at 1.29

Jesus. This thing is filled with the remains of Stalin's enemies, isn't it?

i found a friend for the lobster:

http://www.roadarch.com/06/7/solep.jpg

^ Worcester, MA

Not especially huge but it was odd going past Dashi Namdakov's feline statue at Marble Arch last year because it kinda looked like the statue of the demon Pazuzu from the Exorcist.

Dude you're huge!

http://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/buffjeausu1sdfsdfsdf.jpg

Yada yada, must do a lot of crossfit ...

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jesus4.jpg

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jesus5.jpg

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jesus6.jpg

Dozens of gigantic, if not terrifying, presidential statues lost and alone in a field:

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/02/presidents-park-patrick-joust/

http://i.imgur.com/WYE0K03.jpg

Oh c'mon. Someone did that on purpose.

Oh man, that reminds me of the defaced Ferdinand Marcos statue:

http://i67.tinypic.com/35n6kr7.jpg

I think it's totally destroyed now.

Giant Hosni Mubarak statue was also literally defaced...

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/8/9/1312906128241/Defaced-statue-of-Hosni-M-007.jpg

eh try again:

http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/files/2011/08/rushmore-mubarak-face-340.jpg

Man that is one freaky remix.

http://i.imgur.com/Ex4Sgv2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DcOxhZt.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2tLuKfI.jpg

fantastic

least horrifying imo

terrifying when you consider the energy/calorie ratio for that. what a waste of water

now a giant lentil, now we're talking

http://blueearthchamber.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DSC_0014.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KTg2XZB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/b9iQysB.jpg

https://rocketpoweredfist.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_06321.jpg

http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-42-28078419.jpg%3Fsize%3D67%26uid%3Dac60110a-f7ba-450b-9b47-c65ae784d1bd

i didn't know the jolly green giant had his own statue; and in minny of all places

"giant monkey statue" is a rewarding GIS

Really didn't need to see an upskirt pap of the jolly green giant.

there used to be a statue in Ohio called Touchdown Jesus, but it was struck by lightning and burned (before and after pics below)

http://stupidevilbastard.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Touchdown_jesus.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/15/article-0-0A0BFCC2000005DC-635_634x391.jpg

if you make a flammable statue you deserve the worst

Cloth Jesus, Wire Jesus

Who knew God was a member of the Taliban.

I mean, I guess the Taliban's been saying that for years

http://i.imgur.com/h8eAdTK.jpg

that looks like David Tennant.

(also, wtf is it?)

looks like Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice

yep. for some reason Colin Firth's shirt in Pride and Prejudice was trending on facebook so I had to jog my memory, and that was one of the google image search results

hahaha so weird

i remember when that was in the serpentine - there were some other large sculptures there as well, a large hand iirr. anyway I swim there p much daily during the non-winter months, and swimming around and under them felt bloody odd, like I was a Lilliputian or something.

http://i.imgur.com/PfBDRIC.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Y0lu52N.jpg

^
winner

whatever it is it wants to fight

Is that some kind of hybrid of Charlie Brown and the Yellow Kid?

it's caillou, a canadian character for preschoolers

You're both kinda right, I think

it looks like squidward from spongebob squarepants

I think this is on the smaller side but

http://i68.tinypic.com/slp2x4.jpg

I love that. It's almost like a Giger piece.

yikes at starved bodhisattva... the chest veins!

not gigantic, but there's a starved boddhisatva statue at an arts center I was at yesterday that is modeled after Kate Moss

Another one from the same Irish sculpture park as the boddhisattva:

http://i63.tinypic.com/atx3xe.jpg

http://i67.tinypic.com/30nhfzr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/dh293W7.jpg

damn I love it, guan yu?

yep

http://i.imgur.com/Trz1YT2.jpg

I bet they were surprised when he popped up in the middle of their construction site

I feel like they're trying to entrap him like lilliputians, hence his miffed expression

Man, that's amazing.

woah
best statue ever

love this pic https://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/god-of-war-guan-yu-statue-jingzhou-china-81.jpg?w=800&h=533

Fantastic

Is he standing on top of a bus station?

http://i.imgur.com/PnutIiT.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tO6JaMN.jpg

winner

that's a wild story.

wow

Not quite on the same scale as some of these, but Swindon's Wish Hounds have a certain eerie presence.

http://i.imgur.com/0BDceW7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/5pAHNy5.jpg

they are v v cool

From a certain angle, a little human hound centipede-y

http://67.media.tumblr.com/da2851a38b0c201508cea12ffebd8d54/tumblr_oavd9mulsq1qzwfgto1_1280.png

http://65.media.tumblr.com/4c1116ad2a6925377bc3b1b8c031f1ad/tumblr_oavd9mulsq1qzwfgto5_1280.png

http://66.media.tumblr.com/dc6e88f342750aee8b684c7d94bf7fcc/tumblr_oavd9mulsq1qzwfgto7_1280.png

http://i.imgur.com/B0dWcGn.jpg

where is that? it's amazing!

Wat Theppitak Punnaram (White Buddha), Nakhon Ratchasima. The white big Buddha is a impressive 45 meters tall statue belonging to the Wat Theppitak Punaram temple in Thailand, located in Phaya Yen, Pak Chong district, Nakhon Ratchasima province.

I wonder how they decide on the size, like one person suggests 40 meters everybody's v enthusiastic but in comes the new kid HOW ABOUT... forty FIVE!!?? endless applause

Maybe its just a matter of budget

ha, well actually ...

The elevation of the statue of 112 meters or 56 Thai Wa above ground level refers to the 56 goodnesses of Buddhism. The total of 1,250 steps of the two paths left and right leading uphill to the statue signify the number of disciples of the Lord Buddha who assembled on Magha Puja Day without prior notice. The height of the statue of 45 meters means the number of years Buddha spent in teaching the people after he had attained enlightenment

If they were using meters as their basic unit of measure, why would 112 meters refer to the 56 goodnesses? And if they were using Thai Wa as their unit of measure, why would 22.5 Wa refer to 45 years spent teaching?

Some questions are not asked to be answered, but to be resolved instead.

It's almost like they just built a big statue where they had property rights and then retroactively looked for significant numbers to make it seem like it was divinely inspired

http://i.imgur.com/vJxukGO.jpg

O_O

more like O|O

attack on titan: the later years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrality_Monument

is it true that this statue used to always rotate to face the sun

that's what everyone says. looks like a landing vessel from out of space, different sort of terrifying

literal lux aeterna

...within daylight hours (weather permitting)

Carved from rock.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/six-massive-carved-monuments-you-need-see-believe-180960795/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/73/02/7302d850-dbff-43ec-b64f-0e9a4c8b0754/decebalus-rex-romania.jpg__600x0_q85_upscale.jpg

p dope imo

that's fucking Zardoz

"The penis is evil!"

is there a set time of day when its mouth opens & a bajillion guns come flying out

[A]t an impressive 180 feet in height, with a 23-foot nose and 14-foot eyes to match, the monument to Decebalus, the king of the Dacians, is visible from a great distance. (By comparison, the presidential faces depicted on Mount Rushmore reach a mere 60 feet in height.)

I mean, sure, say it's taller than Rushmore, but c'mon, it's not like Rushmore looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/fK5dTPY.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/wMTvvIa.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5274/5867265311_27a8a8e089_b.jpg
Showed this thread to my girlfriend and she showed me a bunch of pictures of the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial and now I won't be able to go to sleep tonight.

http://meaton.net/Hammy/Salty.jpg
I think Salty the Seahorse deserves a place in this thread as well. Definitely the scariest statue I ever stumbled across baked to the gills at 3 in the morning.

Whose gills, your's or Salty's?

Holy shit that Holocaust one.

Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton NJ

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/20151022_142917cropx.jpg

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/20151022_155554cropx.jpg

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/20151022_155541cropx.jpg

The first two by Seward Johnson, same guy who did the giant Marilyn Monroe and founder of Grounds for Sculpture

that third one is dooooope

It's King Lear. I just looked it up, and that one is by Seward Johnson too. Does not skirt the kitsch line like a lot of his other works do.

https://twitter.com/Kiha85Nanki/status/852133381613670400

deal with it

lol that's great

https://youtu.be/dZoFjZkns4Y?t=1m10s

🗻

龜, where is that slope-covering statue you posted a month ago? I like it.

idk tbh

fengdu ghost city

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fengdhu-ghost-city

http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/AFP_Getty-452224699.jpg

http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/PA-17862914.jpg

Ok that is cool as hell

I love the Kelpies. Even more so when they're lit up at night.

https://68.media.tumblr.com/326bd98a8f59e3bbcb0e6aa79b0dd0a7/tumblr_oo7qmrZUZd1sliee9o1_1280.jpg

Think there's another shot of this upthread from further away. Sendai Daikannon.

http://tailsofwonders.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sendai_Daikannon.jpg

i love both of these

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

http://i.imgur.com/iOF4f8o.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/f5O7Znb.jpg

Маска скорби "Mask of Sorrow" - a memorial in Magadan, dedicated to the memory of victims of political repression. The central monument is 15 meters high

Authors: sculptor - Ernst Neizvestny , architect - Kamil Kazayev.

The central sculpture of the memorial is a person's stylized face, from whose left eye tears flow in the form of small masks. The right eye is represented in the form of a window with a lattice. On the reverse side is a bronze sculpture of a weeping woman under a non-canonical crucifixion [1] . Inside the monument is a copy of a typical prison cell.

The back:

http://i.imgur.com/3CLCNOw.jpg

terrifying but i also kinda like it

too sad and haunting to be straight up terrifying imo

Yeah I rather like that one. It has shades of Zladislaw Beksinski

man that is cool as hell

Don't get me wrong, I love the fucking thing. But it freaks me out a little.

Ernst Neizvestny's art is well worth GISing btw

https://68.media.tumblr.com/5cf3b5b3cc438e9fbc48995ab99fb205/tumblr_ornxpxkDWJ1qz9ct7o1_1280.jpg

Is he holding a fire hose in his left hand

https://www.nowness.com/series/portrait-of-a-place/tsonjil-boldog?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=SM&utm_campaign=FB110717

when they're not terrifying gigantic statues can be very relaxing

Dignity is a sculpture on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River near Chamberlain, South Dakota. The 50-foot high stainless steel statue, by South Dakota artist laureate Dale Lamphere, depicts an Indigenous woman in Plains-style dress receiving a star quilt. According to Lamphere, the sculpture honors the culture of the Lakota and Dakota peoples who are indigenous to South Dakota.

https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20228454_10209724558890550_4362344120271813478_n.jpg?oh=5c998e30095da7facf38641d7378c142&oe=5A077A52

Almost looks like some Soviet era thing with the flattened planes and sharp angles but I kind of like it.

https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/d6/13/497fa78322007c04b80e30b00292b30c0dbf/ofunamain/_w1700.jpgp

saw this one earlier this week, didn't know it was there until we turned a corner and it took my breath away

er here
https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/d6/13/497fa78322007c04b80e30b00292b30c0dbf/ofunamain/_w1700.jpg

Prepare to be perplexed by the "spomenik," dozens of Brutalist/alien WWII monuments built from the '60s to the '80s all over Yugoslavia.

https://espionart.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/spomenik1.jpg?w=800

Check out the Spomenik Database for tons of pix.

Those look like fragments left behind by the Elder Gods.

Also, did anyone else on here get a little bit of a Dr. Doom vibe from the Dignity statue?

top right is like the evil stained glass sculptures in The Last Guardian

43 president head statues.

https://advent✧✧✧.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Presidents-Heads-Photo-credit-Laurie-Colli✧✧✧@dccitygirl-1180x✧✧✧.j✧✧

Story here: https://adventure.com/abandoned-presidents-heads/?utm_content=president+heads&utm_medium&utm_source=facebook

Oh well, pics at the link.

have we had this one yet?

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/08/a-gigantic-buddha-sculptures-emerges-from-the-top-of-a-hill-in-japan/

that is beautiful

the buddha silo

whoa that's amazing!

or you can go to his studio in Houston xp

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/david-adickes-sculpture-gallery

The replies to this tweet are well worth checking out for awesome statue action, even though plenty of them are neither terrifying nor gigantic:

What are your favorite public statues?

— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) August 17, 2017

http://www.colombia.travel/en/where-to-go/caribbean/barranquilla/activities/shakira-monument

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/3169096.jpg

Lucky that her statue is small and humble

A 17-Story Dragon Climbs Thailand’s Pink 80-Meter Buddhist Temple

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/17-story-dragon-temple/

we have a winner

holy shit that is awesome

Not unless it has a water slide inside the entire length of the body

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYVCz9k_sLY

Terrifying.

don't step on DEL noooooooooo

three horseman of the ctrl alt delocalypse

Cats!

https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/content/uploads/images/Ships-Cat-by-Kenji-Yanobe-6_465_349_int.jpg

from:
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/humongous_statues_of_cats_wearing_helmets

http://www.therwandan.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/The-huge-statue-of-President-Jacob-Zuma-unveiled-in-Owerri..jpg

Odessa, Ukraine

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/28575640_947367342085238_4933037017836392472_n.jpg?oh=b7ccf93dcc2c8fd8da6cc7ef190bec1f&oe=5B09A981

far too cute to scare

https://i.imgur.com/DyeCs1v.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/jf5GCu9.jpg

i came across this while listening to ligeti's requiem and i nearly fell off my couch. luckily i was pretty deeply entrenched in the couch so i was able to stay on top of it.

Don't think this one's been posted yet. Kerala, India.

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/30124900_10155172525292032_8900071529027682688_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=b6d32318e351fa516f8c43743dd4a0e2&oe=5B6A4A83

Having acute "wowwww" reactions to both of those

yeah holy cats @ both of these

it's interesting that the bird is on its back

coming out of self imposed exile for this one: Giant Javan Chicken Church

before
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3156330/Incredible-images-mysterious-abandoned-Chicken-Church-built-Indonesian-jungle-man-vision-God.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/07/10/15/2A69981C00000578-0-image-a-25_1436537756185.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/07/13/08/2A7C1A8F00000578-3156330-Comfortable_One_traveler_described_how_there_are_as_many_as_15_r-a-35_1436773189110.jpg

after
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-built-the-chicken-church-indonesia

http://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/55039/image.jpg
http://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/55096/image.jpg
http://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/54959/image.jpg

superb, wld also be a good place to set up a colony of noise dudes

http://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/img/esy2FJROGrsvRbBASYvyTpm99dQ=/2018/07/18/c9ab7216-c28c-4087-b4ca-253064f490e0/3.jpg

https://www.cnet.com/news/giant-jeff-goldblum-statue-erected-for-jurassic-park-anniversary/

https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2018/08/cau-vang-bridge-ta-andscape-architecture_dezeen_2364_hero2-852x479.jpg

Two giant hands hold up Golden Bridge in Vietnam

speaking of Vietnam, how dope is THIS

abandonedandurbex:

Abandoned waterpark Ho Thuy Tien in Vietnam (x-post evilbuildings) [3024 x 4032] https://t.co/3AWIavemq1 pic.twitter.com/6oPzJHPpdh

— Wᴀʀʀᴇɴ Eʟʟɪs (@warrenellis) August 9, 2018

Whoaaa

I've posted a pic of the Lord Murugan statue in Malaysia before - reposting again because the 272-steps behind it just got a new rainbow-themed paint job, likely aimed at attracting the instagram crowd.

https://www.buro247.my/thumb/625x1250_0/xbatu_caves_colourful_new_look_ca.jpg.pagespeed.ic.GLs1-5ZNfK.jpg

looks real pretty, though too bad they didn't seek permission before repainting.