vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

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Cloth Jesus, Wire Jesus

bearded flack trickster god (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 March 2016 08:30 (ten years ago)

Who knew God was a member of the Taliban.

pplains, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 16:14 (ten years ago)

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

pplains, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 16:15 (ten years ago)

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

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 00:52 (ten years ago)

that looks like David Tennant.

(also, wtf is it?)

Roz, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 03:24 (ten years ago)

looks like Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 03:26 (ten years ago)

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

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 03:31 (ten years ago)

hahaha so weird

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 05:58 (ten years ago)

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.

Fizzles, Friday, 11 March 2016 10:13 (ten years ago)

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

, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 12:21 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

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

, Sunday, 29 May 2016 14:15 (ten years ago)

^
winner

Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Sunday, 29 May 2016 15:04 (ten years ago)

whatever it is it wants to fight

You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 30 May 2016 05:34 (ten years ago)

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

Tuomas, Monday, 30 May 2016 10:51 (ten years ago)

it's caillou, a canadian character for preschoolers

remove butt (abanana), Monday, 30 May 2016 14:01 (ten years ago)

You're both kinda right, I think

You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 30 May 2016 19:34 (ten years ago)

it looks like squidward from spongebob squarepants

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 May 2016 21:21 (ten years ago)

I think this is on the smaller side but

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

Alan (legendary creature) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 3 June 2016 13:50 (ten years ago)

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

jmm, Friday, 3 June 2016 14:00 (ten years ago)

yikes at starved bodhisattva... the chest veins!

ulysses, Friday, 3 June 2016 16:23 (ten years ago)

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

μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 3 June 2016 17:26 (ten years ago)

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

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

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

Alan (legendary creature) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 5 June 2016 08:41 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

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

, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 14:43 (nine years ago)

damn I love it, guan yu?

ogmor, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:10 (nine years ago)

yep

, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:12 (nine years ago)

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

, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:14 (nine years ago)

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

Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:26 (nine years ago)

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

ogmor, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:56 (nine years ago)

Man, that's amazing.

Have you hugged your timeghoul today? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 July 2016 08:36 (nine years ago)

woah
best statue ever

nxd, Thursday, 14 July 2016 10:30 (nine years ago)

Fantastic

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 July 2016 11:35 (nine years ago)

Is he standing on top of a bus station?

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:20 (nine years ago)

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

, Friday, 15 July 2016 14:58 (nine years ago)

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

, Friday, 15 July 2016 15:00 (nine years ago)

winner

koogs, Friday, 15 July 2016 15:46 (nine years ago)

that's a wild story.

thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 15 July 2016 15:51 (nine years ago)

wow

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 July 2016 04:11 (nine years ago)

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

Pheeel, Sunday, 17 July 2016 10:26 (nine years ago)

they are v v cool

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 July 2016 14:22 (nine years ago)

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

I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 17 July 2016 15:02 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

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

pplains, Sunday, 14 August 2016 00:23 (nine years ago)

where is that? it's amazing!

new noise, Sunday, 14 August 2016 01:34 (nine years ago)

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.

pplains, Sunday, 14 August 2016 02:41 (nine years ago)

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

niels, Sunday, 14 August 2016 08:05 (nine years ago)

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

pplains, Sunday, 14 August 2016 17:30 (nine years ago)

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?

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 14 August 2016 17:58 (nine years ago)

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

pplains, Sunday, 14 August 2016 19:34 (nine years ago)

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

I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 14 August 2016 22:45 (nine years ago)


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