vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

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

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