vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

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