vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

pixel art getting real

If that's it finished I love it.

heh, yeah i was going to say that more terrifying gigantic statues should leave the scaffolding up, it looks kinda cool

pretty soon every country is going to have a gigantic terrifying statue. before long they'll wheel them all into the same valley and have at it, mighty morphin power rangers style

Very Anthony Gormley

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-zOrAL1V5Jg/THpTlcoEzJI/AAAAAAAAHCo/yIDWk5RfiFE/s640/exposure.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZfG5mjq0DxU/TdAvj1zq-8I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/QxQ2zZJB0hA/s1600/gormley_1_905.jpg

Saw Motherland in Kyiv up close over the weekend (posted on this thread 5 years ago and by the same guy as Motherland Calls) and damn, it's impressive.

not gigantic but still:

This statue depicts Saint Bartholomew, an early Christian martyr who was allegedly skinned alive. If you look closely, you’ll notice that’s not a robe that he’s holding. It's actually his dissected skin hanging around him. This statute is by Marco d’Agrate, c.1562. pic.twitter.com/wyPnQqbXTu

— Lindsey Fitzharris (@DrLindseyFitz) October 5, 2019

https://kapang.com/rathergoodradio/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2017/08/Robbie.png

yikes

obi-wan voice “That’s no robe...”

That's amazing work.

Never heard of this before, more weird than terrifying

this place is legit very strange pic.twitter.com/kDL7MQfAXp

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) October 20, 2019

I posted it a couple years ago

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

Looks like they need to drain the swamp.

^ I think the Natalie Prass video for 'Into The Fire' was shot there.

Meanwhile, these aren't gigantic but Yerevan otherwise just slaps at this

https://www.peopleofar.com/wp-content/uploads/lion-2-by-ji-yong-ho-cascade-yerevan-armenia.jpg

https://c1.wallpaperflare.com/preview/21/662/466/lion-head-sculpture-art.jpg

https://travelplugged.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Statues-Botero-Statues-Yerevan.jpg

Yerevan has lots of fun public art.

I saw the GWK from a distance this week. It’s so chunky it’s probably not that impressive until you’re closer. It kind of looks like a weirdly shaped tower block.

https://i.postimg.cc/T1SzpY3W/C169-E314-646-C-4-D1-A-9406-CABBEB6-B23-C8.jpg

It looks like a building destroyed by a kaiju from a distance

totally!

That's great but it looks like it's frowning on the simplicity of the building it's been perched on.

I don't think this fountain is gigantic but I need someone else to see it

https://i.imgur.com/TmV6xVV.jpg

Where is that?

i have no idea! i found it on the LiveJournal random images page

(since LJ, probably Russia)

It's on the roof of the Ilana Goor Museum in Tel Aviv.

https://www.ilanagoormuseum.org/collections/%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%96%d7%a8%d7%a7%d7%94-%d7%95%d7%a8%d7%93-%d7%90%d7%94%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%91%d7%99%d7%a5/

ah thanks!

Some where between terrifying and hilarious

If you are looking for statues of famous Italian Americans to replace Columbus, consider the 5 meter tall statue of Tony Soprano in Lithuania pic.twitter.com/8xlCFZAM0D

— Jᴀᴄᴋʏ☮︎Bʀᴀᴡɴ (@jckybrwn) June 10, 2020

<3

Thet should put a gigantic Star-Ledger on the opposite platform

needs some ducks in a swimming pool

"The world's largest and longest stone Buddha statue, which was started in AD 713 and completed in exactly 90 years, 'The Big Leshan Buddha'"

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/151070036_1084387825375743_5037553714177404194_o.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=f_sBYSxCfN4AX_kMZOl&_nc_oc=AQl6z3jiJ0M_UkAdi6gDWTKxzATT7GnrWMuuxGu_DdnXcWYs0zo8bagzI_WWj04AcdA&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=36db3112a2c68fdcfdb4ec98ab32c448&oe=6052C31F

would vote for that as the most chill gigantic statue of all time

wow, what a great view. I’ve been there, awesome statue and very cool place, but you don’t get to see it like this.

I don't think of myself as having a fear of heights in general, but aerial views like that creep me out worse than looking up at it would do.

Like this one of the Statue of Liberty:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h_jEm7Qs1RI/WOqdaLmDEmI/AAAAAAACovg/MNM5Tvw4uUAKHSsXtGSmaIZSMPZ_GTHFgCLcB/s1600/Statue-Liberty-head-from-above-1930s.png

looking up at the Leshan Buddha:

https://www.unusualtraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/leshan-giant-buddha.jpg

https://c8.alamy.com/compde/e7wb43/leshan-giant-buddha-der-grossten-stein-buddha-der-welt-sichuan-china-e7wb43.jpg

xxp yeah I can't account for it but that statue of liberty image^ makes my palms sweat

Accidentally posted it in the wrong thread originally, but my son was watching an animated movie recently that had a pivotal scene at that statue:

https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/AbominableBuddha.jpg

My kids just watched that movie last night! It wasn't bad!

i had intense megalophobia when i was young, though it's eased a little, now. i can trace it back to playing on a common green in my hometown as a child. there was a welcome sign there, with translations of 'welcome' in about eight different languages. i'd look up at it as a child and the languages just looked... wrong, or threatening. i feel the dread in my stomach just thinking about it. the first time i went to london and came out of a tube station underneath big ben i pissed myself. i wonder what the psychology is behind this. i also grew up in a town about fifty miles south of the angel of the north, but i've never been. i'm trembling thinking about being anywhere near or under it. i think it's the facelessness of it as much as the scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYC_Z36rHw

videos like this really get me.

If you have a tea phobia...

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/149170431_280564570111805_222251176191392489_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=I9kiShtpEEwAX8Ppffe&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=cfde336c026a1ff7daf43400b16cb527&oe=6058E21E

"Located in a lovely* and friendly* province of Guizhou, this is the No.1 Pot of Tea Culture Park 天下第一壶中国茶文化博览园
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Apparently it is the largest physical teapot in the world. Also, my friend told me that this building has been rated as one of the ugliest buildings in China 🤣"

seems like a remarkable waste of space

My kids just watched that movie last night! It wasn't bad!

Yeah, as far as non-Pixar CGI kids flicks go, it was pretty solid. Didn't help that going into it, I was thinking it was the Zendaya meme kids flick about a Yeti instead.

Well, I'm into it. So there.

xp

my kids got really into the whooping snakes gag from the exotic animal collector, and spent a few days hiding in various places around the house and popping up with a "whoop!" it was pretty cute.

xp

xp you can be into it but there's a lot of wasted space in the construction! i didn't mean that the whole thing was a waste of space, just that it obviously left a lot of dead and unusable area in the building.

not very gigantic but certainly terrifying

https://i.imgur.com/rhBqet7.jpg

hey I went to the Leshan Giant Buddha! there's nothing terrifying about it, dude is very chill. whole area had a chill vibe.

not very gigantic but certainly terrifying

Even a 1cm statue of that guy would be way more gigantic than it ought to be.

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http://photos.on-this.website/wm/IN4PG9bcF_v4xMFm8L7_zbk_maE%3D/wbr/1607888669/15678_12462729855e4afbbb41385.jpg

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aw I like those