Giant Diver

[trux]

From Enormous Royal De Luxe Puppets In France Are RAD. - | Not That Busy.com |:

Royal De Luxe is a French mechanical marionette theatre outfit who are currently in Nantes, France, the native town of Jules Verne, doing their thing for the Estuary 2009 Festival

 

[trux]

Some more photos:

 

[trux]

And yet another few:

 

[hyeparis]

Surreal. Someone must have a wild imagination!

 

[fcallagy]

Brilliant.

 

[ILDiver]

The head looks like Herman Munster. Very impressive work though. Would have been interesting to see in person.

 

[yugyug]

I love it. Wish I could see it in person.

Reminds me a little bit of the amazing Clive Barker story, "In the Hills, the Cities....."

 

[BatRay]

Imaginative, incredible, and a little bit scary. I didn't know such things existed. Interesting thread, trux

 

[Mr. X]

Fabulous! I've seen pictures of a couple of other giant puppets, probably from the same people, one was an elephant, Ah here it is:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ6kym8cALQ&feature=related]YouTube - GIANT ELEPHANT IN ANTWERP (ROYAL DE LUXE)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXr15K2uSc]YouTube - The Little Girl Giant[/ame]

 

[svetliy]

scarry stuff!

 

[Oldsarge]

a video of them.