Statues of fictional characters (a photo thread)

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Godzilla in the Ginza district of Tokyo

http://www.muschamp.ca/Japan/Tokyo/Tokyo-Images/2.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ramona in the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden in Portland

http://www.multcolib.org/kids/art/clrq1.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Peanuts statues in St. Paul, MN

http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/News/2003/09/24/u092401A.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ignatius statue in New Orleans

http://www.docsnews.com/ignatiusstatueflip.gif

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.acadiamagic.com/bangor-lodging/images/Paul-Bunyan-1.jpg

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Winnie The Pooh statue at the London Zoo

http://www.pooh-corner.com/images/LondonStatue.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Alice in Wonderland statue, Central Park

http://www.vacationidea.com/pix/img25Hy8R/new_york_city/alice_wonderland_01.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Mother Goose, Central Park

http://www.vacationidea.com/pix/img25Hy8R/new_york_city/mother_goose_04.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Pan in Hyde Park, London

http://www.buyimage.co.uk/photonet/engslides/images/461.jpg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Juliet, Verona
http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd0803/verona-juliet-statue-66.4.jpg
(warning: huge image)

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

tin man in oz park, chicago

http://m37.cz/world/html-chicago/pictures-html-chicago/tin_man.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/cherylmike1/statue.jpg

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen
http://www.nd.edu/~ndband/photos/scandinavia/103%20-%20Day%208%20-%20Copenhagen%20-%20Little%20Mermaid%20statue.JPG

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Lady Macbeth
Stratford-upon-Avon

http://www4.cord.edu/english/duncan/TravelSeminars/MaySemPics/38.jpg

Hamlet
Stratford-upon-Avon

http://www4.cord.edu/english/duncan/TravelSeminars/MaySemPics/37.jpg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

don quixote and sancho paza, plaza de espana, madrid:

http://www.wineandfoodassociates.com/quixote.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Romeo and Juliet, Central Park, NYC
http://www.centralpark2000.com/assets/database/romeo.jpg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that the keyboardist from the Cars beside the Tin Man?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

no some random chick from google. i bet she's canadian.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

el oso y el madrono, madrid:

http://www.mikefairclough.com/files/imagelab/Madrid/Bear%20And%20Tree%20-%20The%20Symbol%20Of%20Madrid.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Those Peanuts sculptures look awful!

The scultpture of Mary Richards throwing her hat up in the air in Minneapolis hasn't actually been made yet, has it?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, yes it has:

ihttp://www.eriehl.com/digitalphotos/2002-05-14_Mary_Tyler_Moore_Statue/P5142964.jpg

(or http://www.eriehl.com/digitalphotos/2002-05-14_Mary_Tyler_Moore_Statue/ )

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

what's wrong with the peanuts statues? they look like the comics, except 3d.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

They look huge and scary! And the proportion looks all wrong. The problem with Peanuts statues is that, as Schulz pointed out on a few occasions, the characters aren't 3D, they only exist in a few different angles, and they don't "work" in other perspectives.

I don't know, I'm only going by that one picture, which looks like overgrown, bloated and puffy version of the characters, like the dinosaurs that you put in water to make them grow to many times their size, but allowed to grow for far too long.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

they look fine to me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.att.net/~thadley/peanutmagic96.jpg vs. http://www.universohq.com/quadrinhos/2003/imagens/peanuts2.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

d'oh http://www.universohq.com/quadrinhos/2003/imagens/peanuts2.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Those also look terrible, gack.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i like 'em.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.the-beatrips.com/gallery/liver2/21eanor.jpg
Eleanor Rigby in Liverpool.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://village.glaine.net/school/woking/geo/martian.jpg
Martian in Woking

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rob-clarkson.com/duff-brewery/jebediahspringfield/01.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0128/csmimg/p17a.jpg

Paddington Bear at Paddington Station, Paddington, London.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Lobby Dosser Glasgow

ihttp://www.glasgowwestend.co.uk/ gallery/Nov99.html

― Morganj, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I never saw Paddington at Paddington station! The tears.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.littleleague.org/media/images/caseystatue.jpg
Casey at the Bat, PA

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1240000/images/_1243954_riojesus150.jpg

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/28/gleason.statue.ap/gleason.statue.ap.jpg

Ralph Kramden

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.redpac.com/photo/pics/newhartstatue.jpg

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.msualum.com/alumni_travel/photo-gallery/danube-03/bratislava-manhole-man.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.missouri.edu/~muweb/images/didyouknow/didyouknow_beetle.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ctegan/Boston/939a8b8c.jpg

Make way for ducklings!

― Augustine (Augustine Bearse), Thursday, 27 January 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

How are ducks fictional characters?

Anyway, I present the purse, from the "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear": Melbourne.

http://www.toxiccustard.com/melbourne/purse.jpg

Do the Ronald McDonalds that sit on chairs at various Maccas count?

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 27 January 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.fogless.net/artreview/030909_wc_dh/charity.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Charity" by Damien Hirst --^

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Which burned to bits in the great London art fire I believe.

http://www.wrybread.com/gammablablog/images/2-04/2-22/peace-fountain.jpg

"Peace Fountain" at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 January 2005 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The Boston ducks are from a children's story.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 27 January 2005 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Desperate Dan and Minnie the Minx, Dundee:

ihttp://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/images/P5066.JPG

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I am tres annoyed at Robster for pinching my martian! Here are the Bremer Stadtmusikanten.
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/seniorenkolleg/v4/fotos/stadtmusikanten-kl.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracer I've been staring at that statue every day for a year and a half and I still don't think I've wrapped my head around what's going on. Every time I see it there's something new: hey look, down in the corner there's a ... a beetle head? Eating a flame? What the hell?

Newcomers will get their first noticing-shock from the crab-claw clutching the severed head (bottom right).

― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.scotlandtourguide.co.uk/Tourguide/images/Wallace%20monument%20-%20Freedom%20statue.jpg

I know Wallace isn't fictional but the statue is rather obviously based on the Hollywood version.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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