vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

bonus non-gigantic Lenin statue

seems like genghis khan is finished terrorizing everyone & is content to survey his homeland for eternity. this is still uncannily huge though

http://i.imgur.com/YgIxXQ8.jpg

― ogmor, Friday, April 25, 2014 6:28 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://assets.hardwaresphere.com/uploads/2009/06/gundam-rx-78-life-sized-statue-night-views-light-up.jpg

there's something about the motherland calls that's spooky, maybe because it's also commemorating a battle where a million people died.

if only they'd finished the palace of soviets (where ganon lives):

http://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/031.jpg

lenin as the lonely groom on a stalinist wedding cake

this thread rules

Put 100+ hours into dark souls, about to pick this up next Wednesday (after I sit for an actuary exam which has been ruining my life the last couple months)

there's something about the motherland calls that's spooky, maybe because it's also commemorating a battle where a million people died.
--christmas candy bar (al leong)

Isn't it also positioned directly on top of the mass grave of those dead? It's an amazing statue and def my vote

the sphinx is pretty special, i like that its whole deal is Riddling, as in, what the fuck is THAT

Put 100+ hours into dark souls, about to pick this up next Wednesday (after I sit for an actuary exam which has been ruining my life the last couple months) _there's something about the motherland calls that's spooky, maybe because it's also commemorating a battle where a million people died.
--christmas candy bar (al leong)_

Isn't it also positioned directly on top of the mass grave of those dead? It's an amazing statue and def my vote
--building a desert (art)

Hey thanks iphone app for saving a post I didn't make days ago and attaching it to the top of this one.

http://www.pilotafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/stevejobs_statue.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/47893196.jpg

love the expression on this sheep's face

would live inside that sheep

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090709062212/wikiality/images/c/c7/MtRushmoreRearView.png

(warning: possibly not real, haven't seen in person)

eddie22.jpg

great thread.

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb252/DarkGothicDoom/The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings/argonath.jpg

Big ups to Minnesota:
http://family-travel.findingfun.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DSC_0008.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/45951952.jpg

weird in a way that so many of these are situated near pylons. seems to add another level of grotesque horror.

that ushiku daibutsu buddha seems especially jarring.

http://alcambronne.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/giant-muskie-national-freshwater-fishing-hall-of-fame-hayward-wisconsin.jpg

nobody posted the horse at the denver airport?
http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/horse500.jpg

that genghis statue is CRAZY and awesome

this thread is A+

ilx monument/statue threads always deliver imo

ok is that denver horse real, because holy shit that is a terrifying nightmare (geddit)

feeling this airavata one

http://www.asiaexplorers.com/pics/erawan-museum_samut-prakan.jpg

so many great things posted that I've missed, some statues have a v intense energy about them & depending on which angle you see them from, it can change. I don't know what the airavata is but it is pretty hectic

http://www.gothic.stir.ac.uk/documents/uploaded/image/Kasia%20pictures/grotesque/Erawan.JPG

the tian tan buddha in hong kong is on top of a hill and can looks like a bit of a loomer

https://jansenism.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dsc020851.jpg

but from above or the cable car that goes by, he's radiating peace

http://hongkong.panduanwisata.com/files/2013/08/Tian-Tan-Buddha-hongkong.jpg

the cristo del otero is the creepiest statue I've seen imo, jesus looking emaciated with haunted eyes

http://fotodenuncias.elnortedecastilla.es/imagenes/DSC00125_1.jpg

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4066/oteroc.jpg

alien jesus! there has to be an episode of ancient aliens covering this

http://texasgaga.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/sam-houston-statue1.jpg

AMERICA!

holy shit @ that jesus

ok is that denver horse real, because holy shit that is a terrifying nightmare

I've never been there but as far as I can tell Denver airport was built to fuck with people who think the illuminati is real. There is a popular conspiracy theory that it's the HQ of the New World Order, largely because of the bizarre architecture and decor.

The giant hand in the Chilean desert is odd

http://cdn.tripwiremagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/image_thumb445.png

idk if anyone itt is into these statues from a religious pov, it seems alien to me but clearly lots of people flock to them. curious how something can be a focus of religious attention as well as a spectacle. found this pic of what is apparently a buddhist temple in a theme park in ho chi minh city, vietnam, seems notable

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/29959831.jpg

http://www.laobserved.com/images/chickenboy.gif

chicken boy stalks the rooftops of LA

The scale of the Spring Temple Buddha is freaking me out:

http://oddstuffmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/spring+temple+buddha.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RiIzSGwtMCY/T4pxgx9vEJI/AAAAAAAACwg/ht6nC-J6DJs/s400/DSC03612.jpg

hanuman is a v charismatic deity, I love how he avoids monkey stereotypes & is always show as noble, devoted & heroic. also love the physiques on hindu statues in general. otoh he is armed & this statue is needlessly huge

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6uH7VsRmNXw/T_Yy6rPZWUI/AAAAAAAABUg/0N3QsYUg7Iw/s1600/paritala3.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oV1MoJWhBYI/T_Yy3733urI/AAAAAAAABUY/qnQ164BbZeI/s1600/paritala2.jpg

hopefully he is presiding over the landscape in his role as a scholar of grammar, my favourite of his attributes

http://sarahandgretchen.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/giant-morales-statue.jpg

Morelos statue, Mexico

http://m6.i.pbase.com/o4/78/599778/1/102563346.K35ccwna.56133235.0000471.jpg

Morelos statue, rear view

the denver horse statue actually KILLED its sculptor (its arm fell on him): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Jim%C3%A9nez_%28sculptor%29

http://lostcoastoutpost.com/media/uploads/post/6553/trees-of-mystery.jpg

xp murderous statues get a bonus point

http://www.incolo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/375015238_fc01f528921.jpg

the three-sided guanyin of the south sea of china is the most excellent seaside statue imo

http://www.chinatourguide.com/china_photos/sanya/attractions/nanshan_temple_buddha.jpg

i like the idea of "the observer of all the cries in the world" - seems less authoritarian than some statues

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7056/6870505353_205869d3b1_z.jpg

ppl race boats around her

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6403/137106206.a9/0_8b971_3d88554c_orig.jpg

and she has a rad light show

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20120516/001aa018f83f111d52015d.jpg

full marks

not sailed a boat round that but i have driven a car around dorking's inexplicable giant metal chicken...

http://www.summagallicana.it/lessico/d/Dorking%20giant.jpg

ooooh i like that one too

redwoods paul bunyan is pretty cool. everyone loves to touch babe's balls. the trees of mystery thing there remains a mystery to me b/c i do not want to spend the money

have to say though i am not very terrified by any statue on flatlands, you need some topography or a huge platform or somehting to bring the real terror

(meant that i liked the 3-sided guanyin)

these poor statues were blown up by the taliban around 2000-2001

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Taller_Buddha_of_Bamiyan_before_and_after_destruction.jpg

fuctional
http://media.trb.com/media/photo/2011-08/273455360-13124806.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/UAdR9qr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0e0DyLl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/yU0Em1a.jpg

Classic old-school ILX thread

Good work everyone