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example22 ([personal profile] example22) wrote2006-05-05 07:53 pm

Bread and Circuses

...or "Quick! Take their minds off the election!"

An animatronic 40-foot wooden elephant has arrived in Westminster. It will be stamping around the area for the next couple of days. It's really quite impressive.

It walks: , it trumpets: , it squirts water: , and it is piloted by a small army of Frenchmen: [EDIT: It arrived with a "little" girl: in a wooden rocket: . And there's some sort of time-travel plot as well. But I was too busy taking pictures of the elephant to pay much attention to the rest...]

Click for bigger pictures, and there's a schedule here.

[identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com 2006-05-05 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
There are also Edinburgh fans involved with it - [livejournal.com profile] akicif for one!