admittedly it does look very impressive but what the video doesn’t make

totally clear is that the spider is mounted on a motorised trolley and not suspended

from a crane. essentially they’ve made a giant animated hood ornament.

when I first heard about it i was really excited, after seeing the giant wooden

self propelled elephant the company previously made, but an animated hood ornament?

no thanks i’ll pass ;)

Posted at 11:39 am on Sep 7th, 2008 by roy

take a closer look at that elephant, it’s pulled along with

wheels and not it’s legs.

Having seen the spider with my own eyes yesterday, you’ve

missed the point, check out the Spider Saturday video here..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool08/

It’s meant to be walking round the city and it did look like

it was. But there’s no way the spider could have walked on

it’s own legs through the city, the public safety aspect

alone would have killed the project. It weighs 38 tonnes.

Posted at 1:43 pm on Sep 7th, 2008 by BruceR

I love how they made a screenshot of the player; I was wondering what the hell was wrong with my computer. Aside from that, I’m not sure I would want to see that thing up-close; somebody almost gets stepped on at 0:39!

And it’s not a hood ornament, it’s a parade float.

Posted at 2:22 pm on Sep 7th, 2008 by PocketBrain

Yeah…Damn you Hack A Day with your screenshots!

Anyway, it really is impressive when you see it ‘in the flesh’. A piece of art I can agree with!

Posted at 4:59 pm on Sep 13th, 2008 by zero