Lego giant washed ashore
A giant Lego man was fished out of the sea at the Dutch town of Zandvoort yesterday. Workers at a drinks stall spotted something in the water and were surprised to find a life-sized Lego toy.
The Lego man seems to belong to an artist or a group of artists from the city of Utrecht going by the name of Du Fois. The website Ego Leonard, owned by Du Fois, has a bunch of pictures from the Lego man at last month’s Dance Valley festival. However, when contacted by Dutch tv network RTL4, Du Fois denied knowing anything about the giant toy. Thus, it remains somewhat of a mystery where it came from and how it ended up in the North Sea.
[Update (August 8th, 2007): The drinks stall keepers yesterday intended to keep Mr. Lego and they left him standing outside their stall when they closed for the night. When they got back, the Lego man had vanished without a trace.]
[Update 2 (August 8th, 2007): Yay! There's two videos available on YouTube:
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August 8th, 2007 at 16:26
You made a typo: arists (“or a group of arists”). The first pictures looks kinda fack though. :-)
August 8th, 2007 at 16:34
Talking about typos, did you mean ‘fake’? And what’s fake about the first pic? It’s just a matter of perspective.
August 8th, 2007 at 17:53
OMG, and I read my post twice. Fake as in, the puppet isn’t that big obviously in that picture.
August 8th, 2007 at 20:11
Why not? Mr. Lego is just closer to the camera than the woman. His stance and positioning are the same as in the second pic, and the sand around his feet is piled up in almost the same way. Looks real enough to me.