Originally published at: There's a giant lobster in Australia, because of course there is | Boing Boing
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[Australian accent] That’s not a lobster. This is a lobster!
(But seriously, that can’t be a lobster, no giant foreclaws)
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world’s largest lobster sculpture, you say?
Betsy would like a word!
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You are correct. It is actually to commemorate the…well…not indigenous obviously…but the previous colonizers of Australia, I guess - The Mi-Go
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Not all species of lobsters have giant foreclaws like the ones in Maine. The ones we have out here in California don’t have giant claws either.
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Oh, that shit’s all over Australia. Here he is with his mates the big banana (just look at it), the big merino, and the big pineapple.
Special shoutout to Kalgoorlie’s effort, the world tallest bin.
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Wikipedia has a helpful page of ‘Australia’s big things’:
It could be the making of one hell of a road trip.
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Okay, so name the date!!
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Lobbo!
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nah…
Zoidberg is spineless.
Betsy, now Betsy’s all spine.
and she’s fucking BIGGER than the one in the OP. sorry Australia, not the largest spiny.
@teknocholer that is truly a badass pike in the first pic.
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'Straya, fuck yeah!
(Obligs)
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That page suggests that there was a kind of reverse-Spinal Tap situation with the Big Lobster:
The size is said to have been an error: the original plans were drawn in feet, but the designer misinterpreted them to be metres.
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