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Giant Dead Lego Cowboy

Posted by James Turnbull, Friday, 29th July 2005

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Off the Gold Coast in Queensland Australia there looks to be a Giant Dead Lego Cowboy. No need to call the cops though, it’s just an inflatable waterplay feature.

Thanks: Ricardo Russon, Alex & woowoowoo

16 Responses to 'Giant Dead Lego Cowboy'

  1. There’s some really bad map ghosting in the area below the Lego guy. This is by far the worst map alligment ever.

  2. Caguamon says:

    Does anybody know a 3D website for map seeing?

  3. Will says:

    Wow good catch Paul. If you go down south for awhile you can almost whole blocks of land/houses that are duplicated.

    I wonder what it would look like if Hybrid worked in this area, it would be way off.

  4. Peter says:

    Neat do they just buld new islands to sell real estate?

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  5. Aussie says:

    Developers can make a lot of money selling waterfront homes.

  6. AcidBen says:

    Hé it’s Briiiice
    TOMHTML they nothing will understand!!!!
    I want to reassure you this is a French private joke… dont try to understand… ;)

  7. Moulinet says:

    Brice de Nice is a french comic

    J’fais une boum, ca te dirait de..pas venir !

  8. Twombly says:

    Hmm…nearby, found this airport. Notice anything odd with the runways? Anybody know what the heck this is for?

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  9. Aaron says:

    gliders? There’s a glider over here:

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  10. Aaron says:

    but it might not even be a damn glider at all

  11. woowoowoo says:

    Twombly, that is Archerfield Aerodrome in the south western suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. The diagonal runways are simply grass runways. Archerfield is an important training airfield, I imagine learning to land on grass is very important to the farmers etc. who fly around Queensland. The distances are vast and they don’t tend to have many paved airstrips!

    Not a glider, I think – Gliders have wingspans at least twice their length and the wing is set a long way forward on the fuselage… quite a distinctive shape. Gliders are also quite small – I reckon they’d be hard to see – though there may be one on the bitumen among the smaller sheds at the north of the main buildings.

  12. Neil says:

    Gliders cannot operate from Archerfield.. I don’t know what it is, but some weird aircraft do opperate out of there.

    Grass runways are the norm for airstrips in Australia. Most have no tarmac at all!
    Here is Caboolture ( very close to Brisbane’s international airport!)
    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  13. Jim McKeeth says:

    Actually the ghosting there is 0.13 miles off. The ghosting Placemark: here near where I work / Google Earth is 0.27 miles off. This ghosting is twice as far off, and you can use the Hybrid view.

    (Distances measures with Google Earth).

  14. Txapulín says:

    A similar “dead man” children’s play is in Valencia (Spain) and it is a huge figure of Gulliver.

    Placemark: Gulliver in Valencia / Google Earth

  15. Dave says:

    You found Waldo!

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