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Friday, 29th July 2005 by James Turnbull
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
James Turnbull programs websites, including this one, and maintains a link blog of things on the internet that are interesting.
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There’s some really bad map ghosting in the area below the Lego guy. This is by far the worst map alligment ever.
Does anybody know a 3D website for map seeing?
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.
Neat do they just buld new islands to sell real estate?
View Placemark / Google Earth
Developers can make a lot of money selling waterfront homes.
Lego ? This man is known as “Brice de Nice” in France
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%22brice+de+nice%22
Hé it’s Briiiice TOMHTML they nothing will understand!!!! I want to reassure you this is a French private joke… dont try to understand…
Brice de Nice is a french comic
J’fais une boum, ca te dirait de..pas venir !
Hmm…nearby, found this airport. Notice anything odd with the runways? Anybody know what the heck this is for?
View Placemark / Google Earth
gliders? There’s a glider over here:
View Placemark / Google Earth
but it might not even be a damn glider at all
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.
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!) View Placemark / Google Earth
Actually the ghosting there is 0.13 miles off. The ghosting 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).
A similar “dead man” children’s play is in Valencia (Spain) and it is a huge figure of Gulliver.
Gulliver in Valencia / Google Earth
You found Waldo!