Heute Morgen im Radio ein Ire, der seit einem Jahrzehnt am Bau arbeitet die größte Riesenstatue der Welt mit LED-Bildschirmen bedeckt (wie die Sphere in Vegas) und alles kann darauf projiziert werden, z. B. ein berühmter Sportler, eine Flagge usw. für Veranstaltungen. Der Mann dahinter ist der Besitzer des Dublin Wax Museum.
Er sagt, dass Dublin das erste Land sein wird, gefolgt von Las Vegas.
Ich hasse es, zynisch zu sein, aber meine Vermutung ist, dass die enormen Kosten leider dazu führen werden, dass es wie der Spire endet … halb fertig, halb so groß, wie es ursprünglich sein sollte, und nicht so toll. Ich würde mich aber gerne irren.
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Von DanGleeballs
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Don’t really see the attraction of it myself, but assuming he’s not looking for public money to build it, I suppose he can do as he likes.
Might be too big in scale for Dublin. More of a Vegas thing, I reckon. Also, would be about 10 years in planning.
Why is his posture so bad? Like a pint man sticking his chest out about to throw slaps.
He can park it by the Dublin whitewater rafting centre, under the Liffey cable car.
If it’s like the Spire, it’ll be built to be iconic but ends up very underwhelming.
As opposed to, say, the Poolbeg chimneys which became iconic completely unintentionally.
When you try and force these things, it doesn’t work apart from being a handy meeting spot or something for tourists to be disappointed by.
well if it’s the guy behind the Dublin Wax Museum, one of the worst tourist attractions I’ve ever visited anywhere, I’m certainly convinced this massively ambitious plan is a runner!
People can come visit it on the high-speed loop train going under under the Irish Sea that was getting clicks earlier in the week.
Planning meeting
It’s as gaudy and pointless as the sphere.
I might be in a minority here but I don’t see why not! It could be cool
It’s sounds awful stupid and tacky. And to be honest the Dublin wax museum is comically bad
I walk past the Wax Museum all the time so can’t help but wonder what the people that made that wax figure of Father Ted would do to a project like this.
Like something you’d buy in the range.
It’s terrible. All I see is a horrible glass staircase
What’s wrong with the spire? I quite like it.
The beautiful simplicity of the Angel of the North knocks this bland tat out of the water. This belongs in the Harvey Norman homewares department as an overpriced generic lamp stand.
Sounds like the kind of thing a 10-year-old would come up with.
couldve been a gundam
I am in favour of public art for the sake of having art, and obviously taste is subjective, but this just seems like it would be gaudy as fuck.
I see one of the examples given on the linked website is smaller indoor versions for shopping centres etc. That seems perfect to me, stick it in a shopping centre with the escalators going either side, it can be lit up as Santa at Christmas time, and a fancy light show the rest of the year.
But as to having it in the middle of a city? No thank you.
I support it only if it is a giant Mr Tayto instead
The Langer in the Skangers
lol
A very Spanish matador camp vibe
>Dublin Wax Museum
I think we can safely discard his ideas so. When your business is one that people only go to because they cringe at how bad it is, what possible merit do you can think you can bring to an even larger project?
The best attractions in this country are the likes of the Titanic Museum and the Guinness Storehouse. If those lads are behind something – I’ll sit up and pay attention.
I’m all for ambitious art projects for the city. If they’re for the sake of art. THIS is an oddly shaped billboard and will be used primarily to advertise. Nah
Have we seriously not learned from bike sheds and printers that we should put our tax money into helping the people and not useless shyte?
We should worry about the giant homelessness crisis first
Paddy is an absolute madman 🤣
Brings new meaning to ‚Have you seen yer man.‘
omg cringe as hell
City planners would reject it for being more than a few storeys tall
How much energy will this gaudy pile of shit use? Why do we need the world’s largest stupidly shaped TV on 24/7?
Wow! This is next level stupid.
Tacky. Yuk. Just make a giant billboard, easier to look at.
Sounds awful
A massive building for advertising… yeh hard pass.
Anything can be projected on it, such as a famous athlete. Cool. Lemme see it morph into Katie Taylor or Sonia O’Sullivan.
He’s likely to spend his father in law’s money, or what is left of it.
He also bought the pope mobile, wanted to create a giant here in the Midlands.
O9ohhhhhh can they put a slide inside him so we can go down
Holy shit, I worked on the prototype head of this years ago
There are so many engineering issues with this idea.
For one how do you do hair?
Secondly wrapping a 3D scan of someone with a different body shape will look mental. Like stretching or shrinking someone’s skin onto a different body.
Thirdly, how can you possibly maintenance it when say the LED’s in the arms stop working? Do you get a cherry picker? Someone has to climb down from the head?
Feel like a bunch of companies who are involved with the project are just happy to take this man’s money knowing it’ll never happen.