ANN reports of a 2.1-Meter statue of Totoro made out of 10,000 pine cones was spotted in Aeon Ayagawa Shopping Center is located the town of Ayagawa in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kagawa.
The statue was unveiled on November 29 as part of a promotional event for the timber industry of Kagawa and the neighboring prefecture of Tokushima.
The statue had measured 3.6 meters (12 feet) around the waist and weighs 100 kilograms (220 pounds). It took 10 shopping center employees and volunteers two months to assemble the pine cones around the wire-and-bamboo frame.
Source: Yomiuri Shimbun via ANN
It looks really cool, I wonder what they did with all those pine cones later on. Burn them? LOL
that is cool and creepy at the same time
nice new layout dude!
i like totoro, i wanna meet a real one and set him on some innocent people in a wildlife park and WATCH THE CARNAGE!!!
can i hug it?
wait…wheres the new layout gone?
@ Otaku Dan: LOL why is it creepy?
@ Dee: Shsss … it will only be launched next week.
@ moon reader: I think its too pricky with all those pine cones.