La Princesse: Giant Mechanical Spider Spreads Fear in Liverpool

Saturday, September 6th, 2008 |

Tags: acromantula, François Delarozière, La Princesse, Liverpool, mechanical spider, spider, tourism

Move over Spiderman. The real spiders are here to take over the world, well, at least Liverpool. A 50 foot mechanical spider has been erected on the walls of a building about to be demolished. The spider is set to wake up from its hibernation on Sunday, crawl down the walls of the building and terrorise the people of Liverpool, creating havoc around its streets. And all this in the name of tourism. Somehow, I think someone made a typo while releasing a press report. The idea of a giant spider roaming around the streets seems more to evoke terror-ism than tourism!

The spider, named La Princesse, cost £1.5 million, weights 37 tons is made with 50 hydraulic axes of movement. It even includes a few seats on its back because, really, a lot of people would want to ride this monster. François Delarozière, the creator of La Princesse, has been keeping pretty quiet about the appearance of his monster lab creation, and most of the public were unaware that a giant spider would be set loose amongst them until it made its appearance on the walls of the building. No idea yet on what would happen when Delarozière decides to create a mate for his acromantula.

Via: DeputyDog