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General Category => Sales & Auctions => Topic started by: Chris Thomas on April 12, 2009, 11:04:44 pm

Title: Mechanical Pig
Post by: Chris Thomas on April 12, 2009, 11:04:44 pm

Dear Friends

After the Mechanical Elephant we now have a Mechanical Pig

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/UNUSUAL-MECHANICAL-PIG-FREESTANDING-WITH-RUNNING-ENGINE_W0QQitemZ280332860862QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_art_Sculpture_GL?hash=item280332860862&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

Are you interested Stuart?

Chris Thomas

Title: Re: Mechanical Pig
Post by: marcus on April 13, 2009, 11:19:48 am

That's fun, but obviously not as much luggage space as a mechanical elephant, which has a trunk. I'll get me coat.
There are some great machines on You Tube by Theo Janssens, such as beach walking creature, well worth a look, fantastic mechanism

Title: Re: Mechanical Pig
Post by: Stuart Cyphus on April 13, 2009, 12:21:17 pm

 Oh if only this had turned up a couple of months ago, it would have found its way into the Elephant saga. Upholding my reputation for sillyness I was all set to bid on this mechanical pig on the spot when I followed the above link. Alas, on careful studing/reading of the listing, the thing doesn't actully move along under power, it just sits there flapping its ears, head etc. So really its just a sculpture than a viable means of transport (remember who's writing this before you dismiss that last bit as a figure of speech!  ;))

 What else is out there? a mechanical seagull? A mechanical worm? A mechanical Muffin the Mule? A mechanical Marcus de Mowbray?   ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Mechanical Pig
Post by: marcus on April 13, 2009, 12:39:26 pm

Stuart, I think most reasonable people would agree that just one of me is probably far too much already!