dreamling | Amazing! Giant Marionette and Animatronic Elephant!

I can't get over how cool this whole thing is:
"Residents of Nantes, France woke to a space capsule crashed into a smoking pile of rubble in the central square of the city. Later that day, a giant animatronic elephant and entourage of the Sultan paraded into town to visit the mayor." From IDFuel via Gizmodo

You have to click this link, and check out every page of these pictures:

http://www.nantes.fr/ext/royal_de_luxe_2005/

more picture here, with english comments http://www.lean.to/gallery/royaldeluxe?page=1

and some on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/royaldeluxe/
Jwz also covered this: http://jwz.livejournal.com/488113.html there are some interesting comments attached.

Beautiful and amazing!