My god, why would anyone make such a horrible contraption??

I absolutely cannot stand spiders. If I saw this thing walking down my street, I would probably try to kill it with fire in a fear-blinded rage.

Heh, just thought of something:

Giant robotic walking spider = meh

Giant robotic walking spider on fire = AWESOME!

Theres no reason for people too be funny, you say your "losing iq points" by watching it and you want that time back, well then why post a reply that's losing even more time, look, i guess people had too be there, it does move around and it is pretty fascinating, sorry if it's not a thread about something stupid but "intelligent" that isn't even true!

Very impressive, but...why a bloody spider? It's not like they are lovable, cuddly housepets! What a bizarre choice, as most despise spiders and require someone with a backbone to remove them. Incidentally, I am lacking a spine in this case.

I had this whole La Princesse (name of the giant spider) thing completely wrong. Just been watching the highlights of its walk around Liverpool city centre and its visit down by the River Mersey and it was awesome. More people turned out to witness the spiders walk than turned out to watch Ringo Starr! Well, it is more interesting after all. From what I've heard its now off to Japan! You would have thought they had enough to deal with with Mothra and Godzilla trashing Tokyo?

I thought it was great. Its fun the kids all loved it and and it was unusual i hate the way weve all become so cynical about anything and everything. Taxpayers money blah blah blah it takes all the joy out of life we are quickly going to stagnate as a species if we didnt dare to explore the imagination. The spider had a whole backstory with scientists abseiling down buildings and jumping on to its back pretending to study it, it was class. We dont create magic enough, soon even children will be cynical and bored with it all.

It was awesome. I saw it come to life on Friday night.

The creature isn't just a mechanical spider, it was part of a story. The spider came out of a building having being disturbed by the demolition work. It clung to the side of the building and was then "taken away" by scientists to be examined. It was brought to life by a great live orchestra a top cherry pickers, and then it walked around the city centre across the weekend as the scientists guided it with the music. On Sunday it disappeared into the Mersey Tunnel....

The cost was an investment, La Machine and Artichoke brought millions of pounds to the city over the weekend, a 3 to 4 hundred percent return on the initial cost.

You should check out their other creations too, the Sultan's Elephant was incredible.

Not a waste of money in the slightest, an excellent idea with superb results.

Thanks for your reply sendran, i knew when i started this post there would be atleast a few people that saw the spiders beauty, people say "oh with all the credit crunch we should be investing in new jobs" etc... whatever haha, how about we put some money aside witch we clearly do have and just make something we can look at and just go "wow" thanks for all the replies seriously it means alot x