Royal de Luxe’s enormous elephant greets its equally large “little” girl as she rides atop a double-decker bus in London (photo credit: Esther Simpson).
The Sultan’s Elephant is puppetry on an unbelievably massive scale. A huge spectacle staged by Royal de Luxe (see previous post) that played out over four days last week in central London, telling the story of a sultan from far-off lands and his magical, time-travelling mechanical elephant. The Elephant looks absolutely incredible, was about forty feet high, weighed 42 tonnes and had to be seen to be believed.
There’s some great video footage of this on YouTube and a fantastic Flickr photo pool of pictures is available as well.
Special thanks to everyone who sent in links and info about this!
