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Giant Mechanical Riding Spider

zooillogix | October 5, 2007

Credit where credit is due. We got this cordial heads-up from the Mondo Spider team in the comments section of the Tate Gallery Spider post: "Big deal. A spider that sits there and does nothing... We built a 1500Lb mechanical spider that we can drive." That they did. More here as well as on YouTube

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