Last week when I shared the Bigfoot, Aliens & Other Beasties link on HJ’s Facebook page, I mentioned it’d be the first of about three Friday Fun posts featuring some of Design Toscano’s coolest sculptures. (Which may now grow into four posts. I keep finding other sculpture genres to feature.)
Anyway, for today’s Design Toscano Friday Fun installment I thought I’d do something in honor of Memorial Day Weekend. You know, since it’s the traditional kick off to summer and all. Grills, cookouts, and the opening of swimming pools. Rock on!
But beware before you dive in those pools. You might want to double check to make sure none of these freaky pool statues pictured below are lurking about.
Oh man, I (a) wish I had a backyard pool again like we did at our Phoenix house, and (b) had money enough to buy any of these statues. I’d for sure have cameras rolling the first time people came to visit. I’d love to capture their reactions upon seeing some of these. Especially if they were positioned like they are in some of the ad copy shots. Hysterical!
10. Castle by the Sea Sculpture
Okay, so this one isn’t freaky at all, but it’s cool so it falls into the freaking awesome category. And since I suck at building sand castles, I’d dig having this one to showcase.
9. The Grand-Scale Wildlife Animal Collection: The Walking Crocodile Statue
Forget the people’s reactions, I know some dogs in our neighborhood who would bark up a storm at this intruder the first time they spotted it on our lawn.
7. The Gargantuan Garden Gator Statue
Love it! The hat and binoculars are not included, but I love the idea. Maybe I’d put gardening gloves and a gardening hat in its mouth and put it by my veggie garden. Or better yet, have rabbit parts dangling out of the mouth to serve as a warning to any bunnies who had any bright ideas about feasting on my plants!
6. Snapping Swamp Gator Statue
Yep, he needs to be on the edge of the pool just like that. My pool’s version of a cabana boy!
5. Gator on the Prowl: Spitting Bronze Alligator Garden Statue
This is what I picture when I see this statue: someone swimming laps and, when they’re swimming back and not paying attention, moving this to the edge of the pool to greet them when they take a break. Guess I better be ready to do a rescue though. Wouldn’t want anyone to drown!
4. Crocodile Skull Sculptural Artifact
This is another one I think is freaking awesome. Dem bones, dem bones, dem crocodilian bones!
3. Giant Burmese Python Snake Statue
My husband probably wouldn’t appreciate me putting this in the grass and having to mow around it. It would make him super uncomfortable because he hates snakes. (But that just makes me want to put it out there without telling him its there and see what happens when he does go to mow!)
2. The Great White Shark Sculpture
He looks sort of silly coming out of the grass. I’d put him more like that snapping swamp gator above and perch him on the edge of my pool. Or maybe stick him through a raft and let him float in the pool.
1. Revenge of the Great White Shark Sculpture
Hands down this is my absolute favorite of them all. It’s a true “trophy” (as Design Toscano’s website copy describes it). It’s over eight feet long! I’d so display it just as they’ve done. Coming out of the pool, but maybe with some shredded shorts hanging from its mouth instead.
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
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Do you have to own a pool to get these statues? I really like the python. Can I just throw him by the swing set?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! NO! Don’t put it by your pool if it will keep people away!!! Visitors are good. (Well…unless they’re not. Then these might come in handy. 😉 I love the #7 gator pic too. I think it’s so clever! THX for taking the time to look and comment. 😉
Nope, no pool required. Swing sets would work too! You surprised me with the python pick, though. COOL!!!!!!
OMG!!!! You and I think the same!!!!!! If they growled, snapped, moved somehow…that’d just be more awesome! For same reason. I’d want to freak people out!!!!! he he…we could be a dangerous pair put together. 😉
LOL! Your hubby and I have something in common, I would probably have heart failure if I came upon that snake in my lawn too, and once I knew it was fake, I’d hate having to move it to mow too. I love the couple of the life-like looking crocs…might have to get me one of those to put near my pool area! & the #7 gator pic is too funny! #1 would definitely be a cool addition to my pool as well.
But then….none of my friends would ever come over to go swimming in my pool again…maybe I shouldn’t put any of these there, I don’t get many visitors as it is. 😉
HHHMMMmmm… do I detect a bit of a common theme there? Just LOVING those crox – although you’d have to be careful in some places downunder here in OZ because they SO look like the real thing!!
Have a great weekend!
I like that 10th and 1st statue very much. I feel that, these are the best statues. Really these are awesome and innovative.
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed them.
LOL. Yes, I liked the crocs. I may not like the real ones though, so when I do visit Down Under I better make sure to steer clear of them! They would see me and start drooling!!!!