Included here on this bloggy thing are photos of the build, some shots of people that have discovered it and stuff they've left behind.

Hahahahahahahah! Just Kidding! (maybe) It has lights and sounds like in the film tho. If not, it reaches in and grabs them and takes them away. It walks around the neighborhood, peering into windows and checking to see if children are asleep. In the film, only 'robot' and some fans refer to it as 'The Guardian' but we call it 'The Gardener' The pedestal is 3500 lbs of steel reinforced concrete and was a bugger to pour by hand. Toland says he refers to his robot as The Gardener rather than its Castle In The Sky name, The Guardian, and that, despite it coming equipped with lights and sounds like in the film. It's a fiberglass and styrene shell on a steel and foam frame. It's a kind of sad and melancholy character.

It's all alone except for a few animals that inhabit the garden. It's a character from the Hayao Miyazaki film 'Castle in the Sky.' In the story, this robot is the last of it's kind, left to tend the gardens of a long dead civilization. Here are answers to the most FAQ.ĭarrell Toland. Castle in the Sky Directed by Hayao Miyazaki A Star Wars-like animated feature about a legendary city behind the clouds and the many secrets it holds about nature, robots, light, and magic. Hi! If you just stumbled across this or perhaps found the sculpture in person and scanned the QR code then you must have questions.

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