Yokohama Giant Spider

Was in the Yokohama area picking your table but didn't know about this event - if I did then I could have stopped by as it was held at Akaranga which was in the same area.
Hector also took some great photos too. Would be interesting to see this in the middle of Tokyo - Ginza maybe?

Original text from gordon below.

You have seen the giant mecha beetle now check out his good friend from across the ocean.

Meet La Princess, a 15m mechanical spider by French production company La Machine. Constructed in Liverpool, England, the giant mecha spider was in Yokohama yesterday April 19 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Port of Yokohama.

More pics at flickr by cabcab.

Princess in action. (Video is by the same person, cabcab, who took the pictures above and at flickr)