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Zombie Garden Sculpture Keeps Those Damn Kids Off Your Lawn, Might Eat Their Brains
Posted by Jack Loftus at 8:00 AM on July 14, 2008
Design Toscano wants you to "expect the extraordinary from your home and garden," and that includes the walking dead. Take this 5.9kg resin undead garden zombie, for example. Designed by British artist Alan Dickinson, it's a life-sized resin sculpture that would be a terrifying addition to any lawn, garden or personal graveyard.
For about US$90, Toscano will ship this guy to you in three macabre pieces. When assembled, they'll cover a 80 x 49.5 x 20cm stretch of earth. That is, until the day he and his buddies claw their way completely to the surface, eat our brains, and take over the planet. Then they'll be everywhere, doing their zombie gardening with a silent stoicism, and you'll be the garden gnome. [Design Toscano via Boing Boing Gadgets]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
LIAM MANCHESTER
Posted July 14, 2008 12:41 PM
My name is Liam Manchester and I am the senior sculptor at DesignToscano.com. If you liked our Zombie maybe some of you may like our Yeti/Bigfoot. He's a bestseller of ours! Heres a link
http://www.designtoscano.com/product/code/DB383049.do
Cheers, Liam
FACEMACHINE
Posted 8:37 AM 14/7/08
@Metkis:
Well, maybe he's a fresh zombie... he's just getting out of the ground. Give him a chance to go eat some delicious, teeth rotting brains.
FACEMACHINE
aaj111
Posted 8:32 AM 14/7/08
Where's the rotting flesh and teeth? ...Come on...
aaj111
chonnes
Posted 8:27 AM 14/7/08
@Mark 2000: @vietiscool: So a guy climbing outta the ground isn't scary enough??!! You guys scare me.
chonnes
Lestat
Posted 8:17 AM 14/7/08
I'd so get one if I had a house with a garden!
Lestat
Metkis
Posted 8:14 AM 14/7/08
Zombies have the cleanest and nicest teeth
Metkis
sonburn
Posted 8:10 AM 14/7/08
For some reason this freaks me out less than those little garden gnomes!
sonburn
vietiscool
Posted 8:08 AM 14/7/08
haha yea it would look cooler if it was scarier
vietiscool
Mark 2000
Posted 8:05 AM 14/7/08
Should look more zombie like. Just looks like a scared guy climbing out of a hole who needs some sun.
Mark 2000
johnnyabnormal
Posted 9:10 AM 14/7/08
I'd only get this if it had a IR sensor that would trigger it to flail around and scare the crap out of people passing by...and little yip-yap dogs. Yes, I hate Chihuahuas. I am pro immigration, but I want to deport those little bug-eyed, ankle nipping bastards.
johnnyabnormal
Metkis
Posted 9:02 AM 14/7/08
@FACEMACHINE: He was probably a dentist.
Metkis
ttech10
Posted 9:02 AM 14/7/08
@Lestat: Who care's if there's a garden or not... just put it out in your yard anyways.
ttech10
frigg
Posted 8:51 AM 14/7/08
This looks cool, although I'd be concerned that having a fake zombie in your garden might lull you into inaction should a real zombie appear in it.
frigg
Neone
Posted 9:28 AM 14/7/08
actually looks like someone sank in a haystack. it could also suggest some hidden pot-holes in the garden...
Neone
Curves
Posted 9:22 AM 14/7/08
I am a gardener, and I have to say I love this. I am pretty sure it would shake up the ladies at the garden club though. (Way better than any gnome.)
Curves
atomx
Posted 10:02 AM 14/7/08
I'd like to get one and put it in my toilet. I'm sure my wife won't mind as long as the seats down...
atomx
kenbrbkr
Posted 9:55 AM 14/7/08
If he's coming up out of the ground, why is his shirt puffed up above his shoulders ? Looks more like he's sinking into the ground and his shirt is being pushed up. So it's actually a Zombie trap for your garden.
kenbrbkr
Stem_Sell
Posted 10:34 AM 14/7/08
Well, honey-- the 'good news' is we *don't* have gophers...
Stem_Sell
OneLetter
Posted 10:37 AM 14/7/08
I'd buy this, but I know one of my neighbors would steal it.
*sigh*
OneLetter
iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!
Posted 11:17 AM 14/7/08
I don't need to buy some piece of shit zombie who doesn't look like a zombie. I have an ex-boyfriend with his name on my hit list...I'll use that!
iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!
AndyMac
Posted 11:56 AM 14/7/08
This has been in their catalog for years.
AndyMac
Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy
Posted 11:53 AM 14/7/08
I'd get this along with the aliens w/ the crashed ship. My garden will be just weird. [gizmodo.com]
Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy
longshot
Posted 12:53 PM 14/7/08
My douchebag friend of a friend gets this magazine! This magazine has the most fucked up shit ever. There is a T-Rex wall mounted head. Like as if it were a deer, but its a T-Rex. Ridiculous
longshot
Torley
Posted 12:46 PM 14/7/08
This would look scarier at night, and even moreso if it was moving.
Torley
GiltProto
Posted 1:35 PM 14/7/08
I would catch the eye of the state troopers if this dude would be coming out of my trunk.
GiltProto
Blitzkid196
Posted 1:29 PM 14/7/08
this guy didn't look nearly undead enough.
kinda just looks like a dude who got stuck in quick-mulch.
Blitzkid196
Griffehpoo
Posted 3:42 PM 14/7/08
Disclaimer:
Actual results may vary. Not guaranteed against acts of Bruce Campbell (AoBC).
Griffehpoo
zed0
Posted 4:19 PM 14/7/08
these come in three pieces so I'd have a random arm in the middle of the yard, or perhaps by the sidewalk... hehe
zed0
Purple Dave
Posted 7:14 PM 14/7/08
@Curves:
I'm just trying to imagine how my condo board would react...
Purple Dave
Shai
Posted 9:37 PM 14/7/08
I think that if the zombie was in some stage of putrefaction, it would just look corny. This is actually a respectable zombie, one who may just go to a black tie event once he crawls free... TO EAT BRAINS!
Shai
Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy
Posted 10:11 PM 14/7/08
@longshot: I do like the Raptor skeleton garden decoration.
I can finally re-enact that scene from JP with Dr. Grant and that annoying kid.[www.designtoscano.com]
Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy
strider_mt2k
Posted 10:17 PM 14/7/08
Those are cool, but we recently go this little set for our garden, which is my favorite by far:
[www.poptherapy.com]
strider_mt2k
Inygo
Posted 12:41 PM 14/7/08
@AndyMac: and was on dvorak's page just a couple days ago...so its not even just old, its old and copied.
Inygo
Lestat
Posted 12:09 AM 15/7/08
@ttech10: To make things better, I'm debating buying one for my cubicle at work. Then I can totally scare more people than I do now with my desk full of skulls :)
Lestat
DONAR
Posted 12:25 AM 15/7/08
Meh. The zombie purist in me couldn't have this in my garden because they don't rise from the grave, they rise from hospitals, bedrooms and anywhere else a zombie-bitten victim has curled up and died.
Throw some vampire fangs on there and we might have something.
DONAR
The Sword Master
Posted 12:13 AM 15/7/08
And I just watched Fido. Where's Zomcon?
The Sword Master
B1663R
Posted 1:28 AM 15/7/08
i'm pretty sure the zombie will loo better if its allowed to weather for a month or so. with teh odd bug in his mouth and the like...
@strider_mt2k: oh hey, i would have looked at your link but it popped back NSFW.
B1663R
LiC
Posted 1:28 AM 15/7/08
@kenbrbkr: Duuuude, this would look great in a sandtrap with a golf club in its hand.
LiC
Lestat
Posted 1:48 AM 15/7/08
@LiC: Oh, I didn't think of that. But... then you have to deal with a whole bunch of heartattacking old people.
Lestat
OneUberNoob
Posted 12:05 PM 14/7/08
So uh... Guys.
Does anyone know how far down the mouth goes, eh?
OneUberNoob
ANoel
Posted 3:37 AM 15/7/08
My art snob =^..^= would simply urinate on it*
*since it's already in the litter.
ANoel
FiveLiters
Posted 2:25 PM 15/7/08
@aaj111: That would be the Amy Winehouse model...it hasn't come out yet. Stay tuned!
FiveLiters