Tomorrow night, the spectacle that is the Lunar New Year Parade will take place in Tsim Sha Tsui, with local and international performers putting on one of the biggest shows of the year. With lion and dragon dances, stilt walkers, cheerleaders, and 10 illuminated floats, it’s like our version of the Macy’s Day Parade (but better, because we have dragons).
This year, at the centre of this magnificent parade, is an enormous, 6.5-foot-tall… Lego rooster.
Video: Reuters/Hong Kong Tourism Board
Obviously, what with the coming 12 months being the Year of the Fire Rooster, it’s pretty timely, but there’s something inherently hilarious about the massive cock chicken. Or maybe we’re just being childish.
The Brobdingnagian bird, which is the centrepiece of a Lego float, took five people over a month to build and comprises 220,000 red, white, yellow and green bricks. Other Lego cstatues on the float include a farmer, a waiter, and a racecar driver. Not exactly the most coherent theme, but we’ll roll with it.
Tina Chao from the Hong Kong Tourism Board told Reuters that the installation was designed to appeal to family members of all ages. “Chinese New Year is about having the family coming together,” she said. Well, we can’t argue with that.
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