Wednesday, July 27, 2022

The Giant Festival Dragon



Almost every town has a festival, and its theme is important to drawing tourists. Who wouldn't want to attend a dragon-slaying festival? It happens every August in the town of Furth im Wald, Germany, for more than 400 years now. They re-enact a classical dragon tale, with a huge dragon, once operated by people, then mechanical. Now they have an 11-tonne remote-control robot dragon! The dragon is named Tradinno, and for a while it held the record for the world's largest robot. Tom Scott gets a look at the dragon ahead of the festival.

1 comment:

xoxoxoBruce said...

That's amazing that it actually walks.