Long Ma, mechanical horse-dragon, La Machine, Nantes, France

A cool video of a mechanical horse dragon being paraded through the streets of Nantes, France.

The 12 metre high horse-dragon, named ‘Long-Ma’, was built by French theatre company La Machine as a gift to the people of China to celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and France.

The elaborate machine weighs 45 tonnes and can gallop, lie down, blow smoke out of its nostrils and breathe fire out of its mouth.
You can see Long-Ma will now in Beijing

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At Ile Des Machines in Nantes, we were fortunate enough to see this latest project, which was undergoing testing prior to being shipped off to China where a billionaire has bought it. And not only that, we even got to see it in juxtaposition with the Mechanical Elephant AND the Carouse

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Two mythical creatures, a giant spider and a huge dragon, have faced one another in battle at Beijing's Olympic Park.
The two beasts were in reality giant robots, designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of France and China opening diplomatic relations.

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