It’s not every day that you come face to face with one of the most infamous alien contraptions ever. Actually you could walk past one if you live in Woking, the home town of H.G. Wells, where a Tripod sculpture rules over the town square.
This amazing 23-feet-high Tripod was built by Michael Condron in 1998 to celebrate the centenary of “War of the Worlds” together with the first alien capsule to hit Earth, half buried into the ground. As you can see the design of the Tripod is simply amazing, it looks like it’s about to wake up and starting zapping people.
It’s “woking”, not “working”.
You can see the fag butts and gum (I may have contributed…) on the ground around it. It should have been displayed proudly. Intead they dumped it in an alleyway and most people that go to Woking haven’t seen it (or the jet plane about 30m away).
Surrey is proud of its residents – that’s why Zavvi in Woking has a big picture of Paul Weller outside it – but this should be moved to the plaza between the 2 shopping centres.
Nice to see a poster putting details of what and where instead of random pics.
I wonder though why they have a tripod and a capsule from War of the Worlds together as they were different stories.
Tripods being written by Samuel Youd. Didnt Wells aliens fly?
I will have to reread WOTW to check that one out. Pardon me in advance if my memory is betraying me.
Kal, I hate to break it to you, but you’re a prick.
Funny what a limey far for home can find on the web