A pole dancing bear! (Okay not really.)

Thanks to Joey deVilla.

Combine a Boba Fett figure from Star Wars, that song from Flashdance and a very talented animator and the result is youtube gold:

Why can’t we have cool mechanical elephants stomping around Toronto?

From wikipedia:

The Sultan’s Elephant is a show created by the Royal de Luxe theatre company, involving a huge moving mechanical elephant and other associated public art installations. In French it is called La visite du sultan des Indes sur son éléphant à voyager dans le temps (literally, “Visit From The Sultan Of The Indies On His Time-Traveling Elephant”).

The elephant is made mostly of wood, and is operated by over ten puppeteers using a mixture of hydraulics and motors. It weighs 42 tons, as much as 7 African elephants. A replica of the elephant was built in Nantes (France) in 2007, as part of the Machines of the Isle of Nantes permanent exhibition.

Life is hard when you’re Darth Vader’s less-talented, less-charismatic younger brother and you manage a grocery store.

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This is a great show, hope someone picks it up in North America.

This episode is about bartender scams: