Stumbling upon these photos was a strange moment for me. I’ve been playing Borderlands recently, and it had never occurred to me that the monster excavator from the video game might’ve been based on a real-world machine—a real-world machine which, just by eyeballing it, looks like it might actually be bigger than the video game version. Dark Roasted Blend has a good article with lots of deets on the monster.
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And even better, there’s this lovely song about one of our beasts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qx1FGRt54
Around these parts we even make cloud from the brown coal we dig up from below our feet:
http://www.ralfstahlberg.de/Fotos/Garzweiler/garzweiler1.jpg
This big beast is also in Call of Duty: Black Ops, in the background of one of online multiplayer maps.
That’s one massive piece of heavy equipment.