Seattle’s Darrell Toland must sleep well at night. His house isn’t so different from others in the neighborhood, but it comes with an extra feature that ensures unparalleled home security: An enormous recreation of the robot from Hayao Miyazaki’s 1986 film,
Castle In The Sky.
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Over on his Tumblr, Toland has answers to any of the questions you may have about how the big anime robot came to live in his front yard. He explains that he created it simply “because it’s cool” and that it’s made out of “a fiberglass and styrene shell on a steel and foam frame” set atop a pedestal that consists of “3500 lbs of steel reinforced concrete” that “was a bugger to pour by hand.”