The Insect Circus

I went to the Insect Circus in Weston Park on Friday. 

Such a thing consists of many a human-sized bug using a trapeze and hula hooping.

Here are a few snaps from the evening...

 

I thought it linked in really well with my 'bizarre ways of travelling' theme, with the giant snail and the dung beetle balancing on a gym ball. 

It got even better when I went into the Menagerie afterwards to find buttons you could press that would complete a circuit to make a model of an insect move (see videos below)

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It made me wonder whether I could make Wendoline move...

So I built an electric car and altered my wire T-Rex to fit.

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I'm considering using the mechanisms from toys to make my own models move.

Maybe I could make this wind up monkey into the X17 and have it race a dinosaur on a unicycle and a spider on wheels? 

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We'll see.