The Sapporo Snow Festival is over! Yesterday, workers began destroying the huge snow sculptures with diggers.
For decades now, the Sapporo Snow Festival featured some truly impressive large-scale snow sculptures. And when the event is over, the organisers don’t sit around and wait for them to melt.
In the video below, you can see yesterday’s destruction:
Before the destruction begins, the Japanese Self Defence Force, which is brought in to destroy these things, purifies the sculptures with sake. You can see a bit of that in this 2011 clip:
Here is the One Piece sculpture being destroyed at the 2012 festival:
The Toriko sculpture from that same year:
The 2009 festival:
And now with sad music and snow head decapitation.
So brutal.
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2 responses to “Watch The Brutal Destruction Of Giant Snow Sculptures”
Couldn’t they just leave them up until the snow started melting away? Would have actually been a lot easier that way, and people could have enjoyed the displays longer.
some of the sculptures are 3 stories high, wouldn’t want that having a mini avalanche on someone