Lets start with Shimajiro, whom some of you may remember as the toilet training bear! (http://loughanmore.f2s.com/wordpress/2007/04/21/some-things/ )
This is Kin-niku-man, a kids anime character
You can already see Mickey and co emerging from this pile of snow around 3 weeks before the festival started...
The final Disney sculpture... pretty big
kids dancing at the disney sculpture
people watching kids dancing at the disney sculpture!
The disney castle
Donald wheres your trousers?
Mickey
There were ice sculptures, this one is a shark
From those blocks they created this Ice Palace (of sorts...)
The ice palace was a dairy companies exhibition
buy milk! It's even better in an Ice Palace!
The ice sculptures were much more impressive when lit up at night...
A whale!
The light palace lit up at night!
Yakitori-man even made it!
Yakitori-man's sidekick sorting his coals
there were all kinds of stalls and food stands
Some kind of big templey thing helping Japanese-Korean relations
The sign on the big templey thing
The guy guarding the big templey thing
Taking photos of the big templey thing
A Japanese style castle
There were snowboarders doing some stunts off this ramp
This guy did well
this guy didn't make his landing
Neither did this guy...
Lilo!
Hokkaido Electric persuading the world it is green
A big stack of snow just longing to become eagles and owls and suchlike...
The completed article from the front... Lexus sponsored this sculpture.
the lexus sculpture
more of the lexus sculpture
Finland's entry
Singapore... where do they practice?
A Kiwi from New Zealand
China
Portland, USA (Sapporo's sister city)
Suzuki taking the opportunity to advertise it's Wagon R
The final form... Tokyo is making a bid for the 2016 olympics!
The swimming guy up close
The judo guy
From another angle
Sapporo's football team's mascot (Consadole Sapporo)
Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters (baseball team from Sapporo)
Plenty of people about to tell you what to do, or not to do...
And of course fun for the kids, a ice-slide
Skating rink...
and helmets for safety!
