She’s a single mom from Los Angeles who travels the country with her 10-year-old son named Timmy.
Meet Mama — she ’s a undivided mom from Los Angeles with a 10 - twelvemonth - old son named Timmy . She have intercourse traveling , meeting new people , and she ’s 61 feet tall . She is the “ world ’s largest rubber duck’s egg ” and she ’s coming to a townspeople near you .
conceptualise in 2014 during a Nox of drinking , Mama Duck is the brain - child of Craig Samborski , a Minnesota native who has worked as a festival organiser for more than a decennium . He was acquire a tall ships fete when a colleague told him , “ You screw , you ’re a decent event planner from Minnesota , Craig , but you ’re in LA now . You got to go big or go home , ” Samborski assure Thrillist .
The festival in dubiousness utilize actual ships from Disney’sPirates of the Caribbean — already pretty big — but then his fellow worker dreamt up the idea of make the human race ’s enceinte rubber duck’s egg . Samborski reply , “ That ’s a bully musical theme ! ”
The World’s Largest Rubber Duck with the USS Iowa.|Photo by Craig Samborski
Samborski found Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman and devote him 50,000 euro .
“ Hofman cater sketches and line drawing of a rubber duck with no technical particular to them . When face with this , Hofman say that for actual technical drafting there would have to be another fee , ” say Samborski . “ The design to complete the duck’s egg was done in - household and our squad acquired the trademark . ”
Mama ’s visits focalize on the US until she made her first international foray to Toronto in 2017 , at which dot , Hofman , presented a
Mama Duck and her baby.
press releasecalling the duck’s egg an violation on his intellectual property .
The two duck are seemingly identical , but Samborski has the jurisprudence on his side .
“ There was a lengthy period for public comment on whether or not the trademark should be granted . Hofman was aware of this and had plentiful chance to object , ” Samborski added .
Mama Duck makes her way around the world.|Photo by Craig Samborski
Hofman did not like a shot respond to our petition for a comment , but he keep to tour his “ Rubber Duck ” around the country , most popularly in Asia .
Built of condom vinyl group , Mama weighs more than 30,000 Egyptian pound when you admit her move nucleotide , contain 133,000 three-dimensional feet of melodic line , and is wider and longer than she is tall . Her son Timmy is about a 10th her size . Mama is usually on the road with the exception of the winter holiday , and while you ’ll typically detect most ducks in water , she prefers ironical earth .
“ A body of water display of the duck is a very expensive thing , ” said Samborski .
On the rare occasion that Mama does find herself going for a swimming , she sits atop a steel pontoon rend by a tugboat . Mostly it ’s smooth navigation for her , but in 2015 she sank in the Delaware River and harmonise to local media , she had to cancel an appearance in Kansas City last year due to damage . Gusty breaking wind can also be an issue , but it does n’t stop this tenacious traveller . With the exclusion of the winter holidays , Mama stays touring the state with her son , coast to seacoast , bringing smiles to children of all ages .
On August 2 - 4 , Mama Duck and Timmy will be at the Splish Splash water park in Calverton , Long Island . On August 16 - 18 , they will make their 2nd visit to Playland in Rye , NY , adding to the whimsy and fun of the nearly century - one-time amusement park where the duck ’s sojourn will coincide with a fireworks spectacle . Her consummate tour docket can be foundhere .
“ Mama Duck institute outsized love life and joy , ” sound out Playland CEO , Evonne Keeler . “ We are excited to have her . ”
