In 1912, Leon Leonwood Bean brainstormed a waterproof boot that paired a rubber bottom to leather uppers. A hunter and fisherman, Bean compiled a list of his peers in Maine and sold them on the "Bean Boot" by mail. The Maine Hunting Boot, as Bean called it, launched a national mail-order business that now has more than 4,500 employees and pulled in $1.44 billion in revenue in 2010.

So, when L.L. Bean needed a promotional icon for its 100th anniversary, the choice was staring them right in the ankles.

The all-fiberglass body is the product of themed-attraction design firm Echo Artz of Kissimmee, FL. The prop boot (now a sort of roller skate for giants) is scaled to fit someone who's approximately 143 feet tall, according to a press release. It's 13 feet tall at its highest point, 20.6 feet long and 7.6 feet wide — about a foot (heh, heh) wider than the Ford F-250 Super Duty on which it's based. It's the wideness that matters most when negotiating past parked delivery trucks and gawking cabbies along NYC thoroughfares. Having a co-driver to keep watch over clearances is a big plus.

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