Oddball 6-Foot ‘Lobsta Mickey’ Statue Returns To Boston

A protracted-forgotten, and considerably unsettling, statue of Mickey Mouse with big lobster claws for arms has discovered its approach again to Boston.

The 700-pound statue was final seen within the metropolis almost twenty years in the past at Quincy Market the place it entertained vacationers and buyers — earlier than slipping out of sight and into metropolis lore after it was bought in 2005 at an public sale organized by Disney.

Within the interim, references to the 6-foot tall “Lobsta Mickey” appeared on Atlas Obscura, a web site for oddball landmarks, and in a “Zippy the Pinhead” cartoon from 2019.

Nonetheless, the statue itself — one among 75 Mickey Mouse-inspired sculptures commissioned by Disney for the cartoon character’s seventy fifth anniversary — remained elusive.

That is till Deon Level, artistic director for the Boston sneaker retailer Ideas, turned fixated on monitoring down the creation. Ideas collaborates with Nike on a line of lobster-themed sneakers.

Level informed The Boston Globe that he spent 5 years following on-line threads earlier than lastly recognizing a list for the mouse/crustacean relic on eBay.

The statue had discovered its technique to a New Jersey garden, however was in want of some repairs. It was discolored, cut up in sections and its concrete basis had begun to crumble.

Level employed an area artist to refurbish and repaint the statue.

The day earlier than Halloween, “Lobsta Mickey” made its second public debut within the metropolis, when it was arrange on Ideas’ Newbury Avenue showroom flooring.

“Folks had been a bit terrified,” Level informed the Globe, referring of the client response. “Folks assume we created this factor, which, after all, we did not.”

Level stated he plans to maintain “Lobsta Mickey” on show by way of the vacations, earlier than discovering a brand new, long-term residence someplace inside Boston.