A COLOSSAL 62ft snowman has risen in China after a gruelling 11-day construction project.
Standing as tall as a six-floor building, visitors have been flocking to the frozen giant which has become a must-see photo stop.
The snowman was completed on Tuesday in Harbin, the capital of Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province.
It took serious manpower to bring it to life.
A team of 64 sculptors worked alongside more than 100 labourers to finish the project.
The snowman is the same size as a six-floor building taking a total of 3,500 cubic meters of machine-made snow to construct it.
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The snowman wears a bright red hat and a matching red scarf.
A wide smile completes the look, greeting tourists and locals braving the cold.
The entire construction process was livestreamed.
The broadcast drew constant attention online, with viewers tuning in daily for what organisers described as “cloud guardianship.”
Photos of the snowman quickly spread across social media.
One reaction summed it up perfectly: “That’s not a snowman, that’s a snow monument.”
Another added: “This is next-level winter energy.”
And perhaps the most fitting verdict of all: “Harbin really doesn’t play when it comes to snow season.”
While Harbin’s towering snowman has set the global bar for winter spectacle, it is far from the only oversized snow creation grabbing attention this season.
In Scotland, snow lovers have been thinking big too – though with far less precision and far more chaos.
In Dundee, an attempt to build the city’s tallest snowman ended in infamy after wind and rain reshaped the structure into a 13-foot phallic figure, earning laughs rather than awe.
Built using a 14-foot ladder and around 15 hours of labour, the snow sculpture briefly dominated Campfield Gardens before collapsing under its own weight.
Elsewhere across the country, similarly ambitious snow builds popped up as Storm Darcy dumped heavy flurries, proving scale alone does not guarantee elegance.
Photos of giant snow creations – many wildly off-plan – spread rapidly across social media, with viewers quick to compare them to Harbin’s carefully engineered giant.
Unlike the Chinese snowman, which took 64 sculptors, 11 days and 3,500 cubic metres of machine-made snow to complete, Britain’s contenders relied largely on enthusiasm, ladders and luck.
The contrast could not be starker: Harbin’s smiling, scarf-clad giant was designed for tourism and livestreamed to millions, while the UK’s snow efforts were fleeting, unstable and often unintentionally rude.
In Dundee, a brother and sister’s “innocent” attempt to build the city’s tallest snowman took a VERY rude turn overnight.
Isabelle and Fergus Rice were left in hysterics after wind and rain reshaped their hard work into what they described as a 13ft “wildly inappropriate” willy.
The pair had set out with wholesome intentions, enlisting friend Aidan Sheils to help them build Dundee’s tallest snowman on Tuesday night.
But by the following morning, the sculpture had dramatically morphed.
“When we started it on Tuesday morning the plan was to make Dundee’s tallest snowman,” said Isabelle, 22.
“We probably spent about five or six hours on it, but between the three of us that’s like 15 hours of work.”
“We finished the job but when we woke up the next day I’m not sure what happened, whether it was wind or rain or whatever, but it seemed to have morphed a bit.”
“We used a 14-foot ladder for it, so I’d say it’s at least 13 feet tall.”
The towering snow statue quickly became the talk of Campfield Gardens before collapsing under its own weight.
“I felt like I should apologise to the neighbours for it, it’s that bad,” Isabelle said.
“They’ve all just been laughing at it, it’s so wildly inappropriate.”
The cheeky creation came as Storm Darcy battered the UK, bringing the coldest temperatures in 26 years and causing chaos on roads nationwide.
But despite crashes, closures and freezing conditions, Brits still found time for mischief.
Across Scotland, giant snow penises began popping up in parks and public spaces.
BAFTA-winning TV writer Neil Forsyth shared snaps of the frosty creations in Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Posting on Twitter, the Guilt writer joked: “Scotland welcomes the snow with both unity and dignity.”