Glastonbury: New look for Arcadia as Dragonfly replaces Spider

"Glastonbury: New look for Arcadia as Dragonfly replaces Spider." Coverage by The London Standard. As of February 2025 on-line here.[1]

"At Glastonbury, a giant spider powered by renewable energy." By Sachin Ravikumar. Reuters, 25 June 2023. As of February 2025 on-line here.[2]

"Fire-breathing spider best known for wowing crowds at Glastonbury Festival arrives in London to mark its tenth anniversary." By Jessica Green, Daily Mail for 6 May 2018. As of February 2025, available on-line here.[3]

See for what Thomas P. Dunn and Richard D. Erlich called "The Ovion/Cylon Alliance": the frequent connecting of members of phylum Arthropoda — insects and spiders, anyway — with mechanization. The Glastonbury Spider was awesomely huge and spat out fire, relating it also to dragons. The facets on the Dragonfly's compound eyes are hexagons, picking up that motif, or trope.[4]

Cf. and contrast hexagon shape in "The Machine Stops and the mechanical spiders (and such) in AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR, Cyber Crush No. 4, the "Bugs" of Starship Troopers and, less so, STARSHIP TROOPERS (film), the Omnidroid of THE INCREDIBLES, the miniature robots in MINORITY REPORT, and the mechanized tarantula war machine in WILD WILD WEST (film 1999) — et al.

RDE, with thanks to Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, 13Feb25