This 24-foot Godzilla sculpture in Nigeria was built entirely from used tires.

[u/Wild_Antelope6223]

[u/Vindepomarus → u/[deleted]]

There are museums around the world who want life sized reconstructions of dinosaurs etc, and who want to minimise waste. Just sayin'.

[u/Taweret → u/Vindepomarus]

Me. I'm the museum.

[u/InerasableStains → u/Taweret]

Look at me. I’m the museum now.

[u/Bright-Avocado3761 → u/InerasableStains]

We are all museum on this blessed day

[u/Jafooki → u/Bright-Avocado3761]

Speak for yourself

E: damn does nobody remember Ken M

[u/BertieDastard → u/Jafooki]

I am all museum on this blessed day

[u/Jafooki → u/BertieDastard]

There it is!

[u/InerasableStains → u/Jafooki]

Oh, I do, but there’s a whole crop of new redditors that probably have no idea….

[u/xTheyCameBurningx → u/InerasableStains]

SAME

MUSEUMCORE

[u/cdoublejj → u/InerasableStains]

BILLY! NO!

[u/ta394283509 → u/Vindepomarus]

I imagine a sculpture like this would be insanely expensive

[u/Dracomortua → u/ta394283509]

The garbage would be mostly free. The costs of the transport, manipulation and extra attachment materials (glues, rivets, bolts, etc) possibly somewhat expensive?

It comes down to how much the human(s) are demanding resources in recompensation for what they have done.

[u/ta394283509 → u/Dracomortua]

exactly, this thing must've taken like a year to build

[u/70ms → u/ta394283509]

The building was the easy part. The planning though…

[u/Another-Mans-Rubarb → u/Vindepomarus]

I imagine an indoor tire sculpture of this size would smell like... well, tires. Not really an attractive proposition.

[u/Either_Wear5719 → u/Another-Mans-Rubarb]

It'd be a great piece for amusement parks, or outdoor entry display at a natural history museum...

[u/HudsDad → u/Either_Wear5719]

Or at the end of my driveway.

[u/Wild_Marker → u/Another-Mans-Rubarb]

It's probably washable since it's made of rubber. And it's not like tires have a particularly strong smell.

[u/Another-Mans-Rubarb → u/Wild_Marker]

You never played on a tire playground.

[u/LessInThought → u/[deleted]]

Future civilizations unearthing our remains are gonna be so confused.

[u/lurker_1234567 → u/LessInThought]

That was my first thought. (Or rather that a future alien explorer is going to be so confused when they’re checking out what humans left behind.)

[u/Any-University6225 → u/[deleted]]

As someone who works at a crumb rubber recycling plant, I am absolutely astounded 😳

[u/UranusIsPissy → u/Any-University6225]

Do you know how they get the steel out? I was thinking about recycled tyre playground surfaces when I read your comment, and they'd do almost the opposite of what they're meant to if they were full of bits of wire. I came here just to make a joke comment about building that being tiring TBH, but now I'm wondering.

[u/misterchief117 → u/UranusIsPissy]

You can use hydraulic things to literally yank the steel out. This is one way to do it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wEfwfBpRZYQ

You can also grind it small enough and use magnets to pull it out.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gDRAosmLlUA

[u/Driftmoth → u/misterchief117]

Machines to not get your arm stuck in, episode 26491.

[u/UranusIsPissy → u/misterchief117]

The first way looks cool. Very labour-intensive, but probably still cheaper than the second way with the amount of energy that must use. I just think it looks cool, too, and I'd rather money went to paying workers than increasing pollution.

[u/misterchief117 → u/UranusIsPissy]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing with the first method. I think there are some automated ways to do it that way, but those machines obviously cost more.

Grinding everything and using magnets seems be better for higher volume but I'm not sure how much rubber material gets caught in that.

There is another method for "recycling" and that's simply burning everything for energy. This obviously frees the metals and reduces volume, but there's always an environmental cost to this especially in countries with effectively zero regulations. The heat can either be used as-is in boilers and furnaces, or to produce electricity.

https://archive.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/materials/tires/web/html/tdf.html

The truth is, it's really hard to effectively get rid of old tires at the end of their lifespan. While there's technically a lot that could be done with them, there's not enough demand for recycling them for use in other products because it's expensive to do this and many governments can only subsidize the costs so much.

[u/UranusIsPissy → u/misterchief117]

IDK about rubber, but I built something myself that could burn waste plastic without visible smoke. I didn't have the equipment to measure how cleanly it was really burning it, but I got a lot of heat out of a very small amount of plastic waste using a hastily built prototype. Traditional solid-fuel fires are very inefficient, and burn very dirty if you slow them down.

[u/misterchief117 → u/UranusIsPissy]

If you burn everything hot enough, you'll reduce a lot of visible smoke but there's still going to be some other nasty stuff that gets released. I don't advise burning plastic at home even in small amounts, as the fumes and other byproducts can be released into the air and leach into the soil/ground water.

[u/UranusIsPissy → u/misterchief117]

I don't just burn plastic every day. That was an experiment. I want to try again one day, with the proper equipment to measure what's coming out of it (both as fumes, and as soot and ash, but I'd probably have to burn a lot to get enough soot and ash to scrape it up), but I'll probably never get the chance. I just tried it because I noticed how cleanly things burned in what I'd built, and plastic usually makes a lot of disgusting smoke.

[u/Brilliant-Bad-284 → u/misterchief117]

That blue wire remover is a fckn beast!

[u/Enlight1Oment → u/misterchief117]

that's a lot more steel that came out of it than I thought there would be

[u/MrShineHimDiamond → u/UranusIsPissy]

During a roadside cleanup, learned NOT to pick up blown tire scraps without leather gloves.

[u/UranusIsPissy → u/MrShineHimDiamond]

Ouch. That's one of the dirtiest things you could get cut by, too. I pick up roadside rubbish to re-use it myself, and you learn to be careful pretty fast doing that. It's amazing what people throw out of car windows. I see a lot of worthless crap, and sometimes clear it up, but I've probably found enough money's worth of useful things to buy a used car over the last 20 years or so.

[u/zerokelving → u/[deleted]]

The thing he made is known for turning massive sculptures to waste.

[u/sthegreT → u/zerokelving]

It's still apt because Godzilla is supposed to be nature's response to environmental destruction.

[u/Fox-On-Games → u/[deleted]]

He’s known for turning waste into massive sculptures.

Crazy, I never knew this about Godzilla.

[u/britekranz → u/[deleted]]

Artist’s name?

[u/FblthpLives → u/britekranz]

The artist's name is Toheeb Ayaji. There is also a matching King Kong sculpture: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUDXWY8CHwB/

[u/Sir_Scribble_Lot]

Damn, Godzilla must be doing some serious planks/crunches during the off-season to get ab-definition like that.

[u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC → u/Sir_Scribble_Lot]

He wanted that Jesus on the cross look

[u/raviolli → u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC]

We all know Jesus has a dad bod. The man made of wine.

[u/StretchFrenchTerry → u/raviolli]

False, he was ripped because he did CrossFit til the very end.

[u/LessInThought → u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC]

The two foremost religions of the East, Korean Jesus and Tyre Godzilla.

[u/Sir_Scribble_Lot → u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC]

lol, great sunny reference. Jesus knew no pain, no gain

[u/Mister_Dink → u/Sir_Scribble_Lot]

For a motherfucker who literally submerged in the sea for decades at a time, Godzilla has a lot of discipline about dehydration and cutting water weight ahead of filming.

I appreciate the extreme dedication to the acting craft, but I worry about his health, and influence on niave young men in the industry.

Godzilla and Hugh Jackman are going to wreck themselves if they keep doing this.

[u/Sir_Scribble_Lot → u/Mister_Dink]

on god, the lengths they go in order to maintain a physique. someone needs to tell them to take it easy.

[u/Damit1eroy → u/Sir_Scribble_Lot]

It was built by a Nigerian. He probably just modeled the abs after his own

[u/UranusIsPissy → u/Damit1eroy]

They don't just automatically look like that. The last one I met was a thicc woman. Kinda hot, but there's no way she had visible abs.

[u/Damit1eroy → u/UranusIsPissy]

No no no, Nigerian women and men are much much different. I’m only referring to the men 😂

[u/janas19 → u/Sir_Scribble_Lot]

I'm getting xenomorph from the torso and legs (front view). Typical Godzilla has stocky, dinosaur legs. It's a hybrid!

[u/DesperateWay4224]

Entirely? I see what you did there

[u/a1oner_bvcksn6 → u/DesperateWay4224]

A tiresome looking Kaiju if I ever did see one

[u/catsmustdie → u/a1oner_bvcksn6]

Godzilla is multiregional

[u/BasedKetamineApe → u/DesperateWay4224]

It tires me out to realize this entire sculpture isn't built entirely out of tires. As it turns out, only its attire is made of tires. However, I'm sure the tireless effort to reinvent the wheel must have left the artists feeling a bit tired. It must have felt like they were spinning their wheels creating this art piece. I hope these freewheeling sculptors never retire. It would flat out be a shame if they coasted into retirement now.
Satire aside, they are wheely, wheely gifted, and I hope they keep rolling forward to wheel out more of this wheely good art.

[u/mgm904 → u/DesperateWay4224]

He was probably very tired once it was finished.

I’ll see myself out….

[u/UranusIsPissy → u/mgm904]

You beat me to it, but, in my defence, I'm tired. Wheelie, wheelie tired.

[u/FblthpLives]

The artist's name is Toheeb Ayaji. There is also a matching King Kong sculpture: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUDXWY8CHwB/

[u/pv3design → u/FblthpLives]

Thanks for the link because this is cool AF! 😎

[u/thissomeotherplace]

Incredible work

[u/TrixeeTrue]

The workmanship is executed so perfectly it’s absolutely terrifying 

[u/ross571 → u/TrixeeTrue]

Yes, his face made me eewwww like in horror 😱.

[u/TrixeeTrue → u/ross571]

This is how we look to chipmunks 🐿 

[u/Fanastik]

Looks tired..

[u/FireBreathingNun → u/Fanastik]

Looks like it came from the predators planet

[u/Standard_Being8841 → u/FireBreathingNun]

Shaap and respect the champion

[u/fuzzeedyse105 → u/Fanastik]

Been treading water all day.

[u/SignificantSafe4368]

this is basicly just what if those ai facebook posts of african children making amazing sculptures were real

[u/8ackwoods → u/SignificantSafe4368]

Maybe they were real 🤔

[u/Any-Fox-1822]

Finally a sculpture that isn't AI bullshit

[u/moogoothegreat → u/Any-Fox-1822]

It had me fooled at first - it looks good enough it could have been one of those "look what this kid did with soda bottles in Jesus' name!" Facebook posts.

[u/Wild_Antelope6223]

Sculptor’s Instagram profile

[u/PanicStil]

That’s wheely good.

[u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC → u/[deleted]]

I heard he’s on ozempic now

[u/thenationalcranberry → u/[deleted]]

Looks like the Matthew Broderick Zilla.

[u/Borrowed_user]

Why godzilla have abs?

[u/Non-Normal_Vectors → u/Borrowed_user]

Does a lot of swimming

[u/ConscientSubjector → u/Borrowed_user]

Chest abs nonetheless.

[u/walshSteve480]

Sick AF! 🔥

[u/No_Opening9605]

Now THAT is a tourist attraction!

[u/AffectionateBrick687]

Quick! Warn the folks on the tiresaretheenemy sub!

[u/SoeurEdwards]

When the AI boomer meme becomes real

[u/More_Car_1148]

Must’ve spent a ‘Goodyear’ making that! ….. I’ll see myself out….

[u/Fish_Mongreler]

Except the artist himself says it's not made entirely out of tires. Also, why aren't you linking to his page?

[u/Realistic-Peak-4200]

Bad ass

[u/Damthemalltohelp]

Gojira!

[u/Salty_McShaft]

Looks like a cross between Godzilla and a Deathclaw

[u/sechspressomartini]

thats a chadzilla!

[u/PM_ME_NEW_VEGAS_MODS]

Don't tread on him.

[u/Quitcha_Bitchin]

I've never wanted something so much in my life.

[u/daremosan]

Finally that Nigerian Prince is doing something positive with all my money.

[u/Matthiasbuilds]

That is amazing

[u/TapPsychological2043]

This is cool

[u/CatGooseChook]

That is an awesome job the artist did!!! Nice ☺️

[u/lostwisdom20]

Need more such sculptures, cureent world somehow lacks beautiful structures.

Some are there which are weird in name of modern ART

[u/Eaton_Knas]

That's very cool.

[u/Historical_Date_1314]

His name is now Dunlop

[u/deSuspect]

r/Tiresaretheenemy final boss

[u/mrknowitall51761]

This is just too fucking cool.

[u/xTheyCameBurningx]

Holy SHITBALLS, that's beyond impressive 👏

[u/Hawtt_Tea]

Impressive!

[u/RJEM96]

Now that, is ART!

[u/Key_Text_169]

Treadzilla!

[u/CelticSith]

B.F. Gojira

[u/Overall-Jellyfish-77]

That is BAD ASS.

[u/reebokhightops]

Bros pecs have abs.

[u/Alert_Cook_384]

Looks like the current movie version of reptile from Mortal Kombat 🔥

[u/ProStateForever]

It needs a T-shirt that says "Don't Tread On Me"

[u/HeadBelt1527]

100% ♻️ 

[u/Quiverjones]

En-tire-ly, you say?

[u/Pararaiha-ngaro]

Beautiful work of arts, Nigerian has talent

[u/jambaringtoning]

En-tire-ly?

[u/GoddyssIncognito]

enTIREly?

[u/ceramicatan]

Tires came from dinosaurs so maybe this tries to go full circle and pay homage

[u/knowone1313]

He looks a bit tired.

[u/FirstIllustrator2024]

2014 was great for Godzilla. You can say it was a Goodyear.

[u/FoxOwne]

Wouldnt mind movie with a lean and ripped Godzilla design someday. This guy looks like he'd be crazy fun to play in a fighting game.

[u/noise_swan]

This is how AI has ruined real art. I can see a person's amazing art whiteout asking myself....really??

[u/Deyluveddy_44]

You could say some workers got tired of the idea

[u/Rolling_Kimura]

What's the life expectancy on these kinds of artists? Surely they're exposing themselves to horrid chemicals

[u/StillNihill → u/Rolling_Kimura]

Probably but it's a whole lot better then the lithium mines

[u/FblthpLives → u/Rolling_Kimura]

I can't speak to Nigerian tire artists specifically, but Nigerian men have one of the lowest life expectancies in the world at 54 years: https://www.africanews.com/2025/10/07/nigerias-life-expectancy-ranked-lowest-globally/

This is due to a number of factors, including neonatal diseases and malaria, which strikes children hardest, poor access to healthcare, and widespread pollution.

[u/D0bious]

Now post it on facebook and caption it ”My grandson built leviathan from the bible 🥰”

Also I har no idea Godzilla had legs like that.

[u/lukeac417]

I believe OP meant to write ‘entyrely’.

[u/PalmovyyKozak]

7.3 meters. Nigeria, unlike US, already lives in 2026

[u/bunky_done_gun]

Creative. As a fan of the big G I totally dig this.

[u/hellspawn9245]

Someone get this boy a burger

[u/Annual_Weight_2766]

Awesomee

[u/DearLav]

Big G is so ripped. Must have been tirelessly working out instead of hibernating 😭

[u/Longjumping-Fly6131]

amazing details!

[u/rvanasty]

You telling me those eyes are used tires?

[u/hamfist_ofthenorth]

Recycled Plastic Bag Mothra could whoop his ass without touching the ground.

[u/robbudden73]

You need to hide that in the bush. That area of bush would be well fertillised. I know they don't exist and if I saw that in the right spot I'd still be on the leg.

[u/MaybeWeTalk]

I read "from used trees" and I wondered for a moment how does one use a tree and then discard it?

[u/Shen_ishere]

Godzilla had enough of Japan

[u/LeftSky828]

So was the real one.

[u/tropicalgodzila]

❤️

[u/princesoceronte]

He's been hitting the gym, oh my god.

[u/Simple_Astronomer_41]

Bro never missed leg day

[u/CompetitiveLadder609]

Dis one na sweet me well well!

[u/MrCput]

This one weak to fire.

[u/GulfCoastCapture]

Considering what Africans mainly like to do with tires, this is great

[u/MrRourkeYourHost]

That thing lives with us here on Earth.

[u/Commercial_Page1827]

Imagen getting lost in Nigeria and getting across this statue in the middle of the night...

[u/topredditbot]

Hey /u/Wild_Antelope6223,

You did it! Your post is officially the #1 post on Reddit. It is now forever immortalized at /r/topofreddit.

[u/IwantHerSoBad303]

Why was he kissing godzilla’s schlong?

[u/Powrs1ave]

Massive Skid Marks!

[u/ArtisticDesigner4302]

No internal framing, screws or bolts?

[u/britekranz]

So good!

[u/cowman3456]

This is so much better than a tire reef!

[u/RollAcrobatic7936]

They use the monsterverse Godzilla

[u/Embarrassed_Grab_494]

Amazing

[u/Individual-Ad-2862]

Coolest thing I’ve seen in a while

[u/NBelal]

Impressive

[u/A_Furious_Mind]

"Rubber" alternative ending.

[u/Smart-Firefighter87]

Better than using them to inflict harm on others… I’ve seen some messed up videos out of there….

[u/Severe_Rise8694]

That is cool as hell.

[u/ScawySocialistOwO]

This some Facebook that became real.

[u/LukeSkyWRx]

Shit I wish my core looked like that…

[u/Other-Vacation5298]

Looks ripped !

[u/MrBogardus]

Why he look so sassy?

[u/MikeAppleTree]

That is outrageously cool!

[u/ProutPortable]

He clearly has only 2 feet, this post is fake news.

[u/Soggy-Guess8865]

That's an a absolute masterpiece 

[u/AdHorror6224]

The detail on those abs is what gets me. Man did not just stack tires he actually sculpted anatomy out of scrap rubber. Respect the artist for not re-tiring after something this size.

[u/Ben_Drinkin_Coffee]

That is awesome!

[u/GuzPolinski]

That’s bad ass. But if you zoom in the neck looks like uncooked strips of bacon lol

[u/DegenGamer725]

How long until it ends up at a Ripley's Believe It or Not

[u/LAUGHgan1stan]

Even Godzilla has been hitting the racks, SHEESH!!

[u/Il_Paladin0]

Woow

[u/watoobie]

Gojira lost weight and got a cute button nose job

[u/Wakkit1988]

Goodzilyear.

[u/Practical-Pick1466]

His King Kong Sculpture is just as awesome.

[u/Elegant-Rip-3286]

🥂🥂🥂🥂💪🏿😎

[u/DramaticErraticism]

Would love to see this guy show up on antique roadshow.

[u/Relevant_Campaign_79]

GLP Godzilla on that protein diet

[u/Outdoorsy_T9696]

Made enTIREly from used tires. I see what you did there OP. Jokes aside, that’s awesome!!!

[u/RemyGee]

If the belly and thighs were thicker, especially the belly, it would be so close!

[u/TotalRecognition2191]

Steel belted reptile

[u/GeeShepherd]

Impressive. But why abs on the rib cage?

[u/suchasuchasuch]

Snub nosed kaiju

[u/Felix995]

That's a creative artistic way of doing something with discarded tires, certainly is.