I agree completely with FritterGirl. This feels cheesy and forced, kind of like Las Vegas without the obvious "Of course this is supposed to be kitsch" mentality.

I live in St. Louis and the arch was built as part of a years-long international design competition regarding the frontier and western expansion, manifest destiny and all that. It has a museum underneath. They could have thrown up a 50-story statue of a covered wagon. They didn't. You can like or dislike the arch, but it feels much more iconic than something like this.

We already have the "world's largest horse statues" galloping across the canal. If money is going to be spent, I would much rather see it going to enhance the new park or Union Station or to some other real cultural pursuit for downtown, like an aquarium or contemporary art museum or something like that.

I think this thing, if built, would be more akin to those cars shoved in the dirt outside Amarillo.

Just my $0.02.