In June 1995, a vast statue of Michael Jackson provided a real view in the heart of London when it floated on a bargain under the River Temes.

It was one of 32 feet (10 meters) pop colossus 10 that appeared worldwide to promote superstar’s album history: past, present and future, book came.

Fiberglass Titans then followed Jackson on his global tour.

Thirty years later – and 16 years after his death – the King of the pop continues to attract the dispute, but some idols are still standing in the unpredictable corners of the world.

Jackson’s double album was a mixture of his biggest hit with 15 new tracks, including Earth song, which would spend six weeks on top of the UK chart.

In the US, sculptor Diana Valakzak consulted with the pop star to create a soil sculpture, which was digitally scanned for the album cover.

Hertfordshire -based artist Stephen Pile, who set the set for the worldwide products of The Phantom of the Opera, was asked by a Sony employee called Robi Williams (not so) to make 10 huge statues based on this album cover.

He hired the sculptor Derek Howrth to prepare the statue in polystyrene classes, which was used to make Mr. Pile Molds and Fiberglass Cast.

Everything was collected at Chris and Liz Clarke’s workshop at Elstory Studios in Hertfordshire, where they were painted to look like a stone.

The team worked without access to Ms. Valakzak’s prototype, due to which she looked a little different.

Mr. Pile says: “Making 10 idols in four months was a lot of challenge, but thanks to Derek, Chris, Liz and the rest of my workshop team at that time, we became a very skilled factory for Michael Jackson Monoliths!”

Some of the idols are uncertain, and may have been closed or destroyed in storage. But other people are in the show at some unexpected places.

For many years, a king of the pop monument was above a McDonald’s car park in the best village in the Netherlands.

The owner of the restaurant Peter Van Gelder bought a statue from Soni in 1996 Charity Gala for Ronald McDonald’s Children’s Fund.

“The restaurant was just opened and not yet the big yellow M,” he says. “It was my intention to keep it down as an eye catcher.”

Jackson’s fans started walking on the spot to take photos and play their music. The crowd has been so often that Peter had to exclude the statue from the fence to stop the people climbing on it.

Every year on Jackson’s birthday, and the day he died, he became a temple in which fans gathered to play music, hang photos and leave flowers.

Things changed in 2019 after the HBO leaving Neverland documentary, leveling new allegations of child sexual abuse against Jackson.

Peter said, “There was no strong response in the Netherlands and my intention was just to leave the idol.”

But he said that the pressure from the US headquarters of fast food chain inspired it to remove and storage in “secret places”.

McDonald’s told the BBC: “In 2019, after the documentary, it was decided to remove the statue.

“We felt and realized that it is important for all guests to feel comfortable when going to any of our restaurants.”

Peter hopes that the statue is expected to donate to a fan club, but a building permit is required due to its size. “Many people have approached me, but still no one is able to receive permits,” they say.

“Years have passed since his death and I have noticed that the statue’s interest is decreasing … so Michael Jackson’s statue is resting under a tarp in a trivial shed.”

The courtyard of an abandoned club in a small town in the west of the west of Vienna is not the place you will expect to find a huge effigy of the King of the pop.

Owner Franz Joseph Zika won the statue in a radio charity auction in 1998, and spent 150,000 Austrian shillings (£ 9,300).

He remembers: “The big problem was when I went home and I had to tell my uncle, who was the owner of the family, and he said, ‘You are crazy!”

The visitors of Baby’O in Judenou-Bummagartan may be surprised to find Michael Jackson in the smoking field, but Franz saw it a brilliant way to promote his club.

“There were many times next to the statue, so there was a party around Jackson,” he says.

Last year, the club was forced to close after constructing a new residential building nearby.

Now Franz wants to find someone to open a small cafe or pizzeria at the site, but first needs to get rid of pop monolith.

He said: “I have been trying to sell it for two years. I would be happy if I get € 25,000 (£ 21,000) for it.

“I have received some interest in Sweden and some Hungary, but the problem is that people do not have enough money.”

What if he can’t find a buyer? “We don’t know. Maybe I will send it to Mars. Elon will do this for me!” He laughs.

For more than 50 years, an annual fairground program called Luna Park took place in Lazen, Switzerland.

It is one of these blinking lights and bright colored rides that can find another Jackson statue.

It has been given a little renewal, adding gold paint to their impure military uniforms.

The organizers told the BBC that they had bought it from a person from 2008 who bought it years before Sony.

The idol has not been displayed for a few years, but they do not say that – although they do not stress it for stress.

When Jackson brought his history tour to South Africa, he had one of the 10 idols.

The Santra Miniland opened in Johannesburg in the 1970s is now left to perform the country in the short.

The attraction has been removed and the short train no longer run, but a re -prepared MJ Monolith is still standing, which appears in Google Earth Satellite images.

Heather Mason, a blogger of 2summers.net, visited the park in 2013.

She recalls: “It was quite strange to see a huge blue Michael Jackson statue in the middle of the miniland, where the common theme is for things smaller than life, not greater than life.

“But I definitely appreciated it! MJ Pratima Park had the best photo op.”

A fresh coat of paint and a new pair of sunglasses have not made the figure of this fiberglass very recognizable.

In June 2019, the Europeark Idoscola Milano unveiled the “restored” statue after the Jackson-Theme flash crowd.

A announcer told the gathered crowd: “This statue is dedicated to all of you, who have been in love with him for years.”

The nevaraland, which left the dramatic revelations, came a few months after the documentary.

A park spokesman told the BBC that the statue was purchased at the end of the tour, but was left for several years before the park ended.

He said that Titan had covered his face for some time after allegations of child abuse as the owner of the park at that time “did not want to show that MJ welcomed the children in the park, so it turned into almost a robot”.

Despite the work to restore the statue and re -paint, the owners of the park have now placed the renewed statue for sale.