Have plans for Saturday? Artist Kevin Stone is hosting a block party at his North Las Vegas warehouse studio to publicly unveil his latest work: a 70-foot-tall steel dragon named Golspar. And yes, it breathes fire 🔥
Address: 3011 Coleman St., North Las Vegas, Nevada 89032
“ We want everybody to bring their families and kids,” Stone says, noting the celebration runs from 4 to 10 p.m. with two open bars 👀, complimentary charcuterie spreads, and food sold by the Lucky Cat BBQ food truck.
The dragon was commissioned by Dellshire, a new medieval-themed resort in the Wisconsin Dells. It took 20 months to complete and will be dismantled and shipped to the Midwest following Saturday’s event. When it arrives, the sculpture will overlook the hotel parking lot, standing atop a concrete platform containing two thousand-pound propane tanks that allow the dragon to shoot fireballs up to 35 feet long.
“Golspar is about 17,000 pounds, the largest steel dragon in the world,” Stone says. “It had to be engineered to handle 150 mile-per-hour windstorms, snow, and other kinds of weather.
The sculptor’s career began as a welder by trade in Canada, working on commercial buildings and bridges before turning to art. He’s built big steel creatures before, including a 50-foot-long Tyrannosaurus Rex near British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake, a 10,000-pound eagle at the entrance of a roller coaster at Dollywood, and a 15,000-pound “Games of Thrones”-inspired dragon that’s now in Toquerville, Utah.
More jumbo-sized sculptures are on the way, including a tree for the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami and an eagle for an Independence Day celebration in Seattle at the Port of Kalama.
Stone has lived in Vegas for more than two years. He says it’s much easier to transport his art throughout the country now. (Imagine trying to cross international borders with a giant steel dragon.)
“My work is so detailed and so big, people think it's AI or something when looking at pictures,” Stone says. Come see the real thing for yourself this Saturday.
