Here's a Giant Minion Made from a Grain Silo

What’s 25 feet tall, yellow, and bent on world domination? An overachieving banana! No, just kidding — it’s a grain silo, lovingly transformed by an Indiana farmer’s family into one of the Minions from the Despicable Me films and Minions spinoff. Fourteen gallons of paint, a pair of six-foot eyes, and an admirable sense of humor went into creating the Minion, which has become a popular attraction around the small town of Ossian, Indiana. Watch the video above to get an up-close look (via Entertainment Weekly).

“We’ve had…low flying helicopters,” said farmer Kathy Stark, who masterminded the project, to WANE-TV. “We had a guy come by on his lawn mower that lived in Decatur, several miles away, pulling his wife and his kid in a cart… The other day, the Ossian nursing home bus came by.”

Stark, her children, and several other family members spent two days turning an ordinary grain silo into the googly-eyed cartoon character, all with the goal of making people smile. But there’s a sad note to the story, too. Kathy’s husband Jim Stark, who first came up with the idea to give the silo a Minion paint job, died last winter at the age of 73.

“I think he’s up in heaven right now,” Kathy told the Washington Post, “laughing and pointing and saying: ‘See that silo down there, that’s where I lived. That was my idea.’”

Kathy’s future plans for the Minion, according to WANE-TV, include adding a hat and eye glasses.