--- title: Giant Rubber Duck in Los Angeles description: Created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, the 61-foot-tall rubber duckie is now in the Port of Los Angeles. canonical: https://time.com/3153925/giant-rubber-duck-los-angeles/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-21T14:35:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:37.982Z og:title: Now There's a 61-Foot-Tall Rubber Duck in Los Angeles og:description: Created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, the 61-foot-tall rubber duckie is now in the Port of Los Angeles. og:url: https://time.com/3153925/giant-rubber-duck-los-angeles/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a4788decad9d0aa/6986a05635ba6f7aefc037e8/giant-rubber-duck.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Giant-Rubber-Duck og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Now There's a 61-Foot-Tall Rubber Duck in Los Angeles twitter:description: Created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, the 61-foot-tall rubber duckie is now in the Port of Los Angeles. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a4788decad9d0aa/6986a05635ba6f7aefc037e8/giant-rubber-duck.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Now There's a 61-Foot-Tall Rubber Duck in Los Angeles > Sponsored content. 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Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register – AP  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Aug 21, 2014 2:35 PM UTC The “world’s largest rubber duck” is making a splash in California [this week](http://www.usnews.com/news/offbeat/articles/2014/08/20/los-angeles-port-welcomes-massive-rubber-duck), spending Wednesday, Aug. 20 through Sunday, Aug. 24 in the Port of Los Angeles. Created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, the 61-foot-tall rubber duckie has traveled all over the world, already making stops in Australia, Taiwan, China, Belgium, Japan, New Zealand, Brazil and Pittsburgh. And it hasn’t been an easy journey – the duck got “sleepy” and [deflated](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/15/lame-duck-syndrome-hong-kongs-celebrated-inflatable-is-now-a-sad-deflated-disc/) during its time in Hong Kong. But now the famous duck is re-inflated and back in action for the Tall Ships Festival L.A. But don’t assume its just a super-sized bath toy; Hofman has grander designs for his duck. “The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn’t discriminate people and doesn’t have a political connotation,” he said in a statement on the festival’s [website](http://www.tallshipsfestivalla.com/worlds-largest-rubber-duck/). “The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relieve the world’s tensions as well as define them.” **MORE:** [Rubber Duck Inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/07/rubber-duckie-youre-the-one-beloved-bath-companion-inducted-into-national-toy-hall-of-fame/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3153925/giant-rubber-duck-los-angeles/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3153925/giant-rubber-duck-los-angeles/"},"headline":"Now There's a 61-Foot-Tall Rubber Duck in Los Angeles","datePublished":"2014-08-21T14:35:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:37.982Z","description":"On display in the Port of Los Angeles until Aug. 24","url":"https://time.com/3153925/giant-rubber-duck-los-angeles/","keywords":["Newsfeed","U.S."],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a4788decad9d0aa/6986a05635ba6f7aefc037e8/giant-rubber-duck.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a4788decad9d0aa/6986a05635ba6f7aefc037e8/giant-rubber-duck.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Giant-Rubber-Duck","caption":"A giant yellow vinyl duck joins sailing ships and motorboats during the Tall Ships Festival L.A. parade in the Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014.","creditText":"Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register – AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3153925/giant-rubber-duck-los-angeles/","name":"Now There's a 61-Foot-Tall Rubber Duck in Los Angeles"}}]}] ```