Polar bear appears to stroll onto packed Tube train in front of startled commuters

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Hat tip, this morning's Washington Post Express.

Do not miss this video:

Lifelike polar bear roams streets of London

{ETA, Thursday}: which is at YouTube here:

Polar bear appears to stroll onto packed Tube train in front of startled commuters

It's been pretty chilly lately. But surely not this cold. A polar bear appears to have turned up in London. The 8ft-long creature was spotted in Hampstead Heath, the London Underground and the South Bank.



Credit: PA

The animated animal was constructed by 19 prop specialists, who spent two months designing and building the replica bear.



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Two puppeteers from the West End show War Horse controlled the movements of the bear, which was built to promote Sky Atlantic's new "Arctic-noir" series Fortitude, from inside.



Animatronic polar bear roams Hampstead Heath Credit: PA

We wanted to bring a realistic polar bear to the streets of London to give people an up-close experience of what it must be like to come face-to-face with one of the biggest, but uncredited stars of our new show.

– Zai Bennett, Sky Atlantic Director

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