Don’t panic – Monster pot hole is illusion

POTHOLES will take on a whole new dimension in Llanelli town centre next month.

One measuring 20-feet by 10-feet will appear in Stepney Street.

But council bosses have said there will be no need to panic – it’s an optical illusion.

Armed with paint brushes 3-D artists will descending on Stepney Street creating the hole in the ground on the Spring Bank Holiday Saturday, May 24.

Shoppers and visitors will be able to “look” into the hole with no danger of falling in.

The optical illusion will be created by an S4C team promoting one of the new exciting programmes for children called Madron.

Llanelli’s marketing and tourism manager Huw Parsons said: “It’s tremendous Llanelli’s ultra modern town centre is attracting this kind of attention.

“Art of this nature commands a lot of attention and can cause quite a stir with even Jaws breaking out of the drainage system.”

County executive board member for regeneration, Cllr Meryl Gravell promised this was not another hole digging exercise. “No damage is done. The optical illusion is created on a piece of vinyl and the hole is going to be 20ft by 10ft big enough to swallow a car.”

S4C’’s Sioned Wyn Roberts, Content Commissioner, Children’s & Learning said: “Madron has several underworld figures so people would be looking down into an abyss from which zombies and wild dogs would appear to be escaping.”

Madron is a groundbreaking interactive comic book and multiplatform interactive project that tells the story of two children on a quest to save the world from a mysterious virus. Seren and Ishmael must travel through the Welsh country side to a waterfall where the antidote to the virus is hidden. Along the way family secrets are uncovered, conspiracies are revealed and a super-villain is unmasked – a super villain who will stop at nothing to stop them reaching their goal.

Madron will initially be launched in a one-off animated episode on TV on Thursday, 22 May at 7.50pm. The story then continues as an interactive comic book that takes place over four weeks, with a new issue of the comic being released each week.