Graffiti artists turn Beijing phone booths into Baymax from 'Big Hero 6'

By Ryan Kilpatrick, April 8, 2015

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Overnight in Beijing, "seven to eight" young graffiti artists gave 30 telephones booths on Chengfu Lu the Baymax treatment, transformed into likenesses of the affable protagonist to Disney's animated film Big Hero 6.

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In a city where mobile phone-toting Beijingers tend to look straight through the increasingly irrelevant devices, their new makeover brings the neglected booths back into the public spotlight.

[Images via NetEase]

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