My favorite is the infamous giant rat that is frequently employed to protest the unfair treatment of unionized workers. Another category of inflatable, the animated dancing man—a tall, gyrating air-propelled tube—is often seen beckoning customers into all kinds of retail establishments. The concept was originally conceived by Peter Minshall, an artist from Trinadad and Tobago, along with Doron Gazit and Arieh Dranger, for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Minshall called his creation the “Tall Boy,” but Gazit eventually patented the concept of an inflatable dancing human-shaped balloon, which has grown into a thriving advertising display genre. Today the concept has evolved from simple gesticulating tubes into dozens of other representations of products and objects with moveable appendages.