This is real: This is the Bagger 288. The largest tracked vehicle in the world at 13,500 tons. Built 1978 by Krupp. The excavator is approximately 240 m long and 96 m high.
WTF! My picture changed! Oh, I think the website I got it of didn't like my having a direct link to their picture so they changed it's URL. I'll post another one later.