Delaware is planning a statue of April Ludgate (the Aubrey Plaza character on "Parks and Rec") in Cape Henlopen.

Del. plans giant statue of Aubrey Plaza’s April Ludgate

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Delaware is planning a statue of April Ludgate (the Aubrey Plaza character on "Parks and Rec") in Cape Henlopen.

Delaware is planning a statue of April Ludgate (the Aubrey Plaza character on “Parks and Rec”) in Cape Henlopen.

Delaware is planning a 100-foot statue of April Ludgate, the “Parks and Rec” character created by famous Delawarean Aubrey Plaza, the official Twitter feed of Delaware’s government announced on Saturday.

An artist’s rendering of the statue shows it next to the lighthouse in Cape Henlopen State Park, just smaller than the lighthouse but towering over a drawing of Li’l Sebastian, a miniature horse that appeared on the NBC sitcom.

“The air is too fresh,” the posting quotes Ludgate. “It’s disgusting.”

“Delaware is excited to announce a new artistic installation featuring a 100ft tall statute of April Ludgate, the Parks and Rec character played by Aubrey Plaza (voted most famous Delawarean in the News Journal),” the Twitter post says, mistaking a large sculpture for a bit of law.

By dusk on Saturday, the post earned almost 1 million views and more than 350 retweets, 80 quotes, 2,800 likes and 20 bookmarks.

One was from Plaza: “Dreams DO come true. Thank you,” she wrote, followed by a heart.

Other responses:

“Now when you guys going to update the aubrey plaza plaza …

“I live in DE and have no clue who this is!!”

“i’m from australia and would fly over to visit this historical masterpiece”

“Ok now actually build it you cowards, give the people what they want”

“Ugly…awful”

And “Is this an April fools joke?”

Yes.

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