Vision Mechanics' giant puppet Storm, which has been toured in Scotland and elsewhere since 2020, represents issues associated with climate change. During the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the giant string-puppet Mocco was "the centrepiece of the 2020 Nippon festival". In 2020 in Prague, LED artists paraded bright, internally-lit puppets on poles. The Handspring Puppet Company's giant stilt puppet Little Amal was toured across Europe and the United Kingdom in 2021 as the centrepiece of a project called The Walk, demonstrating a positive view of the lone child refugee. Trigger Productions Limited of Bristol produced The Hatchling, a giant pterosaur-shaped dragon puppet, of kite construction, which processed through the streets and then flew over the sea at Plymouth, England, in 2021. In the same year in Siem Reap, Cambodia, The Giant Puppet Project was in its second decade of teaching children to create rod-manipulated giant puppets, of similar construction to the Dragon dance puppets of China.
