Ever dream of having a giagantic Transformers snow fort? Japanese toy maker Takara Toy does. They are building a 65ft x 426ft x 131ft Transformers sculpture made entirely of snow for the the city of Asahikawa's annual winter festival. The structure is made from around 6,000 truckloads of snow and took 250 workers a month to finish.

We are loving the geometric snow illustrations created by Simon Beck's larger than life process of walking across the snow in raquettes (snowshoes) for up to 10 hours at a time! Talking about his process, he says, 'Most of this activity takes place in the ski resort of Les Arcs, where I own an apartment and spend most of the winter. On average they take about 10 hours to really do it properly, some are a little unfinished, if my feet get cold or hurt too much...'

Last month, the popular Transformer, Optimus Prime, was the theme of a massive snow sculpture for the 53rd annual Asahikawa Winter Festival in Hokkaido, Japan.  Built by the Japanese toy company Takara Tomy, this sculpture stood 53 feet tall and 437 feet wide and even had snow slides.

The season for utilizing snow in a creative way is here or right around the corner.

Out here in sunny California or sometimes foggy and 35 degree on a bad day California, we forget that it does snow in some parts of the country. On our counterpart coast, NYC, has been getting slammed with the powdery white stuff. Therefore, it was perfect timing for the High Line Snow Sculpt Off. Images and video after the jump . .