Liverpool's Dream

The performance was designed and performed by Royal de Luxe who are based in Nantes, France, alongside locally-recruited participants and volunteers. The performance featured four giant marionettes. A Little Boy and Little Girl giant, an adult giant (the "Castaway") and Xolo the dog. The Little Boy Giant first appeared in a performance in Cameroon and was 6 m (20 ft) high and required 27 People to operate. The Giant Man was 10 m (33 ft) high and required 44 operators.^[2] The Little Girl Giant appeared in the previous two Liverpool giant events was not originally billed as being part of the performance but was revealed as a surprise on the Sunday afternoon.^[4] Xolo the dog had appeared in the previous two Liverpool Giants performances. The Giants collectively covered a distance of 21 miles (34 km) across Liverpool and, for the first time in such an event across the river Mersey in New Brighton.^[5]

In September 2018 Jean-Luc Courcoult, the artistic director of the company stated that this would be the final performance involving the marionette giants and that they were working on a performance based around a giant silverback gorilla.^[4]

As part of Project Servator specially trained police, both visibly armed and covert, were deployed at the event.^[3] Project Servator employs tactics such as behavioural detection officers, automatic number plate recognition and CCTV.^[3] Merseyside Police stated that previous giants events had not been policed in such a manner.^[3]