The real thing is that big. A work colleague presented it to me. They had grown too many oversized vegetables and needed to offload their bounty. I took it, planning to bake zucchini bread. I never did get around to it. The colleague suggested I add it to me horribles, and here it is. The giant zucchini still sits in our vegetable/fruit bowl. When it starts to smell bad it will end up at the bottom of the garbage disposal.