Based on the few Tears of the Kingdom trailers we’ve seen so far, and now with this statue highlighting the arm, we suspect that it will play a significant part in the game’s mechanics and story. See also: Liberty Weekend July 4, 1986: First Lady Nancy Reagan (in red) reopens the statue to the public. There was criticism both of Bartholdi's statue and of the fact that the gift required Americans to foot the bill for the pedestal.

The lighting was again replaced—night-time illumination subsequently came from metal-halide lamps that send beams of light to particular parts of the pedestal or statue, showing off various details. A presentation tablet, also bearing Bartholdi's name, declares the statue is a gift from the people of the Republic of France that honors "the Alliance of the two Nations in achieving the Independence of the United States of America and attests their abiding friendship. The restriction offended area suffragists, who chartered a boat and got as close as they could to the island. Bartholdi and our French cousins had 'gone the whole figure' while they were about it, and given us statue and pedestal at once.

The New York group eventually took on most of the responsibility for American fundraising and is often referred to as the "American Committee".

The son of a friend of Bartholdi's, artist John LaFarge, later maintained that Bartholdi made the first sketches for the statue during his visit to La Farge's Rhode Island studio. The Franco-Prussian War delayed progress until 1875, when Laboulaye proposed that the people of France finance the statue and the United States provide the site and build the pedestal. In film, the torch is the setting for the climax of director Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 movie Saboteur. The statue makes one of its most famous cinematic appearances in the 1968 picture Planet of the Apes, in which it is seen half-buried in sand. Nintendo has been particularly secretive with this sequel, not even sharing its name until last month.

That's what makes most sense in my mind considering the green colour of the magic and the fact that Nintendo tends to colour code their heroes and villains. French monarchists opposed the statue, if for no other reason than it was proposed by the liberal Laboulaye, who had recently been elected a senator for life. A life-sized statue of Link is offering a closer look at the protagonist's strange arm in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. A group of statues stands at the western end of the island, honoring those closely associated with the Statue of Liberty.