An organisation by the name of "Christliche Initiative Pax" is now planning to erect a 55 metre high version, "the world's biggest statue of Christ", in the German pre-Alps - logically enough on a 1600 meter high mountain called Predigtstuhl (Sermon Chair). The project has met with a negative response from the major Christian churches. Canon Josef Obermaier, who is responsible for pastoral care in tourism for the Archbishopric of Munich and Freising, is sceptical about this giant Jesus and says it would be better to strengthen the regional tradition of building chapels in the countryside and erecting mountain-top crosses.
Sources and information: http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/ted (de), http://www.cip-komitee.blogspot.com (de)