Sword swallower Thom Sellectomy demonstrates his trade at the 2011 Lawrence Busker Festival. Thom Sellectomy is scheduled to perform again at this year’s festival.

There’s going to be plenty of wild stuff to see at this year’s Lawrence Busker Festival.

Event organizer Richard Renner helped the Journal-World with a teaser of headline acts, by superlative.

Highest: Pogo Dudes

These stunt-crazy acrobats, at Busker Fest for the first time, use next-generation pogo sticks to propel themselves more than 8 feet in the air. “What they do from there is anyone’s guess,” Renner says.

Scariest: Thom Sellectomy

Thom Sellectomy is a really nice guy, but he swallows swords. Renner says he’s seen Thom have bystanders stick a magnet to his chest to prove the sword’s really in there.

Smallest: Jonathan Burns

He may be a normal-sized man, but contortionist Jonathan Burns shrinks. “He can fit inside an overnight bag,” Renner says.

Sexiest: Foxy by Proxy

Lawrence burlesque troupe Foxy by Proxy combines song, dance, comedy and scanty costumes — but not too scanty. “This is going to be PG,” Renner says. “They’re out on the streets, you know.

Loudest: Shibaten Spirits

Japanese performer Shibaten Spirits plays the core-rumbling didgeridoo — and a bunch of other instruments at the same time.

Quietest: Mechanical Man

He may mime and do the robot, but the statuesque Mechanical Man probably won’t have much to say.

Hottest: Tricks of the Light

These people dance with fire. That’s hot.