diff --git a/lib/do_create_instance.js b/lib/do_create_instance.js
index d3fe8db..6d8e7bb 100644
--- a/lib/do_create_instance.js
+++ b/lib/do_create_instance.js
@@ -112,12 +112,13 @@ function do_create_instance(subcmd, opts, args, callback) {
             if (!opts.quiet && process.stderr.isTTY) {
                 var BORDER = 10;
                 spinner = bigspinner.createSpinner({
-                    delay: 250,
+                    delay: 50,
+                    positions: 40,
                     stream: process.stderr,
                     height: Math.max(2, process.stdout.rows - 2 - BORDER),
                     width: Math.max(2, process.stdout.columns - 1 - BORDER),
                     hideCursor: true,
-                    fontChar: '#'
+                    fontChar: '\u2588' // '\x1b[7m \x1b[m'
                 });
             }
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a0a6661..e3833ad 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "assert-plus": "0.1.5",
     "backoff": "2.4.1",
-    "bigspinner": "^3.0.0",
+    "bigspinner": "3.1.0",
     "bunyan": "1.4.0",
     "cmdln": "3.2.3",
     "dashdash": "1.10.0",
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     "verror": "1.6.0"
   },
   "bin": {
-      "triton": "./bin/triton"
+    "triton": "./bin/triton"
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=0.10"