Extinct, my ASS! from The Original Joe Fisher on Vimeo.
Forget Ben Stiller's movie "Night at the Museum" with the gigantic CG T-Rex skeleton chasing him around. This time there is a real dinosaur roaming the halls of the LA Museum of Natural History. I believe this is the same method of costume and puppetry used by the folks at the "Walking With Dinosaurs" show with live actors in the dinosaurs giving it a more realistic feeling and puppet artists moving the arms, mouth, and eyes.
I wish more museums would have dinosaurs walking about because I used to love visiting the gigantic skeletons when I was a kid. And whenever my family was traveling I would force them to take me to the city museum so I could see the dinosaur exhibition for myself. And now the chance to see one walking around in real life would certainly make my day as an adult. I love how the kids find it so believable that they are either so fascinated by it or terrified by such a giant creature with rows of sharp teeth in front of them.
Here's hoping for the day when we can clone dinosaurs as pets...until then visit your local museum and demand them to get puppet dinosaurs! Not only will the kids will love them but it will also attract new visitors to see the cool exhibitions and provide much needed funding to museums. [via - Gizmodo, and Random Good Stuff]
That's really great, very cool, I'd love to see that in person.
must of taken a lot of control to turn around without clubbing someone with the tail
New ways to scare children are always great. Even cooler if the baby the lady was carrying had been a puppet, so the dinosaur could have reached over and bit off its head.
Even more realistic if it pooped every now and then, too.
We have enough problems trying to convince people that humans and dinosaurs didn't coexist, without planting memories in the minds of young children of actually MEETING one
and not far from where i live.
and im on summer break.
and, im so totally getting my friends to visit that :P
and yeah, whats up with the fur? or is that a sad excuse for feathers or something? ...
Anyways.. awesome awesome. I'd love to see that in person.
i wish i had that back on grade school field trips
Notice the Razor sharp teeth. (AKA MEAT EATER) and it was a real dino.
Can you say LUNCH TIME (LOL).
Wonder if any of the little ones had nightmares after meeting it. Definitely not a Barney the purple dino type.
I admit it was a very neat exhibit.
But why a carnivore playing nice with the meat. Why not a herbivore instead?
Although I must say that a buzzing two stroke dinosaur would be rather odd.
Feathers.