> Have you ever wanted to own gigantic, realistic-looking dinosaurs for your backyard?
Yes, we have an approx 1-acre paddock next to the road that's completely unused and I really want dinosaurs!
I don't even need them animatronic, static will do. There just aren't many vendors for this sort of thing. It's a shame that shipping from NJ to Western Australia is likely to be prohibitive...
There used to be a place called "Lost World" on Highway 17 from San Jose to Santa Cruz with about thirty full-scale concrete dinosaurs. That roadside attraction folded in the 1970s, but the dinosaurs remained for years, slowly being hidden by growing foliage.[1]
My sister and I went there with our mom and our dachshund Bismark when I was a kid. They had a "no dogs allowed" sign, but we figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. The guy in the ticket booth looked at Bismark and asked, "Is that a dog or a Texas flea?"
I saw this in Secaucus where it was in a pretty cool location. Then it moved to the town where I lived at the time and I wondered how much less interesting it would be in a flat field next to the public works department.
Dinosaurs had feathers. Or at least some of them did (evidence is hard to find when we mostly have bones, but a few feathers have been found preserved so we know for sure some did, but that doesn't mean all did). None of these do, including ones that we should expect would have.
Sad to see it go, I spent the summer of 2019 there maintaining the dinos and repairing a lot of the controllers. It was a fun experience, and I have fond memories of the people there. I'm still a little tempted to buy one just for nostalgia's sake.
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Yes, we have an approx 1-acre paddock next to the road that's completely unused and I really want dinosaurs!
I don't even need them animatronic, static will do. There just aren't many vendors for this sort of thing. It's a shame that shipping from NJ to Western Australia is likely to be prohibitive...
[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/sanjosevalleyorchards/posts/...
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My sister and I went there with our mom and our dachshund Bismark when I was a kid. They had a "no dogs allowed" sign, but we figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. The guy in the ticket booth looked at Bismark and asked, "Is that a dog or a Texas flea?"
We found out that Texas fleas were allowed in!
Their argentinosauro is Huge.
The perks of living in a big city.
Those who want realism shouldn't buy these.
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