Dinosaur in a Museum




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]


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Posted on July 21, 2008 at 5:35 pm by Ali S.
Category: Animal, Science & Tech, Video Clips

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20 comments to "Dinosaur in a Museum"

  • Johnny Cat
    July 21st, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    Wow, how cool is that??! :>

  • X-Shark
    July 21st, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    Man. . I wish I were a kid now days :) This would be SO cool

  • Jake D.
    July 21st, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    I love at around :54 when the kids scatter.

    That’s really great, very cool, I’d love to see that in person.

  • DOJ
    July 21st, 2008 at 6:01 pm

    pretty cool idea,
    must of taken a lot of control to turn around without clubbing someone with the tail

  • ted
    July 21st, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    Cool.
    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.

  • Prairie Dog
    July 21st, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    That is full of awesome. Halloween costume idea?

  • Monica
    July 21st, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    Am I the only one who thinks this is really stupid?

    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

  • b83
    July 21st, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    Does that dinosaur have fur?

  • ted
    July 21st, 2008 at 10:53 pm

    I know, Monica. Think of all the adults that still think Muppets and the moon landing were real.

  • jenny
    July 21st, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    woah thats way too cool.
    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? …

  • LisaL
    July 21st, 2008 at 11:28 pm

    That is freaking AWESOME!!! MAN how cool is that? They need to get Jim Henson’s company up in there though to make more and better costumes! I’m sure they could make them even better, more moveable and more convincing heh.
    Anyways.. awesome awesome. I’d love to see that in person.

  • acris
    July 21st, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    I was an extreme dinosaur geek when I was growing up, and this would have been amazing for me to see both then and now!

  • Ali S.
    July 21st, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    You know when I was a kid everytime my parents took me to the local bookstore I always bought a book about dinosaurs. I even bought the awesome series of books called “Dinotopia” which every dinosaur lover must have read or owned at least once. It had some of the most gorgeous art and the story appeals to any kid as it dealt with a world where dinosaurs and humans live side by side. :)

  • Chris
    July 22nd, 2008 at 12:50 am

    OMG i am so jealous of those kids.

    i wish i had that back on grade school field trips

  • Scotchdrnkr
    July 22nd, 2008 at 6:27 am

    Gee if the patrons of the museum in that video would stop and think about which Dino they used there.
    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?

  • serotonin
    July 22nd, 2008 at 9:11 am

    Awesome. Definitely beats the ‘new’ dino exhibit here in Toronto at the ROM, where they replaced jungle and lighting with white walls and a stale office atmosphere.

  • Steve T.
    July 22nd, 2008 at 10:42 am

    Scotchdrnkr: Note that towards the end, as the funosaur is sniffing the kids, someone near the cameraman calls out encouragingly, “Cummon, eat one. Just one!”

  • Knife Knut
    July 22nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    I, for one, would like to see this puppet technology combined with the BigDog robot to make a quadruped dino.
    Although I must say that a buzzing two stroke dinosaur would be rather odd.

  • JamesM
    July 23rd, 2008 at 12:23 am

    b83: “Does that dinosaur have fur?”

    Feathers.

  • neko
    July 24th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    i have found my dream job. right here. i wanna be a dinosaur puppeteer.

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