Where's the Weird Al soundtrack?

Someone let T. Rex out of his pen
I'm afraid those things'll harm me
'Cause they sure don't act like Barney
And they think that I'm their dinner, not their friend
Oh no...

infmom

These are cool too. No puppeteers inside :

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Ariel_Wollinger

@weatherman: That wasn't a puppeteer's legs-- the dino was shitting it's last meal.

Sora57

@GeekyNerdGuy: ahahahah! me too!

Ariel_Wollinger

guys, it is the same dinos as this show:

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Ariel_Wollinger

@strider_mt2k: If I was the puppeteer in that thing, the janitors would be working overtime cleaning little kid piss off the museum floors.

GeekyNerdGuy

I'm glad to see Larry King make a public appearance.

Get it? He's old!

Leonard Nimrod

I did i see a grown man run from that thing like a child? heres a link to them making them

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hu_hu_cool

@Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!: We'll run it over on the way back...

strider_mt2k

I love dinosaurs with a passion but if I was that first kid I would have shit my pants.

Pressvre

That's awesome. Should've been a Deinonychus, n' tear into some tourists with the foot claw.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

@iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!:

Kids are like boats:
They're great as long as they belong to someone else. ;)

strider_mt2k

from the makers of robosapien

Weihovah

Oh man that is SO COOL!

Easily part of the credit goes to the operator/puppeteer, who is doing beautiful mannerisms inside that thing.

The kids didn't even know to be scared! Well done!

(Well except that wise one that ran away.)

strider_mt2k

It looked kinda plump to me. No wonder the kids weren't eaten, it had already had it's fill today!

dallasmay2

@iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!: May I suggest a teaching degree, and a job at a middle school?

Remember, it's ok to say, "I love kids." It's when you get specific that it gets creepy, i.e. "I love 12 year olds."

GeekyNerdGuy

Finally i can get a pet dino...

rer89

My guess is that all the kids around didn't even notice the guy's legs sticking out because they were more focused on the rows of sharp teeth...

weatherman

I love how the mom holds her hand out in a fist. Just in case it freaks out and takes a finger....the babies good though.

Jimbuck

Wow, if i could be there i would be the happiest guy alive...

scuba2steve

That dinosaur and I have something in common. Everytime we get near kids they freak out... :( Why won't they love me!?

iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!

Dinosaurs have no sense of humor. When the mom cheerfully exclaimed that he was smelling her hand, the Dino should have cheerfully bit her.

Everyone would have pooped and/or fainted. Funny stuff.

Sora57

I wish that jerk who said 'come on eat one' was eaten himself.

NumberFiveIsAlive

Holy shit. I was scared of the T-Rex as a kid, and that sucker didn't even move! I'd run screaming from that thing.

Plus I'd just close a door, it doesn't look velociraptor intelligent enough to open one.

Log1c

Very cool but yes, it's clear that it's a human in a large latex setup but it's impressive as hell! I want one!

MrYuk

Very impressive for me (33 y/o). For your average 5 or 6 y/o, that's earth shattering. Didn't have sound on my work computer, but proper acoustics could send an entire field-trip of elementary schoolers into a panicked, frenzied stampede.

...all in all, a good day at the museum.

newgalactic

I want to bring one of those with me to college in the fall. I'm guessing I could really scare some people at parties.

Aoi

@GeekyNerdGuy: I was thinking the same thing, waiting for that thing to roar right in one of the kid's faces. Jesus, I'd have nightmares if there was one of those things walking around the Natural History museum on one of our school field trips as a kid, that was genuinely disturbing.

I WANT!

AZTriGuy

"Thank you LA Museum, my child hasn't shit their pants in about 4 years, it should be a fun ride home back on the sunny, hot, 101."

@GeekyNerdGuy: As genetic science advances and we edge closer to a real Jurrasic Park I think teaching kids that there is such a thing as a "Friendly Dinosaur" is about the worst thing possible.

Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege

I need about 30 of these in raptor size for the overgrown field in my backyard. . . best game of hide-and-seek ever!

Sumone989

Wait a minute, I see legs, and not dino legs. That a guy in a suit! I thought it was like that dino and the cart at Disney.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

We sure have come a long way. Beautiful.

takashimiike 3G edition

i want one of those to wander in my yard...

urbanturban666

lol, whats with the runners at the end? afraid it's going to charge?

aeroworks

It's nice to see Rosie O'Donnell working again.

bobdobbs

OMG! OMG! OMG! Where can I get one of these?!!!

Also, how awesome would it have been if right after the mom said, "He's a friendly Dinosaur," if it had done a ridiculously loud, scary roar in the kids' face?!!

GeekyNerdGuy

They forgot something:

johnnyabnormal

My... following the downfall of his career, Barney the friendly dinosaur hit the bottle hard and developed quite the mean guy attitude.

Lol @ adult meat bag zipping away at the end.

Obsidian

yeah, like demonstrated before this is a costume (at least in design) from the Walking With dinosaurs BBC production. I saw it in person when they came to the BJC and as a JP fan I can say it was spectacular

joshamorrison

@92FakeThomasJefferson: Yeah, the big animatronic T-Rex in the Times Square Toys R' Us is not quite the same.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

@strider_mt2k: But that was the dilophosaurus /geek post

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

I don't need one. Just want to see one.

Come to the NY Natural History Museum Dino-Puppet-Man!

We have dinosaurs too!

92FakeThomasJefferson

...and why exactly do we try to teach our children that Dinosaurs are friendly?

Them kids need to be fearful of the wild...

Chromeo is typing this on his iPhone 3G

That one kid in the stroller was holding his ears in fear and the parents were fine with laughing at him. This is inhumane! Funny, yes, but c'mon. The children will have nightmares for weeks.

jaredgibbs

Wow, that was amazingly realistic. That would be the awesomest Halloween costume evar.

Jitty

@iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!: If you'd stop flipping them over looking for the battery compartment, they'd like you more.... :)

Barry99705

I love how the guys with the camera just stand there and video it while their children are being threatened by a dinosaur...

What's wrong with people today?!?

ideaman2020

@Ariel_Wollinger: those are cool but they don't look very real at all; especially the green one that looks like an old man with its head shaking constantly LOL

MrYuk

If I had that job, I would totally start chasing one of those little kids.

unibrow4o9

I want one suit like that just to scare the drunk/high frat boys down the road. I'll charge them and when I catch one I'll say,"Om nom nom nom!"

Silver_Back

@iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!: tell me about it.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@strider_mt2k: Put enough holes in them and they usually sink?

Hijakk

@iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!: We're all pretty childish and we wuv oo!

GadgetPlay

Pleo ain't got nothing on him.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

Wow how cool is that? and what happened to Malcolm, the chaos guy?

VideoVampire

I also love the MILF, trying to console the child with white lies that probably don't help one bit: "Don't worry, it's a *friendly* dinosaur."

One would think telling her the truth (It's a robot) would probably be more effective.

rcast1986

No. Effing. Way.

rcast1986

So cool. So so so so so so so so so cool. I want one so I can roam the downtown mall here in Charlottesville and chase all the wacky teenagers with multiple body piercings and horrible BO away.

philbert

@iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!: So hey... well are you free to babysit this Friday?

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

I don't think I will ever have kids...watching these kids again just piss me off. I just wanna look at them and say "WAAAAH WAAAAAAAAAH SEE HOW ANNOYING IT IS!?"

iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!

Hey Johnny, your dog doesn't even have half the teeth T-rex has.

I doubt the exhibit will last if the puppeteer was scaring the kiddies too much.

Very cool.

Friendly dinosaur. WTF? And you know this because of Barney? Such irresponsible parenting. War is fun kids. War is fun!

SigmundTheSeaMonster

40 years later, Pleo's back, and he's pissed off.

ninjagin

@Hijakk:
Tradition requires hitting them across the nose with a bottle of champagne before sending them off into the world?

92FakeThomasJefferson

For the record, the "dino" in this vid is one of the costumes/puppets from "Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience" (link).

Rhainor

@iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!: @iCarmen 2.0-Yellow Free Edition!: ...having answered your own question...

Do you have younger siblings you have to take care of, or would you happen to be an only child? Just curious; it may have some bearing on your attitude toward children.

/psychoanalysis

ps61318

@Hijakk: I laughed in spite of my better judgement. You bum.

ps61318

@rcast1986: It's not a robot. It's a latex costume. Which is even less threatening.

It's still pretty awesome.

@johnnyabnormal: Who's the dude on the dinosaur? Didn't think there were any people around concurrent with dinosaurs. Hmm. Looks photoshopped. Or Illustrator'ed. -(:-{P}

ps61318

A HA HA HA HA HA! Rosie O'Donnell...

Rosie O'Donnell's annoying and only KIND OF entertaining. What she DOES have in common with that thing is a mix of creating fear/awe (substitute revulsion?) and sad bemusement.

MrSophistication

if you guys hadnt said otherwise i would have thought this was cgi...hell for the first moment or two that was exactly what i thought anyway.

right now they are saying that they will be able to bring back dinosaurs (by reacting dormant genes in birds) in about 100 years. personally i hope to god i somehow live to see it...am i the only one that wants to ride the dino in the vid??

jrghoull

Extinct, my ass!!!! hahahaha

N@tedog

@92FakeThomasJefferson: ::golf clap::

Chester_Copperpot

@Chester_Copperpot: So that's what Baby I'm-a Want You was about!

Your lovin' and affection, givin' me direction,
like a guiding light to help me through a darkest hour.
Lately I'm-a prayin, that you'll always be a-stayin'
beside me...

/Bread

92FakeThomasJefferson

really cool video...almost didn't noticed the guy's legs at first.

theorieofself

@NumberFiveIsAlive: Are you kidding? The "eat one" was the best bit! hilarious. Especially after i realized it was no advancement in robotics, but some one in a suit. I mean, they didn't even hide the legs! Besides, it would have been WAY more realistic. hahaha.

Amen-Ra

@ps61318: Go read some books. The Earth is only 4,000 years old. JESUS tamed and rode dinosaurs....then he came back as bread.

I'm being completely sarcastic, just in case you missed it.

Chester_Copperpot

compare to this one.
[abcnews.go.com]

pri_them2

Robots are bad. Dinosaurs are bad. Robot dinosaurs will kill us all!!!*

*I know I say that robot-anything will kill us all but, seriously. You know that this robot dinosaur has a "Kill All Humans" setting with a malfunctioning switch.

OMG! Ponies!

That's the coolest thing I've ever seen. Man, I wish I still got to go on field trips.

FLskydiver

why couldn't they have had this when i visited a couple of years ago?! damn! all i got to see was a badly decomposing shark under glass and a bunch of rocks! although, the dioramas are pretty amazing to see in person.

soupcrusher

@johnnyabnormal: FANTASTIC!!! Whoe told you the flintstones where not real! that is actually a documentary!!

Ariel_Wollinger

@infmom:

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Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Boy, that just sucked a little fun out of my roboreptile! I wonder how long it takes Wowwee to put one of these together.

kenyonk

I agree with everyone that wants one to terrorize their neighborhood at Halloween. That would be bloody awesome. Emphasis on "bloody."

StrangeTikiGod

now imagine a kid watching the dinosaur tear his on head off and see a man climb out.

trc202

Oh, man, I *so* want to fight it with a sword....

Tysto

Is it wrong of me to want to hook up a super soaker to the posterior?

Jordan Lund

@Chester_Copperpot: "I'm being completely sarcastic, just in case you missed it."

Yep. missed it. Thought you were serious. This place is rife with Evangelical Bible Thumpers. "Constant vigilance," don't you know. Oh, and he came back as bread AND wine. Normally a nice red, but I think it was a dry white when he did the fish sandwich trick.

@92BuickLeSabre: Bastich. Now I'll have THAT running through my head for FSM knows how long.

GadgetPlay

this dinosaur was built by Bryony Anderson and Chris Covich and helpers in a shed in rural Australia. It took 3 months, so if you want one it'll be expensive.

GoddardZinnikas

i wonder how his body position is in that, is he hunched badly? might be really tiring, the thing could be rather heavy. did the museum create it or did another company make this costume/rig?

Justifan

They need to do a better job of hiding the wearers legs. Then it would be made of some awesome. Other wise, its just cool to little kids.

But I will be honest it had my hopes up for a second... dammit, my dreams were shattered.

-Core-

Oh, it's not a robot. My bad... So Dubai will be the first. Again. I'm jealous... Again.

DaSmith

Weren't the crazy guys with the money in Dubai already building a whole Dinosaur World even with flying robot pterodactyls? As far as I recall I read something like this right here in Giz.

DaSmith