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It's one of the newer dinos in the dino park, which added an around the world dinosaurs thrown in the existing biome themes. There is an ancient oceans themed area which the spino fits in quite well. There is surely around 50 dinosaur statues featured, heres the full list:
  • Albertosaurus
  • Ankylosaurus
  • Apatosaurus
  • Brachiosaurus
  • Borealopelta
  • Centrosaurus
  • Corythosaurus
  • Cryolophosaurus
  • Dakotaraptor
  • Deinonychus
  • Edmontosaurus
  • Elasmosaurus
  • Euoplocephalus
  • Herrerasaurus
  • Iguanadon
  • Parasaurolophus
  • Protoceratops
  • Pteranodon
  • Quetzalcoatlus
  • Regaliceratops
  • Spinosaurus
  • Stegoceras
  • Stegosaurus
  • Struthiomimus
  • Styracosaurus
  • Tanystropheus
  • Therizinosaurus
  • Triceratops
  • Tylosaurus
  • Tyrannosaurus Rex
  • Velociraptor
Well damn thats alot. And alot of canadian ones :D
We got something like this near me, its basicly an outdoor museum with a bunch of dinomodels around the place. They got like 300 its insane
 
@Orkan are you into the collectable minifigure series?
Was at the store today and got myself the 4 of the new series 25 that i wanted. These tickle me deep down in my Lego Castle nostalgia.

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Well damn thats alot. And alot of canadian ones :D
We got something like this near me, its basicly an outdoor museum with a bunch of dinomodels around the place. They got like 300 its insane
Franklin Park zoo did something like that a while ago. They have this whole paved path area that's pretty substantial going from near the Kiwis to the Condors in some more forested area. For a couple years they had a dino themed walk where they brought in like at least 50 dino models. then they made it giant bugs, which didn't do too well, and it's been closed since covid. The bugs and dinos are gone. I really wish they'd put some habitats down there because right now it's just a really big chunk of unused space.
 
Franklin Park zoo did something like that a while ago. They have this whole paved path area that's pretty substantial going from near the Kiwis to the Condors in some more forested area. For a couple years they had a dino themed walk where they brought in like at least 50 dino models. then they made it giant bugs, which didn't do too well, and it's been closed since covid. The bugs and dinos are gone. I really wish they'd put some habitats down there because right now it's just a really big chunk of unused space.
I think they should make some big exhibit out of it, but I have a hard time deciding what they could add into the space. Like what does the sister location, Stone Zoo, not have. Then what do local zoos not have either. I could only think of a couple different possibilities:
  1. Moose, no zoo nearby has any surprisingly for New England
  2. Bison, maybe Bronx Zoo and others could lend some animals for a new herd
  3. Arctic penguins, considering they are getting new African penguins I doubt it
  4. Seals or sea lions are always popular
  5. Keeping with the bird theme maybe they add some more aviaries? Considering bird world, waterfowl ponds, cranes, and jungle world I don’t think Franklin park is itching for more birds.
  6. A new area, like maybe North America. Once again Stone Zoo has Siera Modre which is Mexican/ American desert. But it’s plausible
I think the problem is that there aren’t enough options and too many at the same time. It would be cool to expand the grounds more though.
 
Moose, no zoo nearby has any surprisingly for New England
Maine WIldlife park does! maybe they could give them a rescue.
  1. Bison, maybe Bronx Zoo and others could lend some animals for a new herd
Roger WIlliams could too
Arctic penguins, considering they are getting new African penguins I doubt it
I would love that but they're probably extremely pricey to keep due to the huge building costs, salt water costs, and the temperature requiremnt.
Seals or sea lions are always popular
NEAQ is pretty close by and kinda steal all the good ocean animals. Though they are getting African penguins which NEAQ has as well so its not impossible.
  1. Keeping with the bird theme maybe they add some more aviaries? Considering bird world, waterfowl ponds, cranes, and jungle world I don’t think Franklin park is itching for more birds.
I would love that but it probably wouldn't be too popular with general visitors
  1. A new area, like maybe North America. Once again Stone Zoo has Siera Modre which is Mexican/ American desert. But it’s plausible
I think the problem is that there aren’t enough options and too many at the same time. It would be cool to expand the grounds more though.
Would love this too!

Maybe they could move some of their South American species and add more to a new Amazon themed area?
 
Maine WIldlife park does! maybe they could give them a rescue.

Roger WIlliams could too

I would love that but they're probably extremely pricey to keep due to the huge building costs, salt water costs, and the temperature requiremnt.

NEAQ is pretty close by and kinda steal all the good ocean animals. Though they are getting African penguins which NEAQ has as well so its not impossible.

I would love that but it probably wouldn't be too popular with general visitors

Would love this too!

Maybe they could move some of their South American species and add more to a new Amazon themed area?
Actually if they made a smaller “jungle world” for smaller monkeys and birds that would be cool. Would probably be like the jungle world at Roger Williams.

Actually something cool could be if they got a rhino species.
 
Well damn thats alot. And alot of canadian ones :D
We got something like this near me, its basicly an outdoor museum with a bunch of dinomodels around the place. They got like 300 its insane
I wish I had a great dino park near me, the closest thing is a bunch of grossly oversized animatronic dinosaurs in a small theme park but it has a tacky feel to it. Went once went it opened and never bothered again. Same with actual natural history museums, my 'local' one has a trex and a I think a stegosaurus in a kids area but I had to go to north america to see one of the proper musuems so I got to chance to learn and see for myself a wide range of dinosaurs. Still a casual dino fan but cool to see.

For the zoo im building, yeah its a much larger area than i expected. At first, i thought - oh a small dinosaur area to showcase local fossil history. Nope, its basically a quarter of the entire zoo dedicated to a static dinosaur area showcasing the canadian fossils where a lot comes from alberta where the zoo is based. Apparently the dinosaur park is dated back to the 1930's where there was hundreds of dinosaurs but the designs aged really really badly. An example is the last remaining orginal dinosaur statue - dinny the brontosaurus:

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I wish I had a great dino park near me, the closest thing is a bunch of grossly oversized animatronic dinosaurs in a small theme park but it has a tacky feel to it. Went once went it opened and never bothered again. Same with actual natural history museums, my 'local' one has a trex and a I think a stegosaurus in a kids area but I had to go to north america to see one of the proper musuems so I got to chance to learn and see for myself a wide range of dinosaurs. Still a casual dino fan but cool to see.

For the zoo im building, yeah its a much larger area than i expected. At first, i thought - oh a small dinosaur area to showcase local fossil history. Nope, its basically a quarter of the entire zoo dedicated to a static dinosaur area showcasing the canadian fossils where a lot comes from alberta where the zoo is based. Apparently the dinosaur park is dated back to the 1930's where there was hundreds of dinosaurs but the designs aged really really badly. An example is the last remaining orginal dinosaur statue - dinny the brontosaurus:

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I wish I had a great dino park near me, the closest thing is a bunch of grossly oversized animatronic dinosaurs in a small theme park but it has a tacky feel to it. Went once went it opened and never bothered again. Same with actual natural history museums, my 'local' one has a trex and a I think a stegosaurus in a kids area but I had to go to north america to see one of the proper musuems so I got to chance to learn and see for myself a wide range of dinosaurs. Still a casual dino fan but cool to see.

For the zoo im building, yeah its a much larger area than i expected. At first, i thought - oh a small dinosaur area to showcase local fossil history. Nope, its basically a quarter of the entire zoo dedicated to a static dinosaur area showcasing the canadian fossils where a lot comes from alberta where the zoo is based. Apparently the dinosaur park is dated back to the 1930's where there was hundreds of dinosaurs but the designs aged really really badly. An example is the last remaining orginal dinosaur statue - dinny the brontosaurus:

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The london natural History Museum is amazing tho. Was there in 2023 and i can really recommend it, they got alot of famous fossils like the original Archaeopteryx, the deinocheirus arms and sophie the stegosaurus aswell as alot of marine reptiles that mary anning found back in the day.
 
The london natural History Museum is amazing tho. Was there in 2023 and i can really recommend it, they got alot of famous fossils like the original Archaeopteryx, the deinocheirus arms and sophie the stegosaurus aswell as alot of marine reptiles that mary anning found back in the day.
I did actually consider the london museum as I've heard great things about it but after hearing the loss the Diplodocus Fossil, I instead went to the museum with the original - the Carnegie museum in pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The sheer abundance of fossils there was outstanding with 5 galleries dedicated to fossils and provided some wonderful photo opportunities with almost zero crowds in the middle of summer 😁
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I did actually consider the london museum as I've heard great things about it but after hearing the loss the Diplodocus Fossil, I instead went to the museum with the original - the Carnegie museum in pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The sheer abundance of fossils there was outstanding with 5 galleries dedicated to fossils and provided some wonderful photo opportunities with almost zero crowds in the middle of summer 😁
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Im pretty certain they still had it when i was there, just not in the main area but further back
 
Hey @Marvinb , how’s your fantasy world coming along? Need any more ideas?
Your stuff is really impressive. I absolutely suck at sculpting. And drawing. And really any form of art except building. 😂
I would totally buy some of your sculptures if I wasn’t so far away. Idk how it would hold up going across the Atlantic. Besides, I bet they’d charge a ton for international shipping. 😅
EDIT: How the heck did I misspell Hey as Bye 💀
 
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Hey @Marvinb , how’s your fantasy world coming along? Need any more ideas?
Your stuff is really impressive. I absolutely suck at sculpting. And drawing. And really any form of art except building. 😂
I would totally buy some of your sculptures if I wasn’t so far away. Idk how it would hold up going across the Atlantic. Besides, I bet they’d charge a ton for international shipping. 😅
EDIT: How the heck did I misspell Hey as Bye 💀
I mean if you like throwing out ideas im very much open for them :D.
If you wanna get into sculpting i can really recommend Northoftheborder and Aceofclay on Yt, they make videos sharing their whole process
The stuff that i ship is usually made so it can be either taken apart into seperate pieces and/or made from a clay that stays flexible after curing so delicate stuff like fingers and such cant break of
 
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