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Post by thelordsgym on Dec 6, 2010 2:31:32 GMT
Nice pictures sir! I think the Arsinoitherium is definitely larger than I pictured it to be. I have never actually seen an Arsino skull before....
Too bad they didn't have more rare bullies....
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Post by zopteryx on Dec 6, 2010 3:27:05 GMT
WOW!!! If I ever go to Germany, this will be my first stop! Hopefully, Bullyland will make some of these life size replicas in miniature. ;D
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Post by Horridus on Dec 6, 2010 15:37:50 GMT
WOW!!! If I ever go to Germany, this will be my first stop! Hopefully, Bullyland will make some of these life size replicas in miniature. ;D They already have! ;D   (Image from dinosaurtime.co.uk) |
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Post by thelordsgym on Dec 6, 2010 16:17:50 GMT
Wow, no question about that one!
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Post by Griffin on Dec 6, 2010 16:54:39 GMT
Liliensternus is also a toy by them. Exact pose and colors as the model.
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Post by zopteryx on Dec 7, 2010 2:50:03 GMT
Quote: "They already have!"
Oh, I meant the ones they hadn't already made; like Dakosaurus or a Plateosaurus with a nest.
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Post by postsaurischian on Dec 8, 2010 12:58:56 GMT
In all the pictures of Gerrothorax I've seen, it looked like a complete dork. In the above picture, though, it looks like nightmare fuel! Leave it to the Germans to make everything scarier. Hey - this is also a German publication and the Gerro doesn't look too scary, does it? ;D   |
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Post by Himmapaan on Dec 8, 2010 13:16:02 GMT
How adorable. ;D It looks as though it could make an appearance in a Miyazaki film.  ;D |
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Post by totoro on Dec 8, 2010 18:50:10 GMT
How adorable. ;D It looks as though it could make an appearance in a Miyazaki film. ;D Haha, I second that! Especially after the time travel aspect of Ponyo. That left me wanting for more from him! I want terrestrial prehistoric creatures! Really loving this thread and the photos. Makes me yearn for my childhood museum - the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago - and the great prehistoric exhibit hall there. Sbell, where's the nearest best exhibit to Portland? OMSI just doesn't have a lot to offer. |
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Post by sbell on Dec 8, 2010 21:06:35 GMT
How adorable. ;D It looks as though it could make an appearance in a Miyazaki film. ;D Haha, I second that! Especially after the time travel aspect of Ponyo. That left me wanting for more from him! I want terrestrial prehistoric creatures! Really loving this thread and the photos. Makes me yearn for my childhood museum - the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago - and the great prehistoric exhibit hall there. Sbell, where's the nearest best exhibit to Portland? OMSI just doesn't have a lot to offer. From Portland you will probably want to head East to Montana--the Museum of the Rockies is very impressive (I haven't been in a long time, but it has apparently just gotten better). The Black Hills Institute in South Dakota is pretty cool (everything's on sale!). If you head north, there is of course the T.rex Discovery Centre--a cool little community-run paleo facility in southern Saskatchewan (I should mention, I'm the manager here!); and there is, of course, the Tyrrell museum in Drumheller, Alberta (and the Tyrrell Fossil Research Station in Dinosaur Provincial Park, which is closer to my town than to Drumheller). As for heading south--I don't know. Never been. I am willing to bet that if you head south to California you might find a few places (LACM springs to mind). But really, the big ones are all on the Eastern side of the continent. |
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Post by Pangolinmoth on Dec 8, 2010 21:25:56 GMT
Haha, I second that! Especially after the time travel aspect of Ponyo. That left me wanting for more from him! I want terrestrial prehistoric creatures! Really loving this thread and the photos. Makes me yearn for my childhood museum - the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago - and the great prehistoric exhibit hall there. Sbell, where's the nearest best exhibit to Portland? OMSI just doesn't have a lot to offer. From Portland you will probably want to head East to Montana--the Museum of the Rockies is very impressive (I haven't been in a long time, but it has apparently just gotten better). The Black Hills Institute in South Dakota is pretty cool (everything's on sale!). If you head north, there is of course the T.rex Discovery Centre--a cool little community-run paleo facility in southern Saskatchewan (I should mention, I'm the manager here!); and there is, of course, the Tyrrell museum in Drumheller, Alberta (and the Tyrrell Fossil Research Station in Dinosaur Provincial Park, which is closer to my town than to Drumheller). As for heading south--I don't know. Never been. I am willing to bet that if you head south to California you might find a few places (LACM springs to mind). But really, the big ones are all on the Eastern side of the continent. Don't forget about Salt Lake! We have the museum of ancient life here that boasts the nations largest collection of mounted dinosaurs. It is an incredible museum and was just featured in Prehistoric Times. Also Dinosaur National Monument and the Cleveland Lloyd dinosaur quarry are also great dino stops. Only 12 hours from portland and well worth it. |
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Post by sepp on Dec 8, 2010 22:31:36 GMT
How adorable. ;D It looks as though it could make an appearance in a Miyazaki film. ;D Haha, I second that! Especially after the time travel aspect of Ponyo. That left me wanting for more from him! I want terrestrial prehistoric creatures! Really loving this thread and the photos. Makes me yearn for my childhood museum - the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago - and the great prehistoric exhibit hall there. Sbell, where's the nearest best exhibit to Portland? OMSI just doesn't have a lot to offer. As a volunteering employee of OMSI I'm not really permitted to speak ill of them, but I tend to agree that while OMSI does have a small paleo exhibit, the museum as a whole is dedicated much more to physics and industry and other things. (Even though the Samson exhibit up there right now is really really cool, and they're taking the rex skeleton down and moving it to another museum in January I think) I would recommend however that you visit the John Day area of eastern Oregon, there's so much to see there. As a great place to stop and view amazing fossils and skeletons, I'd definitely recommend the Thomas Condon Visitor Center which is essentially a fossil museum of the types of animals (mammals and amphibians, etc) and plants that have been found in the surrounding John Day Fossil Beds. There's also the Painted Hills to see, and private ranches where you can go and pay a small fee and collect geodes and thundereggs and even opals - and then there's Fossil Oregon itself where you can drive behind the high school and dig up fossils yourself  If you want to drive a few hours, definitely go out to John Day! They've got much more to offer out there than Portland. (There's also the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Hillsboro!) |
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Post by totoro on Dec 9, 2010 23:53:23 GMT
Wow, great info and ideas, thank you sepp, sbell and pangolinmoth! Can't wait to get some time off to check out some of these places! I have been out John Day-way in Fossil, OR briefly for a one-night stay and got to collected some plant fossils at a public school there. I've also been wanting to make a return trip and get out to JD,, so will definitely do so early this summer. The museums of the Rockies and Ancient Life sound great too, thanks for the suggestions!
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Post by zopteryx on Dec 10, 2010 1:56:08 GMT
Wow, great info and ideas, thank you sepp, sbell and pangolinmoth! Can't wait to get some time off to check out some of these places! I have been out John Day-way in Fossil, OR briefly for a one-night stay and got to collected some plant fossils at a public school there. I've also been wanting to make a return trip and get out to JD,, so will definitely do so early this summer. The museums of the Rockies and Ancient Life sound great too, thanks for the suggestions! Both of those museums are excellent (I just went to both two summers ago). The Museum of the Rockies has the most "real" fossils on display I've ever seen, including a whole T.rex! And the mounted skeletons at Ancient Life are probably the best in the US! |
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Post by bokisaurus on Dec 10, 2010 6:28:12 GMT
Those pictures are wonderful Bully has been faithful to those replicas in the museum I wish there was someplace closer to Seattle that has dinosaur  All we have is the Sad collection at the Burke Museum  Anyway, I hear the Denver Museum of Natural History is also a must to visit. Unfortunately I always seem to miss it every time I pass by Denver  I like the idea of sharing different museums around the world |
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Post by postsaurischian on Dec 10, 2010 8:27:02 GMT
Maybe I should turn this thread into a general museum-thread where we can all share the pictures from our museum visits  . Even better would be an extra museum sub-board, so that every museum could have its own thread. What do the admins think? |
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Post by Libraraptor on Dec 10, 2010 9:35:55 GMT
Wow, very cool, those nesting Plateosaurus!
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Post by stoneage on Dec 10, 2010 18:10:47 GMT
I wonder if anyone has a picture of the old T-rex from the Indianapolis Childrens Museum. At one time it was outside with a nest and babies. Then they took it down due to deterioration or something.
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Post by bokisaurus on Dec 11, 2010 6:50:58 GMT
Maybe I should turn this thread into a general museum-thread where we can all share the pictures from our museum visits . Even better would be an extra museum sub-board, so that every museum could have its own thread. What do the admins think? I would say just create a new Museum thread and keep this as is.  |
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Post by postsaurischian on Dec 11, 2010 21:31:39 GMT
Hm, o.k., I will open a new thread - but I will have to visit another museum first. Next one will be either Zuerich, Frankfurt or Berlin (where I've been at least 10 times but never had a camera with me - I have seen all the different buildup stadiums of the Brachiosaurus / Giraffatitan since 1976 and of course the newest is the best! ). |
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All we have is the Sad collection at the Burke Museum 
