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Kate 13:14 on 2024-01-16 Permalink Reply  

• Taylor 13:41 on 2024-01-16 Permalink

  Could have sworn you’d have gone with the Dinasaurium article; thanks!

• Kate 14:19 on 2024-01-16 Permalink

  Here’s the Dinasaurium article.

• Blork 17:21 on 2024-01-16 Permalink

  I probably would have loved the Dinasaurium, although the spelling would have driven me crazy.

  I’ve seen all the Jurassic Park movies, not because of the stories or the characters but because of the dinosaurs! I even saw one at a cinema in Italy once, where it was dubbed in Italian (which I do not speak). Best Jurassic Park movie experience ever, because I didn’t have to suffer the bad dialog and stupid story. Just watch the dinosaurs!

• Taylor 18:07 on 2024-01-16 Permalink

  Thanks Kate, you’re a champion of the independent journalist!

  @Blork – I think it’s one of those ideas that likely could have been quite successful if not for the fact that the guy running the operation was so obviously a fraud and a con man

  Had this been planned and run by the city or province, as a legit museum (like the Biodome), I’m sure it would have worked and had been awesome. But mildly girating dinosaurs was way too much like infotainment

  Especially given the state of early-90s technology – today you might be able to build a more or less fully autonomous brontosaurus

  I wouldn’t mind seeing that prowl around the botanical garden

• Kate 19:39 on 2024-01-16 Permalink

  I recall a strange spot about halfway between here and Quebec City which had large plaster(?) dinosaurs in a sort of private park. A friend was driving there and back on a project we were both on, and we felt compelled to stop and look at these things. We didn’t have to pay, and nobody else was around. I hope this wasn’t a dream because I remember it very clearly.

• carswell 20:06 on 2024-01-16 Permalink

  I have a memory of a huge green dinosaur on the north side of the 20, Kate. Part of a service station complex at a cloverleaf IIRC.

• CE 22:42 on 2024-01-16 Permalink

  You weren’t dreaming. It was Restaurant Le Madrid and was also famous for its big blinking sign that “WE SPEAK ENGLISH.” It was torn down a while ago and replaced with a souless fast food chain pit stop called “Madrid 2.0” but they kept the dinosaurs. There were also monster trucks, not sure if they’re still there.

  You can see it in its current state here. Michel Rabagliati illustrated it pretty well in Paul à Québec.

• Kate 10:07 on 2024-01-17 Permalink

  Thank you, CE!

• Ian 23:12 on 2024-01-17 Permalink

  @Taylor “today you might be able to build a more or less fully autonomous brontosaurus”

  Apatosaurus, surely / nerd