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NJ theme park puts animatronic dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace
- happyllama 1y agoTime to start a crowdfunding effort to help buy these for the Flinstone’s Lady house off of 280 [1] [2] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintstone_House https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintstone_House [2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/06/flintstone-house-dinosaur-owner-hillsborough https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/06/flintstone-h...
- lobochrome 1y agoI’ve driven past that house a million times and always thought to look it up - and always immediately forgot again. Now you reminded me and I know the backstory
- Animats 1y agoWhat, is that thing for sale again?
- mkl 1y agoI don't think she needs crowdfunding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Fang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Fang
- Scoundreller 1y ago> In 2000, when the Hearst Corporation was facing antitrust concerns (including from Fang) over its acquisition of the San Francisco Chronicle, she acquired the San Francisco Examiner from them for $100 while also receiving a $66 million subsidy from Hearst to run the Examiner for three years, becoming the first Asian American to own a major daily newspaper in the US.[4][7][5] In 2004, she sold it to Philip Anschutz for $11 million.[7] How do I get this kind of deal?
- rsynnott 1y agoI suspect for every person who's bought a company for nothing, and ended up in profit, there are _many_ people who've bought a company for nothing, and ended up blowing millions on it. Unless you're really good at this sort of thing and/or lucky it may not be a deal you _want_.
- Workaccount2 1y agoThe whole set of wealthy people is a small subset of the tried-to-get-wealthy set. Society has a hyper-fixation on the winners, and is largely blind to the much larger set of losers. "School of Hard Knocks", the social media channel where the kid goes around interviewing wealthy and ultra wealthy individuals about how they made it, has a very common theme: "Be willing to take risks". This pretty much translates to "I put it all on black 3 times, and it hit 3 times". He never interviews the losers.
- OkayPhysicist 1y agoIt's not a subset, as there are plenty of people who are wealthy because someone up their family tree tried and succeeded at getting wealthy, and subsequent generations simply failed to be in the "actively try to get poor" set.
- conception 1y agoBy plenty you mean most. Class movement is generally a fiction.
- psunavy03 1y agoThe difference is that "I put it all on black 3 times" is purely up to chance, whereas business is generally not. There is luck involved, but skill or at least expertise about what the market will support still comes into play. Someone who knows what they're doing has a much greater likelihood of success, unlike when you put it all on black.
- fnordian_slip 1y agoDamn, both her Wikipedia article as well that of her as her "archenemy" Rose Pak are fascinating (even though I don't like either of them based on what I read).
- hennell 1y agoI misread that as 'her "archenemy" Rosa Parks' and had some concerns for a second...
- tetris11 1y agoOr to upgrade the existing ones at Crystal Palace park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace_Dinosaurs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace_Dinosaurs
- Nursie 1y ago> Have you ever wanted to own gigantic, realistic-looking dinosaurs for your backyard? Yes, we have an approx 1-acre paddock next to the road that's completely unused and I really want dinosaurs! I don't even need them animatronic, static will do. There just aren't many vendors for this sort of thing. It's a shame that shipping from NJ to Western Australia is likely to be prohibitive...
- bigiain 1y agoYou need someone to go and 3D scan them for you, then get your YouTube channel big enough for a Bambu Labs sponsorship. And a lot of filament. A _lot_ of filament...
- Buildstarted 1y agoMight be cheaper to ship from here https://www.mcsdino.com/collections/animatronic-dinosaur https://www.mcsdino.com/collections/animatronic-dinosaur
- ants_everywhere 1y ago> There just aren't many vendors for this sort of thing There's always alibaba https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=animatronic%20dinosaur https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=animatronic%...
- SenHeng 1y agoI expected 2 more zeros. That's cheap!
- ants_everywhere 1y agoyeah me too! I thought the ones on facebook marketplace were cheap. It looks like they're about the same price new.
- defrost 1y agoHey now, let's not forget the Australovenator Constructed from retired tools, machine parts and farm scrap collected throughout rural Western Australia. ~ https://www.jordanspriggsculptures.com.au/australovenator https://www.jordanspriggsculptures.com.au/australovenator and a home ground culture that loves scrap metal* and Mig welders. * https://ictv.com.au/video/11144-stompem-ground-scrap-metal-tourist-dollar https://ictv.com.au/video/11144-stompem-ground-scrap-metal-t...
- phantom-guy 1y agoGuys I’m about to revolutionize my living room
- userbinator 1y agoSounds like something that many YouTubers will want.
- shawn_w 1y agoThe Pacific Science Center in Seattle just threw their dinosaurs in the trash. At least these can go to a new home.
- shermantanktop 1y agoThe Science Center ones were reportedly in bad shape, possibly beyond reasonable repair, and quite basic in their construction and movement. Tail goes side to side, neck goes up and down. Nothing like what a modernized version would be. My kids remember them fondly but they were not amazing feats of art or engineering.
- potato3732842 1y agoSure, but someone will still spend a few hundo on that and put it in their yard.
- Animats 1y agoThere used to be a place called "Lost World" on Highway 17 from San Jose to Santa Cruz with about thirty full-scale concrete dinosaurs. That roadside attraction folded in the 1970s, but the dinosaurs remained for years, slowly being hidden by growing foliage.[1] [1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/sanjosevalleyorchards/posts/8452619068198995/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/sanjosevalleyorchards/posts/...
- rokkamokka 1y agoThe link says the dinosaurs were sold and moved to southern california. Anyone know where they are today?
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- pinkmuffinere 1y agoDo I understand correctly that you don’t believe in dinosaurs? If so that’s super interesting! Can you say more about what you believe? What do you think of fossils?
- sethammons 1y agoLikely a dumb troll, but there are some fundamental Christians that believe the world is 6k years old and Satan put fossils into the world to make you question your faith.
- mrguyorama 1y agoWhere "some" is, according to polling data, actually a crazy large amount of Americans. >“Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.” About 46% of the American public consistently agree with that option, about the same number who back the middle option in Gallup’s surveys. If you let the question trigger the right religion call and response, 44% of americans choose to say that god created humans as they are now sometime within the past 10k years. If you get esoteric to try and lean on how crazy the real fundies get, you ask people about continental drift. 10% of Americans outright deny continental drift being a process that occurs over millions of years. 30 million Americans is the lower bound to the amount of people who hold outright insanely false views on reality expressly for religious reasons. These are people who are desperately looking for reasons to believe that all of modern science is a conspiracy meant to keep them docile or unbelieving or some bullshit or other, and think science as an institution has been perverting the world for, uh, satan. So that's not terribly comforting. >https://ncse.ngo/just-how-many-young-earth-creationists-are-there-us https://ncse.ngo/just-how-many-young-earth-creationists-are-...
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- bluGill 1y agomy wife of many years is relieved that I lost my bid on a roller coaster this weekend. I have the space for one, but there is only so much I dare spend and the previous owners knew how to find buyers from around the world. (If anyone has a lead on one for a lower price let me know)
- roarcher 1y agoA 52-foot-long animatronic Spinosaurus for $2900? Now that's a heck of a deal.
- pavel_lishin 1y agoI was looking at buying one of these for my house, but (a) I don't really have time to deal with such a purchase, and (b) just transporting it back to my house would cost more than the damn thing itself costs!
- heavyset_go 1y agoPerfect fit for the 53 ft tractor trailer you have lying around, too
- DanielHB 1y agoIt would probably cost more to landfill it
- turbosb 1y agothe Spinosaurus is definitely the best deal of the bunch. If I remember correctly, it was the newest one and had the most articulation of the dinos.
- Stratoscope 1y agoIf you ever find yourself on Highway 101 south of Port Orford, Oregon, Prehistoric Gardens is a must-visit: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nncu1vYRtGoK83Rg6 https://maps.app.goo.gl/nncu1vYRtGoK83Rg6 My sister and I went there with our mom and our dachshund Bismark when I was a kid. They had a "no dogs allowed" sign, but we figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. The guy in the ticket booth looked at Bismark and asked, "Is that a dog or a Texas flea?" We found out that Texas fleas were allowed in!
- shafyy 1y agoSounds like something John Oliver should buy on his show
- marcodiego 1y agoThere's theme park with animatronics dinosaurs close to where I live: https://alchymistprehistoricpark.com.br/o-park/ https://alchymistprehistoricpark.com.br/o-park/ Their argentinosauro is Huge. The perks of living in a big city.
- smcin 1y agoTheir argentinosauro may be huge, but can it dribble and score?
- zacharycohn 1y agoThere's no rule that says argentinosauro can't play basketball.
- smcin 1y agoI meant soccer. The theme park is in Fortaleza, Brazil.
- neomantra 1y agoWow, this isn’t far from me… I will visit soon and maybe snag a velociraptor! Thanks for the post!
- CarVac 1y agoI saw this in Secaucus where it was in a pretty cool location. Then it moved to the town where I lived at the time and I wondered how much less interesting it would be in a flat field next to the public works department.
- RickJWagner 1y agoIf only shipping were cheaper…
- bluGill 1y agoDinosaurs had feathers. Or at least some of them did (evidence is hard to find when we mostly have bones, but a few feathers have been found preserved so we know for sure some did, but that doesn't mean all did). None of these do, including ones that we should expect would have. Those who want realism shouldn't buy these.
- yawnr 1y agoLol ok man
- NoSalt 1y agoWith Halloween coming up, I would LOVE to have one or two of these for my front yard. The HOA would have a conniption ... LOL!
- rcpt 1y agoFB marketplace in Los Angeles has old props and sometimes it gets weird https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/811783558682707/ https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/811783558682707/
- kblissett 1y agoLink is NSFW by the way.
- turbosb 1y agoSad to see it go, I spent the summer of 2019 there maintaining the dinos and repairing a lot of the controllers. It was a fun experience, and I have fond memories of the people there. I'm still a little tempted to buy one just for nostalgia's sake.