Dilophosaurus @ Combe Martin

[juventinorocks]

I would so shit my pants if that thing was stalking me.

Where's turok when you need him?!!!!!

[xARKODSTx]

dude! you cant tell me it wouldnt be the funnest thing to be like "aight who wants to go for a ride with me on my pet dinosaur!?"

[noggleghost]

i whent there its shit ! :P

[PhantomFeline2]

Well, wether it's still there or not, it's alot better than most of the animatronics. Great job working on it!

[dibley1973]

@PhantomFeline2: Thank you.

[KiriouSs]

nurn it with fire!

[xIegionx]

How'd you make/gete the sound effects for it?

[dibley1973]

@xIegionx : Some were sourced from free sources on the net, some from paid for sound clips and a couple may have been grabbed from a series of dinosaur movies I'm sure we all know well. Then all the sounds were tweaked and mixed to make new sounds using PC software.

[xIegionx]

@dibley1973 Yeah some of it sounded like the chortle the dilophosaurus makes from Jurassic park

[SyntheticJewel]

I'm pretty sure my teacher sculpted this...Weird to find the animatronic! Is it still up?

[dibley1973]

I have no idea if it is still working or not as I no longer a partner in teh company that animated and installed it. We received it as a giant static polyeurothane skinned, foam casting. I built the frame that moves it and my business partner (at the time) stuck it together, re-modelled it, and painted it in the colours you see there.

[dibley1973]

@SyntheticJewel: It may well have been. It came to use as a foam casting in many peices. We had to make a fram and then join the peices together before assembling and skinning it.

As far as I know Combe Martin still has it on display, but I'm no longer a partner in the company that assembled and installed it there anymore!

[hoganballz666]

I wish I wasadinosouar

[TRANSFORM2ME]

then youd be extinct smarty!

[evopwe]

that's  funny

[campervan25]

ive been there!

[Dmasterman]

One of the dino sounds, did sound like the JP sound effect.

[RougeRoks]

Very cool. The animations are great, and everything moves very smoothly.

[DeadmanInc285]

Not bad. Not bad at all. It moves just like a bird would which is what dinosaurs are more closely related to. Did this one spit water? We had the same exact Dilophosaurus years back here at the San Diego Wild Animal Park when they'd do their Dinosaur Mountain attraction. Obviously there were no indications that Dilophosaurus really could spit venom or toxins.

[dibley1973]

@DeadmanInc285:

At the time of installation this did spit water. I have no idea if it still does as I havent worked for the company that built and maintained it for over two years.

[Sketchkat]

it still does :)

[dibley1973]

Blimey, who'd have thought!

[Dmasterman]

Yeah way!

0:10 it sounds like a lower groan of the Dilophosaur's chirp, like the one in the JP film.

I wonder if they got the idea from that? Though this one is probably older, since the one int he film was a Juvenile.

[NUTCASE71733]

@DeadmanInc285

If Dilo couldn't spit venom, chances are it could have toxic bacteria like the modern day Komodo Dragon. I remember hearin Dilophosaurus had a weak bite, so to be an effeciant hunter it had to have taken prey down somehow.

[SimKoning]

@NUTCASE71733 They now know that the whole bacteria thing is a myth, komodo dragons are actualy quite venomous.

[tigermegz]

OMG I LOVE THAT PARK :D

[PICSDEMON]

i think dat the dilo would not roar at all.

the dinos direct descendants are birds so dat proves dat he cant roar!

[Allblack25]

PICSDEMON how ur so sure, go travel back with a time capsule or what to show us the proof!

[theROFLOLMAOWPIMP]

nah! hes not sure but he supose dat dinosaurs would not roar or scream. but nobody will have the chance to know it

[Allblack25]

aw it would be one of my great dreams to see dinosaurs alife (and safety)

[vulpintissentiality]

Wow, that is impressive! :) The movements here are so lifelike. It's amazing how far animatronics have developed over the years!

[hyena419]

it couldnt roar like that scientists can find the bone of the voice wind and blow inside it to find out what the noise it made how bout that you fagets !!!!!

[LetsNotBeSillyNow]

I thin someone's watched Jurassic Park 3 a bit to much

[RougeRoks]

Yeah..I agree ^^;

[shredder125]

they should move and interact with the envirment

[foxfirebluelace]

thas what they should do insted of brining them back...it could spell dissaster for everyone if they come back from the dead. robotic dinosaurs are the shiznits

[codzilla12]

ahh my state dinosaur AZ

[MotionPictureMaster]

omg that was freakin awesome! i would've been scared! it's totally freestanding! amazing!!!

[otto142]

dilophisaurus never growled like that he had a lil scream but nothin else

[dibley1973]

Otto, how can you be sure? I'm pretty sure you weren't around in the early jurassic period, where you?

[otto142]

i'm prtty that he didnt his airholes in his head could never produce such a growl

[dibley1973]

I'm Glad you enjoyed them. The did look good when first made. Incidenatlly, we didn't produce the T-Rex, just the dilophosaurus and two Megalosauri.

[LilLouise18]

Were you involved in their construction? I am impressed. Do you have any more videos of those little Megolosaurs and the Tyrannosaurus? They were all so realistic in their movements.

[dibley1973]

I was involved with the company that made the megs and dilo. I designed and fabricated the steel frames that moved the bodies and fitted the pneumatic systems to it. I will try to put some up of the megs, but as I said above we didn't produce the T-Rex. :o)

[LilLouise18]

I went to Comb Martin Wildlife and Dinosaur Park a couple of years ago. Those moving dinosaur models were amazing.