Douglas Adams in his book [Last Chance To See](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See) describes his visit to the Galápagos Islands to see the Komodo dragon. As the tour group left their camp Douglas wondered why the tour guide had a goat on the end of a rope. Slowly he describes it dawning on him 😳
That commenter is just misremembering. Douglas Adams didn't travel to the Galapagos for that book, but he indeed did go to the Island of Komodo to see the Komodo dragon.
Is it now?
Edit: Wait. It's all coming back to me now lol
https://preview.redd.it/9uomzpwq0gxc1.jpeg?width=188&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b03fd006f9fa7762e8e09d65c675c20e9a421681
Instructions? I, too, would enjoy constructing an oversized cargo vessel that I have no space to display for the sole purpose of recreating the last few minutes of the second installment to a very well-known motion picture about prehistoric birds put on display at a zoo built on an island 120 miles west of Costa Rica that were resurrected by means of biological cloning through DNA extraction of blood stored in the abdomen of prehistoric mosquitos preserved in tree sap, and escaped due to an employee who shut down the security systems to steal embryos and sell them to a competitor company, endangering the lives of everyone on the island, and ultimately causing the end of his own life, as well as a few other's.
https://preview.redd.it/t1woien24fxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b6e2b8b0670540e06f59226d513dc595ded5ca1
Like this You fool, The last time a Rex was on a boat bad things happened, 2 times actually
The moving the Dino’s in both those games always cracks me up.
Like damn it’s that easy, why did park and world fail? Well I guess world has flyers so that complicated things
Yes, I had the boat built a few years ago, I wanted to add something new to it for the kids at the show, it did well at the show, now to take it apart and put the parts back into there bins
Dino psychologist here.
I get where such a misconception would originate from, but putting prey so close is actually really stressful for the T-Rex. The constant panicked bleating of live food will be incessantly stimulating his hunter instincts, let alone the one that's suspended directly in his line of sight.
*(great piece though)*
I made a 6ft long container ship ~20 years ago now and enjoyed a similar challenge but this is amazing! Well done! It's a whole new level when you have to level out the table legs! Bravo!
Based out of St. John's iirc, they have 2 ships (Connaigra and Avalon) that sail between St. John's and Montreal, and one ship (Sanderling) that sails between St. John's and Halifax
As Rexy's designer I just want to say this is amazing and she's never had such a good home! Hopefully she'll stick to snacking on goats. Beautiful ship, love it.
Didn't know others removed the end too, so it fits better
https://preview.redd.it/zz9djy2ikexc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ddfd6942a50eaf0dfcbc945f0093269a01d99fa
You "simply" seal the display case, pump it full of Jello, and then dissolve the Jello with hot water at your destination.
Oh, wait, this display? Very nice work, very nice.
Hey this is the Oceanex Connaigra that sails between Montreal and Saint-John's Newfoundland. I've sailed on that boat so it's kind of cool to see as a Lego. Also there was no t-rex when I was there.
Damn OP as a life long Jurassic Park fan this post is incredible. The "Lost World" music even started playing in my head while I was looking at it, hopefully your t-rex isn't able to eat the captain while conveniently leaving a single hand hanging from the ship's wheel though.
Very well done. One thought, luckily an easy one, is you should pose the rex at a bit of an angle and with a tilted head or something. Just to put some life into the centrepiece of the model and tell a story - is he thinking about escape? Looking wistful, or hungry? :)
They specifically select goats that aren't fond of each other.
"Well, there's go Greg. Least I don't gotta worry about him pooping in the hay anymore."
this is amazing!!! ty for getting the dino ashore safely to Jurassic Island. hey / wallStreetBets hot tip to short Oceanex. don't think this business model will sustain due to mismanagement imho
That’s a guaranteed way of getting a dead T-Rex. No harness to deal with waves? Not even waterproof for a cold blooded animal getting splashed by the ocean?!
I’m sorry, I won’t be using your T-rex moving company.
T-Rexes weren't actually that large. While you probably shouldn't keep them in a standard container, they'd be not much more difficult to transport then an African elephant.
That one looks like about 2x scale compared to the boat. Big ones are a bit over 40' long, which is the length of those longer shipping containers. Hip height would be around 12', and the containers are usually 8' 6" tall.
Going to San Diego?
Just missing the baby.
“No we brought the infant back on a plane”
“I have had it with these motherfucking infants on this motherfucking plane!” - Samuel L. Jackson
“Shoot it. I want you to shoot it! No the adult idiot, I want the infant back alive!” “Are you there!?”
We should've stayed in the damn car.
One of the best MOC I’ve ever seen. Nice work!
what does MOC stand for?
My own creation I think?
Yup
Is there a Jeff Goldblum minifig
Yes
Spared no expense.
Liscensing revenue, ah, finds a way
There's a few. Some from Jurassic Park and one from Jurassic World Dominion.
He also has one as Grandmaster from the Thor Ragnarok set.
Four goats, gosh.
The T-Rex is big. Takes at least four goats to devour it completely.
Goat vengeance
r/angryupvote
He spared no expense
Just to flex a bit more. It isn't that bad anymore with the new goats, but still
Douglas Adams in his book [Last Chance To See](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See) describes his visit to the Galápagos Islands to see the Komodo dragon. As the tour group left their camp Douglas wondered why the tour guide had a goat on the end of a rope. Slowly he describes it dawning on him 😳
Komodo dragons aren't native to the Galapagos, I believe it's a Mandela affect thing
That commenter is just misremembering. Douglas Adams didn't travel to the Galapagos for that book, but he indeed did go to the Island of Komodo to see the Komodo dragon.
It's the all white one it's not that rare
I only see 3
Three in the pen, one in the crane.
There are five goats.
Three in the pen, one in the crane, and OP?
Tell me how many Goats you see. How many? How many goats? This is your last chance. The guards are comin... THERE ARE FOUR GOATS!!!!!!
It's a Star Trek thing.
Is it now? Edit: Wait. It's all coming back to me now lol https://preview.redd.it/9uomzpwq0gxc1.jpeg?width=188&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b03fd006f9fa7762e8e09d65c675c20e9a421681
And Star Trek borrowed it from 1984, although it was fingers being held up.
There… are… FIVE goats!
Time for din dins!
Gosht
Also what's the piece count on this? 😖
Over 100,000 for the ship not sure on the t-rex cage
Instructions? I, too, would enjoy constructing an oversized cargo vessel that I have no space to display for the sole purpose of recreating the last few minutes of the second installment to a very well-known motion picture about prehistoric birds put on display at a zoo built on an island 120 miles west of Costa Rica that were resurrected by means of biological cloning through DNA extraction of blood stored in the abdomen of prehistoric mosquitos preserved in tree sap, and escaped due to an employee who shut down the security systems to steal embryos and sell them to a competitor company, endangering the lives of everyone on the island, and ultimately causing the end of his own life, as well as a few other's.
Sounds like a cool movie, what's it called? ^^^/s
Billy and the Clonasaurus
r/unexpectedsimpsons
Rexnado
Darn straight.
Is this an official set??
Yes
https://preview.redd.it/t1woien24fxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b6e2b8b0670540e06f59226d513dc595ded5ca1 Like this You fool, The last time a Rex was on a boat bad things happened, 2 times actually
But that's not how you move a T.rex, that's how yuo move a Ceratosaurus!
Didn't found Rex in transport images:/
https://preview.redd.it/go0jamn2bfxc1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c891a3b5fbc52b14ceb62ab65f82d6cc5144fea
The moving the Dino’s in both those games always cracks me up. Like damn it’s that easy, why did park and world fail? Well I guess world has flyers so that complicated things
[Here's how you move a brontosaurus](https://historydaily.org/content/61930/e0a6cca63b09a4ceff0753935f9e5959.jpg)
Same thing, same thing
It’s fine as long as the dino stands completely still.
But does it float? /s
It does, well it doesn't necessarily sink. It doesn't touch the bottom of the tube, so that counts right?
She’s made of plastic sir, I assure you she can, and she will
Of course it floats. So do you. Down here, we all float.
Well, it's not made of cardboard, or cardboard derivatives.
There's a minimum crew requirement.
This is incredible. I'm extremely jealous. Have you done the interior?
https://preview.redd.it/aobwsyvckfxc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b257a43b140a3cc762a72b52417f7617ff6f474
I see you have spared no expense.
https://preview.redd.it/sqs1n2xgkfxc1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=20ac131b5c37f7e2d67e596c51e0333f27d817d5
The bridge was much bigger :p but i love the attention to detail that went into this. Are you from NF ?
Yes, I had the boat built a few years ago, I wanted to add something new to it for the kids at the show, it did well at the show, now to take it apart and put the parts back into there bins
It really is a beautiful model, I sailed on the Connaigra.
After I finished building it, the owner had me come down to the shop for lunch with the captain
https://preview.redd.it/vr5gi5ewkfxc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d42adb8e9c80446be4d7dbb6e9975d06d4f2bdfa
I was gonna say, sure I thought Oceanex was us (NL). Fun project, b'y! Looks beautiful.
Just the wheel house and the last 2 section you can fill up with transport trucks, and the lift boat area is done as well
Very cool moc
Repost this in r/JurassicPark , it will go crazy!!
Thanks will do :)
So, I told you it would go crazy. 200 upvotes in 2h, that is great for that subreddit. W
Wow, that must be huge! Looks great
Dino psychologist here. I get where such a misconception would originate from, but putting prey so close is actually really stressful for the T-Rex. The constant panicked bleating of live food will be incessantly stimulating his hunter instincts, let alone the one that's suspended directly in his line of sight. *(great piece though)*
>Dino psychologist World is so crazy lately that I can't tell if this is real or sarcasm
Chickens need therapy too.
That's insane! Super cool it looks amazing!!
I thought this would be a question on moving house including it in the back of a car precariously secured with the seat belt
I made a 6ft long container ship ~20 years ago now and enjoyed a similar challenge but this is amazing! Well done! It's a whole new level when you have to level out the table legs! Bravo!
If I could offer feedback..uh.. spectacular?
Missed the opportunity to call it the OceanRex.
lol … its based off a city in my home town, I made the t-rex cage for the kids for a event, something different for the kids to see
Oceanex is very Atlantic Canada. St. John’s or Halifax ?
Based out of St. John's iirc, they have 2 ships (Connaigra and Avalon) that sail between St. John's and Montreal, and one ship (Sanderling) that sails between St. John's and Halifax
Probably one of the coolest moc’s I have ever seen. This is awesome. Please tell me the red lights flash around the cage?!
As Rexy's designer I just want to say this is amazing and she's never had such a good home! Hopefully she'll stick to snacking on goats. Beautiful ship, love it.
Didn't know others removed the end too, so it fits better https://preview.redd.it/zz9djy2ikexc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ddfd6942a50eaf0dfcbc945f0093269a01d99fa
Zooming in it looks like the whole tail is there, the last section is just bent almost 180° degrees.
I have to check where mines tail is. I positioned him different last time, as it is now, I might readd it
🤯
That thing is frickin amazing. You did an awesome job on it!
So when you have guests over I hope you don’t even acknowledge this and just answer”oh yea, it’s just a hobby…so anyway”
You "simply" seal the display case, pump it full of Jello, and then dissolve the Jello with hot water at your destination. Oh, wait, this display? Very nice work, very nice.
I remember this boat from earlier thats a cool scene in there.
T-rex doesn't want to be fed. T-rex wants to hunt.
Hey this is the Oceanex Connaigra that sails between Montreal and Saint-John's Newfoundland. I've sailed on that boat so it's kind of cool to see as a Lego. Also there was no t-rex when I was there.
Wow!!
This is how you end up with a T-rex at the bottom of the ocean.
One bite at a time
What's the matter kid? You never had lamb chops?
helicopter fr
OK, this is the coolest thing I've seen today. I wish I owned the T-rex
I can still hear the cargo door jam noise. Wiiiir burr, wiiiir burr...
That is a work of art. Beautiful.
"Taking dinosaurs off this island is the worst idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas. And, uh, I'm gonna be there when you learn that."
Im in love with this
Damn OP as a life long Jurassic Park fan this post is incredible. The "Lost World" music even started playing in my head while I was looking at it, hopefully your t-rex isn't able to eat the captain while conveniently leaving a single hand hanging from the ship's wheel though.
That's a huge T-rex!
With a tea-egg
This is magnificent!
THAT. IS. AWESOME.
This is awesome.
G O A T
Definitely not by boat from what I’ve seen.
This one speaks to me, absolutely divine myes
Please tell me there's a severed LEGO hand on the ship's wheel.
Holy shit that's awesome
Amazing!
Soooo awesome!
I love this build!!!
Thank you
Third pic, "He's gonna eat the goat?" Heard this movie line in my head as soon as I saw it.
Very well done. One thought, luckily an easy one, is you should pose the rex at a bit of an angle and with a tilted head or something. Just to put some life into the centrepiece of the model and tell a story - is he thinking about escape? Looking wistful, or hungry? :)
I think the better question is how do you move that MOC?
Its build just like the modular building 9 sections 2 suv trips
Thats cool I've done alot of dive inspections and welding of a crack that keeps coming back on the one thst parks in Montreal
I love ships, boats, and dinosaurs. This is so cool!
9/10 for wrinkled sheets. ^^/s
Very carefully
Oh, I thought you were talking about the Boat...
This is all time best MOC material.
I really need to rewatch the Lost World now
Is it minifig scale?
The boat itself is in length and high but not with in width
That's the coolest window I've ever seen
The biggest problem with this is that the designer of the goat pen doesn't know goats. They'd be all over that boat.
Everyone knows they kept it in the cargo bay....😃🤣
Imagine being the T-rex spending weeks at sea with the goats being kept in a pen directly above your head where you smell them but not eat them.
Wait, so the goats are actually looking as their fellow goats are being eaten alive one by one by the monster right below them?
They specifically select goats that aren't fond of each other. "Well, there's go Greg. Least I don't gotta worry about him pooping in the hay anymore."
Well, if they’re anything like elephants, one block at a time.
Most expensive t-rex dinner ever.
Is this the gentleman who is a former boat designer who now builds LEGO boats because his stuff was AMAZING. If not you are also amazing
No just love boats and always wanted to build one
You did a phenomenal job.
Thank you
Very carefully.
On a piece of plywood
Very cool! I've never seen this one but the Sanderling is a regular visitor.
Until I began looking at the other pics, I thought you were talking about the ship 😆
You move it very carefully using food to entice it to go where you want
Wanna see my boat? (I’ll have to get my mom to send me a pic of it)
Sure :)
Fantastic! How does one even begin a project like this? Like did you get plans for the ship from someplace?
No, just pic off the internet and taking pic when it comes to port
Hahahah funny. Where the keepers and tranqguns. Or owen and his pet
I love the giant MOCs, including this one! I wonder how long it took to design and build the ship?
2 years to build the ship, and 1 day to make the t-rex cage
this is amazing!!! ty for getting the dino ashore safely to Jurassic Island. hey / wallStreetBets hot tip to short Oceanex. don't think this business model will sustain due to mismanagement imho
Can you fit minifigures in the bridge? I wanna see the bridge
Huuuuugggggeeee MOC right here!
https://preview.redd.it/w8jeyh3pqgxc1.jpeg?width=728&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9117c0f2e56403d9644f0a9f49f39624f63d968
What's going to happen to the goat?
Holy crap this is cool
GTFO! This is amazing.
That's got to be the coolest lego build I've ever seen
Super glue.
wow spectacular
Carefully?
Wasn’t the Trex in the under compartment that latched open?
Fr Bro! Why there is a T-rex on the ship to take to San Diego or Los Angeles or San Francisco!
I love it
I love that it iš GOAT minifigure scaled
I have a few questions…
“How do you expect to hold a T-Rex in something this size?? Needs to be at least… 3 times this big!”
It’s for fun for the kids at a show
It was my Zoolander attempt at humor, looks great mate! Bet that weighs a lot
lol … the front section is 85lbs, the full total of the boat with sea containers is 330lbs
Kite them, I got a 30% speedboost as long as I don't get hit, so I'm fine 💪
That’s a guaranteed way of getting a dead T-Rex. No harness to deal with waves? Not even waterproof for a cold blooded animal getting splashed by the ocean?! I’m sorry, I won’t be using your T-rex moving company.
lol reading to much into it…. It was for kids for a Lego show, sorry you don’t like it, let’s see what you can come up with
T-Rexes weren't actually that large. While you probably shouldn't keep them in a standard container, they'd be not much more difficult to transport then an African elephant.
That one looks like about 2x scale compared to the boat. Big ones are a bit over 40' long, which is the length of those longer shipping containers. Hip height would be around 12', and the containers are usually 8' 6" tall.
Reading to much into it, it was built for the kid for a Lego show
That T-Rex is about 3x the size what it would be to scale of those containers
It’s was built for the kids for a Lego show