I picked this book up probably 10 years ago. I don't remember where I got it but I remember being really excited. At the time all of my kids were under 12 years old so I thought it would be real cool to build with them, or just have them watch as it got made.
I also figured that, as a professional cook, working with chicken to build a cool dinosaur would be easy. Boy, was I mistaken. When I bought it I was not really thinking of the process as much as the final product, and it turns out this project is way more involved than I thought.
My main barrier at the time was the precision work that needs to be done gluing the bones together. Three whole chickens are needed for the project, boiled, cleaned and sorted, I can deal with all that. Holding a tiny bone and trying to glue it to another tiny bone...I'm out 💀
I simply don't have the patience or skill it takes to finesse something that. The project would be over pretty much at the beginning if that was my job and I knew it.
So the book has been on the shelf, and in & out of boxes, for the last decade or so. While I was cleaning my little book shelf the other day I pulled this book out and looked it over. I set it on the kitchen table for my 17 year old to see and started talking to him about it over dinner. He definitely has the skills I lack for to put this dino together.
We talked about it and we are going to give it a go! I'm collecting all the supplies, and there are a good number of them, before getting the chickens. Then the book says to process one chicken at a time, as you have to keep all the little bones organized as you take them apart.
So we will start with one chicken probably sometime next week and go from there. I'll keep you posted ;)
Well technically chickens are dinosaurs so what's the point of the book oO
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Look kids, you can make dinosaur skeletons out of anything, sequel book, how to open your own museum and charge admission!
Haha, yes! Let's see if the first one is something someone would pay to see...
Just get a billionaire sponsor, say "Smith", and name it after him. I don't know something like "The Smithian."
I remember building a chicken skeleton for a project in school. It was quite a bit of work. Bleached the bones, glued them together. Took ages.
Damn, I was just trying to have fun. Thanks for #keepingitreal
I will be curious as to how this works out. Please take pictures as you progress.
That's my plan, I'll bring ya along for sure!
That's be awesome.
You fucking pussy! Just do it
I'm not sure what it has to do with being a pussy but if you read the post you would know that I am going to just do it 🤣😎🤯😋
Why follow the book? Create your own chicken bone dino. Then bury it in the yard. “Discover” it in 30 years. Make like 100 YouTube videos about your “discovery” bolster than with the real prehistoric fish you dug up… then reap the financial rewards of a cryptoid fraud! 🎉
Holding a tiny bone
No one wants to hear about your penis.
Except @trumpman
Well, hopefully he came by and left you a big fat upvote then..
!pimp
Cool! I wouldn't have the patience to do it, and way too much prep work. It's a nice idea though. Show us all the final product when he finishes!