Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has stepped up his efforts to create a real life Jurassic Park by purchasing 117 animatronic dinosaurs.
The robot dinosaurs will join Jeff (an animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex) and Bones (an omeisaurus -- or perhaps a Fauxmeisaurus, see what we did there?) at the Palmer Coolum Resort north of Brisbane.
A 20-metre-long Deinosuchus (an early relative of the crocodile) is one of the new consignment of exhibits and is expected to arrive at the park from manufacturers in China by the end of April.
"If you've seen Jeff and Bones, well you haven't seen anything yet," Palmer said in a statement to the press. The park will open to the public with an expected 165 dinobots.
Given the appeal of the original Jurassic Park to the public lay in the fact that dinosaurs had been resurrected and could wander about, the appeal of the robot dino park will likely lie in how realistic the animatronic creatures appear. On the plus side, they are not nearly as likely to go rogue and start feasting on toilet-bound lawyers.
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