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Titanic II Titan Unveils Australian Dinosaur Park Plan |
2013-03-31 |
![]() Uhhh... Did we see dis movie? Like, two or three times, wasn't it? Clive Palmer, who last month in New York launched an ambitious plan to build and sail the "Titanic II", said he had ordered more than 100 life-size dinosaur robots from China to populate his north Australian resort. "We'll have the world's biggest dinosaur exhibit, with 165 animatronic dinosaurs," Palmer said. He already has two of the towering creatures -- named Jeff and Bones -- on display at his Palmer Coolum Resort on the Sunshine coast north of Brisbane and boasted that the public "haven't seen anything yet." The robots, some of which measure up to 7 meters tall and weigh in excess of 1.2 tonnes, will move their tails and chests and blink their eyes. They are expected to arrive by the end of April. A larger-than-life character who has made a fortune in mining, Palmer said recently that he was funding the Titanic II because "I want to |
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Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-03-31 07:59 |
#2 Palmer is one those guys who got really rich through his own efforts, and has apparently decided to have fun spending it. Good for him, I say. |
Posted by: phil_b 2013-03-31 05:26 |
#1 Giant robot dinosaurs means giant robot dinosaur fights. I am sooo there! |
Posted by: SteveS 2013-03-31 00:53 |