It Came From the Tabletop! - Cosmic Encounter and Draftosaurus

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ubarose wrote: Triceratops is my favorite too.

I knew we were friends for a reason.

Lol - Triceratops is also my favorite.

Close second is the plesiosaurus

So I haven't listened to this podcast yet, but I have a great story about Uncle Beazley the Triceratops. When I was about six years old (in 1989) my parents drove us from Michigan all the way to DC to do some sightseeing. I was a normal six-year-old boy obsessed with dinosaurs, so the Natural History Museum was a highlight for me, and Uncle Beazley was part of that. There's a picture of my sister and I climbing all over it somewhere.

Years later, my wife and I went to DC on our honeymoon (yes really, it was awesome) and we went back to the Natural History Museum. I was really excited to see Uncle Beazley again, just for nostalgia's sake. But when we got there, it turns out he wasn't actually there anymore. I went all over the place trying to find the statue, even asking one of the workers if it was still there. But I guess the twenty-one-year-old we asked didn't remember it in the first place. So I left disappointed.

A couple days later we went to the National Zoo, and we turn a corner and what do I see but Uncle Beazley! I had no idea they had moved him. So there's also a picture of me in 2008 posing in front of that bronze triceratops. It was one of those unexpected moments that I didn't think would happen, but it made me really happy.

I have not seen it since 198-whatever, but I wonder to what extent The Land Before Time impacts peoples favourite dinosaur. (Mine was the trike, as well). Pterodactyls were up there though.

These days I like me some mammalian megafauna.

ubarose wrote: One of the best things about growing up in DC.
With a bit of skill and balance, you could slide down his tail.

www.atlasobscura.com/places/uncle-beazley-the-triceratops

Looks like someone could get gored on one of those horns. Definitely frowned upon in modern “kid space” design