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Terry the T-Rex dinosaur mascot suit
So this is Terry the T-Rex one of the largest suits in my collection of animals. I’ve had him a few years but only just got around to fixing him up and wearing him. He was another rescue basket case costume which I came across by way of a person I knew that managed a council’s waste disposal site. He had been abandoned there and would have met his end if I had not recovered him.
When I went to collect him, he was sat out in the open on a pallet looking all sad and worse for wear. Instantly I knew I had buggered up he was huge and filled the entire back of my car. Once I stuffed him in, I set off home with my rather grotty foul smelling dinosaur looking out the back window at following motorists. Heck knows what they all thought of been eyed up by a T-Rex.
I named him project “the BRB” and I set to work on him the night I got him but soon lost interest as the more I dismantled him the more problems I found with him. He was extremely dirty every part of him had an issue some big some small. So, I just chucked him in my spare room and tried to forget about him. The years passed until now when I pulled him out and finally finished him.
He’s a custom-made T-rex suit build by Rainbow productions UK some time in the 2000s. So, when he was new, he must have cost a small fortune. Am not entirely sure what he was originally used for but it was not for energetic dancing in as he weighs a ton. But from the limited information I have on him it is rumored that he was used to promote the Nintendo DS game “Dinosaur King” as Terry the T-Rex. The only evidence I have of such use are a couple of scanned photos from somebody I got chatting with on twitter where they are posing with my T-Rex at a game’s tournament in London.
He is built like a tank his outer skin comprises of heavy fleece fabric air brushed with a stenciled pattern detail. Up is back there’s a heavy duty zipper but this is not for wearer entry it is there only to allow for the removal of the inner suit which gives him his bulk. This is a thick sponge foam body pod covered with airtex netting with rings internal for support. There are several cells filled with foam lumps on the hips and the tail is also stuffed with foam lumps. Entry into the suit is actually between the legs by way of a Velcro opening very much like barney the dinosaur. So, to put him on you have to stick him over your head and drop him over yourself before having a helper do up the Velcro.
When I got him, his inner suit was in a filthy condition the tail cell had failed so his tail was a droopy saggy thing some of the foam structure had torn and some of the seams of the netting had failed. The outer skin was ok but also very dirty and the Velcro that secured it around the neck had peeled off and needed sewing back on. His feet which at first, I thought where ok where a bodged mess all his claw tips needed replacing and the elastic cuff around the ankle had perished like wise for the cuff around the gloves. Now to the mask oh wow it was in a bad state the teeth where a bodged mess of card board and duct tape the mouth linings where gunked up with glue from the many attempts over the years to reglue the teeth and the foam view screening was torn and dry rotted it needed a rebuild.
To fix him I completely stripped down the inner body suit cleaned it refilled the cells with Asdas finest budget pillow filling. Glued and patched the tears in the foam and hand stitched all the seams I had to spit to dismantle it. The feet were given new hard resin claw tips and new elastics. The gloves elastics where also replaced. The outer skin was washed and the Velcro was resewn by hand around the neck. The mask was the biggest job as I pulled out the entire mouth linings and made new ones from thin MDF covered with black fleece. I re-covered the original teeth he had with new cream spandex gluing them back in with black hot melt glue. The linings where then glued back in and a new nylon mesh screen was fitted. He was finally complete.
Wearing him is like slipping into another world he’s very heavy but well balanced the arms have been designed to give you limited movement and are stumpy and short so you have got to adapt the silly short arms of a real T-rex. The vision is difficult and is obstructed by the teeth. Also due to the size of the mask you have a six-foot blind spot all around you where an adult person can stand and be invisible to you. The inside of the mask is cavernous and when you want to get out you need a helper to gently pull it all off you which is kind of been like been born again. But all in all it’s a rather fun suit to wear and clown around in. So after my original reluctance to fix him where I even just considered taking him back to where I found him am rather glad that I did carry on till the end as I can see him becoming some what of a show stopper costume and as you know kids frigging love dinosaurs so he’s going to bring a lot of smiles.
Terry the T-Rex dinosaur mascot suit
So this is Terry the T-Rex one of the largest suits in my collection of animals. I’ve had him a few years but only just got around to fixing him up and wearing him. He was another rescue basket case costume which I came across by way of a person I knew that managed a council’s waste disposal site. He had been abandoned there and would have met his end if I had not recovered him.
When I went to collect him, he was sat out in the open on a pallet looking all sad and worse for wear. Instantly I knew I had buggered up he was huge and filled the entire back of my car. Once I stuffed him in, I set off home with my rather grotty foul smelling dinosaur looking out the back window at following motorists. Heck knows what they all thought of been eyed up by a T-Rex.
I named him project “the BRB” and I set to work on him the night I got him but soon lost interest as the more I dismantled him the more problems I found with him. He was extremely dirty every part of him had an issue some big some small. So, I just chucked him in my spare room and tried to forget about him. The years passed until now when I pulled him out and finally finished him.
He’s a custom-made T-rex suit build by Rainbow productions UK some time in the 2000s. So, when he was new, he must have cost a small fortune. Am not entirely sure what he was originally used for but it was not for energetic dancing in as he weighs a ton. But from the limited information I have on him it is rumored that he was used to promote the Nintendo DS game “Dinosaur King” as Terry the T-Rex. The only evidence I have of such use are a couple of scanned photos from somebody I got chatting with on twitter where they are posing with my T-Rex at a game’s tournament in London.
He is built like a tank his outer skin comprises of heavy fleece fabric air brushed with a stenciled pattern detail. Up is back there’s a heavy duty zipper but this is not for wearer entry it is there only to allow for the removal of the inner suit which gives him his bulk. This is a thick sponge foam body pod covered with airtex netting with rings internal for support. There are several cells filled with foam lumps on the hips and the tail is also stuffed with foam lumps. Entry into the suit is actually between the legs by way of a Velcro opening very much like barney the dinosaur. So, to put him on you have to stick him over your head and drop him over yourself before having a helper do up the Velcro.
When I got him, his inner suit was in a filthy condition the tail cell had failed so his tail was a droopy saggy thing some of the foam structure had torn and some of the seams of the netting had failed. The outer skin was ok but also very dirty and the Velcro that secured it around the neck had peeled off and needed sewing back on. His feet which at first, I thought where ok where a bodged mess all his claw tips needed replacing and the elastic cuff around the ankle had perished like wise for the cuff around the gloves. Now to the mask oh wow it was in a bad state the teeth where a bodged mess of card board and duct tape the mouth linings where gunked up with glue from the many attempts over the years to reglue the teeth and the foam view screening was torn and dry rotted it needed a rebuild.
To fix him I completely stripped down the inner body suit cleaned it refilled the cells with Asdas finest budget pillow filling. Glued and patched the tears in the foam and hand stitched all the seams I had to spit to dismantle it. The feet were given new hard resin claw tips and new elastics. The gloves elastics where also replaced. The outer skin was washed and the Velcro was resewn by hand around the neck. The mask was the biggest job as I pulled out the entire mouth linings and made new ones from thin MDF covered with black fleece. I re-covered the original teeth he had with new cream spandex gluing them back in with black hot melt glue. The linings where then glued back in and a new nylon mesh screen was fitted. He was finally complete.
Wearing him is like slipping into another world he’s very heavy but well balanced the arms have been designed to give you limited movement and are stumpy and short so you have got to adapt the silly short arms of a real T-rex. The vision is difficult and is obstructed by the teeth. Also due to the size of the mask you have a six-foot blind spot all around you where an adult person can stand and be invisible to you. The inside of the mask is cavernous and when you want to get out you need a helper to gently pull it all off you which is kind of been like been born again. But all in all it’s a rather fun suit to wear and clown around in. So after my original reluctance to fix him where I even just considered taking him back to where I found him am rather glad that I did carry on till the end as I can see him becoming some what of a show stopper costume and as you know kids frigging love dinosaurs so he’s going to bring a lot of smiles.