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Oz's Walking With Dinosaurs touring show is one star short today after someone made off with a 1.5m-tall remote-controlled beast as the show opened in Guadalajara, Mexico. Spokeswoman Karla Arroyo admitted that organisers hadn't got the foggiest as to how the AU$110k (£61k) creature went walkabout, but insisted that the theft …

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  1. Paul_Murphy
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    Arroyo concluded: "Only in Mexico..."

    That sounds like a challenge.. when are they coming to the UK?

    I guess it would be a little after not getting into America due to dinosaurs conflicting with the bible, or of the potential terrorist threat that dinosaurs might cause there.

    ttfn

    flame on!

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Grenade

      Blighty has some competition here

      Hehe, there used to be a running gag on the other side of the iron curtain.

      Q: What is the speed limit in Romania?

      A: 50 kmp/h lower limit, if you go any slower you will find your car unloaded from the back.

    2. Stuart Halliday
      Happy

      been

      They've been and gone in the UK.

      At £45 a ticket they can keep them.

  2. Winkypop Silver badge
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    GPSaur?

    Perhaps there's an iPhone app for that?

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Surely....

    Now Swindon is twinned with DW they'll be visiting there soon... not sure if they'll escape though!

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

      not if the magic roundabout gets them...

  4. Estariel
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    Remote Controlled Dinosaur

    Some mexican child is getting a really special Xmas pressie this year.....

    1. Mr Squirrel
      FAIL

      Only if...

      So long as they stole the remote control as well. Otherwise, some child is getting a massive disappointment for Winterval.

      1. Anonymous John

        Re Only if...

        I expect a One 4 All remote will work.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Troll

    Was Not Was

    Is there theme music performed by "Was Not Was" by some chance?

    It seems someone really did walk that dinosaur.

    Sorry. I didn't mean to give you earworms.

  6. Andrew Oakley
    FAIL

    Can't believe you missed...

    ...the opportunity for a Peter Ustinov "One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing" headline

  7. Neur0mancer
    Happy

    The secret ingredient is...

    ...LOTUS X...

  8. Long John Brass
    Terminator

    Jurassic park?

    Did no one learn the lesson from Jurassic Park?

    The little buggers always get loose, then snack on the nearest American

    So, not all bad then ;)

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    Maybe he went walkabout looking for...

    He's probably now in Cancun, wearing a large sombrero lying on a beach sipping pina collada pondering whether the huge crater hole in Yucatan was responsible for the extinction of his dino-friends!

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Not Liverpool then

    Where Diplodocus would have been left burned out propped up on bricks.

    I really, really hope there will be some CCTV of a dinosaur sneaking out under the cover of darkness.

  11. Genesis
    Joke

    One-eyed dinosaur?

    Apparently the thief had an accomplice in the scam and had to evade a guard to get away. After the heist he turned to his partner in crime and asked 'Doyouthinkesaurus?'

    Badum tch.

  12. Gerard Krupa

    Police are currently searching...

    ...for several old ladies, a camp English spy and a number of racist stereotypes. They claim they may have made a breakthrough with the discovery of a microfilm containing a recipe for wonton soup.

  13. Max 12
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    1.5m tall, hmmm?

    http://xkcd.com/87/

  14. Sir Sham Cad

    @Long John

    Actually the velociraptors in JP were quite happily munching on an Englisher too. (Yes, I know the character was supposed to be Kenyan - the point stands).

    On the plus side they weren't anything like real velociraptors, which are much smaller and fluffier and probably couldn't taste the difference between American and British reared long pig anyway.

    This utterly pointless piece of pedantry and nerdery was brought to you in association with too much coffee. Gods, is it only Tuesday?

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Alert

    Zomgwtfgbh

    Espionage! Trickery!

    The Mexicans have Dinosaur making technology, who knows what might happen?!

    (Pipe down Crichton).

  16. hi_robb
    Megaphone

    May I be the first

    To welcome our dinosaur weidling mexican overlords

  17. unitron

    Probably stuffed full of drugs and aimed for the border

    What are the Border Patrol rules of engagement regarding dinosaurs?

    1. Mark Monaghan
      Go

      Rules of engagement?

      "Hey Juan there's another dinosaur making for the border!"

      "Have you been confiscating contraband again Gonzales?"

    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Exactly what I was thinking

      This is going to make a great low speed chase - much better than OJ.

  18. Joe User

    Maybe he was hungry . . .

    And stepped out for a taco?

  19. Adrian Esdaile
    Pint

    Sitting in a bar in Guadalajara....

    Up walks a Mexican selling big lizards...

    "What are you afraid of?"

    "With these claws? I doubt you'd survive..."

    Remembering Kristy McColl this Christmas.

  20. TeeCee Gold badge
    Coat

    Ahem.

    Q: What happens to a Dinosaur that goes missing in Mexico?

    A: It turns up later in Chilli.

    <Drum sting>

    <Cymbal>

    <Tumbleweeds>

    Thank you. I'm here all week......

  21. Indianatone
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    Re Sitting in a bar in Guadalajara.... → #

    Yes me too. In these shoes is a great song. Time for perennial "Fairytale of New York" me thinks.

    On another point the Dino show was here in Indianapolis a few months ago. I believe it was a sell out and this is part of the bible belt where common sense goes out of the window.

    Oh and I'm a Brit who married an American Woman (oops 'nother song title).

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