A beautiful Lego Diplodocus skeleton
June 18, 2014
Check out this beautiful Lego Diplodocus:
(Click through for the full image at full size.)
I particularly like the little touch of having of bunch of Lego Victorian gentleman scientists clustered around it, though they’re probably a bit too big for the skeleton.
This is the work of MolochBaal, and all rights are reserved. You can see five more views of this model in his Flickr gallery. I especially admire how he’s managed to get the vertebral transitions pretty smooth, the careful use of separate radius/ulna and tibia/fibula, and the use of a transparent brick in the skull to represent the antorbital fenestra.
The forefeet are wrong — their toes should not be splayed out — but you can’t blame MolochBaal for that, as he was copying the mounted CM 84/94 cast in the Madrid museum.
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week 
June 18, 2014 at 8:30 pm
You can see here the opening of the exhibition of the Diplodocus replica from Madrid in 1913, with the assistance of the Spanish Royal Family (Queen María Cristina and Infanta Beatriz):
http://www.dinoastur.com/2014/04/29/catalogo-exposicion-diplodocus-mncn/
June 18, 2014 at 9:10 pm
What fun! Too bad about the ramrod-straight neck (a Lego construction necessity, perhaps?), but at least the skull isn’t pointing straight down….
June 20, 2014 at 8:57 pm
It IS more or less historically accurate this way.
March 1, 2019 at 9:23 am
[…] Carnegie Diplodocus, CM 84, is the original from which all those Diplodocus mounts around the globe were taken, and so by far the most-seen sauropod in the world — almost certainly the most-seen […]