If you happen to know someone who really loves dinosaurs (like, really loves them) and has a lot of empty space to fill, than retailer and mail order dealer Hammacher Schlemmer has the perfect gift for the upcoming holiday season. This $100,000 life-size replica of a 40-foot Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton (pictured above) stands 15 feet tall and will most likely be impossible to wrap, let alone hide under a tree. Based on Stan, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever unearthed, this T. rex replica is considered to be museum quality. The Hammacher Schlemmer replica “is expertly crafted using GI-1000-grade silicone molds that impart stunning, authentic detail to the polyurethane resin casts that faithfully preserve the healed injuries Stan suffered during life, including a broken neck and ribs as well as puncture wounds in his skull and lower jaw,” according to the mail order dealer’s website. The 1,500-pound T. rex skeleton is supported by a concealed steel structure and can be customized into any anatomically possible pose–vertically at 15 feet tall or horizontally at 12 feet tall–by the company’s complimentary assembly crew. A replica of Stan’s head is also available for $9,500.
Fossilized over millions of years with little to no distortion or crushing of any kind, the original Stan was discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota by Stan Sacrison in 1987. Found in a disarticulated state, Stan was pieced together to eventually create the most complete (199 bones) male Tyrannosaurus rex ever found and is currently housed at the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc. center. Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. Inc. is a retailer and mail order dealer founded in 1848 that claims to be the oldest continuously published catalog in the United States with an estimated annual catalog circulation exceeding 30 million. Based in Niles, Illinois, Hammacher Schlemmer is currently owned by the heirs of J. Roderick MacArthur, the founder of the Bradford Exchange, who purchased the company in 1980. Hammacher Schlemmer offers customers products ranging from rechargeable yard trimmers and countertop wine refrigerators to a genuine 1902 E. Joy Morris carousel horse and a $2 million Submarine Sports Car.
Click here to view and purchase the life-size dinosaur replica (here for Stan’s head) and visit hammacher.com for more information on Hammacher Schlemmer or to request your own catalog.
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