[He doesn't know enough about Rio to comment on Ace's mom and he's somewhat afraid to ask.
Besides-] The Crystal Palace Park! 'Tis a park in London, with the Crystal Palace- rather, the glass palace, at its center! It's a sort of museum, but what's important here are the dinosaurs! Fully life-size sculptures of the beasts!
...Lifesize according to their best guesses at the time of course, but enormous all the same! The people of the dinosaur community even had dinner whilst seated inside the unfinished iguanadon!
[Ahh, but let's not get ahead of himself.] Of course, compared to what a proper iguanadon looks like, it's quite a different looking creation. You see, dinosaurs were yet quite new- I believe even the very word dinosaur had only recently been created! So with what little they had of bones, they could only presume so much about how the creatures looked and acted...why, even within a few years of construction they found the materials necessary to make corrections to the written work, but it's quite a lot more difficult to correct a finished sculpture of such a scale.
[Briefly, he can't help but muse.] I always wondered if my father ever had the chance to see the things...we didn't properly live in London you see, for all that it wouldn't have been so costly a trip.
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[He doesn't know enough about Rio to comment on Ace's mom and he's somewhat afraid to ask.
Besides-] The Crystal Palace Park! 'Tis a park in London, with the Crystal Palace- rather, the glass palace, at its center! It's a sort of museum, but what's important here are the dinosaurs! Fully life-size sculptures of the beasts!
...Lifesize according to their best guesses at the time of course, but enormous all the same! The people of the dinosaur community even had dinner whilst seated inside the unfinished iguanadon!
[Ahh, but let's not get ahead of himself.] Of course, compared to what a proper iguanadon looks like, it's quite a different looking creation. You see, dinosaurs were yet quite new- I believe even the very word dinosaur had only recently been created! So with what little they had of bones, they could only presume so much about how the creatures looked and acted...why, even within a few years of construction they found the materials necessary to make corrections to the written work, but it's quite a lot more difficult to correct a finished sculpture of such a scale.
[Briefly, he can't help but muse.] I always wondered if my father ever had the chance to see the things...we didn't properly live in London you see, for all that it wouldn't have been so costly a trip.