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22nd January 2024
11:40am GMT
Well, a dad who ordered his son one got quite the surprise after it had to be delivered to his garden by crane.
Andre Bisson’s four-year-old son, Theo, asked for "the biggest Carnotaur you’ve ever seen" and not wanting to disappoint, he did exactly that.
The Guernsey-born father bought the statue online for €1,670 and thought he would be getting a three-metre-long dinosaur. When it arrived, it was actually nearly twice the size.
He found the gift after Jersey amusement park, Tamba Park, was selling its old stock of dinosaur statues.
Explaining to The Sun, he said: “The issue was as this was being sold off online, there was only a thumbnail image to try and gauge the size, no details whatsoever and no one to ask, I didn’t care really! I knew he would be big, I estimated 3m long x 1.5m max… as it turns out, he was much bigger at 5m long x 2.3m high.”
Bisson said he didn’t realise just how big it was until a delivery company said it was impossible to fit into a lorry.
On top of this, the rain in Jersey which would soak into the Carnotaur statue's skin making it even heavier, weighing up to two tons.
The dad told UniLad: "Seven guys couldn’t lift or move him… so they had to organise a JCB to get him out".
It had initially been bought for his son as a Christmas present but due to the size and difficulty with delivering it, the gift took longer than expected to arrive.
As an apology, Tamba Park sent a smaller dinosaur.
Carnotaurs are Theo’s favourite species and the four-year-old first asked for a dinosaur after watching the Disney film Dinosaur.
Theo has named the dinosaur Chaz.
