20 January 2024 , 10:00
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A dad who bought a dinosaur online for his son did not expect to receive a six-metre-long statue so monstrously big it had to be dropped into his garden by crane.
When Andre Bisson's four-year-old son Theo asked for the "the biggest Carnotaur you've ever seen", the Guernsey father set out to do just that. He bought the statue online for £1,000 and thought he would be getting a three-metre-long dinosaur. When it arrived, it turned out to be nearly twice the size.
Andre found the online listing after his partner mentioned an amusement park in Jersey, Tamba Park, was selling its old stock of dinosaur statues.
The dinosaur statue had to be dropped into Andre Bisson's garden by crane (Facebook/Andre Bisson)He told the Sun Online: "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."
He said he did not realise how big it was until the delivery company told him it would not fit in a lorry, back in 2020. The task of delivering the dinosaur was made even more difficult by heavy rain in Jersey. It meant the Carnotaur's skin got wet, causing the statue to balloon in weight up to two tons.
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Andre Bisson did not realise how big the statue was until the delivery company told him it could not fit in a lorry (Facebook/Andre Bisson)The dad told UniLad "seven guys couldn’t lift or move him… so they had to organise a JCB to get him out". Andre had bought the dinosaur, now named Chaz, as a Christmas present for his son. But it could not be delivered in time because of its size. Tamba Park even sent the family a smaller dinosaur to apologise for the delay.
Carnotaurs are Theo's favourite species and the four-year-old first asked for a dinosaur after watching the Disney film Dinosaur.