Wrights Plastics HQ felt a little like Jurassic Park recently as they created a 4m high dinosaur skeleton for a local charity.
Dudley Canal and Caverns is an educational charity based in the Dudley and aims to preserve and develop this unique environment of canals, mines and caverns to engage the wider public with it to ensure it holds a special place in the hearts and minds of future generations.
The brilliant team at Dudley Canal and Caverns are experts at delivering truly memorable visitor experiences and their recent Time Travel Rescue adventure saw kids (and parents, if allowed) time travel a mere 420million years to rescue explorers lost in the subterranean world.
Among the ‘living’ Dimetrodon and Tyrannosaurus, the explorers come across the remains of the once supreme Dudley dinosaur, now just a skeleton with a 4m span and standing 2.5m high!
And this is where Wrights Plastics came in!
Paul Crofts from the charity asked the West Bromwich-based plastic fabrication company to turn a small 3D printed model into two full height dinosaurs. Their design team scaled the model, created new CAD files and used their material expertise to choice the correct material that would be stable and durable. The CAD files were uploaded to the CNC router which machined the individual sections of the model. After a trial build at their Brandon Way HQ the parts were shipped for reassembling onsite.
The Time Travel Rescue events ran during the Easter Term break and proved a huge success; young Oliver’s comments summed up the general positive response from the young explorers:
“We had the best time. I never wanted to leave. Fun”
And we had a great time working on this unusual project and thank Paul and the team.
Paul Crofts added "Working with Wrights has been a pleasure and were pinnacle in turning the vision into reality, we welcomed 6000 visitors to the Trust over Easter and our T-Rex skeleton will feature in event after event"
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