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@lucasadacapitan @Rednaxela1821 The Kennis bros are most known for their anthropological sculptures, but I think their paintings are pretty spectacular.
I don't post this to make those who missed out feel guilty, but to encourage you to attend the next event.
I can still hear the music in my head.
The Toka series by Raymond Palmer (under the pen name J. W. Pelkie) followed the adventures of Toka & his friends in a prehistoric world. The 4-story series bounced from pulp title to pulp title.
Dinosaurs, ape-men, & Smilodons abound.
Box & promo art for the scrolling shooter video game series, "Prehistoric Isle".
M&D tried to enter the movie business and wrote a pair of SF scripts which would have utilized their animatronics, but the movies went unmade. There was a proposal to retool the exhibit as a Flash Gordon prehistoric planet, but this idea also went undeveloped.
Of course there was merchandise, including toys, posters, & books. There was even a song with sheet music.
Its skeleton was made of rattan & bamboo covered by a layer of felt and rubber skin. The feet and head were made of a special type of paper mâché. The final animatronic weighed 4,000 lbs & cost $35,000 to make. (~$536,000 today)
Other fantasy pterosaur-riders include these works by Chris Achilleos, halfling pterosaur riders from D&D, & lizard men on pterosaurs in Warhammer.
Maybe the most iconic of comicdom's pterosaur-riders is Moebius's character Arzach. Granted, Arzach's (sometimes mechanical) mount is more a fantastic pterosaur-like creature than a scientific restoration, but the art is so good, I'm going to allow it in the thread.