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Watch: How the Injured Apatosaurus in 'Jurassic World' Was Built to Make You Cry

The birth of a dying dino. 

by Ben Guarino
YouTube/Legacy Effects

Jurassic World, which is printing money by the Triceratops-load, may not have had much in the way of character development or sensible plot, but it had fabulous-looking dinos. For a close-up of an Apatosaurus that lay dying, the movie-makers required a physical head for Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard to cradle and lament. Check out how Hollywood special effects company Legacy Effects crafted its dino out of sweat, servos, and latex baked overnight in a kiln. This is the raddest seven minutes on the Internet today:

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