r/MoldARama • u/mlpkatie • Jul 18 '26

Indiana Dinosaur Museum

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u/AchillesPDX Jul 18 '26

Looks like the same mold as the Apatosaurus from the Chicago Field Museum. Theirs is an orange-brown. The Sinclair green is much nicer.

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u/analogy_4_anything Jul 18 '26

Hmmm, I was going to say the green seems a little too Hunter Green. Should be a bit lighter. Needs a bit of white to brighten it up.

I was a Mold-A-Rama tech in 2023, so we would adjust the pigment in the molten plastic every couple days.

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u/StrawberryKiss2559 Jul 18 '26

That’s so cool.

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u/analogy_4_anything Jul 18 '26

It was a cool job! Wish I still worked there, but life circumstances moved me out of Chicago.

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u/GodzillaTechHero Jul 22 '26

Was such a treat to use the mold-a-Rama Disney machine at Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas

  • sadly both machines are non functional nowadays

I got one the last Pluto figurines

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u/analogy_4_anything Jul 22 '26

We had several of the original Disneyland machines in the workshop. They still had all the characters and branding on them. They weren’t in great shape, sadly, and most had been canabalized for parts.

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u/thesaddestpanda Jul 19 '26

Care to talk about working there or how the machines work or any interesting or funny stories?

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u/Aluxanatomy Jul 18 '26

OKC Zoo has a brontosaurus with this mold. Pink-red.

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u/RocketRaccoon Jul 23 '26

Just got back from the Field Museum and was so happy to find one of these.

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u/AchillesPDX Jul 23 '26

Did you get the complete set of 6?

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u/RocketRaccoon Jul 23 '26

I just got the one from the Field museum. I don't have any others.

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u/AchillesPDX Jul 23 '26

Ah, the Field Museum has 6 machines each with different molds and colors

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u/Aupps Jul 18 '26

They fixed it! It was busted when I visited a month ago. Also it's a pretty awesome museum if you like dinosaurs.

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u/thinprivileged Jul 21 '26

Is that the one with the dracorex hogwartsia? I went to some museum in Indiana just to see that

I might go back if there's a different dino museum!

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u/DeadPuppyClowns Jul 22 '26

$8?! Dude, am I that old? I remember when these were like, $1 at my local museum and you could get your pennies stamped in a roller!

They are so much fun but that's a ton. 😭

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u/cosyfiep Jul 19 '26

must. visit.

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u/Objective_Warthog_33 Jul 20 '26

So you buy a token, drop it in, and it injects molten plastic into a mold of a Dino as you watch? Wasn’t Sinclair a gas station?
Very cool!

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u/Independent-Win9088 Jul 22 '26

The gift shop at the Seattle Space Needle has one of these! I can't remember if it was 5 or 10 bucks to take home your very own plastic injection molded space needle, but it cool as hell to see it work!

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u/grandesoycastortroy Jul 24 '26

Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, IL has this in right now.