Your visitors will experience and interact with:

  • CROW, displaying its fourteen foot wingspan

  • WHOOPING CRANE, the king of high flying migration

  • DEINONYCHUS, the raptor of the Late Cretacous period and Jurassic Park fame

  • CRYPTOCLIDUS, the 160 million year old Plesiosaur, a sea going reptile capable of "flying" through ancient Mesozoic seas

  • ORNITHOMINUS, the three hundred pound "bird mimic" from the Late Cretacous.

Facts and Figures:

Exhibit Size: 3,500 square feet requiring 12 foot ceiling clearance.

Rental Fee: Three month venue - $75,000 | Six month venue - $140,000
(Venue pays inbound shipping)

Availability: Beginning May 2007

Life long explorer and inveterate innovator, John Payne has taken his interactive sculpture to new levels of audience engagement. Bigger, bolder creatures are now electronically as well as manually controlled. The sculptural creativity of John Payne has been combined with the work of electronic artist and engineer, Brett Pierce of IED Corporation, and Payne's creatures now come to life when visitors simply walk by. Or your visitors can control their movements, their sounds and special effects with a remote control device. And the creatures never sleep. Each is pre-programmed and sequenced to rouse and stir automatically. Your gallery is always alive! And your staff can manually control the creatures as gigantic puppets for programs and demonstrations.

An entirely unique concept combines monumental puppetry, sculpture, mechanics, simple machines, natural science and technology with your visitor's imaginations and curiosity. Any visitor from four to ninety-four can be in control.

Interpretation is open-ended spanning the arts, sciences and humanities. For example, from the humanities: Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven , "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore' ". From the arts: Japanese crane origami. And from science: the physiology of tooth, claw and the principles of flight. All combine for an interdisciplinary interpretive experience.