WE make ‘em big in Barnsley.

Especially at theme park company Themesparx where technicians have brought a massive dinosaur back to life with the creation of a five metre long animatronic creature.

The company, which is based at Fall Bank Industrial Estate, Dodworth, was approached by Paulton’s family theme park in Southampton to create a fully-functioning baby Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Themesparx spent five months creating the dinosaur, which is five metres long and three metres high, utilising an aluminium frame and a latex exterior.

Now the T-rex has been unveiled at the theme park in Southampton as part of its new immersive 4D experience ‘The Lost Kingdom’.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle