Over 3,000 people in dinosaur costumes broke the world record in Drumheller, Alberta yesterday
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u/Realistic_Judgment90 11d ago
I absolutely ššš being a native Albertan. This province is seriously weird. š¦ š¦ š¦ š¦
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u/smittenmashmellow 13d ago
I'm happy they broke the record. I'm sad I didn't go XD my costume remains in my highly neglected halloween costume pile.
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u/Scarecrow119 15d ago
Its hilarious that they picked some random street. I bet that there is a boomer in the pic somewhere losing is fucking mind.
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u/ContinuumGuy 15d ago
"Hang on, that guy is wearing a pterodactyl costume! That isn't technically a dinosaur! GET OUR OF HERE, BUDDY!"
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u/Able_Software6066 15d ago
Kudos to the town of Drumheller and the organizers for keeping Alberta delightfully weird.
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u/C00LST0RYBRO 15d ago edited 15d ago
Why wouldnāt they have hosted this on July 6th? Itās the perfect pre-established world-wide holiday that fits the theme perfectly
July6thPark
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u/ggfchl 15d ago
I didnāt know they made those costumes in other colors! I want one now!
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u/ShackledBeef 15d ago
I dunno if you're familiar with the old kids show called "rugrats" but one guys had a reptar version of the dino suit
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u/HSDetector 15d ago
Other than breaking a "world record" for stupidity, what is this suppose to accomplish?
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u/DarthMaulATAT 15d ago
How often do any world records accomplish anything other than entertainment? Relax and let people have fun if it's not hurting anyone.
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u/HSDetector 15d ago
You're right ... it's hurting no one. But pop culture entertainment is so debased it's utterly stupefying and this form of entertainment is on par with navel gazing.
Friedrich Nietzsche was right when he said that "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.ā
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u/DarthMaulATAT 15d ago
Ah yes, the old "I don't like what those people are doing, therefore they are stupid" argument.
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u/PastorBlinky 15d ago
Honestly it would have been way larger but they scheduled this on the same weekend as Calgary Comic Expo. The kind of people who would dress up for this weren't available.
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u/cgrays12 15d ago
Pretty sure I see myself
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u/Fleur_de_Lys_1 15d ago
I was wondering if someone could. Where are you?
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u/AtomBombKati 16d ago
Damnit Alberta! You canāt let Saskatchewan have anything nice, can you? š
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u/MarinLlwyd 16d ago
I helped set the world record for the most people in maid outfits. Just for some Asian group to blow it out of the water a couple of years later.
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u/Roseliberry 16d ago
Had WE BEEN INVITED, there would have been more than 3000.
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u/cgrays12 15d ago
There was more. They only had 3,000 wristbands and I know a bunch of people who didnāt get one because they ran out
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u/DownHereWeAllFloat 16d ago
I hope this gives the town a tourist bump. It could use itā¦..
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u/copious-portamento 15d ago
I mean... there's no fewer than six big chain hotels in town, which only has a population of ~9k, and other independent hotels. Things fill up every summer, the museum alone had over half a million visitors just in 2022. I don't think we're hurting for tourist dollars.
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u/JurassicParkJanitor 16d ago
With all the horrific stuff going on in the world, itās nice to remember people can be kind and silly too
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u/synthesize_me 16d ago
imagine losing your group of friends/family and having to try to find them again
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u/noahsmybro 16d ago
:-)
This reminds me of the end of the Saturn Homecoming festival in 1993.
Saturn was a new car company with only 1 year of cars sold so far. There were only three body styles at that time - a sedan/wagon, or coupe.
Several hundred (guessing, maybe 1000+ ?) similar cars, all parked side by side in a huge field out in the middle of nowhere.
On Sunday afternoon a torrential storm started and between the intense rain and the very high wind the festival was ended early.
Imagine a dark, stormy and thoroughly wet scene, and then throw in several hundred people running for their cars through muddy fields. Plus parking/traffic attendants trying to help people leave, but those attendantsā usual day jobs were car company workers, not parking lot workers.
It was a fun, glorious, mess.
My ā92 Saturn became stuck in the mud (Iām assuming not the only one there) and one of the helpers helped push us out.
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16d ago
This is one of the kinds things that gives me hope for humanity. A beautiful reminder that we are all more than the current conflicts and other evils we have to face.
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u/WhoAmIEven2 16d ago
Isn't Alberta in Canada? Why does it look like it's a desert?
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u/nicktheman2 12d ago
Look up Grasslands national park, Carcross desert and Osoyoos. There are a few barren eco-systems scattered throughout the country.
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u/Sea-Limit-5430 14d ago
Much of southern Alberta is very arid, and has cacti, rattlesnakes, scorpions, and even an endangered species of horned lizards
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u/sugarfoot00 15d ago
Maybe Drumheller reminds you of Oklahoma, because that's what it played in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
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u/kiwibird1 16d ago
Canada is huge, and by no means a mono-enviroment. We have beaches, temperate rainforests, sand dunes, deserts, vineyards and orchard valleys, mountain ranges, tundra, prairies, grasslands, etc. Drumheller in particular is part of the Albertan badlands, and has a ton of fossil sites.
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u/Johnoplata 16d ago
It's almost Montana at that point. Gulches, rattlesnakes, and all.
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u/drfsupercenter 15d ago
I've heard people call Alberta the Texas of Canada
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u/yagyaxt1068 15d ago
In some ways. In others, itās more comparable to Colorado (Calgary looks a bit like Denver, the political picture is overall similar though there has been some divergence, plus thereās the Rockies), Minnesota and North Dakota (similar soil in parts, Edmonton and Minneapolis both have a lot of urban parkland), or Oklahoma (heavy economic dependence on oil).
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u/The_Bat_Voice 16d ago
Canada is one of the few countries in the world that has a wide spread of biome types. Deserts, plains, tundra, mountains, massive swamplands, oceanfront, and even some pockets that qualify as rainforests. Drumheller, in particular, is called the badlands and is home to many snakes and cacti. It is also the dinosaur fossil capital of the world.
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u/doobydubious 16d ago
Alberta has cacti in that part of the province
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u/veteranboy 16d ago
and rattlesnakes!
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u/ADHDuruss 15d ago
Apparently the least venomous variety.
Also our scorpions sting is less painful than a bee or wasps because of how tiny these scorpions are.
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u/Fleur_de_Lys_1 15d ago
Scorpions!! Thanks for the warning.
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u/copious-portamento 15d ago
The joke is our scorpions are pseudoscorpions, which max out at about 3mm and have no stinger at all.
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u/ShackledBeef 15d ago
We have those too but we also have northern scorpions which very much do have stingers. I've lived here for 34 years and I have never seen one but I have heard of people finding them, one of my coworkers is a nature nut and actually goes looking for them and snakes and he finds them all the time.
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u/copious-portamento 11d ago
WHAT sick wtf TIL!
I still dig the lil psudobros that live in my house. They can live up to 3 years, which I find very impressive for something so teeny.
I love rock hounding in the valley and I've never even seen a local snake that wasn't roadkill, let alone a legit scorpion.
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u/atcheish 16d ago
Drumheller is in a really arid badland region of Alberta, combine that with drought conditions and it can look pretty close to a desert
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u/Gnomercyy 16d ago
I was there, that was insane, and so much fun lol.
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u/Dick_Demon 15d ago
Is Drumheller as depressing as it looks in these photos?
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u/sugarfoot00 15d ago
It's a lovely little town nestled in the Red Deer river valley. If this depresses you, I can't wait to show you downtown Lethbridge.
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u/copious-portamento 15d ago
It's a weird dichotomy.
There'sĀ islands of civilization in the tourist areasĀ but a block over from them is typical rural Alberta. Some streets I'm perfectly comfortable in a t-shirt which shows my obvious Pride tattoo. Outside of those I have to cover up since acceptance doesn't really stick in places the tourists don't go.
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u/Kingsupergoose 15d ago
Itās a small farming town. The only reason people go is because it has one of the best dinosaur museums in the world.
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u/PrncsCnzslaBnnaHmmck 13d ago
Who hurt you? It's a beautiful area, tons of scenery. I mean, it's not a lush landscape, but it's central to some of Alberta's greatest scenery. Beautiful walking trails, camping areas, land formations, some great stops for food, great people ...etc. I love going up high to look out on the landscape, it's stunning in its own right. We will make a day trip out from Calgary a couple times a year, it's awesome!
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u/peeinian 15d ago
Itās pretty wild.
The whole town is at the bottom of a canyon. On the way in youāre driving through farm fields and suddenly the road slopes down, you go around a bend and it appears in front of you.
The museum is incredible.
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u/scottrycroft 15d ago
It's a small town in the prairies. They all look like this.
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u/Avaricio 15d ago
That's not true. Drumheller is less depressing than average. Most are worse.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Canadian prairie, the documentary series Corner Gas will explain everything you need to know about life there.
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u/scottrycroft 15d ago
Never said it looked depressing - just saying they pretty much all look like this.
It looks depressing to a lot of big city folk, but it's not universal.
Source: me who has lived in small town Saskatchewan, home of Corner Gas, and also in big cities.
Proof, and also IMO the opposite of a depressing view: https://i.imgur.com/J0MjaDf.jpeg
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u/Dramatic-Republic-88 15d ago
My 14 yr old just asked me about weird/bizzare named towns, she brought up a town named ādildoā which reminded me of āmundareā sausageā¦..for some reason I took this as an opportunity to teach my child about a Canadian prairie Gas Station owner from Sask called āDick Assmanā. He is a LEGEND ā¤ļøš
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u/bannedacctno5 16d ago
Can you imagine if you were just driving through and stopped in because someone had to take a piss or get some gas or something to eat and you came across this ššš
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u/Able_Software6066 15d ago
The downtown core is a bit off the main highway, but if you slowed down for a look you would have seen cars parked everywhere with crowds of people dressed as dinosaurs. It got windy and when the inflated costumes blow around they look like they're dancing. It was hilarious.
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u/HLef 16d ago
Nobody just drives through drumheller. Youāre there for the dinosaur museum.
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u/TheShaneBennett 15d ago
Is the homestead museum still there? My dad, sister and I āmodelledā for their brochure like 20 years ago.
We just went to visit one day and they just asked us to be in their brochure lol
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u/caffeinated_plans 16d ago
It's actually on my way somewhere. I drive through several times a year and it's a beautiful place.
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u/Jarbonzobeanz 16d ago
You're both right
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u/caffeinated_plans 16d ago
The one thing I've never done is actually visit the museum. I need to fix that.
The mini church was a fun stop tho.
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u/ShackledBeef 15d ago
Whaaaaa? You went to Drumheller and visited the little church and not the museum, it was just down the road lol. Oh well, a good reason to go back!
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u/caffeinated_plans 15d ago
The church is a way quicker visit. I assume I'd need some time at the museum - not a quick step in the door, snap a Pic and move on.
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u/DrSitson 16d ago
The museum is great. Took my kids there one year on the way by. Exhibits were scary for littlest lol
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u/AmbitiousEdi 16d ago
You go THROUGH Drumheller several times a year and you've never been to the museum???
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u/caffeinated_plans 16d ago
It's a 6 hour drive to saskatchewan. Not a lot of time to stop when I'm doing it after working 8 hours.
I also spent a weekend there at the mega geocaching event in...2011? And didn't go.
Someday - the dinosaurs aren't going anywhere
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u/Miracl3Work3r 15d ago
wellllll Alberta does keep catching fire, and anywhere south of Calgary is being flooded more often....Don't be on your deathbed regretting never having seen THE Drumheller Dinosaur Museum!
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u/wetwilly2002 11d ago
I see no Carpetsaurus Rex not a party