Lego’s Next Jurassic Park Set is the Dino Skeleton You’ve Always Wanted

There have been many T.rex builds over the course of Lego’s Jurassic sets, big and small, but its latest is certainly the grandest yet–and the most stylish.
This morning Lego revealed that its very next Jurassic set will take fans not to the next movie, Rebirth, but all the way back to the original for a 3,000-plus-piece replica of the T.rex skeleton that appears in the movie. Clocking in at over three feet in length once built the set will take the prehistoric crown as Lego’s biggest-ever Jurassic set.
Aside from a lot of plastic dinosaur bones, the set will include minifigures of Laura Dern and Sam Neill’s Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant, based on their appearances in Jurassic Park, as well as the standard information plaque displaying stats about the Tyrannosaurus rex to impress all your friends with. That is, if they’re not already impressed by the three-foot-long Lego dinosaur skeleton you’ve got sitting in your home.
Lego Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex ImagesBut in a fun twist on the standard Lego display plate, the base for the T.rex will also feature a small vignette for the Sattler and Grant minifigures, recreating a tiny version of the archaeological dig site where they first find dinosaur bones early on in the film.
The Lego Jurassic Park Tyrannosaurus rex fossil will set you back a hefty $250 when it releases next month: preorders will open up for Lego Insider members from March 12, with a general release just a few days after on March 15.
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