Dr. Dean Lomax

Yeah.

I always had like Star Wars toys, Transformers, those sorts of things.

But it was always, yeah, always dinosaur toys, Jurassic Park and things.

So you're literally living your dream?

Yeah, literally.

I've never grown up.

That's what it is.

Yeah, there are a few.

So I ended up being a consultant for a couple of them.

So some of them I have seen where they're truly hideous, where they're really like so bad, like kind of tourist traps.

But others I've seen which are good, which sounds like what you're describing, which are good, quite educational and just good for the family and stuff.

But there are a few kind of dotted here and there around the country, sometimes like a travelling exhibition.

Yeah, at least the good companies do.

Because it adds a bit more credibility.

And that's one of the things, as an academic, but also as somebody who leads digs and writes books, and one of the big things for me is public outreach as well.

So kind of like...

chatting about this store font, obviously things like this, but also doing TV work and that.

So it's one of the big things is the public outreach.

So it's important to, if I ever have a, just for example, a bit random, but I've worked with Kinder before, Joplin, and they got in touch with me about, they did a,

twice i've worked with them they did a big big project in um that was actually online during covid and that but one was in person in london and it was basically kind of through their toys and kind of like looking at getting children to kind of like obviously play with their toys and that but also from an education standpoint to actually talk about the science behind some of their toys and so i was given like quite a big lecture about some of my field work adventures and bringing dinosaurs to life you know kind of from the fossils to to kind of animatronic kind of thing so you