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How to Train a Dinosaur

Nurin took a film she loved and made her own guide to training a dinosaur, with inventions, safety gear and tips.

Nurin took the popular animated series How to Train Your Dragon and made her own book from it: How to Train a Dinosaur. It is a fan-made spin-off and the story is all hers. The cover promises "Includes tips", and shows a rider on top of a dinosaur calling, "How to get down from here!"

Before any training starts, she lists the kit. You must have a "chaimberlock", a muzzle with "holes to breathe" that will "stop from bitting". You need an "Electronic leach" that "comes in with a remote so if it gets cranky you can press it and it will force it to stop". The remote "tells how fast it went", tells "how far it travel and where", and has an "emergency button". Last come the "miraclaw" mitts, for hands and legs, to "prevent from scraching" and "prevent from kicking".

Then: "NOW WE CAN GET STARTED". Get a fishing rod and some sardines, teach your dinosaur to fetch, take it for a walk. And a warning: "Remember, dinosaurs are very smart, don't get yourselves in trouble!"

The book stops partway. Its last page says that after three months you can let your dinosaur go wherever it wants.

A pencil cover with a person riding a dinosaur and asking how to get down.

How to train a Dinosaur / Includes tips / How to get down from here!

Labelled drawings of a muzzle, an electronic leash with a remote, and mitts for hands and feet.

First of all, you must have this thing call a chaimberlack. / holes to breathe / stop from bitting / Electronic leach / it comes in with a remote so if it gets cranky you can press it and it will force it to stop / tells how fast it went / tell how far it travel and where / emergency button / and you need a miraclaw. Both, for hands and legs. / Prevent from scraching / Prevent from kicking.

A dinosaur fetching a fish from a fishing rod, going for a walk, and grabbing the rod from a puzzled person.

NOW WE CAN GET STARTED. get a fishing rod, and get some sardin. get it to fetch it. / Bring it for a walk / Remember, dinosaurs are very smart, dont get yourselves in trouble!

A large remote control with a speedometer, a screen showing the dinosaur and you, and an emergency button.

To avoid that kind of thing, you should check your remote. / as fast as 10.2 / you / 5 feet away from you. / Emergency pull back.

A page of writing with no drawing; the booklet stops here.

and you can see whaterer is hapening. Secondly, after your dinosaur have do that for three Months. let it go whererer it wants

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We find this funny and heartening at the same time. Nurin took something from a film and twisted it into something real: inventions with labels, safety features, a remote with an emergency pull-back. She could tell what was make-believe and what could actually be useful, now or later. And she chose a dinosaur, the same animal as our mascot.

Nurin made this booklet sometime between 2014 and 2018.

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