Decision time – continue going left or snap up the human for a snack? However, Tristan has just noticed the tiny figure coming into the room (the visitor) and has swivels his head around. In the end, after much playing around with different options, we decided on a running pose in which Tristan is taking a sharp left turn around a “tree” – one of the cast iron columns. Which I guess 80% of all mounts worldwide show. Because Tyrannosaurus was a poor runner, as has been amply shown, this left a slow run or very rapid walk pose. As a standing pose is not very dynamic we were left with some sort of rapid locomotion pose. It was quickly clear that neither Niels nor the museum wanted Tristan to be posed sitting down, mating, or jumping (not that I think the latter a biomechanically very feasible option anyways). Additionally, there is only one entrance, so the skeleton had to placed in the hall in a way that allowed a circular path around it, with people coming in through one half of the big door and going out the other, separated by a mobile barrier. It’s height means we can’t show Tristan sky-falling (as if we wanted to), and there is a row of cast-iron columns down the middle of the room, too.
Also, the room it is shown in poses some limits. We also wanted it plausible, i.e.: we wanted to show the animal in a pose that it probably used regularly, and not just some freak thing. Obviously, the posture had to be biomechanically possible. When Niels Nielsen, his brother and I sat down to plan the posture for Tristan we faced a few limitation.
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