Dinosaur robot goes walkabout in Mexico

8 Dec 2009, 4:44 pm   -   Source: AAP
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A remote-controlled dinosaur robot worth about $A100,000 has been stolen from Australia's Walking with Dinosaurs show in Mexico, event organisers say.

A remote-controlled dinosaur robot worth about $A100,000 has been stolen from Australia's Walking with Dinosaurs show in Mexico, event organisers say.

"Only in Mexico! How it happened, we don't know. We don't even know if whoever stole it knows its value," show spokeswoman Karla Arroyo told reporters on Monday.

It was the first time an exhibit has been stolen from the show, which has toured worldwide and been seen by more than four million people, she said.

Walking with Dinosaurs opened in Guadalajara, in central Jalisco state, on Friday, and staff discovered that one of the smaller robots was missing after the show closed that same day.

The missing reptilian robot is 1.5 metres tall and moves by remote control.

At about $US100,000 ($A110,000), it is the least expensive of its fellow robots at the show, which measure up to 13 metres and cost up to $US1 million ($A1.1 million), Arroyo said.

Despite the robbery, Arroyo said the show "did not stop".

"Everything went on as usual," she added.

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