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Such a random piece of art! Loved it!
[Tara, 05/29/2023]Fredosaurus Rex: Mr. Rogers Dinosaur:- Address:
- 415 S. 27th St., Pittsburgh, PA
- Directions:
- In SouthSide Works Town Square, on the east side of S. 27th St., in front of the Cheesecake Factory.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
The statue is actually on 21st St. now, not Wharton! Local lore is that people kept trying to steal it, so now it's in an area with video surveillance.
[Lynn, 07/21/2015]- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Mr. Rogersaurus
This is no longer at this location. Not sure if it will be displayed but it was removed this weekend.
[Marcela King, 06/12/2013] It should be placed better so that kids can get to it and it's easier to get a pic that shows the trolley on his back.
[Paul, 03/12/2010]We are grateful to live in a world where our childhood TV celebrities are publicly immortalized as prehistoric carnivores.
Fredosaurus Finds a Home in Pittsburgh
An eight-foot-tall statue of a T. rex dressed as Mr. Rogers has arrived at the TV studio where Rogers taped his show for over 30 years, beginning Feb. 19, 1968.
The statue, wearing slacks, a red cardigan, a rumpled shirt and necktie, and blue sneakers, is named "Fredosaurus Rex." Clutched in its claws are the puppets Henrietta Pussycat and King Friday XIII. A small trolley from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood can be seen driving up his tail.
Fredosaurus is a rare example of something good coming out of the awful public art statue auction movement, where communities buy bulk statues of cows or clowns, give them to local artists for modification, then place them outside of area businesses. The statues -- those that survive, anyway -- are collected months later and auctioned off to support a local charity.
Fredosaurus was a product of Pittsburgh's "Dinomite Days" several years ago, and stood in front of a downtown mall. It was then shipped to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Fred Rogers' boyhood home. Now it will stand permanently outside of WQED.
[12/31/2006]
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Fredosaurus Rex was hauled away in a pickup truck on June 7. For years he stood outside the studios of WQED, but he was banished when the Fred Rogers Co. left the building. The company says it's moving to Pittsburgh's south side, so Fred may reappear there.