Indianapolis Childrens Museum and Uranus Fudge Factory 03/22/2025
So we travelled to Indianapolis to see the Children's Museum. It's supposedly the BEST in the country. It certianly may be the largest but I think the Boonshoft in Dayton has cooler stuff. We have a pair of river otters. This places animals maxed out at one turtle and some like bluegills and like a catfish. I can look at basically any mud puddle to see some of those. When you first get in there there's a giant life size statue of the Michael Bay version of Bumble Bee which was pretty cool.
The first area we went to was the dinosaur area which was probably the coolest area. I didn't think to take pictures till we passed a lot of the dino bone displays. But here's what science nerds allege to be the largest sea turtle to have ever swam the high seas.
Kids looking at some fossils or something.
There was a pop culture area that had some stuff I enjoyed seeing. I assume this is a screen used Adam West worn Batman costume. What else could it possibly be? Why would they display a recreation?
here's a Lt. Uhura costume that I also assume is a screen worn costume. There's also some figures of all the Captain's from real Star Trek programs. They also had an isolinear chip from First Contact.
I was not expecting to see this costume from the hit film I'm Gonna Git You Sucka but this was probably one of the things I liked seeing the most.
Remember that kid in the 80's that god AIDS from a blood transfusion or something? They have a recreation of a 1980's style kids room with a LOT of cool GI Joes and transformers and cool shit. The really odd thing though was they had a news room set up where kids and LARP as news anchors and camera men to deliver the bad news about kids with full blown AIDS.
I guess even kids in Japan learned about this kid with AIDS. I just don't know if that's something I would put in a FUN kids museum. Honestly this entire floor seemed pretty out of pocket.
This was on display at the BEST KIDS MUSEUM IN THE COUNTRY. I don't know if that is what they want to spark kids imaginations with. They also had something about the Taliban burning TVs and Spongebob DVDs which I honestly thought was pretty based. I guess even a broke clock is right twice a day.
They have an old timey carrousel and charge you ANOTHER $2 for the kid. The adult gets to ride for free. I didn't know that not all of the horses moved up and down until the ride started so she was stuck on one of the lame non up and down moving horses.
There was this neat ghost illusion.
They had an area with video games that came out when I was an adult. That hurt the most. This kid was getting his ass stomped by the first level of Super Mario World. A few other kids hopped on there and were able to beat the first level. Not a single one of them were able to figure out how to run. It was heart breaking.
I feel personally attacked seeing this PSP on display. I very excitedly just bought a PS Vita at an estate sale a few days ago.
I don't know whath happened to this gameboy in captivity. I want to free it and play Tetris on it though.
They had a pretty big water table which the kids really enjoyed. This is one of the things that while this one was bigger than the Boonshoft in Dayton it wasn't as cool as the one in Dayton. But the kids had fun messing with the boats and ignoring me explaining how locks work.
A turtle. Turtles are really cool but this was the best animal they had.
I learned about cleavage.
This thing is really neat. You pay for it to injection mold a toy for you RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES. I actually don't have a picture right now of the T Rex that it spits out. I didn't think to take a picture of it when it popped out.
This thing made the entire hallway smell like HOT plastic and cancer. It was still neat popping a hot to the touch plastic T Rex that was injection molded right in front of my face. The base of the T Rex does have the name of he museum. A very neat nicnac to take home.
I took a picture of the T Rex to add to the page. Here it is. it's really neat.
On the way home I talked everyone into going to Uranus Fudge Factor after seeing about a billion billboards for it. Outside there is a giant trio of dinosaurs. The legs fell off of the T Rex. Their legs were moist and squishy foam. I didn't expect that.
My daughter finally got brave and touched the dinosaurs. She was too scared to go near them at first.
The neighboring church building had this Jeeper's Creepers style truck parked out front.
Here it is in all of its glory Uranus Fudge Factory.
They had this dinosaur up in the ceiling flapping and biting. It was cooler than some of the displays at the kids museum.
A lot of jokes about Uranus.
I don't think I would wear a hat that says URANUS on it. But I do own a ball cap that says GAY HEAD. So I don't know.
After that we picked up dinner at our favorite Pizza King in Richmond. This place is awesome. We went to Clara's Pizza King in January for my birthday which I guess I should have made an advanture page for. I guess I still can. That one has a bus you can eat in which is REALY COOL. But this ones pizza is a lot better. Something they do to their crust escapes words but me and my BB enjoy it. Whenever you go to a Pizza King in Indiana make sure to get the breadsticks HALF BAKED.
I LOVE their gimmick of ordering the pizzas from the table with the phone that's at every table. SO COOL.
Me and my little man goofing around waiting for some pizza to show up! I didn't think about taking a picture of the pizzas but they were awesome! I like to get out here every now and then for some of these awesome pizzas. Usually not as frequently as I have this year but whenever we have a reason to pass through Richmond I usually suggest getting a Pizza King pizza.
It was a pretty awesome day trip and everyone had a pretty cool time. The only real downside is Indiana itself and the state of its roads. They are absolutely pitiful and raggedy as hell. They need to step it up. Also what is with the phenomenon of every single kids museum and attraction being built in the ghetto? We need to gather a team of experts and figure that one out and solve it. After leaving the museum I did see this sign about boycotting White Castle. Nah man I enjoy them sliders and the people of Indianapolis need a White Castle.
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