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My wife and I share this Amazon account, so I will allow her to offer her thoughts on this product since she bought it for herself. But first, I will say that the level of sheer joy in our home exponentially increased moments after she donned the costume and inflated it fully. Here she is:

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I'll admit, when I picked the package up from our mailroom I was a bit nervous. It was small and seemed like it wouldn't possible be large enough to fit. Before I even opened the package I checked my order history on Amazon to make sure I didn't accidentally order the costume for children. I didn't. I was ready to have to return the costume as I tore open the package, but was pleasantly surprised to find an adult-sized t-Rex inside.

Getting the costume on took some work. I don't recommend wearing boot-cut jeans under it for two reasons: first, the feet of the costume are open on the bottom so you can wear shoes without wearing the bottom of the costume out by walking on the material of it. To keep the airflow from escaping through the foot area, the ankles are elastic... and that elastic is pretty snug. If you're wearing boot-cut jeans, there is a lot of material to get the elastic around. I was able to get the elastic over the jeans with some careful manipulation, but the ensuing bunching of the boot-cut jeans made for a pretty tight squeeze.

I was worried about how thin the material of the costume is. We live in South Korea, and the temperatures are getting down in the high 20s (F). With a fan blowing air around the inside of the costume, and 20*+ weather outside, I was nervous that the costume would be miserably cold to be in. On the contrary! I was warm and close to sweating after wearing the costume inside our 68* apartment for less than ten minutes. This comes back to the second reason boot-cut jeans may not be a great idea. Go for something a bit thinner... maybe running capri pants?

I have only worn the costume for a silly 20 minutes in our apartment to see how it fits and how it works. For your reference, I am a 5'9" curvy woman of 190 pounds and it fits well once it's on. Getting it on took a little bit of manipulation because there is no stretch to the material (specifically, putting my arms in the armholes after having my legs in completely). It wasn't a huge struggle... and I was able to don the costume by myself, but I will say that the costume does take a small amount of thought to put it on.

I intend to wake some Soldiers up at PT in the morning in this costume. After doing so, I'll post an update to this review to reflect my thoughts. As of right now, this looks to be a wonderfully sturdy, hilariously fun costume. I can't wait to see what shenanigans we can make with this fellah!

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What would you do if your business plummeted in the middle of a pandemic? This is a very real scenario for a number of Vermonters, and when it happened to Burlington resident Jenny Rooke, she decided to dance &#; in an inflatable T. rex costume.

Jenny Rooke co-owns Rookie&#;s Root Beer with her husband, Dave. Since , the pair have been making soda in their converted one-car garage and selling it to around 100 Vermont bars and restaurants. But when Gov. Phil Scott issued his Stay Home, Stay Safe order in March, their business, Rooke says, was decimated.

&#;Ninety percent of our business is draft sales online, so when the restaurants shut down, we shut down,&#; she said. &#;Then when a lot of the things came up for the CARES Act, when that came through from the government, we didn&#;t qualify, because we needed to have at least one employee, and we&#;re both owners.&#;

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Rooke, 46, teaches some Zumba as a side hustle, though the governor&#;s order meant she couldn&#;t do that for awhile, either. Around the time that normal life stopped, fellow Zumba instructor and friend Regina Patterson says she was late-night shopping on Amazon when a suggested item popped up: an inflatable costume in the shape of a tan and very top-heavy T. rex.

Patterson explains that she and Rooke have an inside joke about the song &#;Walk The Dinosaur.&#; Naturally, she decided to buy the $60 dinosaur suit for her friend.

&#;I put it in my checkout box and had it sent to her as just sort of a little funny pick-me-up,&#; Patterson said.

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Jenny Rooke in her T. rex costume.

Rooke received the package around April Fools&#; Day. When she and her husband opened it, Rooke said they were &#;belly-laughing.&#; Right away, Rooke decided to don the 7-foot T. rex &#; she&#;s 4&#;11&#;, by the way.

&#;I said, &#;I&#;m going for a walk,&#;&#; Rooke said. &#;And so I got my sparkly paper together, and I made a sign, and it said, &#;Be kind, and stay safe.&#; And I just marched around the New North End every day for about three weeks.&#;

Rooke says she logged 60 miles on her Fitbit during those three weeks in the costume.

She started delivering root beer while wearing the suit, dropping off 32-ounce soda cans to local homes and then starting driveway dance parties with customers, their kids and neighbors who wandered over. This eventually grabbed the attention of severallocal TV stations.

Rooke and her costume also made regular stops outside Birchwood Terrace &#; a nursing home in the New North End. In the spring, Birchwood suffered a COVID-19 outbreak that killed 22 residents. One woman in the dementia unit, Rooke says, knew exactly what to do whenever the T. rex showed up outside the window.

&#;That woman, dancing with me, even though she had dementia, like that brought her so much happiness,&#; Rooke said. &#;And she would tap the window and have me lower my nose and she kisses my nose, like that&#;s her thing&#; and this guy took a little video clip of it, and he sent it to me, and I&#;m like, &#;This is everything.&#;&#;

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As the pandemic continued, so did Rooke. Patterson joined in after she recovered from a bout with COVID-19, wearing a bright pink, rainbow unicorn costume. And some of Rooke&#;s Zumba students got in on the act.

Which is how on a recent Sunday, a chicken, a unicorn, a cow, a hippo in a tutu, a polar bear in a scarf, an alien, a mouse, a shark, Sully from Monster&#;s Inc., plus the T. rex ended up outside of Elderwood, the long-term care facility in Burlington.

See the full dancing crew in the video below:

The Inflatables at Elderwood on Dec. 13 (2)

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The group calls itself "The Inflatables." Carting a portable loudspeaker from window to window, they found a few residents to dance with, and staff too. For an hour, they shimmied and conga-ed and even twerked a little.

See the The Inflatables do a little twerking in the video below:

The Inflatables at Elderwood on Dec. 13 (1)

The visit to Elderwood was especially poignant for Rooke, since a friend&#;s stepfather recently died there after contracting COVID-19, and the friend, who lives out of state, couldn&#;t travel to Vermont. The facility has been the hardest-hitby the recent surge, and the day The Inflatables danced there, the Health Department had recorded 115 cases and 12 deaths.

&#;Having to not be able to go home to love and support the ones that we love the most, you know, is hard,&#; Rooke said. &#;So we&#;re all just trying to pick up the pieces and to help everybody out by acting silly, and making [my friend] smile, which did make her smile, because it was something we could do for her, for him, to remember him.&#;

It&#;s been about nine months since Rooke first donned the T. rex suit. People keep requesting The Inflatables &#; for birthdays, weddings, graduations &#; and Rooke says they keep showing up.

&#;In the beginning, clearly, it was always just a joke, and we&#;re like, this can&#;t keep going, but it is,&#; she said. &#;We&#;re just out to be happy, to spread joy, and like, we&#;ll keep doing that. I can&#;t believe we're gonna have to get snowshoes for these suits.&#;

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The Inflatables dance in the COVID-19 parking lot outside the Elderwood facility in Burlington on Sunday, Dec. 13.

In the meantime, Rookie&#;s continues to offer driveway deliveries-slash-dance parties, and they&#;re hoping the business can hold on through the end of the pandemic.

When this is all eventually over, Rooke says she wants to throw a great big root beer float party.

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