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A show with everything from dinosaurs to Segway PTs

Since its early beginnings as an A&P Show in 1892, to its 30th anniversary as the Waikato Home & Garden Show last weekend, Hamilton is home to an annual event with everything. This year, across four days, tens of thousands of people were witness to it all - from the latest in transport with the new Segway 'SE' models.... WHGS2 ...to the very first Segway Personal Transporter (PT) ever imported into New Zealand...
The first Segway PT i167 imported into New Zealand in 2003, seen here next to a Triceratops (and a giraffe) This is the first Segway PT i167 imported into New Zealand in 2003. It is seen here next to a Triceratops and a giraffe in an artistic expression depicting 70 million years of evolution in megafauna locomotion compressed into a static display spanning just a few square meters
...to a live, daring and thrilling reenactment of the second-most famous scene from the movie Titanic:
"I'm flying, Jack!"