I spent a wonderful afternoon at the O2 arena in London last Friday watching "Walking with dinosaurs"; this is a spectacular show that features life sized animatronic dinosaurs along with a narration, light and sound show. What I particularly liked about it was the educational bias rather than the "Hollywood" bias, the narration was informative and current in terms of the science and talked the audience through the vast evolutionary time line through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, starting 230M years ago and finishing with the extinction event 65M years ago. This narration was interrupted by the appearance of various dinosaurs playing out little scenes, all the usual favourites made an appearance, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Raptors, Pterodactyls, Allosaurus, Triceratops (Torosaurus) and king of them all T-Rex, all realistic, animated and life sized; moving around and roaring it was wonderful.
We took half a dozen little boys aged between 4 and 8, throughout the show their faces were a picture, fluctuating between awe and terror, the music and lights were dramatic and you could tell that they were totally captured by the whole thing; it was an inspiration. Fortunately a good friend has a company box at the O2 which he graciously allowed us to invade, so getting in and out was stress free and we had food and drink on-tap throughout with a panoramic view of the proceedings, a great show, thoroughly recommended.
2 comments:
I hope they had people in among the dinosaur exhibits as we know they existed at the same time!!
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Just telling you what I learned in Mississippi public school.
Why not, I guess once a school board starts deluding itself to that extent, anything is possible :)
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