Walking With Dinosaurs

Calfgrit7 and I went to see Walking With Dinosaurs. It’s a truly awesome show, and photos just can’t do it justice. Even video can’t give you the full feeling of seeing and hearing the life-size and life-like creatures right in front of you.

The puppetry and animatronics are amazingly well choreographed, to the point of looking completely natural — the dinos even blink. The structure and skin of the creatures are detailed down to scars, wrinkles, and even mucus. This is Hollywood-quality effects.

I bought the mid-range tickets and was so impressed with our spot in the audience that I can’t even imagine what view the high-priced seats could give that we didn’t get. Any closer and CG7 would have been terrified — some of the dinosaurs, like the tyrannosaurus, came right to the edge of the stage and roared. The wide-angle photo, here, distorts the view we had — we felt much closer than the image looks like.

There’s even more to the show than just dinosaurs walking around the stage. It’s entertaining, educational, and even humorous at times. I highly recommend this show. Although half the audience was kids under 12 (mostly boys), you don’t need kids to go see this. There were some kid-less couples at the show, and this was far more impressive than any movie I’ve seen. The fact that all the dinos were “real,” right there in front of us, puts movie special effects to shame.

Bullgrit