Walking with dinosaurs
After fighting public transport I managed to get to this show last Sunday.
I’m glad I did. The dinosaurs were mostly huge and amazingly lively, the storyline was informative and entertaining. It was narrated by the “Professor”, who commented and sometimes hid when things became too rough to his liking!
Some tasty dinosaurs
Of course I wondered how the special effects were being achieved. I looked for strings or wires and I noticed the motorised plank on which the dinosaurs were standing, but I quickly forgot about it
Perhaps I’m too sensitive, but seeing the nice herbivore Brachiosaurus, so huge but totally peaceful, ending up having its young eaten by stupid Liliensternus was in my opinion a sad way to start the show!
Then I also was sad for Old Torosaurus (looking quite alike to a Triceratops, but with only 2 horns) when he was beaten by Young Torosaurus and left the stage, moaning and horn broken, if not heart broken…
But whatever it was, the performance was breathtaking, with a really amazing stage being transformed as we were moving forward in time, with plants growing and then then curling up suddenly because of the volcanic heat…
I need to mention the flying Ornithocheirus which had to fly away to avoid being eaten, not to forget the mean Utahraptor that anyone having seen Jurassic Park knows he should fear!
And a last but not least, of course the T-rex was the biggest of all and came last, making me almost afraid as he roared at us!
I tried to take a picture (without flash because yes that was forbidden and even French people respect rules sometimes!), but the shock made me move and I ended up with a nice coloured blurry dot… Never mind, I don’t think I’ll have any problem remembering that scary mouth with enormous teeth!
The show is highly recommended - I am now convinced, as the professor told us, that “dinosaurs still walk the earth”!
