At USA Travel Guide, we don’t often feature traveling shows or exhibits, especially if show dates are no more than a couple days each. This is because we like to recommend hotels and all that, and with traveling shows that always feels a little silly. However, and this is the official vocabulary, exceptions can and will be made when the particular show in question is awesome!
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular is awesome in the truest sense of the word: it inspires awe. It is a jaw-dropping, mouth-gaping, eye-bulging spectacle sure to thrill men and women, the young and the old, and probably some higher-functioning animals. As special effects and CGI take over the big screen, here’s a place where you can still experience the astonishing impact of live animatronics.
What is it, already? Walking with Dinosaurs is a full-length arena show featuring 15 life-size animatronic dinosaurs. The fearsome and stirringly lifelike creatures have the entire arena floor at their disposal as your live guide, Paleontologist Huxley, regales you with the fascinating history and current scientific thinking on each of them.
Much more than a walking museum exhibit, however. Huxley interacts, plays with and challenges the majestic dinos, who respond so naturally it’s hard to believe it’s not real. As one incredible creature after another takes to the arena floor – allosaurus, stegosaurus, the gigantic brachiosaurus (life size, really!), utahraptors and the king of them all, tyrannosaurus rex – you might find yourself shaken with amazement.
If I haven’t impressed upon you the gravity of this experience yet, that’s because you haven’t seen these animals in action. Remedy that by checking out their videos. Nothing can really do justice to the thrill of sitting in those stands, but here you’ll get an idea of what’s in store.
The only negative I can muster about Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular is the price. In this economy, you can find a lot of other uses for $30-60, but I’ll pay it anyway. It is so worth it! Learn more about this show.
Walking with Dinosaurs is a traveling show visiting several arenas throughout the first half of 2010. Here are some choice selections with our hotel recommendations:
January 5-6, 2010
Hampton Coliseum
1000 Coliseum Drive
Hampton, VA 23666
757-838-5650
Hotels: Crowne Plaza Hampton Marina
January 15-17, 2010
Mississippi Coast Coliseum
2350 Beach Boulevard
Biloxi, MS 39531
228-594-3700
Hotels: Ocean Club at Biloxi
March 24-28, 2010
Thomas & Mack Center (UNLV Campus)
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154
702-895-3761
Hotels: Holiday Inn Las Vegas
July 21-25, 2010
Madison Square Garden
4 Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10001
212-307-7171
Hotels: Crowne Plaza Englewood
Crowne Plaza Times Square
July 28 – August 1, 2010
Allstate Arena
6920 N. Manheim Road
Rosemont, IL 60018
847-635-6601
Hotels: Hilton Garden Inn Chicago / Magnificent Mile
The Silversmith Hotel
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3 Comments
That….is the coolest thing I have heard about in a long time. I want to walk the dinosaurs!!
Thanks for writing in, Megan.
I hope the show comes to your area. It’s every bit as cool as you want it to be.
when do you think it will come to washington DC, its my sweet 16th birth day and i want to go and see it befor i go off to college.