Dinosaur Encounters

wil

Anyone been to the Dinosaurs Encounters exhibition in the Ambassador.
Very little info on the website.
Anything like the Walking with Dinosaurs that toured the UK in summer.

Comments about whether good for small kids, length etc please.

irishangel

I went today with a friend and my son (aged 9)who is really into dinosaurs. I didn't hear about Walking with dinosaurs. We were in and out in 5 minutes. His personal view was that it was a waste of money & time since we traveled across the country to it. It would be more appealing to younger children,there was plenty of younger kids around 3 or 4 there. He was very disappointed after it.
In my opinion not worth it.

wil

After much searching I eventually found some videos which seem to be it.
Certainly looks more "Staring at" :pac: than "Walking with"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkh5lkk3EhQ&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQqeI4lRWI&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na6kB88sqjo&NR=1

This one comes with an advisory;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4JmJkrw3Kk


Walking with Dinosaurs looked pretty impressive from the vids.
Unfortunately we didnt get to go, nearest it came was Liverpool just as swineflu was getting going.:(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Z6z8-0OqY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAE5aqG8L_U&NR=1

Galvasean

Any interactive stuff?

irishangel

Wow Walking with dinosaurs looks so cool. Wish we had got to see that. Unfortunately theses dinosaurs don't walk they nod. Basically what you saw in the videos posted above. There is about 5 of these displays, a skeleton , few skulls here & there, some boxes that you have to guess what your touching and colouring tables.

Sparky84

Total waste of money. I thought I missed some of it as there are only about 6 exhibits. In and out in ten minutes !!!

Masada

Looks like the same gig they had out in Funtasia last year, A complete waste of money.,:(

Ste.phen

That's 3 exhibitions in there in a row that were a ripoff, so. What next, 'Dances with drunks'?

timbrane

well what a waste of time and money my self and partner went to see this in dublin last weekend 21/2/10 was really looking forward to it....it was rubbish...robot animals that did not move with out jerking only about 10 things to look at went round twice in case we had missed out a section but no!!!!! DO NOT PAY 10 EURO TO SEE THIS ITS A WASTE OF MONEY....

mikemike

I saw the ad in todays paper , and was going to take the kids all the way to Dublin to see it , as we missed the Walking with dinosaurs show before ..

Man am I glad I cheked it out first here ,, I won't be going ,, damn it , they were excited about it as well :mad:

Little Alex

It's really disappointing to read that.

I was in London a couple of years ago and have maybe a good idea...

Get cheap day return flights with Aer Lingus to London Heathrow. Buy a family day ticket for the Tube and take the Piccadilly line from the airport towards London. Exit at South Kensington and walk the 100m to Cromwell Road, where the Natural History Museum is located... with free-of charge access!

This is an AMAZING museum with an excellent prehistoric section. When I was there there was a visiting dinosaur exhibition (on top of their own resident exhibit) and you had to pay in for that. Can't remember how much it was, but it wasn't much.

... incorporating it into a stay in London would obviously make more sense!

Linky: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/

Kkavgou

Thanks for the information on this. Was going to head in tomorrow. Saved me the hassle

spider_pig

Kkavgou wrote: »

Thanks for the information on this. Was going to head in tomorrow. Saved me the hassle

your lucky i wasted a fortune goin a month ago your basicly in one door and out the other its brutal, the wax museum looks great tho plenty of stuff for kids in it, four floors, its well worth checking out