The credit for the photos goes to Philip Kippel.Whatever comes out will be better than the walk around dinosaur characters they had in 2004 - thank goodness they got rid of those atrocities.
here's the male:
and the female:
Sorry, can't give photo credit - taken from bing images
I have to give them credit for one thing: this is the only instance I know of where there characters are supposed to be (in a tongue-in-cheek manner), people in a costume. Chester and Hester clearly hired corny, cheap looking costumed characters as a borderline lampoon of Disney's own M&Gs. I've always thought it's be hilarious to meet Simpsons chracters in cheap-looking Itchy and Scratchy costumes.Whatever comes out will be better than the walk around dinosaur characters they had in 2004 - thank goodness they got rid of those atrocities.
here's the male:
and the female:
Sorry, can't give photo credit - taken from bing images
True, but their story is that this scientist has raised this raptor since it hatched, suggesting that the Iguanodon experiment of the ride isn't the first time someone's brought something back, losing some of the impact of the ride and just making the Dino Institute look more incompetent.
Oh, no....not Kippel...
Remember, you do bring a dino back with you on Dinosaur.Sounds fun,
-EXCEPT-
Up until now Dinoland maintained a cohesive themed reality that held that Dinosaurs are extinct. There was an institute, a dig site, and a roadside tourist trap, and in all of them dinosaurs were dead and gone, but still captured the imagination and attention of the people that lived there. The only way to see "live" dinosaurs in Dinoland is to use the time rovers to travel outside of this time/place to their time. This may not have been the most crowd-friendly approach to the material, but it also wasn't the easiest, from a design perspective, and I'm a little saddened to see their willingness to stray from it.
Mind you, I'm not saying they shouldn't, I'm just saying they haven't, for what I assume were strongly-held thematic principles when conceptualizing the land.
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No, I think that's right, but that goes back to the problems with the Dinorama theme in general -- A) even if it's supposed to be cheap and tacky, that still means it is cheap and tacky ...and B) the theme is so subtle that most guests don't read it as a theme, but just cheapness itself. It's sort of the same problem as Paradise Pier out in DCA -- "no, it's not a weakly themed area, it's Disney's take on the weakly-themed parks of the past."
Sounds fun,
-EXCEPT-
Up until now Dinoland maintained a cohesive themed reality that held that Dinosaurs are extinct. There was an institute, a dig site, and a roadside tourist trap, and in all of them dinosaurs were dead and gone, but still captured the imagination and attention of the people that lived there. The only way to see "live" dinosaurs in Dinoland is to use the time rovers to travel outside of this time/place to their time. This may not have been the most crowd-friendly approach to the material, but it also wasn't the easiest, from a design perspective, and I'm a little saddened to see their willingness to stray from it.
Mind you, I'm not saying they shouldn't, I'm just saying they haven't, for what I assume were strongly-held thematic principles when conceptualizing the land.
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I was there on opening day, and my admittedly fuzzy recollection was that they intimated that it was from the attraction but not explicitly said in order to not ruin the attraction for those that hadn't experienced it. You also see the Iguanadon roaming the halls of the Dino Institute near the on ride photo area.
Whatever comes out will be better than the walk around dinosaur characters they had in 2004 - thank goodness they got rid of those atrocities.
and the female:
Sorry, can't give photo credit - taken from bing images
Theming?
