Weighing in at 1.6 tons and standing more than 30 feet tall, the dinosaurs coming to 1st Mariner Arena next month will be realistic down to the dino breath.
Or maybe not.
“That smell will not be there,” Frank Remesch, the arena?s general manager, said Tuesday as the arena unveiled “Walking With Dinosaurs: The Live Experience.”
“We just came off of two weeks of the circus, so we?re looking forward to a good cleaning.”
In all seriousness, though, Remesch said the dinos will thrill.
“It?s a great show, and there?s not a bad seat in the house,” he said. “If you?re up close, you can see the details, and if you?re up high, you get to see the whole spectacle.”
And the show promises spectacle ? 15 dinosaurs, including 10 large robotic beasts and five that will be operated from within by a cast member.
The largest, the Brachiosaurus, stands 36 feet tall and 56 feet from head to tail, and will be operated by a driver and two puppeteers.
The show, based on the BBC special “Walking With Dinosaurs,” began last summer with a $20 million budget, say designers from the Creature Production Company. More than a million people so far have seen the dinosaurs stomping around Australia and North America.
Creature Production said it strives to bring the dinos to life.
That?s no small task, given producing “life-size” animated dinosaurs, ones not confined to a mounted display in a science museum, has not been done before on this scale.
The show also educates, covering the entire 200-million-year reign of the dinosaurs with a narrated production that depicts evolution, climate andtectonic changes.
Oceans form. Volcanoes erupt. A forest catches fire. And a massive comet impact makes the dinos extinct.
