walking with dinosaurs

(more pics here)

when i was around 7 years old, i saw the movie baby: secret of the lost legend. it featured (in retrospect) a quite fake looking baby dinosaur that moved (a little robotically) and interacted with its co-stars and i was mesmerized. in all my seven-year-old innocence, i watched it wide-eyed and amazed because it looked so real to me. this long pre-dated jurassic park or any cgi dinosaurs, so hey what did we dumb kids know then? nothing! ok well i was a bit of a dino-nerd and did know all the facts that my picture books authoratively stated, but although i did know baby wasn't real, i didn't dare question what he really was (wires? mesh? plaster of paris? not my baby!)

today my mom and i went to walking with dinosaurs, a sort of play/live experience of how the dinosaurs evolved. it was super cool! we loved the lighting effects and of course, the dinosaurs. i didn't know you could take pictures there so i didn't take my "good" camera, but here are some phone pictures that i took. the play featured real-sized mechanical dinosaurs that moved very realistically and interacted with their co-stars. it didn't quite have the impact for me that baby did, but for being 30 and jaded, i had a fun time and was entertained.

i so do wish i were 7, though, because i think this would've been life-changing for me...