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Walking With Dinosaurs

walking with dinosaursTickets to the November 10, 2009 production of "Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular" at the American Bank Center may still be available as a thank you gift for your pledge of support of KEDT-FM, your community-owned radio station. Please call Mary Ann OR EMAIL HER in the Membership Office at 855-2213 for more information.

this spectacular arena show, which includes a fleet of 15 life-sized dinosaurs, the largest being Brachiosaurus who is 36 feet tall, and 56 feet from nose to tail. THEY were built from gargantuan aluminum frames that were covered with Lycra, cotton, foam and textured stencils.

It took a team of 50 - including engineers, fabricators, skin makers, artists and painters, and animatronic experts - a year to build the original production. Ten species are represented from the entire 200 million year reign of the dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the terror of the ancient terrain, as well as the Plateosaurus and Liliensternus from the Triassic period, the Stegosaurus and Allosaurus from the Jurassic period, and of course, the Brachiosaurus.

With almost cinematic realism, Walking With Dinosaurs has scenes of the interactions between dinosaurs, and the audience sees how carnivorous dinosaurs evolved to walk on two legs, and how the herbivores fended off their more agile predators.