Walking with Dinosaurs - The Live Experience

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS - THE LIVE EXPERIENCE,  is based on award-winning BBC Television Series, watched by more than 9 million people in more than 250 cities around the world!

Photo credit: Lian He Zhao Bao 

The kids have always read about dinosaurs in books, watched them on the big screens and it was until the WALKING WITH DINOSAURS - THE LIVE EXPERIENCE Premiere, they had an most extraordinary experience that evening to watch 18 life-size dinosaurs (the tallest at 11 metres tall and 17m long) roamed, roared and fought just like the real thing!

18 dinosaurs in all, 9 seperate species presented. This production took a team of 50 - including engineers, fabricators, skin makers (yes so real and so 'fierce' that I actually was a little scared of it when I went up to take a picture with Baby T-Rex during the media call) , artists, painters and animatronic experts - a year to build up the production .

This theoretical story was hosted and narrated by Huxley, the Paleontologist for the shows, brought us back to the Triassic, Jurrasic to late-Jurrasic and Cretaceous period. Boys being boys, Xav actually read up all these in books and corrected me when I got it wrong. His eyes remained fixated on the stage even though the second part of the show had a longer narration, that did not bore him. Instead, he had his eyes on those amazing creatures while he listened attentively!

Vera went was WOWED each time the dinosaurs appeared bigger, taller and magnificent, so was the audience! Surprisingly, she remained seated throughout the whole show and looked on with anticipation of the appearance of the next dinosaur, even though 2/3 of the show, she was covering her ears from the deafening roars.

I am not a dino fan and my knowledge on them is limited! I actually learnt to know of some of them which did not exist in my knowledge.

Ankylosaurus and Torosaurus

If you have hardcore dinosaurs lovers at home and would love to be upclose and get a closer interaction with the dinosaurs, go get the front seats! You get their heads hover right over you! 

Taken from Section 216, Row 26

Mummy Tyrannosaurus gave her RAWR after saving Baby T-Rex, 

Taken from Section 216, Row 26

ferocious creatures they are but they do have heart-warming moments like this.

Mummy and Baby Tyrannosaurus (Taken from Section 216, Row 26)

Brachiosaurus

We mistook Allosaurus for T-Rex! They both looked kind of similar! So here it is on the right with steogosarus on the left. 

Stegosaurus + Allosaurus 

These Utahraptors are standing at 2m tall and 4m long. 

Utahraptors

Below shows two Torosaurus in a fight.

Torosaurus fight!

Broken horn!

Do you know that based on the construction of a Torosaur, each large dinosaur contains the following: 

- 145 meters of hydraulic hose

- 29.5 square meters of fabric

- 13.2 cubic meters of foam

- 20 litres of paint

- 180 meters of cabling in each body

- 24 microprocessors control movement along with 18 hydraulic cylinders and 1 DC motor producing 130 kilowatts of power from 12 car batteries to drive the hydraulic pump. 

Each large dinosaur actually weighs 2100 kilograms in show mode (medium family car) and runs on 3 x 150 mm steerable polyurethane wheels!!

I was seated at Section 213, Row 26, Seat 1-4, the view was great, overlooking the area. We watched in awe when the beautiful and tall-standing Brachiosaurus appeared. They stood at 11m tall and 17m long while the young stood at 9m tall and 15m long! In my personal opinion, regardless of where your seat is, you will still get a good view of the dinosaurs as they would be moving around the arena most of the time. But having said that, front seats will still be the best to get upclose to these creatures!

Do you know that the dinosaurs are operated by world class performers using a series of animatronics and physical puppetry? This is how they bring the 18 life-size dinosaurs to roam, roar and fight just like the real thing, check out the clip below!

Show will run till 8 September 2019. Get your tickets from @sgsportshub, tickets start from $78. https://www.sportshub.com.sg/WWD2019

Aren't we honoured to be 'photobombed" by Walking with Dinosaurs' Touring Director, Ian Waller! We did not realised that he was behind us when we took the photos and only realised it when we were scrolling and checking how the photos turned out. Thanks for adding fun into this shot, Ian!

Top row: Ian Waller 

Bottom Row (from left): Me, Karen, Lup Wai 

Thank you Sliding Doors Entertainment and Unusual Entertainment Pte Ltd for the invitation last evening, it was a great experience, it was spectacular! We went home with new knowledge about these amazing creatures! 🦕

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