Rex, who’s mighty peeved when a pair of plant-eating giants corral her curious but outmatched baby and start making menacing gestures (the ankylosaurus is a particularly nasty fighter, swinging a long tail tipped with a 150-pound club made of solid bone).

The undisputed star of “Walking With Dinosaurs” is Mr. Outlandish beasts with wildly varying physiognomies come and go: the plant-eating plateosaurus smallish but deadly and carnivorous Utahraptors the flying ornithocheirus, with a wing span of almost 40 feet the massive but charmingly gentle brachiosaurus, with a neck that could make a giraffe spotty with envy the stegosaurus, whose triangular back plates turn angry red when it’s challenged the ankylosaurus, which looks like a cross between a giant armadillo and an Abrams tank. The Americas separate from Europe and Africa and the Indian subcontinent crashes into Asia to form the Himalayas. With the aid of large-screen animated projections behind and above the rink-size stage, we witness vast changes in the landscape as Pangaea, the original protocontinent, gradually splits. Rex is one of 10 large dinosaurs and five smaller and slightly less menacing ones that visit us during the course of the show, which runs about 90 minutes but covers millions of years – from the Triassic period to the end of the Cretaceous – and takes us through the rise, dominance and decline of Earth’s giant reptiles. If you’re going to sit front and center, a piece of advice: wear an adult diaper. Oh, there are quibbles that your average theater critic could raise about “Walking With Dinosaurs,” the Australian-born touring show that brings gigantic, moving imitations of the long-dead monsters to life: the cornball dialogue from our Indiana Jones-lite host, Huxley the sophomoric jokes about dino poop the overbearing orchestral score, which sounds like a John Williams goosing of the theme from the old “FBI” TV series.īut those complaints melted into vapor Wednesday at Anaheim’s Honda Center when Tyrannosaurus Rex, the dinosaur world’s 42-foot-long predator of predators, lumbered over to my suddenly too-good seat, tilted back its head, and went “ROOOOO-AAAAA-RRRRHH!”ĭisbelief was instantly suspended. Does ‘Walking With Dinosaurs’ deliver in Anaheim? – Orange County Register

Ankylosaurus walking with dinosaurs