Show Facts

20 Dinosaurs & 10 separate species represented in the show including:

10 large dinosaurs

Plateosaurus – 10 ft tall x 31 ft long
Stegosaurus – 18.5 ft tall x 36 ft long
Allosaurus – 14.5 ft tall x 43 ft long
Brachiosaurus – adult 36 ft tall x 56 ft long and young 29.5 ft tall x 48 ft long
Ornithocheirus – Wing Span 38 ft
Ankylosaurus – 12 ft tall x 34 ft long
Torosaurus (2) – 13 ft tall x 30 ft long
Tyrannosaurus Rex (2) (one spare) 23 feet tall x 42 feet long

5 suit dinosaurs

3 Utahraptors – 8 ft tall x 14 ft long
1 Baby T-Rex (one spare) 7 ft tall x 14 ft long
1 Liliensternus – 7.5 ft tall x 16 ft long

5 baby dinosaur puppets

Each large dinosaur contains: (based upon the construction of a Torosaurus)

433 feet of hydraulic hose
971 feet of fabric
433 feet of foam
53 gallons of paint
7 kilowatts of power from 12 truck batteries
1094 yards of cabling in each body
24 microprocessors control movement along with 15 hydraulic rams and 6 hydraulic motors each

Each large dinosaur:

Weighs 1.6 tons a piece (standard family car)
Runs on 6 roller blade wheels

To operate one dinosaur, it takes a team of 3 people:

1 Driver
2 Voodoo Puppeteers
one operates head and tail gross motion;
the other is in charge of minor movements: mouth, blinking and roars

On the road…

It takes 27 – 53 foot semis (truck is 73 feet long with cabin) to move the whole production from one city to the next.