Written/Compiled and Reported by Li Xinyi
Dinosaurs that disappeared from Earth 200 million years ago are back! Starting December 3, Taiwan’s first-ever Dinosaur Dream Park, themed around Mesozoic-era dinosaurs of land, sea, and air, will grandly open at Taipei’s Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, allowing the public to rediscover these massive creatures that once ruled the Earth's seas, lands, and skies 200 million years ago, and experience the thrill of being in the movie "Jurassic Park."
Combining indoor and outdoor jungle settings to make audiences feel as if they’re in the movie “Jurassic Park.” (Image provided by Xianglong Company)
The exhibition combines indoor and outdoor jungle environments for the first time to fully present dinosaur habitats, making visitors feel as though they’ve stepped into the primeval Jurassic forest — hearing their roars, seeing them move, and having close-up, time-traveling encounters with these former rulers of the Earth. At this “Dinosaur Mobilization” event spanning the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, featuring sea, land, and air dinosaurs, visitors can fulfill all their dinosaur fantasies in one place — including how marine reptiles hunted in the vast ocean, how giant land dinosaurs competed for dominance, how flying reptiles evolved into the ancestors of birds, and why the Oviraptor was wrongly accused of being a thief?
The gigantic pterosaur was actually an ancestor of birds. (Image provided by Xianglong Company)
Besides these visible and audible dinosaur records that could earn Guinness World Records, there’s also a 3D Dinosaur Theater that presents the shocking mysteries of the rise and fall of the dinosaur family, interactive games for digging up dinosaur fossils and making dinosaur rubbings, as well as regular fun activities such as the “Dinosaur Fist Bumping Competition” hosted by MOMO’s big brothers and sisters. Pre-sale tickets for the “Dinosaur Dream Park: Land, Sea, and Air Mobilization” are available now until December 2, and can be purchased at 7-11 i-Bon. The discounted price for a double ticket is NT$349 (original price NT$500).
Dinosaur Dream Park website: www.dinosaurs-dreampark.com