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This is why I love science.

I'm sorry, but that just looks lame with a capital "BBC". You can see the actor's skinny little legs between the dinosaur's. I was absolutely mad on dinosaurs even as a very young child, and I like to think I'd have scoffed just as much at this then.

They've been living off various permutations of this "Walking With" for too long I think (mostly the dinos though). I prefer Armando Ianucci's logical followup "Walking With Nazis".
 
Personally, I love dinosaurs. They're one of the things which got me interested in science as a very young chap. Pity that show is not coming to Australia.

Cheers,
TGHO
 
<sigh> No scheduled stops in my neck of the woods...

...looks like I'm going to have to find out their route and sabotage the only bridge to the town so they'll show up at my front door again.

Did that with a circus once. The smell was terrible, but the elephant rides more than made up for it!! 8-)
 
Dr. Imago said:
Cool puppets, man!

-Dr. Imago
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Look closer... notice the six-legged "Raptors" wearing black leggings...

I just don't see the point of a "live-action" show when the whole point of "Walking With Dinosaurs" was to use CGI to bring the creatures "to life". Not a bunch of performing arts students in Barney outfits. Call me cynical.
 
I'm going to call you cynical - I'm an adult and I would love to see this show. For a start TV gives you no real sense of scale - think how it feels to be stood next to an elephant compared to seeing one on TV. I think this has the potential to be an incredible experience.
 
Darat said:
I'm going to call you cynical - I'm an adult and I would love to see this show. For a start TV gives you no real sense of scale - think how it feels to be stood next to an elephant compared to seeing one on TV. I think this has the potential to be an incredible experience.
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Which is why you go to a museum, surely. Not only do you get to see fossil skeletons, but also the animatronic rubber-skinned jobs too, if you're lucky. Throw in a bit of imagination and you're as close as you're ever going to get. I suppose I would just struggle to suspend disbelief even one jot when faced with aforementioned besuited drama students. Perhaps I'm getting old.

That and I can't help but picture a small precocious child, probably called Tarquin, begging his Evian-drinking organic food-guzzling parents to take him to see it on his half-hols. Bah, I say.
 
Big Les said:
Which is why you go to a museum, surely. Not only do you get to see fossil skeletons, but also the animatronic rubber-skinned jobs too, if you're lucky. Throw in a bit of imagination and you're as close as you're ever going to get. I suppose I would just struggle to suspend disbelief even one jot when faced with aforementioned besuited drama students. Perhaps I'm getting old.

That and I can't help but picture a small precocious child, probably called Tarquin, begging his Evian-drinking organic food-guzzling parents to take him to see it on his half-hols. Bah, I say.
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The Modern Parents? Are you a Viz fan?
 
I think the reasons why I love the idea of this (in step with what Darat said) are the same as the reasons why I really enjoyed the stage production of "The Lion King". Yes, I knew that the animals were puppets -- it was obvious that they were puppets -- but that didn't make it any less neat. In fact, it was neater than, say, CGI, because it was really interesting to see how Julie Taymore came up with the designs (blending traditional East African design with puppet engineering and the need to ensure that the animals were recognizable), and how part of the artistry of it all was actually seeing how the effects worked (in that you could also see the actors). And there was the simple cool factor of the fact that I could really believe in the animals while at the same time knowing perfectly well that they were just plastic and wooden models attached to people. I like that kind of dichotomy, or paradox; it's one of the things that I attach to the idea of "really cool art".

So this version of "Walking With Dinosaurs" is super-cool to me, on so many levels: one, it involves science -- the designers are not only trying to be as paleontologically correct as they can be, but engineers are involved in designing these things so that they work physically, can move realistically, and can be animated by a puppeteer/actor. Plus, you can see the "bones" of how they work, and at the same time get swept away by their scale and the believability of their motion and puppeteer-animation all at the same time. It's like loving a magic act, even though you know it's just a trick (and even when you know how the trick is being done).

Plus, I want a raptor-suit. : )
 
JoeEllison said:
I thought that was kind of groovy... ;)
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Did you actually go see it? I'm curious what people who saw it thought of it.

The rectangle things between the legs are disappointing. Perhaps they should have disguised those better.

It's only here 2 more days. No time to plan.

A bit pricey. $90+ for better seats.
 
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