Discover The Dinosaurs

Review for 2÷14÷16 event at long beach convention center.
If zero stars was possible that is my rating. $ 25 for each adult and $ 28 for my child. $ 78 to walk through a fairly small show. Dinosaurs were extremely unimpressive even to my child and extremely damaged (many missing teeth, folded and creased and bent horns like a bad blow up animal).
The radio and tv ads said you could ride and touch but that is extremely false. Nothing is for touching except the one dinosaur you CANT ride. This «ride» is actually a dinosaur you can CLIMB on about 4′ tall and take a picture while its head moves slightly. It does not walk or move other than its head slowly up and down.
The «scavenger hunt» is actually a piece of paper with questions regarding what you read about as you walk by the broken and beat up dinosaurs.
Then you are forced through a gift shop of 200−300% marked up merchandise. Most stuff you would find at a clearance bin or dollar store.
What comes next is worse of all!!! Everything cost money. We figured 4 – 6 tickets wasn’t bad (thinking $ 4-​$ 6) for a face painting till we went and bought the tickets. Tickets are $ 2/​ea. That’s when we realized that everything that need tickets was going to cost $ 8-​$ 16.
Dino dig is actually a sand box with not even enough sand to cover the bottom of the box itself. Also not enough sand to cover the ONE plastic fossil ou are supposed to be digging for.
Lines all took 20 – 40 minutes.
On top of all that waste of money we spent another $ 10 on parking nearly half a mile away.
Most waste of money I ever spent on under two hours of NO FUN for anyone including my kid. We got there at 11 and left at 1240.
PLEASE DO NOT waste yours or your family’s time on this unbelievably expensive waste of time.

Considering the price I feel the event is expensive… even with the groupon it’s expensive.
The Dinosaur exhibit is brief but very interesting. It would have brought the exhibit experience to new heights and entertaining levels had they bothered to dim the lights or shut them out completely in specific areas such as the dinosaur exhibits, the dino theatre and certain activity stations.
Expect a huge jumper convention fest upon the conclusion of the dinosaur exhibit. If you have little ones that need energy drainage, this would be a place you can kills a few hours for a high price. Not too mention the $ 15.00 parking.