Discover the Dinosaurs Exhibit

Do not go to this scam of an exhibit. What a terrible waste of money. I wish I had read the reviews before we spent the money in Kansas City this past Sunday.
There were nine separate exhibits with one to three *mostly* not life sized dinosaurs each. Some of them were broken with thier poor tails or arms dangling as they twitched. The anamontronics seemed to be bought second hand from dinosaur exhibits from the early nineties. The educational signs were missing or incorrect.
There were 2 ride on dinosaurs. Each ride held one child. Each ride lasted 65 seconds, not including strapping the kid in and out of the ride. So over an hour waiting in line for that. There were 4 bounce houses/​slides type things that we waited in lines of 10 to 20 minutes each for. They were taped up and very worn. There was face painting and a very poorly done version of miniature golf that you could pay extra for.
The gift store section was placed maze style right in the middle of the event. You had to find your way to the other side just to get to the other half. My husband said somewhere there is an old miser counting his gold coins that he makes off this joke. My kids (8, 4, and 3) wanted to leave after 20 minutes. When we did leave my oldest 2 stated that it was not fun at all.
We try to go to these type of things and keep an open mind as its supposed to be fun for the kids, not so much the grown ups. But when they can’t even get that right then they’ve done something terribly wrong. Probably on purpose.

After spending over $ 100 on tickets I was pretty dismayed to walk through an exhibit where the displays were disappointing at best. Some of them were missing teeth, others had broken animatronics, like eyes wouldn’t open, and a few more didn’t move at all. After that we had to go through a whole section of toys and stuffed animals for sale just to get to the next area. At the front check in area it was advertised that face painting, mining and panning could be done for an additional $ 2 ticket, what it left out was that you had to have four tickets for each activity! This was a pretty terrible event overall and not worth even close to what was paid for it.

Just save yourself some money, drive down the street a bit and go to the arcade! Bumper cars, laser tag, bowling and food! We had a much better time there. The dinosaurs was so packed it wasn’t enjoyable. It was dark and hot as well. My 10 year old said from now on he wanted to check reviews first! LOL. He said the commercials made it sound so awesome and it was mostly boring.

Just finished this horrible $ 60 tour in about 15 minutes. Our 10 year old was severely disappointed and we all regret the 2 hour round trip to see this. If you want a more exciting dinosaur experience, watch Jurassic Park.

Most of the reviews seem to have an unreasonable expectation for the event. This is a traveling exhibit, it will never compare to a fixed natural history museum. But the dinosaur exhibits were well done and enjoyable to look at.
My 2 year old had a very good time. We live in the middle of nowhere, I would not have bothered if I lived by/​in a major city with real museums, but we don’t.
The problem, they advertise these events like crazy and pack them full. We showed up minutes after it opened and we immediately went to the bounce house/​play area. By the time we left about an hour and half later this area was jammed and would have not worked for a young child. I think the idea age would be ~6−8 years old. Young enough to still enjoy that type of play, but not so small they they get crushed by larger/​older children.
If you are going to go, be in the door at the very start or the lines will be unbearable for your young children. Yes, it is expensive, but I have pissed away $ 50 for many meals out that were far less memorable.

My husband and I took our four-​year-​old to the one in Timonium, Maryland. I was hesitant after looking at the prices but I had already told him we were going so we went. $ 65 to get in for the three of us. I’m glad I bought online because the line for the on-​site tickets was crazy long. We walked right in.
The exhibits were decent, the few that there were. There were a lot there were duplicates and it was over in about 10 minutes. Disappointing but whatever.
The horrible experience really came after the walk-​through. The venue opened up into this space that was cluttered with bounce houses and cheap activities. My son wanted to do the bounce houses but got tired of waiting after 20 minutes of standing in line. So we went to the panning activity. The line was long but I figured we would wait it out this time. Shit, we already bought $ 20 worth of tickets so we needed to spend them somewhere. 45 minutes later the line had not moved. The workers were «resetting» but not giving a damn how long they took to do that. Finally, we got out of line and went to the mining activity. 15 minutes we stood in line and finally it was our turn. My son got a broken headlamp and we went into the first tent to do some mining. IT’S LITERALLY LITTLE POCKETS ON A WALL! That’s all it is. You go in there, you see about 50 little pockets lining the sides of the tent and you pick out the rocks you want. Some of the rocks are not even fossils or gems but dirty screws or something. Others looked like pieces of brick and limestone someone got out of their driveway. We went over to put-​put because it seemed to go quick… because everyone was in a mad rush to get through the 8 holes on rickety metal greens. Such a waste!
We gave the rest of our tickets away. I’m so mad I spent all that money. Livid even. I’m mad at myself for falling in the trap and I’m mad that the creator of this craptastic event can go to sleep at night knowing they took advantage of people like that.

Way overpriced and complete garbage. No organization at all, the dinosaurs are all broken down, and just a waste of time. Save your money and skip this one.

I took my boys, ages 4 and 5, to see Discover the Dinosaurs. Huge waste of money. We bought our tickets online only to find two very long lines outside the event, one for online ticket holders and the other for those having to buy tickets. That was the first line. The animatronic dinosaurs were kinda cool but when you finish those, you have to go through a winding display of merchandise. Yeah, that was fun having to drag my kids through that without buying anything. Then we discovered that everything else had a long line associated, many lines were 45 minutes or more. So we left. I don’t think we were there for more than 45 minutes total. Big ripoff. Very poorly organized. I ended up taking them to an indoor kids playground where they could run, jump, slide, climb and bounce to their hearts content without any lines. And I met other parents there who had given up on the Dinosaurs. Save your money. Don’t go.

Horrible. You pay to get in. And then everything costs more money when you get in. The dinosaurs are all worn out and barely working. Use your money for something else. Total scam.

OVERHYPED and OVERPRICED
Went to the event in Sacramento and felt thoroughly bamboozled. Take your kid to a nature museum instead.

This review is for the Discover the Dinosaurs event in sacramento they had over the weekend. Hopefully someone checks Unilocal and saves themselves from the misery I put myself through. So I took the kid (my four year old) to this thing yesterday. First thing, extremely overpriced; $ 48 for both of us to even walk in the door. Secondly, the exhibits are mediocre, at best. Kind of crappy really. However I would have been totally fine with paying a ton of money to see crappy exhibits, but that was by no means the worst part. Having to stand in line (and this is no underestimate either) for 45 minutes to an hour for each activity with a 4 year old who has the attention span of a gold fish… well needless to say we were both extremely tired and cranky at the end of the day. No lie, waited in line an hour to pay $ 12 for face painting; waited in line 45 minutes to spend 5 minutes in the bounce houses (they had a time limit) and gave up after waiting 40 minutes in line to rider the dinosaurs, before totally giving up because we weren’t even halfway there. We spent almost 4 hours there, with 90% of that time spent waiting in line. The people that organized this event need to be smacked upside their head. Really. Obviously they sold way too many tickets without the ability to properly handle that amount of people. And why oh why do they think that an event full of young kids is a great place to have hour long lines? Like seriously. So I have since learned my $ 80 lesson. (Between tickets, activities and food) I was just glad to finally make it out of there.
On the plus side the lines were great training to get the kid ready for Disneyland :) that’s the only upside to the whole thing

I went to this exhibit in NJ. To say it was a complete waste of time and money would not do it justice.
This was hands down the most miserable event I have ever attended in my life. The Dino animatronics were cool, but that took up about 15 minutes. After you go through the Dino exhibits you make your way to the other side which is pure hell on earth. Bounce houses all over the place, which is not a bad thing; however, the lines were insanely long. Kids crying (including my own) everywhere because the whole thing is just frustrating.
Crappy food and nowhere to sit. Worst of all, the ~$ 75 we spent to take our kids there didn’t even get us all access. Some attractions had additional up-​sells.
Do yourself a favor — DO ANYTHING ELSE WITH YOUR TIME AND MONEY.

Wayyyyyy over priced. Tickets were a gift. If I had spent the money I would have been very upset. What’s worse is that you pay so much to get in and then things inside cost more. Honestly this is a rip off for families. My daughter had fun in the mining portion because she loves stones. Jump houses were so crowded. Def too much for the little ones.

Terrible «exhibit». The commercial is false advertisement. There were a few average sized dinosaurs in the entrance, and there were several jumpers on the rest of the conference room. That was literally all they had. This show was very dissapointing, we were able to get half of what we paid refunded.

We paid $ 102 and got about $ 2 of value from this place for 3 adults and one kid.
We were really disappointed with this exhibit — it felt very pieced together and the animatronics were weak at best. There was little to learn and the tv screens with info were constantly restarting. Also a bunch of activities ‘cost extra’ above the steep entry price.
Stay away!

Price was far too excessive for what’s provided. Four of us attended the event at the LA Convention Center on January 1^st (3 adults and 1 child). We spent $ 15 on parking and $ 100 on admission and we were ready to go less than a half hour later. Then, they have the nerve to charge more for several of the exhibits inside as if the admission price wasn’t enough. Oh and the concession stand was laughable…$ 7.50 for «a» slice of pizza, $ 6.00 for «a» hot dog, $ 5 for cotton candy and so on. We were extremely disappointed to say the least and felt like it was an EXTREME waste of money. NEVER AGAIN! I’d suggest you save your money and invest it in something more worth while. This was a rip off!

I wish we had had the foresight to have checked the Unilocal reviews on this before spending hard earned money for this farce. Do not waste your precious time and money. Better yet, go see Jurassic Park.

If there were negative stars… complete and utter waste of time… false advertisement… paid the $ 22.00 for the kids «exhibit plus»… not sure what that got me other than $ 4 poorer… and feeling a little more taken. Poor mix of ages, poorly laid out, maybe 6 dinosaurs with signage (most laying on the floor), then a plastic «buy the crap» section… then, had to wait in line for tickets for the face painting, the carnie selling the tickets didn’t know the cost of each ticket (it takes 6 tickets at $ 2 each), and he gave me back the wrong change 3 times… wife and child waited in face painting line for 45 minutes… get the gist? Stay away and take your kid to the library, park, or anywhere else!!!

OMG so boring, I had 6 children ranging from 3 – 15 years old, none of them liked it. Will not ever return. A big waste of money and time.

Way over priced!!! Not a bad exhibit, but definitely not worth the $ 120 it took to get six people in. This price did not include many of the attractions inside. If everything was included in price of wristbands would have rated a little higher.
The exhibit will only take you a little over an hour to see and do everything.