BBC’s Walking With Dinosaurs, The Live Experience

Tyrannosaurus Rex would have eaten Noah

When I was in high school I went to a monster truck rally on a lark, and was so blown away with excitement that I actually bought a Grave Digger hat, and have been a secret fan of monster trucks ever since. This despite the fact that they usually get 15 gallons per mile in mileage.

But as cool as Grave Digger was, the real highlight of the night was TRUCKASAURUS!!! A giant, fire breathing, mechanical monstrosity of doom that came out in the arena and ATE A JAPANESE COMPACT CAR!!! Take that rice-burners! God bless America! These colors don’t run! WWJD!!!

So when my mom called me with tickets to see Walking With Dinosaurs, The Live Experience all I could think about was TRUCKASAURUS!!!

Only this was a bazillion-gillion times way cooler! With a Paleontologist for a host, talking about evolution and geology and biological adaptations, instead of a redneck announcer shouting the same words over and over and over (“Hey everyone wasn’t that awesome? Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!”). And instead of the ear-piercing roar of engines sucking down gas (made out of dinosaurs), there was inspiring classical music that swelled and subsided with the action. And everyone left the show with a better appreciation of our place in the world, and what life was like 65 million years ago, instead of everyone going home to have sex with their cousins.

At one point Mom asked, “I wonder if there are any Intelligent Design people here.” Which was an interesting prospect, how would and IDer resolve the cognitive dissonance created by believing all life on Earth was saved on Noah’s boat, but somehow didn’t all get eaten by Tyrannosaurus Rex?

I’ve posted a flickr set with more photos of the event (all with poor lighting (sorry!)), but your really have to see it in action to believe it, so check out the video on YouTube.

If they had Walking With Dinosaurs when I was a kid, I would’ve had a much happier childhood.