The $20 million arena spectacular welcomed guests of all ages to experience dinosaurs in their natural habitat. From friendly herbivorous like the Brachiosaurus to the highly anticipated carnivorous Tyrannosaurus rex, “Walking With Dinosaurs” presented a brilliant display of childhood interests while exploring the different eras that dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

This isn’t your average elementary school field trip, lazily walking around a museum filled with static dinosaur bones from millennia ago. Here, the dinosaurs are literally walking towards you as if they’ve been brought forward in time. They have realistic skin and scales and are full scale and life-size, making you feel as if you’ve become a paleontologist lost in time.

Despite their realism, these aren’t the fearsome beasts of 248 million years ago, but complex animatronics operated by at least three people, per dinosaur.

The arena, which is covered in dense fog, centers around three large boulders that slowly separate throughout the show, representing the years passing as the super-continent of Pangaea creates the land masses of today. The dramatic lighting easily represents a colorful garden of flowers in one instant and a land covered in scorching fire in another. The show’s score, composed by James Brett, adds a mystical quality to the already surreal performance.

Every little element of “Walking With Dinosaurs” was well constructed, designed to effortlessly transport you to a time when reptiles ruled the earth and it shows.