I took me and my boyfriend to see the prehistoric land animals of our ancient time and was heckled for $50 also I had a gentleman referring to the dinosaurs as "them" it's 2020 let the dinosaurs choose their gender. I asked for a refund at that point and couldn't imagine spending my money there ever again, those poor dinosaurs. read more

First time to see robotic realistic Dino....I believe only place to see it. They could have done better in the set design...made it higher or cover the set better. Silk plants ??? That was the JOKE !!! read more

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Really disappointed in this show, I gotta say. We just got back from the one today at Dulles Expo Center. After spending $90 for two kids/adults and waiting on line 35 minutes just to get into the bldg (we got there early too), EVERYTHING had an insane line. Inflatables, rides, photo pickup, food, gift shop, etc. Half of the animatronics weren't working. After 75 minutes, we were able to walk through an inflatable maze and roam the semi-functional exhibits after fighting our way to a vantage point. Anyone with special needs kids: avoid this event at all costs. The "PLUS" tickets are only available online, not at the door, but unless you have very patient children who don't mind waiting on lines that resemble Disneyworld's, all the "Unlimited" extra stuff you get is unlimited stress, anxiety, and disappointment. read more

Run away screaming from this scam! Ridiculous waste of time and money. For $100 it took about 15 minutes to see the few plastic dinosaurs. Don't know what the children's plus ticket is for since all of the activities require additional tickets ($2 per ticket). Some lame tiny bounce houses with an hour+ wait to get in due to slow incompetent employees. The expo center is mostly empty due to so few exhibits. Don't understand why adults need to pay admission since this is only for kids. The only thing for parents to do is stand around and look bored/angry. read more

Not worth the cost, spend your money elsewhere!!! We went to the event at the Timonium Fair grounds in Baltimore, MD. When we checked into our hotel the front desk staff saw my sons dinosaur T-shirt and suggested we try this event. We are very sorry we did. Go do something else!! We should have stuck to our original plans. For $100 for a family or four it was highway robbery. You couldn't get closer than 10 feet to the dinosaurs. There was only like ten dinosaurs and dragons in all. Very cheesy props, the cloth backgrounds were cool and high quality but the rest was high school play props at best. My 2 and 4 year old were bored after 10 minutes. They had about four bounce houses and that was the only thing keeping the kids entertained. Which I could have rented a bounce house for the entire day for my sons for that cost. They had a 14 minute show just for the little baby dinosaur to come out, the only dinosaur you could touch. Half the people left the show before he came out because it was boring and not even educational. They should have just bought 100 of those funny T-Rex costumes and had all the staff running around in them. To add insult to injury all of the "extra" stuff was additional money. Face painting, fossil dig. The store part was huge, however no unique dinosaur stuff, just your usually cheap crap toys, in the standard three popular dinosaurs only. DONT GO, just don't do it!!! read more

This exhibit is so badly managed that it's a nightmare. As it is, you wait in line at least 45 minutes outside (even if you've already purchased tickets online). Then you wait in line another half hour inside. The animatronics dinosaurs were really cool. All of the indoor bounce houses had a line that was at LEAST an hour wait (so we didn't get to do those). Even the little retail shop they had set up had a line that you'd have to wait in at least 45 minutes to BUY something. Geesh. We didn't even attempt to buy any food or drink. It seemed like their check-in process and registers were from the dark ages or something (not sure why it should take so long to check in if I already had tickets. Oh, wait, it could be that they are WAY over selling tickets. There should be a limit on the number of tickets sold so that the people who DO go can have a good time. I paid for the PLUS tickets and it was impossible to get my money's worth. My boys were so disappointed. Please save yourself the hassle. Rent a dinosaur movie at home and take your kids to Pump It Up. read more

Horrible, horrible, horrible and oh did I mention horrible. This was a birthday present to my step daughter and even she said that she is now expecting another present from me because the show was so bad. Whomever ran this show just threw something together and made there money and some because it definitely wasn't worth the 18 for adults or 25 for kids. Then your going to charge for the stuff such as face painting that could've off set how bad this show was. Never again! read more

Sucked... way to expensive, even the "plus" didn't cover everything. Face painting, "mining" etc all costs more. Movie shown was not educational. Should have gone to Kings Dominion. read more

Worst event I've every been to. Waist of time for our father daughter day. Should have gone to barns abd noble and let her buy books. That would have been worth the time. Next time I'll read the reviews 1st. Mylittle even showed her disappointment! read more

This was nothing like it was advertised. Very expensive and the "rides" that you had to pay extra for in the price were literally bounce houses that were dirty and 3 dinosaurs that your child can sit on for like 30 seconds after waiting 1/2 hour. Not to mention that it was made more for a 18month old child versus a toddler on up. The face painting was 10.00 and don't even get me started on everything else. It was pretty horrible. read more

Is there a rating lower than 1 star? Biggest rip off imaginable. Do yourself a favor and stay home. Make some popcorn, turn on Discovery channel, and watch a dino movie with your kids. You'll be thankful you did. My 6 year old was completely unimpressed. Once through the doors, it took only a few minutes to realize we had been taken, and we just left as we realized there was no way to recover the loss. $100 down the drain, and a total waste of 1/2 a day. read more

This was the biggest waste of time and money. It was $15 per person for less than 20 minutes of activity. The dinosaurs looked real enough - but the backdrops were pathetic. They could have went a little further to make it look real. Then, you are asked to spend another $20-$50 on extras not included in the ticket price! $10 (PER PERSON!) to dig in the sand? I think not.... Save your money. read more

We went to this event at the DC Armory this weekend. It was BARELY an hour's worth of entertainment with a 2- and 4-year old. We got tickets for $18 on Groupon and it was still a huge rip-off. Especially since it cost an additional $10 for parking. NO WAY should parents have to pay admission for this thing. I would do it again IF the admission was for kids only and even then I wouldn't pay more than $18. All it was were a few (MAYBE 10?) animatronic dinosaurs and dragons that just sit there and move their heads and tails. You can't even get within six feet of them. Then there were a few activities that had nothing to do with dinosaurs (musical chairs but with "islands" and "lava"?) and of course a HUGE gift shop and snack bar. My kids loved the dinosaurs and the dragons but honestly you can get just as much excitement at any of the Smithsonian museums for free. Definitely won't be doing this again. read more

Discover the Dinosaurs came to Des Moines IA and before I purchased advanced tickets online I decided to read the reviews. By the pictures and some of the activities I thought it would be worth it for my 3 1/2 year old daughter that likes dinosaurs. There was a Groupon deal for $13 a ticket but missed out on that and purchased advanced tickets online that were $16, at the door was $21. We arrived on a Saturday morning right at 9am when they opened, there was a line but once we got inside the set up was very spaced out and it seemed very uncrowded at that time. (I don't like to go places when it's so crowded you can't enjoy it) This event didn't have nearly all the attractions that I see pictured at the other locations. There were no dinosaurs to ride/sit on, no mini golf, no bounce houses. They did have the large dinosaurs, a rawr machine that measures your rawr on a scale, some computers to "create" your own dinosaur, the sand covered fossils, large rock "poop" with holes to touch some soft warm material inside, there was also an inflatable maze to walk through. They had face painting for $15 and a fossil search for $10, that we didn't do. They had a cool gift shop and the prices seemed pretty reasonable for some things. They also had a game show sort of game that we waited in line to do, but got bored and left while they were building a dinosaur out of giant legos. My daughter really liked seeing the giant dinosaurs and the sharks they had on display, but I wish they had some more things to do, pretty uneventful, but was worth it for my daughters excitement. read more

This show is very expensive and reminds me of a tourist trap. If this was the winter it would have been a way to kill a 1-2 hours indoors but a total waste when the weather is nice. They have dinosaur themed bouncy houses but we had to wait a while to be able to use them. read more

Terrible! A total waste of money! Very expensive to walk around and look at oversized plastic dinosaurs. The rides are primarily Dino themed moon bounces courses. Children are permitted to repeat as many times as they like in one turn so the line never moves! read more

experience the HORROR of waiting in gigantic lines for e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g., including the gift shop and food concessions! Also, extremely confusing event, with no signage, so you may not even find yourself in the line you expected. read more

This show is worth about $5. The price is astronomically high for what you get. The "movie" is Walking with the Dinosaurs" in a small partitioned room of a noisy hall in folding chairs. The lines are extremely long. Most of the staff looks they would rather be somewhere else, and you will feel the same way. read more

DO NOT GO TO THIS PLACE!!!! It is a complete waste of money!! This "exhibit" is totally overpriced and although the claim that they will sell out, they continuously let people in, adding to the lines. The exhibits are so overcrowded it is hard to even see and the rides are a joke! The lines are AT LEAST an hour long to go down some inflatable slides. You will leave this place feeling horrible about wasting your money (at least I did). It is a joke and clearly run by scum bags who don't care about creating a cool experience for kids, but more about how much money they can extort from individuals. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME! read more

This was the WORST experience ever! I really wish I would have checked the Yelp reviews before taking my kids here. Trust me, it had to be bad for me to post a review - I never post reviews. This was the worst thing I've ever been to in life! It is a huge suck-fest. The organizers should be ashamed for stealing money from hardworking families - and yes, I meant to say stealing. It was incredibly expensive and not interactive. The Dino dig, or whatever that mess was. was really just some sand boxes with bones glued to the bottom. the movie was was Walking With Dinosaurs which me and my kids watched on HBO last week and you couldn't even hear it because it was just a screen set up in a blow up tent thingy so you could hear all of the noise from the rest of the convention center. The "exhibits" were a big disappointment and many of the dinosaurs were not working. The inflatables had a line a mile long. My daughter just gave up. The "mining" which was really just a bag of dirt with some "fossils" and "jewels" in it costs extra. Face painting was extra. I was not willing to pay "extra" after me and my family spent $86!!!!!!!!!!!!! getting in the door. The "Scavenger Hunt" was just a piece of paper where you answered questions about the dinosaurs and then turned it in to get a "prize" at the end. The line was so long to get the prize that we just left. The prize was just a little plastic dinosaur that we can buy at the Dollar Store. This was the worst rip off and disappointment EVER!!!!!! PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Trust me, you will be kicking yourself if you do. I wish I could give this thing negative stars or zero stars. Such a waste of time and money. The time I spent here is time that I cannot get back. I certainly wish I could. read more

I don't even want to give it 1 star. This was a total SCAM. It was 100 dollars for my family to get in and we were in and out. The dinosaur rides are like the rides you put a quarter in at the mall! The exhibits were trash and unrealistic...unless you consider the plastic dinosaurs head bobbing up and down real. They have all these black curtains up before you pay to get in so that you can't see how cheesy this thing is. The people who work there are scumbag carnival type gypsies. And you have to wait at least two hours in line just for the couple of cheap bouncy houses they had. I feel really bad for any family that wastes their money on this trash. The owners of this garbage should be put in jail for fraud. My little one cried because she loves dinosaurs and said it was a terrible day. Oh yeah, and nothing is included, u have to pay extra for face painting, bounce houses and fossil digging...it's pretty much rape. read more