Dinosaurs Unearthed exhibit at Oregon's OMSI!

[EmperorDinobot]

https://www.omsi.edu/dinosaurs

Check out the video! It's intense!



I have yet to go. I've seen these sorts of dinosaur exhibits a lot, and they are aimed at kids, and um...I'm sorry to say but the OMSI is BORING as heck, but it makes up for it with special programs, tons of guests speakers, cool science shows, the IMAX, the sub and...beer.


Anyone from Oregon wanna go with me? I'll pay for tix!

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Make sure you check ticket prices before hand..that exhibit came here and it cost 25.00 a person.  It was also a huge letdown. I love anything with dinosaurs in it, for 10.00 it may have been worth it..but at 25.00 a head I was hoping for accurate dinosaurs..not at all what we got...and mean not..at..all.

[EmperorDinobot]

OOOuuch!

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

OOOuuch!

Yeah..and the whole thing was a money pit..way over priced giftshop, over priced cheap food, and every activity they had was an extra cost..I felt like an old fashioned carnival had come to town..without the pure joy of it all. I give the guys in China that make them an "A" for effort but that's about it.. :/

[Seijun]

I live in oregon but I think this looks pretty terrible.. Tail-dragging sauropods, pronated hands everywhere.. The omsi is apparently too ashamed to even show their own exhibit on their website. Instead they opted to use a photo of a Papo rex. You have to do a bit of clicking and scrolling the get images of the actual exhibit.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

The " guides " and such given out by the exhibit manufacturers are rife with toys and pics of much better ( CM Studios ) pieces too.

[DeadToothCrackKnuckle]

Yeah, when I first saw the billboard for this, I was really excited to attend! But once I visited the website, I cried... It's been a while since Portland has had anything dinosaur... And cool to see you live right next to me!

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

If it's cheap enough it might still worth a lark, all depends on your personal preference I guess.

I'd like to see a large Billings exhibition myself..they are getting much better at their dinosaurs.  Kokoro still makes some pretty good ones too.

[Dikiyoba]

So I attended this exhibit at OMSI back in July. It was simply awful. The small species were reconstructed to oversized proportions, the reconstructions had anatomical inaccuracies, the layout was confusing (let's put a sauropod skeletal mount of one species right next to a sauropod reconstruction of an entirely different species!), the feathers were inaccurate and ugly (the Microraptor reconstruction looked more like a horrible stained rug than a dinosaurs), and the lighting was awful. This photo of the "Confuciusornis" reconstruction basically sums the whole exhibit up:



Review: 1/10, would not attend again unless free and permissible to make sarcastic comments to other visitors

[tyrantqueen]

Lol, hilarious. Big Bird, is that you?