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[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I'm working on our plans for 2015, these include :

A large sauropod, 50-60' either Apatosaurus Excelsus or Diplodocus Carnegi.
Stegosaurus
Marine Reptile exhibit ( Mosasaur Encounter/Mosasaur Cove) kind of like our Velociraptor Enclosure

Any ideas or thoughts appreciated !

[Takama]

Do a Dippy. Make it long, and show off its whip like tail

As for a Marine Reptile Exhibit, find a spot and cover it with blue tarp, and have the Mosasaurs elevated above it. You can make two different species. Have a big one and a Small one.


Big one is a Tylosaurus, while the small one is a Platycarpus, trying to swim away from the gapping jaws of the Tylo.

You can then make a Dock that the visitors could walk on to see the creatures, and surround the water with rocks, and put a Hesperonis or two on them.


Heres a Rough sketch I did in paint




The Green is Grass, or the rest of your park. The Grey are Rocks that soround the little lake, and the Brown is the dock.

Now I did not want to pain stakingly make a Couple of Good Mosasaurus.

The red one is the platycarpus, and the Big Black one is the Tylosaur.

The little dots on the Rocks are the Hesperonis birds


That's just my idea

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Cool bud, thanks for the input ! Fell free to post anything else you think of..I will be taking time to mull it all over !

[EmperorDinobot]

That's cray cray. You got a pool for that?

[edu]

A Marine Reptile Exhibition could be great.
Just an idea (you have probably already considered it):







By Julio Lacerda.

In my opinion, and seeing your talent, you could make a really interesting "fake" aquarium. Playing with light and darkness, fluorescent lights...  If you made different tanks for different species, you wouldn't even have to build the entire animal (when it is too big), only what people can see through the windows.

[alexeratops]

Mosasaur Cove should be an indoor, damp rocky feeling room with windows where you can see the dinos. (the 'cove' part set me up.)

[alexeratops]

It should also be dark.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Hmm..large tanks would get pricey for the plastic used to simulate them. They wouldn't photograph well through them either with the glare from a flash, but it would be more realistic.

Large water features like ponds and such are really expensive to build and a huge problem to maintain unfortunately. That said we can simulate them, especially in an indoor structure.  You've all seen the Velociraptor Enclosure construction pics I've posted, our building will be something like that around 8' tall, maybe 20'by40' ? Of course using darkness to our advantage will help make it seem larger.  I've been considering something akin to POTC, the second scene in the ghostly grotto.

Here's a question, would you prefer the animals were shown in full view animated with fx lighting so you can see the whole creature or would it be better to make them half/quarter/third bodies ? aka underwater scenes or above water ones ?

Should we play up more of a storyline or just present the animals as they were ?

[brandem]

You may not actually need a water feature, if you did an actual aquarium style buildings you may be able to do a dry for wet using special lighting and maybe use some hidden mist machines to give the feeling of a person being surrounded by water, the white noise from a submerged microphone that seem to be represent in a lot of aquariums, I could really see it comming together.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

f you want an aquarium feel to an exhibit, have you ever seen the Nashville aquarium restaurant? There may be elements in the design which might inspire you:
http://www.aquariumrestaurants.com/AquariumNashville/

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Its pretty much a marine themed Rainforest Cafe.
There is (it appears) only one real aquarium, the rest is simulated with murals and lighting.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Interesting...reminds me of a coral reef. I've been to Nashville but never there. 

I do think we can simulate water effects..like with this device :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwtPZOH_7q8

[Yutyrannus]

f you want an aquarium feel to an exhibit, have you ever seen the Nashville aquarium restaurant? There may be elements in the design which might inspire you:
http://www.aquariumrestaurants.com/AquariumNashville/


[Not My Photo]

Its pretty much a marine themed Rainforest Cafe.
There is (it appears) only one real aquarium, the rest is simulated with murals and lighting.

Yeah, that's what I think it should look like.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

It has a nice calming effect like an aquarium would or you would expect in a restaurant like this.  However I'd like to something a bit more..thrilling ?

Here's the grotto from POTC for an example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N22D8BpCrE8

Check from about 4:30-5:40

Something similar at least in feel minus the pirates.

[stoneage]

I'm working on our plans for 2015, these include :

A large sauropod, 50-60' either Apatosaurus Excelsus or Diplodocus Carnegi.
Stegosaurus
Marine Reptile exhibit ( Mosasaur Encounter/Mosasaur Cove) kind of like our Velociraptor Enclosure

Any ideas or thoughts appreciated !

What are you using to determine the length of your sauropod? Is it the space available?

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I'm working on our plans for 2015, these include :

A large sauropod, 50-60' either Apatosaurus Excelsus or Diplodocus Carnegi.
Stegosaurus
Marine Reptile exhibit ( Mosasaur Encounter/Mosasaur Cove) kind of like our Velociraptor Enclosure

Any ideas or thoughts appreciated !

What are you using to determine the length of your sauropod? Is it the space available?

Yes, in part, also it can only be so tall or else we'll need a crane..something that just isn't feasible for us money-wise. 15' at the hips is the most my contractor can manage. Honestly 60' is kinda pushing it, but since almost all of the sauropods have uber thin tails it shouldn't be too much of an issue. The real problem is can we support that much length with nothing but wood and foam? If not it will need poles placed strategically like the Rex has.  That also worries me about doing an Apatosaurus in particular , the neck is pretty thick and heavy on them..even on a slimmer species like we've considered.

[stoneage]

Do you have a tree that is tall enough to help support the neck and head from above with steel cable?

[Yutyrannus]

It has a nice calming effect like an aquarium would or you would expect in a restaurant like this.  However I'd like to something a bit more..thrilling ?

Here's the grotto from POTC for an example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N22D8BpCrE8

Check from about 4:30-5:40

Something similar at least in feel minus the pirates.

I think it should be more calming, I've always liked that feel about aquariums and it could be kind of like a Cretaceous aquarium that you have there.

[tyrantqueen]

How about a Dire Dire Docks vibe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTl0ky4DcHA

[brandem]

How about an aquarium where the mosasaur or as I'd prefer it 3 or 4 ichthyosaurs are attacking the walls of the tank, a red flashing light in the corridor and flickering lights inside the tank could limit the view of the models and the models movements making it seem more menacing. You could use some lever driven triggers in the floor to trigger bass drum pedal style hammers to rattle plywood walls to make it seem like they are being rammed.  What would be awesome is some water effects like water dripping from the ceiling of streams of water shooting from the edges of portholes. It could be amazing, but it would be so much work.

[Yutyrannus]

That would be cool, but I still say it should be like an aquarium, maybe even make it basically a small aquarium with a few different creatures.