Originally Posted By patrickegan The hokey music is actually titled, On The Trail From Grand Canyon Suite.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "How many specifically because they want to see the dinosaurs? I'm guessing less than half." I think this is very generous. Probably much less than a quarter.
Originally Posted By alphabetmom The main reason I ride the train is to rest my feet, however, I look forward to seeing the dinosaurs and would be greatly sad if there were none.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo The Dinos are one of the many reasons why the DLRR is the best of the Disney RRs in the world. I was shocked when we rode the MK version and there was virtually nothing to see.
Originally Posted By Brian55nh About the whole pterodactyl/Pteranodon thing - paleontologists now refer to the whole group properly as pterosaurs, with pterodactyl falling to the wayside since in its original useage it only was used for the long-tailed forms prevalent only in the Triassic and Jurassic periods and then becoming extinct. (The group Pteranodon belongs to arose at the end of the Jurassic and became the only Cretaceous forms 'til the great extinction. And, yes, they have absolutely nothing to do with bird evolution, although they are considered close cousins to the dinosaurs.
Originally Posted By Brian55nh <<Have you noticed after it was finally determined, fairly conclusively, that dinosaurs were primitive birds, the herpetologists wouldn't let go of them, and decided that birds must therefore have to be an advanced sort of reptile?>> Actually, it wasn't the herpetlogists rather than a vocal minority of ornithologists who got bent all out of shape that dinosaurs could have anything to do with bird evolution and still try to argue against it despite the wealth of fossil material that continues to be found advocating the dinosaur connection. They still try to argue that it is instead some sort of primitive reptile yet undiscovered and pretty much stick their fingers in their ears when the dino aspect is brought up.
Originally Posted By phruby Are you telling me that its impossible for a Pteranodon family to adopt a baby Tyrannosaurus Rex?
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Yes, they tried it once but it ended tragically when it was time for the adopted child to leave the next. Poor little guy flapped those tiny arms the whole way down.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >Are you telling me that its impossible for a Pteranodon family to adopt a baby Tyrannosaurus Rex? < Yes. Dinosaur Train is a horrible show and should be punished for historical inaccuracies. Like calling Pterosaurs dinosaurs when they are clearly flying lizards.
Originally Posted By bravebrother The DLRR and the Dinosaur Diorama were the very first DL atrraction I ever saw some 30 odd years ago. And it still is today. The first thing I do every visit is take a round trip on the DLRR and love to see the dino's still there year after year!!!
Originally Posted By Bellella Ah, the dinosaurs- the last remainders of the Ford Magic Skyway that only a lucky few ever got to experience. The dinosaurs themselves are very nicely done, and I hope they stay there forever, exactly as they are.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Bellella, is there anything at DL that you would change? Just curious. I'm specifically talking about some of the park's classic features rather than things that have been added or changed in the last couple of decades or so.
Originally Posted By Manfried I wish that WDW's train would have more show stuff like the Disneyland dinosaurs. There's this long stretch along the canal on the north end that cries out for something...anything. But no.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Agreed Manfried. As a Disneylander, I always viewed the train as an actual attraction rather than simply a mode of transport. Every time I ride the MK's, I go, that was rather pointless. Even Tokyo has the dinos, and Paris has the Grand Canyon diarama.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>I wish that WDW's train would have more show stuff like the Disneyland dinosaurs.<< This is why I doubt the DL dinos will ever get updated. If they won't spend the money to add them to the MK railroad, I doubt they spend money to update the existing Dinos in DL.
Originally Posted By phruby They should take the current dinos and add them to a river rafting ride! Maybe they could be part of a fake theme park where the dinos get loose.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I feel like WDW management probably thinks that with Ellen's Energy Adventure at Epcot and Dinosaur at DAK (and all of Dinoland for that matter), folks can get their dinosaur fill at plenty of other places, so there's no reason to add them to MK. What does make me wonder is how they managed to get by that long before adding any dinos, since MK was open for 11 years before Epcot and 22 before DAK (and even longer before Chester & Hester's, which is the real jewel of WDW-dinos...not), so they were lacking in dinosaurs-property wide for a very long time.
Originally Posted By Manfried I wouldn't add dinosaurs to WDW's train, just some kind of show elements to those long passages of nothingness.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Agreed. Not necessarily Dinos, but something would be better than what is there. There is not even an elaborate Small world facade to travel through.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Except for some stretches around FrL, the WDW train is just not very scenic.
