Discover The Dinosaurs

If I had a dollar for every time I saw a kid in tears from getting injured in the bouncehouses, I would have made the $ 65 back I dropped in this horrible place in the first hour-​and-​a –half I was there! Do not waste your precious time and hard-​earned money here. Lame and horribly overpriced.

Absolute garbage. Quite possibly the worst money I’ve ever spent. I don’t even know where to begin; let’s start with the fact that they advertise a 20 foot Tyrannosaurus Rex, it was maybe 13 ft. Only about half of them moved or made any sound but the worst part is that a good 40 percent of the space was taken up by merchandise. Ridiculously over prices merchandise. Disney World merch is cheaper. Most of the models, the three rides and the head prop to take a picture with were broken and torn, the metal innards were visible to the naked eye. I couldn’t comprehend the dilapidated state of this exhibition. Now for what REALLY got me upset, I was clearly told that adults were not allowed inside the bounce houses. I for one have peace of mind knowing that there are only children inside. Well guess what? Not just one, but FOUR adults were inside one bounce house at the same time. The so called «attendants» didn’t know what they were doing nor did they care. Now onto the «rides», which were so worn they were pitiful. I’ve seen rides in front of grocery stores in better condition. My daughter and I spent over 20 minutes in line, patiently waiting her turn. The child in front of us goes and when he’s done I think it’s my daughters turn. No, I was wrong. One mother had a child in each of the three lines and she was bringing them over from the other lines and the attendants ALLOWED her to skip her kids in front of my child. So the attendants apparently pick and choose who they let skip. I was infuriated as were other parents who’s children had been waiting as well. It is not fair that some children get to go on the rides without waiting in line while others wait 30 minutes or more. I was able to speak to the person supposedly was in charge, «Andy», who is clearly only there to give face and had no intention of doing anything. He just listened to me with a blank stare on his face and generally had an «I don’t care» attitude. I was extremely disappointed with the entire experience. Between tickets, parking and the souvenir picture I spent over $ 100. This was worth maybe $ 6 per person. I feel ROBBED. This is false advertisement at it’s best. And this company will hear from me. This won’t stop at a bad review on Unilocal.This exhibition should be stopped in it’s tracks before it continues robbing hard working parents and single parents like myself.

Agree that the whole experience could be wrapped in an hour but only if you go without kids. It is a unique experience and fun for kids and thats what you pay for. All and all 15 – 20 different species about half of them mechanical and roaring and all made out of rubber but looking pretty realistic. My 3 year old son was terrified, bounce houses and slide as tall as a two story building and unlike anything I have seen (see photo). Kids can spend easily 2 to 3 hours (a lot of it waiting in line) on slide, bounce houses, mini golf, face painting, rides, toddler den, mining for fossils, panning fossils, shopping. Food options were Papa Johns pizza, bakery, donuts, Tequesitos, sandwiches and empanadas, hot dogs, chicken fingers, French fries, popcorn and ice cream. My son had fun doing unique activities which makes it a money worthy experience to me.

Not worth the money. TV commercials make it seem much more exciting. Its a few mechanical dinosaurs that move… a few bounce houses and 1 ride where they just sit and the dinosaur moves its head! $ 25 per kid and $ 20 for adults is a rip-​off! Experience was probably worth $ 5-​$ 10 at most and adults should be free. All in all the experience can be wrapped up in about an hour.

Dont waste your money and time! It was so bad… Everything about it. 15 $ parking, very few machanical dinos, «rides» were bounce houses not bigger than the ones you see at birthday parties, food court was closed leaving the public with 3 kiosks to buy «food»: donuts, pizza, empanadas. If you dont have small kids that use the bouncing houses takes less than 1 hr to go through the whole thing.

So, I had just as crappy an experience as the rest of you at Discover the Dinosaurs. Well, not true — it wasn’t as crowded when we went, which helped make the situation just mediocre and not terrible. But! I wanted to post this so maybe future victims will see it — I found their website and emailed asking for a refund, and they were courteous and refunded the entrance fees. So… That is good for something. :)

Let’s start with this will not get any stars from me… now…where do I start… I thought this exhibit was very hyped up. from the tv commercials, to the online advertisements… I thought this was a great thing do for my daughter since she has been out of school got two weeks in winter break and barely had done anything since my husband and I are working — hard working parents… well thanks to this awful experience .we wasted our time and hard earn money… it took 45 min and a missed exit to arrive at the location .$ 15 for parking… oh wait… was only able to buy tickets online for a higher price. spent $ 86.00 for this for a family of 4… arrived and the line was half way up the block and wall to wall ppl… disorganization was a understatement… luckily my family walked to the front of the line… and if wasn’t for my husband looking in the building we would have never known that online purchaser had a seperate line inside… why was the sign on the inside??? If we wasn’t smart to walk up to the front we would have stayed on the line for 2 hrs. if course no one was outside to give directions and the one person who did come outside said to everyone in the front that could hear him… that they will try to get everyone in but the wait was 2 hrs .he gave a choice either wait or come back tomorrow. really .what choices!!! Well we want inside which wasn’t any better. the wait was shorter but all the workers where looking clueless. while standing online for 20 min .two workers walked past us with papers in there hand and went to the back of the line and began letting people in… from the back… are you kidding me!!! while people in the front of them has been waiting longer .you can’t be serious… I decided to walk to the back and ask how come these ppl are going I before the ones I front in from .she said if you purchased your tickets online and has a print out then you can go in. well luckily I had a print out and we went in… but if I did not go and ask. my wait would have been even longer… so inside lets just say… COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. it just sealed the deal from the beginning that my hard earned money is in the hand of a greedy and probably happy executive whose planned worked and a lot ppl was suckered… well fool me once .BTW…we had the most fun at the free park… that’s my stars!!!

What a complete rip off. The line was so long to buy the tickets it stretched from one end of an intersection all the way to the other. Thank goodness we bought our tickets online. When we finally got in we saw no more than 10 little set ups of robotic dinosaurs that were all the same size. Really? The T-​Rex was the size of a triceratops. The Dino theater was so small and packed people were coming out saying don’t waste your time. Then the Dino dig was a whole bunch of kids pushing each other over because it was so ridiculously small. Then 25% percent of the floor space is selling overpriced souvenirs (that you have to walk through to get to the mere 5 bounce houses they had set up.) My 3 year old son got trampled twice in the maze house an we just left because the line to get into one simple bounce house was almost an hour long and we already felt ripped off for our money so why waste our time too? We finished the entire exhibit in 20 mins. The food was cheap, overpriced and everything looked so dirty and unsanitary I didn’t even want to be there for another second. I left the place warning everyone I could not to waste their money. No one listened, I don’t blame them. Had I waited in line for over an hour I wouldn’t leave either. To put a cherry on top of my 100 $ sundae when we left to pay our parking we had to pay 20 $ for 1 hour of parking. How atrocious. The advertisements made this out to be completely not what it was. Please, I feel bad for everyone that had to get ripped off. Reconsider taking your children to the museum that will charge you a reasonable price and not make you want to cry when you get home.

This is the single worst thing I have ever taken my daughter to. Do not go. It is a complete waste of money. It was so crowded, that the «rides» were down right dangerous. hour after hour lines, gimmicky, dirty, I cannot stress enough how bad this event is.

I completely agree with the other reviewers — very much a rip off. We did see the 15 or so displays and get some photo opportunities. Beyond that, we didn’t even get to do the bounce houses because the lines were too long. The only thing we could do was the toddler area (which we could do at the mall) and the maze (2 minutes). It was definitely not worth the $ 100 for a family of 4 to park and attend. Lesson learned. Save your time and money. It made me appreciate our local bouncy places!

Very unhappy. It was way too expensive for the minimal and boring attractions. Plus you have to pay extra for face painting and something else. It was crazy over crowded and everyone was unhappy with the exhibit. A few animatronic dinosaurs and some bounce houses… not worth the money :-/