$2-M Dino Theme Park, Mall of Asia, January 2009

$2-M Dino theme park at Mall of Asia last January 2009

AFTER the successful tours of Max Entertainment’s Dinos Alive in Thailand and Indonesia, it brought its $2-million theme park to the Philippines, last November until January 2009 at the Block 5 of SM Mall of Asia (MOA). The 12,000-sq-m venue housed the largest known collection of over 31 robotic (interactive) dinosaurs set up in Cretaceous and Jurassic Periods, a 3,000-sq-m food-court area, small train and simulator rides, photo and souvenir shops, sand-box fossil hunt and other fun activities. At the park entrance, visitors saw bone-like relics of different dinosaurs on the wall made of resin, while dinosaur figures, some as high as a 2-story building inside, were made of latex, resin and silicon to give visitors same feel and resemblance of the genuine ones. Some featured dinosaurs intended for educational trips and excursions include tyrannosaurus, triceratops, velociraptor, brachiosaurus, stegosaurus and megalosaurus. The company was confident to recoup its investment in the country after gaining positive results in two previous tours in Asia and welcomed more than 360,000 visitors. “In Bangkok we extended for a week to accept more visitors. In the Philippines, we can do the same if we see numbers of park-goers,” explained White. “Dinos Alive will tour next in China, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore,” said White.