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It Costs to Recycle
Fun Facts
The animals here deposit more than 1,600 tons of dung a year. Disney pays a
company to haul it away, and then buys some of it back as compost for landscap-
ing.
Flick, Hopper, and the rest of the cast—ants; beetles; spiders; and, ugh, a stink bug—
awaken your senses with, literally, some in-your-face action. And the show's finale always
leaves the crowd buzzing.
DINOLAND U.S.A.
Enter by passing under Olden Gate Bridge, a 40-foot Brachiosaurus reassembled from
excavated fossils. Speaking of which, until late summer 1999, this land had three paleon-
tologists working on the very real skeleton of Sue, a monstrously big
Tyrannosaurus rex
unearthed 9 years earlier in the Black Hills of South Dakota. They patched and assem-
bled the bones here because Disney helped pay for the work. Alas, Sue's permanent home
is at Chicago's Field Museum, but DinoLand U.S.A. has a replica cast from her 67-mil-
lion-year-old bones. It's marked as
Dino-Sue
on park guide maps.
The Boneyard
Frommer's Rating:
B+ for children, B for parents who need to rest their feet
Recommended Ages:
3-12
Kids love the chance to slip, slither, slide, and slink through this giant playground and
dig site where they can discover the real-looking remains of triceratops,
T. rex,
and other
vanished giants. Contained within a latticework of metal bars and netting, this area is
popular, but not as inviting as the
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
play area in Disney's Holly-
wood Studios.
Dinosaur
Frommer's Rating:
B
Recommended Ages:
8-adult
This ride hurls you through the darkness in CTX Rover “time machines” back to the time
when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. The expedition takes you past an array of snarling and
particularly ferocious-looking dinosaurs, one of whom decides you would make a great
munchie. What started out as a journey back through time becomes a race to escape the
jaws of an irritated and rather ugly carnotaurus. Young children may find the large lizards
and the darkness a bit frightening, while everyone will find the ride a bit jarring.
Note:
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must be 40 inches or taller to climb aboard. Also, expectant mothers and people with neck,
back, and heart problems or those prone to motion sickness shouldn't ride.
Primeval Whirl
Frommer's Rating:
B+
Recommended Ages:
8-adult
Disney introduced this spinning, free-style twin roller coaster in 2002 in an effort to
broaden the park's appeal to young kids (odd, as this ride has a pretty tall height mini-
mum). You control the action through its wacky maze of curves, peaks, and dippity-do-
dahs, encountering faux asteroids and hokey cutouts of dinosaurs. This is a cross between
those old carnival coasters of the '50s and '60s and an expanded version of the Barn-
stormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm (p. 211).
Note:
The ride carries a 48-inch height
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