If your neighbourhood shudders and shakes next year, it's because dinosaurs have invaded Auckland. And you'd better watch out, because these beasts have evolved.
Walking With Dinosaurs is returning in March for three days at Vector Arena, and creators are promising to bring "spectacular and colourful changes" to the showthat visited us in 2011.
That show delivered a trip back in time, as palaeontologist narrator "Huxley" introduced a wide variety of impressive dinosaurs that got up to mischief on Vector's main arena floor.
It's taken a team of 50 people a year to build the latest incarnation of Walking With Dinosaurs, featuring realistic, life-size versions of 10 species, including tyrannosaurus rex, plateosaurus, stegosaurus and allosaurus.
One of the show's biggest highlights is Brachiosaurus, which is 11m tall and 17m from nose to tail.
Walking With Dinosaurs, which will entertain New Zealand crowds from March 5-7, also promises to educate, with explanations on how carnivorous dinosaurs evolved to walk on two legs, and how herbivores fended off their more agile predators.
Created by Global Creatures, the organisation's CEO Carmen Pavlovic says they've improved the detailing on many of the dinosaurs.
"Many of our creatures have evolved since the last tour, now featuring distinctive display feathers, head crests and tail fans, reflecting recent discoveries about the physical nature of these massive creatures," she says.
