Stomping and roaring dinosaurs took to the stage in Tokyo on Thursday as part of a presentation for a proposed entertainment park where visitors will be able to see the realistic replicas firsthand. Japanese firm On-Art Corp. unveiled human-operated robotic models of raptors, an Allosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus rex, in a performance at a hotel hall. At one point, the T-rex even appeared to bite the head of a pretend caretaker.

Described as a ‘half visual spectacle and half wacky performance piece’, the idea of a robotic version of Jurassic Park is the brain child of Japanese entrepreneur Kazuya Kanemaru. During a presentation at an industry expo in Tokyo last week, Kanemaru impressed investors by introducing a robotic tyrannosaurus rex which attempted to gobble up one of the actors on-stage.
If the park does go ahead it will offer members of the public the chance to experience first-hand a realistic recreation of the prehistoric world using animatronics and human-operated robot dinosaurs. A demonstration of what the finished park might be like can be viewed below.

Many of them are animated with moving limbs and lifelike roars including Jeff the T-Rex, who stands at 26 feet high and 85 feet long. And during the presentation, one tyrannosaurus began chomping on the head of one of the caretakers. Dino-A-Live isn’t the first attempt to recreate Jurassic Park. In 2013, an Australian billionaire, Clive Palmer, opened a Jurassic Park style theme park filled with robotic dinosaurs in Queensland called Palmersaurus. The park is located at the mining magnate’s Palmer Coolum Resort on the Sunshine Coast and features 160 dinosaurs, which range from 7 to 72 feet in length, and stand up to 32 feet high.
Staff members acted as caretakers and herded them around the room and even fed them with what appears to be fake me while there have been many theories for what killed off the dinosaurs – from an asteroid strike to massive volcanic eruptions – recent research suggests it may have been a combination of disasters. The creatures’ 160 million year long reign is thought to have been ended by a double-whammy when the shockwave from the meteor impact caused a storm of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes around the world.
Around 8 meters (26 ft.) high, the dinosaur replicas were modeled from fossilized skeletons and made of carbon fiber materials, according to the company.
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