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Article: The T. Rex Tour; The beasts in 'Walking With Dinosaurs--The Live Experience' aren't really alive. They just act like they are.
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- Newsweek
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- July 30, 2007
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Byline: Lorraine Ali (With Tony Dokoupil)
The lights go down, the smoke rises and the star of the show lumbers into the arena. She is 36 feet tall and 49 feet long, and she has a score to settle. The bleachers of Washington's Tacoma Dome shake as she walks, causing preschoolers to grab their mothers and older siblings to clutch the sides of their seats. The angry T. rex is out to save her baby, a mini-rex who, despite being 15 feet long herself, is cornered by two brave herbivores. The giant predator spots her baby, charges at the offending dinosaurs and lets out a roar surely heard as far as Vancouver. At which point a 7-year-old seated about 20 feet away ...