Walking With Dinosaurs is ROAR-ing into Belfast in 2018
The show's been given a state of the art makeover and it's coming back to The SSE Arena, Belfast
Last updated 13th Nov 2017
Dinosaurs will once again roam international soil when the globally-acclaimed production, Walking With Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, based on the award-winning BBC Television Series, returns in 2018, starring Michaela Strachan as ‘Huxley’ the paleontologist.
Watched by over 9 million people in more than 250 cities around the world, the show will open its World Tour in Newcastle on 20 July 2018 and then embark on an international tour, including a stop at The SSE Arena, Belfast between August 31 and September 2.
Friday August 31st will see an evening performance at 7pm, with Saturday holding 3 shows at 11am, 3pm & 7pm. Sunday September 2nd will have two final chances to see the incredible show at 11am and 3pm.
Tickets for all shows will go on sale Friday Nov 17th at 9am from The SSE Arena, Belfast box office, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide and online at ticketmaster.ie
The $20 million production features new, state of the art technology, underlining its position as the biggest and best dinosaur show in the world.
This updated production will showcase spectacular and colourful changes to the dinosaurs based on the latest scientific research including the likely feathering of some species.
The one-hour, 40-minute show depicts the dinosaurs’ evolution with almost cinematic realism.
Nine species are represented from the entire 200 million year reign of the dinosaurs. The show includes the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the terror of the ancient terrain, as well as the Plateosaurus and Liliensternus from the Triassic period, the Stegosaurus and Allosaurus from the Jurassic period and Torosaurus and Utahraptor from the awesome Cretaceous period. The largest of them, the Brachiosaurus, is 11 metres tall and 17 metres from nose to tail.
It took a team of 50 - including engineers, fabricators, skin makers, artists, painters, and animatronic experts - a year to build the production.
The history of the world is played out with the splitting of the earth’s continents, and the transition from the arid desert of the Triassic period is given over to the lush green prairies and forces of the later Jurassic. Oceans form, volcanoes erupt, a forest catches fire -- all leading to the impact of the massive comet, which struck the earth, and forced the extinction of the dinosaurs.