Sandusky, Ohio -- A lagoon on the edge of Lake Erie will be inhabited by looming Jurassic Park creatures next summer when Cedar Point opens its new attraction for the season. The Sandusky amusement park said that an exhibit with about 50 roaring, moving dinosaurs is slated for a four-acre site on the wooded island toward the back of the park.
The "Dinosaurs Alive! Cedar Point also will add a mat-racer slide complex to the Soak City waterpark next to the park. The prehistoric-themed exhibit will have life-sized dinosaurs covered with skin-like material that replicates almost every feature of the ancient creatures.
Four dinosaurs will have interactive consoles allowing visitors to guide their movements in order to see how they moved their limbs, tail, eyes and mouth. The exhibit will have about 36 different dinosaur species, ranging from a Ruyangosaurus that stands almost 40 feet tall and 72 feet long, to an Angustinaripterus that is two feet high and eight feet long.
Inhabitants will include the vicious Tyrannosaurus Rex and Spinosaurus, the largest of all known carnivorous dinosaurs. Irratator, Baryonyx, a plated Stegosaurus and three-horned Triceratops are also arriving.
The half-mile-long path will have more than a dozen themed exhibits and displays and will veer underneath several of the larger beasts, providing a very intimate encounter with the prehistoric beasts, Cedar Fair said. Guests will enter the dinosaur area by crossing a bridge near Camp Snoopy. An excavation site and paleontological dig, plus information signs and fossil displays, are all part of an exhibit that Cedar Fair hopes will appeal to school groups as well as general park visitors.
