Dinosaur (Disney's Animal Kingdom)
ride at Disney's Animal Kingdom
Dinosaur (stylized in all caps as DINOSAUR) was a dark ride EMV attraction at Disney's Animal Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. The ride featured a turbulent journey through the late Cretaceous period, featuring prehistoric scenes populated with dinosaur audio-animatronics. Originally named Countdown to Extinction when the park opened on April 22, 1998, the ride was re-named to Dinosaur in 2000 to promote Disney Animation's feature film of the same name. In the attraction, the two prominently featured dinosaurs were the Iguanodon and Carnotaurus, which were also featured in the film. Scenes from the movie also appeared in the pre-show.
In August 2024, it was announced at the D23 fan event that the area that Dinosaur and the land the attraction was located in, DinoLand U.S.A., will be replaced with a new land called Tropical Americas, which is scheduled to open in 2027, with an Indiana Jones attraction replacing Dinosaur. Dinosaur closed on February 2, 2026. In August 2026, two years after the announcement, the name of the Indiana Jones attraction that would replace Dinosaur was revealed to be Indiana Jones and the Myth of the Jade Serpent.
Ride experience
Queue
If the ride was busy, then guests would first wind though an outdoor area before entering the first section of the indoor queue. Once inside the first section, guests would see several small exhibits including a display of small fossils (including Champsosaurus, Dromaeosaurus, Protostega, among others.), modern animals that can be traced back to the dinosaur ages, and evidence for the several theories of mass extinction.
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