ANN/THE JAPAN NEWS – A night parade of dinosaurs is set to take place at the Tokyo National Museum for two nights in September, offering a thrilling opportunity to see these creatures up close without any danger.
The stage show, titled ‘DINO-A-LIVE Dinosaur Grand Night Parade’, will feature life-like dinosaurs, guided by human handlers, as they stomp, roar, and even engage in fights.
This innovative production is brought to life by ON-ART Corp, a company renowned for its richly detailed and patented dinosaur suits, developed in collaboration with the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum.
Based in Higashikurume, Tokyo, ON-ART Corp uses its studies of modern-day animal movements to give each dinosaur unique quirks and idle motions, ensuring they appear realistic and not stiff or artificial.
Over a dozen varieties of dinosaur have been built so far, including carnivores like the Tyrannosaurus, and herbivores like the Ankylosaurus.
The Tyrannosaurus shown in a preview for the press earlier this month was impressively large at eight metres long.
But a larger 12-metre-long model has made an appearance in the past.
The Ankylosaurus comes in at 7.6 metres long, which fits neatly into the size range for its species.
What began as a solo project by Kazuya Kanemaru, the president of ON-ART, painting murals and making models for museums, has ballooned into a massive, ambitious project.
“The dinosaurs are constantly changing. There are many that have gotten injuries during earlier shows that still carry the scars,” he said.
