The Lightroom show space is four storeys high and 26 meters long. And you know what else has those exact dimensions? A Brachiosaurus.
Which means that the immersive venue’s new show, coming this summer, is going to have some very literally life-sized sauropods thundering across the massive wall-to-wall-to-ceiling-to-floor, 360-degree, ultra-high-definition, jaw-plummeting screens.
The show itself is called Prehistoric Planet: Discovering Dinosaurs, and it’ll be drawn directly from the documentaries currently streaming on Apple TV. And for those who’d prefer a quieter, more immersive experience – without the highly enthusiastic observations of dinosaur-loving seven-year-olds – there are evening showings geared towards adults, with full adults-only screenings in the pipeline.
So what will be involved? Well, you’ll get to see a medley of the first two seasons of the show, including “a vast array of dinosaurs (from Ammonites to Mosasaurs, Adaltheriums to the Tyrannosaurus rex) at the most pivotal moments of their lives”. There’ll be some never-before-seen stuff, plus extra CGI, and extended scenes. And it’ll all be underpinned by Hans Zimmer’s original score. The show itself has won a few awards, mostly for its visual effects, and that’s quite important in this context.
But perhaps the most impressive and important aspect of this whole thing is that this will be quite probably the only place right now in which you can see genuine, life sized, full moving, scientifically accurate, colossal dinosaurs right up and personal.
Lightroom has been massively impressing quite a bit with its content so far, from David Hockney’s art-filled show, to the mind-blowing Moonwalkers, and the inspiring Vogue: Inventing the Runway that’s showing now…
…so hopefully this one will keep them evolving in the right direction.
NOTE: Prehistoric Planet: Discovering Dinosaurs is set to open on July 9th. You can get tickets now, and find out more at the Lightroom website.
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