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词条 Dinosaur Kingdom
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Dinosaur Kingdom II (also called Escape From Dinosaur Kingdom) is a tourist attraction in Natural Bridge, Virginia, consisting of statues which depict a dinosaur attack on the Union Army. The park contains thirty fiberglass dinosaur statues, a smaller number of Union soldiers, and several other characters, including Abraham Lincoln and a gorilla in a cowboy hat.[1] Dinosaur Kingdom, which opened in 2005, is the work of local artist Mark Cline, who also created nearby Foamhenge.[1] The park's statues are built around the premise that paleontologists discovered dinosaurs in Virginia in 1863; when the Union Army attempted to use the dinosaurs as weapons, the dinosaurs turned on them. Cline originally planned to have the dinosaurs besiege Pancho Villa's army, but chose to use the Union Army instead to win local favor, claiming "people still fight the Civil War down here".[2] According to Cline, Northerners have never complained about playing the villain in the attraction; he plans to open a similar park at Gettysburg reenacting Pickett's Charge with dinosaurs, in which the Confederates will be attacked.[3] Cline had desired to build dinosaur statues ever since stopping at the Dinosaur Land park in White Post, Virginia in his youth; his inspiration for Dinosaur Kingdom's theme came from the movie The Valley of Gwangi, in which cowboys discovered living dinosaurs in a Mexican valley.[1][4]

References

1. ^1 2 {{cite news|last=Hutkin|first=Erinn|title=A Dinosaur Tale For the Whole Family in Natural Bridge|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:ROTB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1116ADFFC733D770&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0E6AB0B52F74D900|accessdate=April 20, 2012|newspaper=The Roanoke Times|date=June 30, 2008}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Dinosaur Kingdom|url=http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/10790|publisher=Roadside America|accessdate=April 20, 2012}}
3. ^{{cite news|last=Carlson|first=Peter|title=Jurassic Lark; What Do Dinosaurs and the Civil War Have in Common? Mark Cline's Art|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2006/04/24/jurassic-lark-span-classbankheadwhat-do-dinosaurs-and-the-civil-war-have-in-common-mark-clines-artspan/039aa830-cb0d-4afa-a767-f640c616513e/|accessdate=30 April 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 24, 2006}}
4. ^{{cite news|last=Clodfelter|first=Tim|title=Fiberglass Menagerie: Virginia Man Lives Out Dream of Creating Statues, Scenes|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:WSJB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=113E4DC5104E06C8&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0E6AB0B52F74D900|accessdate=April 20, 2012|newspaper=Winston-Salem Journal|date=September 1, 2006}}

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  • Visit Natural Bridge - Escape From Dinosaur Kingdom
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