If you’ve seen the movie Jurassic Park, you will recognize the arches that greet you as you enter. If you haven’t, I would suggest you rent the original film from your local video store before coming. Knowing the film will help you understand a lot of the little details of Jurassic Park, including the frequent references to velociraptors.

Here, Universal’s design wizards have re-created the theme park that the movie’s John Hammond was trying to create before all prehistoric heck broke loose, and the lush and steamy jungle landscape they have devised fits in perfectly with Florida’s humid summers.

As in the movie, we are asked to believe that we are in a park containing actual living dinosaurs, some of which are quite dangerous, as the high-tension fences indicate. Periodically, roars are heard and bushes rustle ominously behind those fences. And those twists and dents in the metal may make you wonder just how safe you really are, for all this atmosphere can be surprisingly realistic. I’ve seen more than one child start in terror when an unseen critter growled in the underbrush.

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