Sunday, October 26, 2008

T-Rex in Downtown Disney

T-Rex
I ate lunch at the T-Rex restaurant in Downtown Disney. The restaurant has been open for just over a week now so it's still very new.

I ate their Triassic Tortellini. It was basically tri-colored tortellini topped with sun dried tomatoes, peas, lots of basil, various cheeses, and alfredo sauce. It would normally come with mushrooms, but I asked for them to be left out. The Triassic Tortellini also came with a hunk of bread which was way too hard. I thought it tasted pretty good overall, but it wasn't worth the $17 that the restaurant charged for the pasta. But then again, it is a restaurant in Disney, and everything on Disney property is overpriced. If they gave you something with the pasta it would have been better though. Include a side salad and the price wouldn't seem as bad. This goes the same for the sandwiches on the menu here too. For a $13 sandwich, they don't even include fries. Fries are cheap, and people would be much happier getting fries than potato chips.
Triassic Tortellini
Similar to the neighboring Rainforest Cafe, T-Rex was filled with animatronic dinosaurs, sea creatures, and prehistoric mammals. I was actually kind of disappointed with the animatronics. Robotic dinosaurs have been around for years. I would think that a restaurant in Disney would invest in some robots with more realistic and fluid movements. Most of the animatronics here reminded me of construction equipment covered in rubber skin. Here are a few pictures of the animatronics and the rest of the restaurant:
T-Rex Skeleton
T-Rex
Pterasaur
Pteradactal
Giant Jellyfish
T-Rex Shark Bar
T-Rex Jellyfish
T-Rex Mastadon
T-Rex Thorn Bug
Giant Ladybug
Stars
The pictures below are of a section of the restaurant called the Ice Cave. Notice the walls are a bluish ice color.
Ice Cave
Ice Cave
Here, the same walls in this Ice Cave have now changed to red.
T-Rex Meteor Strike
The color change is due to the simulated meteor shower that happens every half hour in the restaurant. That's right, every half hour in a restaurant that is very kid friendly, they simulate the event that killed off most life on earth. Whoever decided to include this in the restaurant is very demented...

Although way overpriced, the food tasted okay. The restaurant with all of it's creatures making lots of noise was cool to see once, but it isn't a place that I'll probably be returning to anytime soon. I've seen it, and there's plenty of other restaurants in the area that I haven't tried yet.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am looking forward to trying this out - mostly just to see what it is like. Whenever I walk by there is a mob of people waiting to get in.

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