The restaurant itself is divided into several sections. There is a prehistoric deep sea section, which contains a large bar in addition to dining. This section features lots of huge jellyfish and a gigantic animatronic octopus. There is a volcano section, where you can see the grill they use to make your food, and it has lots of pterodactyls and spiders. There is an ice age section, which is easily the coolest section of the restaurant. This section showcases dinosaur skeletons encased in the walls, which are stylized to look like ice. To further enhance the ice wall look, there are glowing blue lights behind the “ice” to make the ice, and the entire room (which looks like a cave) glow a bright blue color. Just outside the ice age section is a woolly mammoth and it’s cubs. The final section of the restaurant is like a prehistoric forest – where a majority of the animatronic dinosaurs are located. In this room you can see huge animatronic insects buzzing around on the ceiling. There also some dinosaurs that seem to climbing hills on their way up to the ceiling.

Every 15 minutes, there is a meteor shower event that takes place. The lights dim, and all the dinosaurs begin to moan and bark. Loud deep “crashes” can be heard through speakers, and the forest canopy ceiling of the forest section shows blazes of light and electricity. In the ice age room, the normally blue walls flash from their normal blue to a glowing red color, coordinated with the meteor impact sounds heard through the speakers. It really is an awesome event, although it tended to scare my two year old the first few times is occurred.

I heard many people in line suggesting others to request to sit in the ice age room because it’s environment is the coolest (no pun intended). I can tell you that while the room is very neat, it doesn’t have any animatronics, and very little dino models as well. That being said, I saw many peopel getting out of their seats in the ice age room to go look at the other rooms – especially during the meteor shower. I sat in the forest room myself and not only do you get all the animatronic dino’s, but they even have dinosaurs RIGHT next to the tables (as in – you can touch them EASILY) if you sit along the wall the separates the ice age and forest sections. That being said, I would recommend the forest section over the ice age section any day, especially if you have kids.

The food was really good here as well. I will admit that I’m not exactly a big fan of the Rainforests cafe’s food. Not that it’s not good, it’s just that there isn’t a lot on the menu, and the stuff they do have aren’t really my “type” of food. The T-Rex restaurant had a much bigger menu, and EVERYTHING seemed good. Even the salads looked good in the pictures, and I’m not one for salads normally. I got a nacho platter myself, which consisted of enough nachos and cheese that it really could have been for two people. My wife got a chicken and bacon sandwich thing that was made with pita bread, she said it was delicious. At the Rainforest cafe, the “king of the dessert platter” is called the Volcano, which consists of brownies and ice cream. Not to be out done, the T-Rex restaurant feature the “Chocloate extinction” which is fudge cake, ice cream, whipped cream, fudge and caramel sauce and sprinkled with Butterfinger. They prolly call it the extinction because if you actually ate all of that…well..I doubt you’d make it back to your car

The restaurant also features a store, much like the Rainforest cafe does – this time with dinosaur and prehistoric items instead. Behind the store is a new “Build-A-Rex”, by the Build-A-Bear company. Instead of bears and other animals like in the Build-A-Bear though there is…you guessed it…dinosaurs! While I would attribute the Build-A-Bear to be mostly a place little girls would love to hang out at, I could say the Build-A-Rex is more of place for boys. The layout and details of how the store is done are almost identical to the Build-A-Bear though, except for the more prehistoric environment of the shop.

Anyways, this place is cool. I would definitely want to go here again, and I do highly recommend it over the Rainforest if you are going to Downtown Disney (which has both). While the rainforest only has a few animatronic things and most of them rarely move anyways – the T-Rex is almost completely animatronic, and most everything moves even when there is no meteor shower going on. That plus the better choice in food (in my opinion) causes the T-Rex to make the Rainforest look…well…outdated.

You know for the child in me I thought it was a pretty neat idea, I mean who doesn’t know what Lego’s are? I know I was severely in love with my Lego’s as a little boy.

But then I got to think about it. Even with the Duplo toys, my boys put them in my mouth and I have to tell them to stop. Giving them real Lego’s would I’m sure lead to either many swallowed toys or often choking little boys. That being said – is it such a great idea to have gummi snacks that look exactly like their toy counterparts which you do not want them to eat?

I mean heck – let’s make some gummi crayons while we’re at it. My younger son loves to eat the real things, so I’m sure a crayon gummi is a great idea.

Anyways, I don’t really care one way or another – just thought that whoever came up with the idea of making a snack that looks exactly like a toy you don’t want kids to eat…well…let’s just say I don’t think they thought that one all the way through.