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T-Rex Cafe

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Sledge

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  • Oct 16, 2008
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We're going to try and eat here within the next month. Hope its good.
 
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If we get in I'll bring ya home some leftovers, lol!
 
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We'll probably go next weekend and maybe do an early dinner or something to try and beat that rush. I hope we don't have to wait forever and a day.
 
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I'm kind of scared to eat at T-Rex Cafe because some of the restaurants at DTD aren't really appealing to me. McDonald's is the only exception. :lol:
 
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I wonder if we get AP discounts here...

Because we do at Rainforest and like every other place there.
 
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BeachGurl said:
I wonder if we get AP discounts here...
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I don't know if some person's review is the word to trust, but:

They participate in the dining plan but any discounts don't start until Nov 1. I would go back again but not for a while.
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That and several other reviews are here: http://land.allears.net/reviewpost/showproduct.php?product=535&cat=40
 
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So it seems the food is decent but kinda expensive, but the atmosphere more than makes up for it. I'll definately be trying it at least.
 
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I want pictures of this bad boy. Is it open yet?
 
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Yes, it is. I'm definitely going to this when we go in February.
 
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Ok, we made it here today. The wait was only 40 minutes which I was actually pleasantly surprised about. Food is good, I rate it equal to Rainforest, but believe me, I'm no food critic. A good burger and I'm happy. Kids menu is the usual fare. Food is definitely on the pricey side of things though. I had the Bronto burger, which was huge, and good, but was pricey at $12, could go to do double Bronto burger for $15 but really, who needs that much?

Atmosphere was amazing. Felt kinda like the rainforest cafe but with huge and loud dinosaurs. The ice cave room is incredible, all the walls of "ice" change color and it's really cool, bad pun, lol! Gift shop is smaller than you would expect, build a dino is great, kids both did one. They also have a dino dig area which is smaller, but the same thing as the dino dig at Animal Kingdom. Nice activity for kids while you wait for a table.

Service was very good and pretty fast, but we didn't feel rushed to get out. They encouraged us to go around and take pictures but when I started video taping they asked me to stop as there is no video photography permitted inside. Weird, I would think they would want videos out on the web for publicity, didn't understand that one.

I took a lot of pictures and I'll try to post them tonight if I can.
 
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$12 burger? Holy crap!
No video is strange, but guess they don;t want you catching any mistakes in detail. hehe
Can't wait to see the pics!
 
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Ok, here we go, T-REX pictorial, 10/19:

First some outside shots:
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Next some shots of the entrance/gift shop area. The huge T-REX is right when you walk in and seperates the gift shop from the restaurant.

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Pictures of the gift shop ceiling and Build-a-Dino:

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There's a lot more so stay tuned for part 2!
 
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Why is the dinosaur in the last pic getting strangled by... sunglasses? hats? :lol:

Nice first part, the first few are shots of the place I haven't even seen yet. :rep:
 
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Awesome pictures so far :worship: Can't wait for more!!
 
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Ok, now for part 2, starting out with where we sat, the Seqouia (sp?) room:

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Behind us was the ice cave room, all the walls change color from blue to purple to red and back to blue, really cool effect!

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This was right behind us, it's two huge booths built into a giant triceratops. This is one of the few dinosaurs that doesn't move:

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Now moving on to the ice cave room, also where the restrooms are in case you need a break:

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I didn't see the official name of the next room but we'll call it the fire room. It had the kitchen of fire on one side where they are cooking:

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This is the bar, near the entrance that is covered by a giant octopus and it's tentacles, which move. There are also a couple really nice aquariums and really cool jellyfish light fixtures-which my crappy camera flash totally messed up...

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And finally, since I forgot earlier, here is the entrance Dino (kinda like the purple elephant at Rainforest) and a shot of the kids dino dig area:

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Had a great time and would suggest checking it out next time you are at Downtown Disney! We also walked through the mostly boarded up Pleasure Island. Here is a little nostalgia for you:

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Fantastic pics Sno!! :rep:
I am in love with the ice cave room!
 
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Yeah the ice cave room is really cool, ha ha. Next time we go we are going to try to request to sit there. Only downside to it is there aren't any dinos or cool animatronics in there. Pretty much everything in the whole T-REX cafe does move too!
 
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I'm so eating there in a few weeks! So how was the food? I heard they have a really good cotton candy martini :yum: which I sooo want now! I also heard they have a meteor shower every few minutes (like rainforest has a thunderstorm) was it a cool effect?!
 
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Food was good I suppose, had a burger so, yeah. My wife had some kinda pasta thing that she said was really good. The menu really looked just like the Rainforest Cafe though just with Dino themed names.

Didn't try the cotton candy martini but it does sound good. Have to drive 45 minutes home and all! They did have a meteor shower every fifteen minutes but it's kinda stupid. The whole place gets dark and you hear crashing noises (like meteor crashes), all the dinos go haywire, in the room where we were they have red strobes flashing in the vines above and in the front rooms they have graphics of meteors shooting across the ceiling. If I had to choose I would take the rainstorm as the meteor shower was pretty cheesey.
 
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I'm definitely requesting the ice room. That looks awesome! :rep:
 
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