Dinosaurs Alive!

Starting October 1

In an adventure made for the giant screen, join paleontologists from the past and present as they travel around the world on the hunt for dinosaur bones. See actual footage from the expeditions of American Museum of Natural History scientist Roy Chapman Andrews, believed to be the inspiration for the Indiana Jones character, and witness recent discoveries like that of the massive Seismosaurus, or “thunder lizard.” Using the latest computer animation technology, these awe-inspiring creatures are brought to life on the giant IMAX screen as they have never been seen before!

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Wired to Win : Surviving the Tour de France

Starting October 1

Wired to Win presents a new portrait of the brain—an organ built to learn, changing its cell structure with each thought and experience. It continually adapts itself to our needs and gives us the ability to determine in large part who we are and who we become. Wired to Win applies this view of the brain to the grueling 21 day Tour de France, following the world’s top professional cyclists through the Alps to experience the fight-or-flight situations on a steep downhill switchback, witness their struggle to maintain mental focus on roads melting in a heat wave, and learn from their constant battle with fatigue. You will see how a small organ with no moving parts and the consistency of gelatin is central to all we accomplish.

Note: Wired to Win is part of the Identity and Giant Heart Experiences. It will be available to classes not reserving those packages as space permits.

Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure

Starting October 5

From the depths of an ocean in the middle of the United States comes a tale of survival and discovery more than 80 million years in the making. Using computer-generated animation, Sea Monsters recreates an underwater world from the Late Cretaceous period in which the ocean that divided North America in two was inhabited by creatures of massive size and ferocity. The adventures of a dolichorynchops (“dolly”), a creature that lived towards the bottom of the food chain, are combined with footage of historic and modern excavations in which paleontologists attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding these ancient creatures.

Walt Disney Pictures Presents: SPACE STATION

October 1, 2007–June 27, 2008

Take a seat on the first cinematic journey to the International Space Station. You will blast off into space with the astronauts and cosmonauts from Kennedy Space Center and Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome and rendezvous at their new home in orbit, 220 miles above the Earth. Share the dangerous and painstaking challenges, as well as the glorious triumphs of scientists from 16 nations, who came together to build a laboratory in outer space. Narrated by Tom Cruise.

Note: Space Station is part of the Galactic Adventure Experiences. It will be available to classes not reserving those packages as space permits.

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