I always thought Triceratops Encounter was one of the best things in the park. Especially early on when they treated it as a guided tour at the actual Jurassic Park. One of the best touches in that version was the way the "guides" would give you a blank, puzzled look if you referred to the movie. "Movie? What movie?"
A lot was lost when they went to the cheaper faster walk-through version. Enjoying Triceratops Encounter involves some serious suspension of disbelief, and the earlier version helped put you in the right frame of mind. Even in the walk-through vesrion I found that with a little effort it was possible to truly believe you were standing in front of a creature that had been extinct for millions of years. (The only thing missing is the smell.)
I guess it's a sign of the times that unless it moves at warp speed or blows up, we find it "boring."
I can't help thinking of the Simpsons episode in which Bart attempts to escape from a boring class trip to a box factory thorugh his imagination but discovers that the only thing he can "imagine" is what's in front of him. "I guess it's true," he sighs. "Television really has destroyed my imagination."
