Prehistoric Park (2013)

Great entertainment for the entire family! BBC does wonderful work in creating realistic prehistoric life, integrating Nigel's pursuit to create a unique wildlife park utilizing a time travel portal into earth's distant past. Touching scenes of a mother saber-tooth lion struggling to care for her cubs in a changing environment. Memorable scenes of Parasaurolophus herd heading along the brilliant white sand beaches of ancient Texas.Nigel explores the ancient coal forests of 300 million years ago searching for giant dragonflies, and herbivorous millipedes which are over 3 meters long existing in an atmosphere 3 times richer in oxygen than modern day.Lots of giant dinosaurs and beasties in this creative dvd! Well done!

The DVDs is great for both Adults and kids. Its set up in six different continuing episodes, showing these creatures as natiral wild-life. Its jurrasic park meets the Crocidle hunter. In one episode,naturalist Nigel Marven, brings back a Deinosuchus (lived: 70-80 mill, yrs. ago; 5-10 tons,; 30-40 ft. long), an giant alligator that hunted and ate dinosaurs. The show frames itself as a real wild-life perserve with "unique" animals, simply brought back from varing time periods. Though there is an aspect of sci-fi time travel, it is a minor detail, allowing Marven to show the science, and aspects of these animals, and the period and geography of where they lived.I also liked that a vetenarian and game keeper were also involved in caring for these animals, furthering the science and the continuing the story. There are still enough thrills and danger invoved to keep you ointerested whilel you learn something. The effects are seamless and veyi believable, Like whe marven holds a giagantic prehistoric scorpion, from 300 million-years-ago, in his hand. Irecomendthe for "family entertainment," but caution against it for children under six-years old.

Very fun adventure that does not take itself too seriously.Nigel really brings the environments and animals to life. He supplies the magic and charm that makes the show successful. Show spans 6 different type periods and environments. The CGI is not 2015 technology but vastly better than WWD. Best not to figure out how they can create worm holes at will and travel back and fourth. I guess Nigel has the energy output of a Giant Star or Black hole in his bag pack or something?? This is not important. Ground keeper Bob is pretty funny too. Too bad they never were green lighted for a second season but this is big fun for the whole family.I think I will try out chased by Dinosaurs next.

There are a lot of Dino DVDs on the market and there is always a chance you might get stuck with a cheesy half-rate production. But Prehistoric Park does not disappoint!The story, which is told in the style of a documentary, focuses on naturalist Nigel Marven leading missions to find and collect extinct animals from the distant past by use of a time machine. The animals are then placed in the confines of Prehistoric Park, a private wildlife park that is situated in a dry, mountainous region of an unspecified part of the world. Marven's core motivation in the series is to defy extinction and to give select extinct species a second chance at life. A narrator keeps us abreast of each new development as we follow Nigel on his noble quest to save species of prehistoric creatures from extinction! This is a really nice set to have! Entertaining and educational for people of all ages!

This was the best dinosaur movie/docu-drama I have ever seen. I learned more from this one set than from half a dozen others. The cutting edge activation of the times and animals was awesome. Just 5 years ago I thought the computer animation was pretty good. But this new stuff totally brings T-Rex and all his cousins and all their food to LIFE!! It appears there is more but I couldn't find a volume 2, etc.Thanks again to BBC, the first and best in documentaries.

The only bad thing about this show is there is not more of it. (Well, and explaining to your child A LOT that there really are no time machines.) The paleontology and geology information is good. The host Nigel, is fabulous. They bring the cool factor, and the danger of catching and dealing with dinosaurs home without any overblown gack and monster truck drama that other dinosaur shows have. The show is pretty much G rated, with one or two scenes you will want to sit with your small child to make sure he/she know Niles will not get himself eaten going too close to the (insert animal here)I wish there were 20 more disks to fuel my sons dinosaur obsession so I would not have to ever watch (and vet and keep him away from) the bad "terror bird" style of dinosaur show. This show is also good for older kids and adults.

A great six-episode series featuring Chased by Dinosaur's Nigel Marvin. This series combines the Chased by Dinosaurs time-travel premise with the premise of Jurassic Park. Nigel travels back to various points in prehistory to rescue extinct animals and bring them back to the present, to "Prehistoric Park".Of course, you have to ignore the fact that a few individuals do not constitute a viable breeding population, not to mention the fact that the "time gate" consists of two stick-like instruments which Nigel just turns on and sticks into the ground to create a "doorway". But if you can suspend your disbelief, this show is great fun.Of all the things my 4 and 6 year old daughters like to watch (over and over and over and over), this is by far one of the most bearable for Mommy. Highly recommended, we watch it almost every night.

Fantastic show. An unforgettable trip to magical places where life developed and evolved without mankind intervention/destruction. First class cast, acting, writing and breathtaking photography will dazzle your senses moment by moment throughout each adventure as part of Nigel's team experiencing first hand some of that which only your imagination has achieved so far. Very educational and entraining. Highly recommended.Thank you BBC, cast and production for such a GREAT achievement.

OK.., my son loves Dinosaurs. If you've read more than one of my reviews, you'll probably know that lol.But much to my astonishment, I found I loved the series too. You get used to the Walking With Dinosaur approach, purely watching Dinosaurs move and I'm afraid, brilliant though this was the first time or two you saw it, it quickly ceases to become as astounding.However, this series had a plot (getting various dinosaurs from the past just before their death quite often, which adds a bit more danger than 'oh dear, they are huge, be careful you don't get clawed, trodden on' etc. The series included the best film shots of the asteroid that probably was responsible for the final extinction of the dinosaurs because Marvin ended up with a second or two to bring some young tyrannosaurus back before it hit. It made it more real rather than a purely theoretical idea.This is the approach of the entire series, its bang up to date with current research and manages to bring a very theoretical subject to life in a more real way than any other series.Then there is the Prehistoric Park Keeper.., Bob.., he's almost as much a star of the series as NIgel Marven. The way he 'copes' with never before seen dinosaurs unexpectedly being sent back is part of the thing that keeps you watching.The only thing I wish is that there were double the amount of episodes in the series. Its definitely the best dinosaur TV series I have seen.If you have any interest in evolution, ancient history, geology etc.., buy this series, you won't regret it. Its appropriate for all ages (my young boy was 6 when we bought it and he watched it over and over again).

Funny, entertaining and informative series about a fictional wildlife park consisting of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, having been brought there by a time travelling naturalist. Great special effects.

Edutainment at its best. Everyone's favourite palaeozoologist Nigel Marven goes on the adventure of a lifetime to track down prehistoric beasties for a modern safari park. A few reviewers seem to sniff at the supposed dumbed down concept, but ignore them: good, clean fun from first to last. I've got academic tomes on palaeontology on my bookshelf and this would sit very happily alongside, as a complement. It doesn't because it was a present for my 10 year old son, so it's with his DVDs. He loves it. I love it.

This is in no way a Natural History Documentary.That said it does have it's place, even as a piece of complete fantasy, Nigel Marvin presents these very real, yet extinct animals in a way that is extremely engaging for it's young target audience.This can only be a good thing to get the next generation involved and interested in the natural world, these animals may be extinct but their DNA lives on all around us.The Time Portal and Park are just tools to get the facts and popular opinion of how these amazing creatures looked, behaved and interacted across to the palaeontologist, zoologists and conservationists of the future.You can't knock it for that!

This is a fantastic documentary series and our young son really enjoyed it. We were all hugely disappointed when it finished. In six 50-minute episodes, daring adventurer-cum-zoologist Nigel Marven travels back to six different prehistoric periods and captures different animals, often in danger of imminent extinction, to bring them back to Prehistoric Park, where they are looked after by Bob the head park-keeper and Suzanne the vet. We love this kind of personalized documentary (we also enjoyed  Oceans [DVD] [2008 ] with Paul Rose and  Wonders Of The Solar System [DVD] [2010 ] with Brian Cox). The effects were excellent and by the end I had relaxed into the idea I was really watching live dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals (which include a mammoth, a woolly rhino, two sabre tooth cats, a big croc and insects that grew to huge sizes because of the amount of oxygen). The dinosaurs featured are T-Rex, Titanosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Ornithomimus and others. Well recommended if you enjoy nature, a bit of fun and like to pick up knowledge. We came to this series, having seen the Walking with Dinosaurs special  Land Of Giants The Giant Claw - A Walking With Dinosaurs Special - BBC [2002 ], two 30-minute episodes also featuring Nigel Marven, who is already a household name. Oceans [DVD] [2008Wonders Of The Solar System [DVD] [2010Land Of Giants The Giant Claw - A Walking With Dinosaurs Special - BBC [2002