Complete Walking with...Collection, The [DVD]

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I used to love this movie as a child, and I enjoyed it just as much as an adult!

Honestly this is probably my favorite prehistoric documentary series. Walking With Dinosaurs is a real fun documentary to watch, and even though much of the information in the documentary is outdated, it is a very entertaining documentary that set the standard for future dinosaur documentaries. Walking With Beasts was just as entertaining and the facts (as of me writing this review and to my knowledge) hold up well today. The soundtrack is great in both.

My children love to learn about everything. They want to know how it works, where it came from, how big were the dinosaurs and what creatures are in the ocean so this worked well for us. My daughter is learning about dinosaurs in school and had to do a report on diplodocus with three different sources. It was fun to read all the books but being able to sit down and watch the movie was great. It brought everything to life for my children. My son is starting a dinosaur segment in preschool and is already excited to tell his teacher about what he learned from the movie. We spread it out over a few days and watched it after dinner as a family. The children got to watch a movie and learned a lot in the process. We are looking for more sets like this one to add to our collection.

Its to be expected with the graphics. Outdated and such. But over all my 6 year old loves it. Very educational and fun.Not to thrilled at the packaging. One DVD slot was broken. So a DVD was shifting around in the box. The outer box was broken. But I believe that to be a shipping issue.

I see nothing really bad with this documentary. In fact, I find this much better than the original Walking With Dinosaurs. Mainly the naming and identifying with an actual dinosaur and watching what they go through.The CGI is excellent as well as the animatronics. The Allosaurus redesign is cool compared to the original model of the Walking With Dinosaurs. Additionally, the bonus documentary to follow up how scientists examined the Allosaur skeleton to speculate its life corresponds to the story we just watched very well.Please watch this you will enjoy it!

The reason I like this more than the others was because they gave us a lot of data on just one dinosaur - a Allosaurus named Big Al. Big Al's story is based on what information scientists were able to get from a almost complete skeleton found in Wyoming. The story is about his life, which was only 15 years long. 60 minutes, half of which is the story and half of which is about how they figured out what they did from the bones.I kind of feel sorry for Big Al. He had a REALLY tough life and we don't even know if he ever got to have offspring or not. Was he a father of dozens of Allosaurus babies or did his genes end with his death? Extras also include a photo gallery and storyboards.

My daughter saw part of this DVD and school and was so enthusastic about sharing it with me that we ended up purchasing it when we weren't able to rent it from any local video store. As she had not shown interest in dinosaurs or paleontology before, I was surprised at her insistence that we see it, but when we watched it together, I understood why she found it so compelling.It is done in the style of a wildlife documentary, and the effects are so realistic that it is easy to "go along for the ride" and believe that you are watching dinosaurs being filmed in their natural habitat. The storytelling is also quite engaging. The best part was my daughter's enjoyment of it; I haven't seen anything but manga have quite the same hold over her imagination!

I purchased this collection for my younger son as a birthday present recently. Previously we had viewed some of the episodes at a relative's and he and been fascinated by them. A year and a half ago we had also seen the Walking With Dinosaurs show in Calgary--and that was a real hook, because the animatronic models were fantastic--something that is carried over into the films. The series is full of colour and drama as viewers follow the life cycle of one type of dinosaur and all the others that it might have contact with. The narration is informative but not excessive, and the creatures lives play out without sparing the threat and potential violence--but the violence is not gratuitous. It's not at all "cutesy", but is very dramatic. My now 8 year old is able to spout dinosaur facts at me endlessly and is moved by the struggles of the ancient creatures, without being frightened. An excellent series for all ages.

The BBC Walk With... series include:Walking With Dinosaurs - The first one to be made, using computer graphics to create footage of how live dinosaurs might have looked like.Walking WIth Beasts - That shows what creatures came after the dinosaurs became extinct.Walking With Monsters - Showing what came before, from the oldest fossils up to the arrival of dinosaurs.Despite what a misleading title would suggest, the latter Walking With Monsters is not included.

Wonderful gift for a youngster that love Dinosaurs and doesn't have a lot of space for more toys that have to do with Dinosaurs.

Excited to get the collection. Have seen one or 2 of the discs but bought the set for Xmas for my grandson.

We, my grandchildren and I, all like it. But the quality looks like a b-copy, a little bit blur, not clear and sharp. Hope the have blue-ray one.