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James Ronan

Oct 23, 2026

48:37
What inspired you to do this?
48:39
So it's been a niggling issue in my mind for many years.
48:42
I did the audit because I looked around at the theme parks and museums and I thought, why are all of these reconstructions and these exhibits out of date? Why have they been left? The biggest issue for me was when I went to a theme park in the UK and they had a wonderful wildlife area, but the dinosaur area had just been left.
48:59
All the dinosaurs were on their own.
49:01
They didn't have the right integ...
49:02
Some of them didn't have the right integment, like feathers.
49:04
Quite a lot of them were using roars and sounds from Jurassic Park.
49:51
And wouldn't the effort to correct all that, given the latest information, be a huge burden?
0:26
What inspired you to do this?
0:28
So it's been a niggling issue in my mind for many years.
0:31
I did the audit because I looked around at the theme parks and museums and I thought, why are all of these reconstructions and these exhibits out of date? Why have they been left? The biggest issue for me was when I went to a theme park in the UK and they had a wonderful wildlife area, but the dinosaur area had just been left, all the dinosaurs were on their own.
0:50
They didn't have the right, some of them didn't have the right integment like feathers.
0:54
Quite a lot of them were using roars and sounds from Jurassic Park.
0:58
and the information boards obviously had information on there that was wrong.
1:01
And it made me very sad.
1:40
And wouldn't the effort to correct all that, given the latest information, be a huge burden?
7:41
definitely.
7:42
It is about obviously aligning our knowledge of the time now with what's being showcased throughout the world.
7:50
I mean, when the documentaries and films that are coming out are showing more realistic dinosaur behavior and interpretations, why are we still looking at dinosaurs and models, animatronics and models that are 30, 40 years old? And also a lot of these people are paying their hard earned money to go into these places, especially theme parks, which makes me quite upset because what they're seeing is not accurate information.
8:14
And even some of the information boards themselves in some of these areas aren't accurate either.
8:18
There was one theme park.
8:20
It was a wildlife park that I went to that had a dinosaur area.
8:23
And this is why I built the audit.
12:50
So how do you decide how accurate it is? Is there a panel or is it you? How's that going to work, James? It's basically the report system.

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