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Jurassic Forest By Emil Tiedemann When I was a kid, dinosaurs were da bomb diggity! All I wanted to do was play with my dinosaur figurines, read my dinosaur books, and watch anything that had a dinosaur in it. I could tell most of them apart with just a quick glance, and tell you about their defense mechanisms, what they ate for supper, or how to properly pronounce their names!  By junior high, I had grown out of my dino phase, and they were no longer the center of my universe, but every now and again I am thrown back to those prehistoric days when a Stegosaurus toy would be the highlight of my being.  These days, I am able to revisit those fond memories by simply taking a quick 45-minute trip northeast of Edmonton to Jurassic Forest , a 40-acre park where life-sized mechanical dinosaurs “come alive”! What more could a kid ask for, really!  There are more than 40 animatronic dinosaurs grazing and hunting this Boreal forest near Gibbons, including Tyrannosaur...