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Coastersaurus
The dinosaur wooden family coaster — small drops through a prehistoric forest of animated brick dinosaurs.
Ride facts
- Type
- Roller coaster
- Height
- Height unverifiedLow family minimum — verify the current figure on the park's own attraction page.
- Intensity
- Gentle
- Motion sickness
- No motion risk
- Getting wet
- Stay dry
- Indoor / outdoor
- Outdoor
- Air conditioned
- No
- Rider Switch
- Available
Last verified July 2026
What it is
Coastersaurus is the park's family woodie, threading a landscaped 'prehistoric' forest with animated LEGO dinosaurs alongside the track. The drops are small and the speed modest, but it rides like a real wooden coaster scaled down — the rattle, the structure, the feel — which is exactly the point for its audience.
It is the natural second ride after the Dragon for a kid building coaster courage. The dinosaurs give the nervous ones something to look at between drops.
What riding it is actually like
The lift is a real chain and the structure rattles the way wooden coasters do — scaled down, not faked. The circuit threads the prehistoric garden quickly: a couple of small drops, banked turns around the dinosaurs, and a brake run that arrives while the riders are still pointing at the next animatronic.
Row choice is a real decision here, same as on the big woodies. The front row is the dinosaur-view seat — the animated faces and roars time best from there — while the back row carries the (mild) coaster feel, the little pop of speed off each drop amplified by the delay.
Ride it in the rope-drop window right after the Dragon, before the family audience thickens. As a first-or-second woodie for a kid it is close to perfect: enough rattle and roar to feel real, nowhere near enough to scare.
Is Coastersaurus scary?
A family wooden coaster with animated dinosaurs along the course — small drops, mild speed, and roars. The genre's friendliest tier.
Scores are editorial, on a 1–5 scale, judged against what frightens a typical four- to seven-year-old rather than an adult.
Accessibility
- Wheelchair
- Must transfer to the ride vehicle
- Audio description
- Not offered
- Handheld captioning
- Not offered
- Assistive listening
- Not offered
- Sign language
- Not offered
- Service animals
- Must use a kennel or wait with a companion
Transfer into family wooden-coaster trains.
Tips that actually help
- Ride after the Dragon in the rope-drop window.
- Back row is noticeably more coaster-y; front row is the dinosaur-view seat.
- The queue passes build tables — pick up a brick project for the wait, drop it at unload.
Timing
- Best time to ride
- The first two hours.
- Typical wait
- 10–25 minutes.
- line-skip passes
- Fastrack listed in Silver, Gold and Platinum as of October 9, 2026; Coastersaurus is excluded from Bronze. Package use limits and ride availability apply. Check current terms.
Coastersaurus: common questions
Is Coastersaurus scary?
No — this is the friendliest tier of wooden coaster. The drops are small, the speed is modest, and the animated dinosaurs give nervous riders something to look at between them. The roars are loud in a fun way, not a startling one.
Is Coastersaurus a real roller coaster?
Yes, genuinely: real wooden structure, real chain lift, real drops and laterals — the genre’s feel at kid scale. Coaster-counting children earn a legitimate credit here, and many ride their first woodie on it.
Which row is best on Coastersaurus?
Front row for the dinosaurs — the faces and roars land best from there — and back row for the coaster feel, where each small drop reads a beat later and a touch faster. Both are right; the ride is short enough to try each.