The Queensland Museum of Natural History is celebrating its grand reopening with a spectacular display of animatronic dinosaurs. They roam the halls, ride the escalators — and frighten small children.

The museum, located in Brisbane, Australia, has just undergone a $US 14 million renovation. There is a special exhibit to commemorate last year’s devastating floods — and there are the dinosaurs.

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“It’s educational and it’s fun!” one parent said about her daughter. “She just got to pat a dinosaur!”

This video is from the Associated Press, uploaded to YouTube on January 27, 2012.