The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs software adaptation (The Magic School Bus Explores in the Age of Dinosaurs), unlike the book (The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs) and the TV episode (The Busasaurus) adapted from the book version, the Bus however transforms into three different prehistoric animals (one for each of the time periods) instead of a time machine. It transforms into three different prehistoric animals; a Coelophysis (for the Triassic Period), Stegosaurus (for the Jurassic Period), and Pteranodon (for the Cretaceous Period). This game has very elaborate CGI forms for the bus. Although the classroom location song has changed in the
T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous continued for two weeks on location in Dinosaur Provincial Park. Yet the filmmakers faced a challenge in finding a realistic environment to set the live-action filming portion for the Cretaceous period sequences when Ally finds herself wandering amidst the lush vegetation of 66 million years ago. The location used to film Cretaceous period scenes in the end was in the Olympia rain forest in upper Washington state. The special considerations that must be made when working with IMAX 3D presentation also made it crucial that the background features of the shooting locations were ideal. Besides shooting locations, extensive computer-generated imagery