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COMPETITION CLOSED: WIN A Family Ticket To Jurassic Take-over Day – A Fun Family Day Out in Newcastle!
What is Jurassic Takeover Day?
The dinosaurs are coming to the Utilita Arena on Saturday 31st May 2025, and YOU could be going to meet them there! Our friends at Sublime Science will also be there, demonstrating incredible prehistoric science. Keep reading to find out how you could win tickets to Jurassic Take-over Day…
This incredible immersive experience is packed with dinos of all shapes and sizes! Travel back millions of years as these almighty creatures are brought to life through realistic animatronics, talented actors and interactive props.
Meet T. rex, brachiosaurus, cute hatchlings and more at this walkthrough and theatre event. Dinosaur enthusiasts of all ages will love a trip to this immersive dinosaur experience for kids – Jurassic Take-over Day! If you’re looking for things to do with kids in May half term in the North East, look no further…
AND THAT’S NOT ALL…
Our friends at Sublime Science will also be at Jurassic Take-over, showing off spectacular prehistoric science activities including dino egg hatching, an excavation station, a chance to build your own flying pterosaur and so much more. Get ready for a day packed with all awesome, unforgettable science!
Love dinosaurs?
Click to see some fossil, dinosaur and archaeology science magazines in the Whizz Pop Bang shop!
How to Enter the Giveaway
Want to win tickets? We’ve got four tickets to Jurassic Take-over Day in Newcastle to give away to one lucky family!*
Simply tell us your favourite type of dinosaur in the comments to be in with a chance of winning!
Competition Rules
Terms and conditions: The prize is four tickets to Jurassic Take-over Day at Utilita Arena, Newcastle on Saturday 31st May 2025.
No travel, accommodation or additional expenses are included.
The competition closes at midnight on 22.05.25.
The winner will be selected at random from all valid entries and contacted via email or direct message within 24 hours of the competition closing. The winner must respond within 24 hours to claim their prize. If no response is received within that time, a new winner will be chosen.
The competition is open to UK residents aged 18 or over.
This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Instagram or Facebook.
By entering, you agree to your details being passed to the event organiser solely for the purpose of issuing your tickets.
No cash alternative is available.
Full general terms and conditions apply – https://www.whizzpopbang.com/terms-and-conditions/.
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Explore the Prehistoric World with Whizz Pop Bang’s Bargain Bundle Of Dinosaur Magazines!
Spark their imagination with the Dino Discovery Bundle—a fantastic set of three dinosaur-packed magazines! This exciting collection of prehistoric puzzles, hands-on activities and fascinating facts will inspire any young dino fan.
Did you know that Whizz Pop Bang’s bargain bundles of back issues are a great way of giving the awesome science magazine for kids a try?
Three issues – £14.99 (that’s just £4.99 per issue!)
Six issues – £27.99 (that’s £4.66 just per issue!)
Twelve issues – £49.99 (that’s just £4.16 per issue!)
PLUS ALL PRICES INCLUDE FREE UK P&P!
🌟 What’s Inside the Dino Discovery Bundle?
Your young explorer will have the chance to make, discover, and investigate incredible prehistoric wonders!
🛠️ Make…
Encourage hands-on learning with fun dinosaur-themed activities that help kids explore the science behind these ancient creatures!
🦕 Fold a walking paper dino
🦕 Craft a pegosaurus
🦕 Bake sauropod footprint cookies
🦕 Erupt a fizzing volcano
🦕 Cut and stick a 3D T. rex that appears to follow you around!
🦕 Make a strata pot
🦕 Model replica teeth, bones and shells
🦕 Create a nodding stegosaurus
🦕 Fly a soaring pterosaur
🔍 Discover…
Your child will uncover mind-blowing dino facts, including:
🦕 The link between dinosaurs and birds
🦕 Did dinosaurs fart themselves to extinction? (Yes, really!)
🦕 Pterosaurs that were as big as aeroplanes
🦕 Dinos taller than houses
🦕 Terrifying sea predators that ruled prehistoric oceans
🦕 What life in the Cretaceous period might have been like
🧐 Investigate…
Your little scientist will dive into fascinating experiments, learning:
🦕 How pterosaur crests may have helped them fly
🦕 The science behind gliders and how they soar without engines
🦕 How asteroid and meteorite craters form
🦕 What happened to plants after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs
More Exciting Science Bundles Available!
Looking for more educational fun? Explore our bargain magazine bundles packed with STEM experiments, space adventures, and prehistoric discoveries!
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How could a huge pterosaur take flight?
Have you ever wondered how huge pterosaurs got off the ground? Here’s how they might have launched themselves into the air:
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Colossal coprolites
Have you been reading about DINO GIANTS in Whizz Pop Bang magazine? Then you probably want to watch a video of the biggest dinosaur poos ever discovered!
Fossilised animal poos are known as coprolites. They are full of clues about what dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures liked to eat. The largest coprolite ever found was a Tyrannosaurus rex poo. It is full of crunched-up bones.
The largest collection of coprolites is owned by George Frandsen in the USA. In 2017, he had 1,277 fossilised dino poos, including the largest ever found! See him showing off the record-breaking dino poo here:
In this mega edition of Whizz Pop Bang, we’re looking at some of the most awesome creatures ever to have set foot on this planet – discover gigantic dinosaurs that were taller than houses, humungous flying reptiles that ruled the skies and petrifying prehistoric predators that patrolled the seas!
There are loads of dino activities for you to try at home – craft a balancing stegosaurus, create your own eco-friendly fossil dig kits and cast a replica dinosaur tooth!
You can also cut out and make roar-some paper dinosaurs that walk down slopes and discover the biggest dinosaur ever known, Argentinosaurus, which laid eggs as big as coconuts! Find out how animatronic dinosaurs work, meet a palaeontologist who solves the mysteries of how dinosaurs lived and read about William Buckland and Mary Morland, who studied the first dinosaur fossils. You can even take our Silly Science quiz, ‘Which dinosaur are you?!’ to discover what your life could have been like in the Cretaceous period!
It’s a truly colossal edition of Whizz Pop Bang!
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Dreaming of a green Christmas…
Are mountains of festive plastic tat making your Christmas feel a little less than magical? Being an eco-warrior, a super-parent AND Father Christmas can be exhausting stuff, so we’ve sought out some present ideas that bring more cheer and less guilt.
Looking for plastic-free gifts, ethical present ideas, green gifts and other ways to have a green Christmas and make a difference at his time of year? Keep scrolling…
JUNKO modelling kits
Make junk into toys with this super-creative, eco-friendly toy! Each kit contains a variety of accessories (including wheels, paddle wheels, floats, rubber band drives and more) along with plenty of clip-on and magnetic fixings that can be combined to turn household junk into almost anything you can imagine.
Invented by a dad who wanted to avoid throwaway plastic toys, Junko is fully reusable and made from recycled plastic in England. Its system of clips, magnetic fixings and accessories take junk modelling up a notch, encouraging imaginative play, problem solving and serious FUN!
Whizz Pop Bang subscription
Want to give the gift of science wonder every month of the year? A subscription to Whizz Pop Bang magazine sends science learning and fun rocketing through your letterbox, every single month, with no plastic tat in sight! ⠀
And as if that’s not enough…⠀
🌳 Printed with vegetable inks on paper from FSC/PEFC suppliers
🌳 Delivered in paper envelopes⠀
🌳 Advert-free⠀
🌳 Activities and experiments often reuse household items (like the content of your recycling box and shed!)⠀
Wyatt and Jack Junior
Wyatt and Jack create accessories from donated and abandoned inflatables on the Isle of Wight, and they’ve just launched a junior range!
Books!
They’re made of paper (find out more about FSC standards for paper production here) and they can inspire a love of learning, and sometimes some knowledge of the natural world, too. We’ve put together a list of our top science reads for kids here, if you fancy popping some science under the tree this year.
Origami animals kit
First up is an amazing shop dedicated to plastic-free gifts: EcoVibe. From craft kits to lunch bags, building blocks to origami kits, this website promises an easy conscience for all of Santa’s elves. It’s worth having a peek at their adult self-care range too – you might need some TLC after all that shopping!
Seedbom
Throw it and grow it with these easy-gardening seedboms (packed with native wildflower and herb seeds in peat-free compost). There’s even an accompanying books, There’s a Tiger in the Garden, if you’re buying for a younger child (age 4-7). We also love the Make a Pizza for the Birds kit – tasty treats for little tweeters!
Dino Snores sleepover
Prefer dinosaurs to reindeer? If you’re looking for something that most definitely won’t get lost under the bed, the Natural History Museum’s dino-snores sleepovers offers a thrilling experience to wander the corridors of the pre-historic after dark. Explore a torch-lit trail, make a dinosaur t-shirt and watch a science show. That’s a present they certainly won’t forget!
Adopt an animal
Have your kids asked for a puppy for Christmas? How about a polar bear instead? The WWF offers a huge range of animals to ‘adopt’ for Christmas, without the extra hassle of walkies, litter trays and vet bills! From £3 a month, (or from a £36 one-off payment), your little animals will receive a fact pack and regular updates on how their animal is faring in the wild. Upgrade to £5 per month and they’ll get a soft toy of your chosen animal, too! Best of all, your well-earned money will be spent directly on helping the species.
Words: Nell O’Neill
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Take off this summer with our Sky High Science issue!
Wouldn’t it be amazing to fly like a bird? Or how do you fancy fluttering like a butterfly, or even soaring like a snake?! There are all sorts of flying phenomena to discover this issue. Have a go at making your own stunt plane, investigating different designs of straw planes and testing aerofoils. We interview Palaeontologist Liz Martin-Silverstone to ask her how on earth the giant pterosaurs were able to fly, plus we find out how drones work, and answer the question on lots of people’s minds… just how do planes fly???
Buy this issue here and fill your summer holidays with awesome science fun!! ? ✈ ?
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Pterosaur take-off
Scientist think that large pterosaurs, like the giant Quetzalcoatlus, probably took off by leaping into the air from all four limbs. These animals were so enormous that if they only used their back legs to take off, like a bird, their thigh bones would have snapped!
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How does it feel to find a giant dino footprint? We talk to paleontologist Steve Brusatte to find out!
Did you hear about the huge dinosaur footprints discovered on the Scottish coast this week? We ask Steve Brusatte some very important questions about this awesome discovery…
We’re lucky to have Steve on the Whizz Pop Bang boffin team (our panel of expert scientists who advise us on the latest scientific developments), so we asked him a few questions about the latest dinosaur print to be discovered on the Isle of Skye.
1. Are there words to describe just how exciting it feels to discover these tracks?
It was a fantabulotastic feeling. I think that’s the best way I can try to put it into words! Because the moment of discovery is magical. When you find something that no human has ever seen before, something from hundreds of millions of years ago. It was actually one of my students who discovered these tracks. Davide Foffa is his name; he’s a PhD student, from Italy. I was very proud that my student found something so amazing!
2. Do you have a special dino discovery high five with your team?!
No! Although maybe I should invent one. Any ideas?
3. If people want to go and visit the Isle of Skye can they see the foot print? Can they put their own foot inside the print?
Yes they can, although the tracks are located at a protected site, so they can’t be tampered with. If you go and see them, be careful not to damage them. They’ve lasted for 170 million years and we want them to last for a long time more. It is an amazing thing to put your foot inside a dinosaur track. It gives you a sense of just how big these dinosaurs were! The biggest tracks are 70 centimeters across, so about the size of a car tyre!
Want to know more about discovering dinosaurs? Order the Fossil Frenzy issue of Whizz Pop Bang science magazine and read all about how to find a dinosaur with Steve Brusatte! Visit our online shop to buy this issue for just £3.75 (free UK postage).
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The ultimate treat for Dinosaur-mad kids…
Are your kids totally and utterly obsessed by dinosaurs? Do they dream about dinosaurs? Well at The Natural History Museum in London there are plenty of dinosaurs and they do attract some interesting fellow snorers at night… Yes every month instead of closing all the doors and saying goodnight to the dinosaurs, sleep tight and see you in the morning, the staff at the Natural History Museum invite families to come and have a dinosaur sleepover.
Aptly named the ‘Dino Snore’ this special event is perfect for a special birthday treat, or indeed a treat for your little dinosaur expert who will remember this experience forever.
Don’t forget to take your Dinosaur issues of Whizz Pop Bang with you for bedtime reading! If you don’t already subscribe you can buy back issues here, issue 4 and 14 cover topics on Palaeontologists and How To Hunt For Dinosaurs.
Check out all the details on the Natural History Museum’s website, next available sleepover date is 3rd December so hurry and get it booked:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/dino-snores.html
Thoughts on Dino Snores for Kids…
‘Just such a unique experience to sleep in such an iconic building.’
‘It was exciting, fun and ticked all the boxes for a magical experience.’
‘Amazing experience you couldn’t replicate anywhere else.’
‘Perfect for kids who dream of being a dinosaur hunter.’
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