Dragon Theme Park Dragons are hugely popular with children and parents both.  For the most part these dragons are the friendly helpful sort.  In the pictures below you can see how a dragon theme can be developed in a children's experience which is fun for the parents too. This is the entrance to the dragon's lair.  As you can see he is outside the castle defending the entrance.  To enter the castle you have to pass under the loop of his tail on the left.  The loop of tail is tall enough to allow a six foot tall adult to walk under it without stooping!  This is an example of a European style dragon.  Notice the strong, clawed "hands", the horns, and the armor plated skin.  The plates on the neck and belly closely resemble the scales on the belly of a snake. Dragons were frequently shown near castles and were often the victims of sorcery.  They were sometimes turned to stone.  This dragon sculpture with the vines growing on it and the rough texture of its back and skin clearly represents such a victim of sorcery. Frozen in time this dragon is locked in stone; poised as it last stood to defend it's castle.   Do you notice any problem with the size of the dragon's wings? This creature shown here is definately going to require magical help to fly.  If you look at a bird and think about the area of wing necessary to get a tiny, lighweight creature into the air, it is obvious the wings shown here could never do the job without magical help.  A situation where the artistic mind clashes with the laws of physics.