dinosaur toys used as decor accessories

[Doug Watson]

I thought there was a thread for this already like the one for dinosaur toys in movies thread but I couldn't find it. This would be for dinosaur toys being used in stores or other institutions as decorations but are not for sale. Hopefully mine isn't the only entry.

My entry is Chester & Hesters dinosaur emporium in Dinoland at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida. They sell dinosaur related gifts like toys, clothing, books etc but the whole store is decorated like some cheesy roadside attraction with all kinds of bric a brac as well as casts of actual fossils but the kicker for me were the hundreds of dinosaur toys in the rafters. I have spotted original Battat, Safari Ltd, Carnegie, Papo, Invicta plus lots of Chinasaurs and Marx repops. Back when I still hadn't acquired my Battat Diplodocus and they were still selling for $300.00 on eBay I spotted the one in the rafters and tried to buy it but the store employee said they couldn't sell them. It is still there.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I love that concept!

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

I was there last year-- didn't spot the dippy, but certainly would have asked if I would have seen it.
There is a hotel in Denver also with a big dinosaur theme:
https://www.facebook.com/bestwesterndenver
If I had my own house to decorate no doubt it would have features reminiscent of these places. I really like the trees, BTW, in the above photos, I'm really tempted to make a few now.

[Doug Watson]

I was there last year-- didn't spot the dippy, but certainly would have asked if I would have seen it.
There is a hotel in Denver also with a big dinosaur theme:
https://www.facebook.com/bestwesterndenver
If I had my own house to decorate no doubt it would have features reminiscent of these places. I really like the trees, BTW, in the above photos, I'm really tempted to make a few now.

That looks like the place to stay in Denver!
There is also the T rex chain of restaurants, they have one at Downtown Disney. They sell Safari ltd dinosaurs but I don't think they use toys in the decor just the life size animatronics.

[Dinomike]

Wow! Cool concept for a restaurant! I wonder if they did their research or were the dinos just randomly picked?

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

Wow! Cool concept for a restaurant! I wonder if they did their research or were the dinos just randomly picked?

I think the dinosaurs weremade by Billings, a company which makes animatronic dinosaurs as seen in other exhibitions.
http://www.billingsproductions.com/

EDIT: Also, since this sems to be a good place for it, I made a board on Pinterest about this a while ago:
https://www.pinterest.com/pachyrhinosauru/home-design/