Comments on: Jurassic Yard Sale

Jurassic Yard Sale

chavenet — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:08:28 -0800

Field Station: Dinosaurs, the Leonia dinosaur park set to close at the end of the fall season, is selling its prehistoric creatures on Facebook Marketplace. The animatronic dinosaurs, made of steel, rubber and foam, are going for $850 for a winged quetzalcoatlus to $2,700 for each T. rex (there's two — "slightly used, well loved!") and $2,800 for the spinosaurus. [NJ.com, via Fossilocator]

By: supermedusa

supermedusa — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:25:52 -0800

omg what a deal! good thing I have no money, cause I'd be soooooo tempted!! not that I have room for thousands of dollars of dinosaur in my life, but love (ahem) finds a way, amirite?

By: supermedusa

supermedusa — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:29:24 -0800

and it's in NJ (of course, lol) I just told my sisters to go buy some, since I am too far away.

By: drewbage1847

drewbage1847 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:35:44 -0800

Oh god... child me would be BEGGING, PLEADING, PRAYING, CAJOLING, TANTRUMING to get one of these!

By: Greg_Ace

Greg_Ace — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:47:09 -0800

These will be perfect for my evil lair!

By: mittens

mittens — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:48:01 -0800

is this still available is this give you fifty if you drive them here is this still available

By: any portmanteau in a storm

any portmanteau in a storm — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:48:51 -0800

I have a family friend that has a replica dinosaur skeleton in his house. He'd probably love something like this.

By: PlusDistance

PlusDistance — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:12:08 -0800

Oh god... child me would be BEGGING, PLEADING, PRAYING, CAJOLING, TANTRUMING to get one of these! "Well last Christmas we got you a thesaurus and we're STILL regretting it."

By: Greg_Ace

Greg_Ace — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:19:28 -0800

I bought the world's worst thesaurus the other day. Not only is it terrible, it's also terrible!

By: drewbage1847

drewbage1847 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:41:20 -0800

My dad had a habit when I was a kid that if you misused a word, you had to go look it up in our copy of Merriam Webster, so a thesaurus was probably his favorite dinosaur.

By: Greg_Ace

Greg_Ace — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:59:55 -0800

Look THAT up in your Funk'n'Wagnalls!

By: TheWhiteSkull

TheWhiteSkull — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:26:32 -0800

FOR SALE: Stegosaurus, out-of-box. Lightly used, thagomizer has some cosmetic dings and scrathes.

By: Wretch729

Wretch729 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:27:58 -0800

The urge to put one of these on my beloved sister in law's lawn as a surprise for my nephews. I can't manage the logistics but oh man the look on her face would be worth it.

By: sciencegeek

sciencegeek — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 23:38:46 -0800

I actually live fairly near to this but sadly don't have the wherewithal to acquire, transport and install one of these. But my imagination is spending a bunch of time trying to figure out where one would go in my back yard to optimally scare people driving by.

By: SoberHighland

SoberHighland — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 07:57:03 -0800

These look way, way better than I imagined when I first read this post. I pictured some run down, haggard, roadside attraction props. At least from the photos, these look pretty damn cool.

By: i used to be someone else

i used to be someone else — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:21:19 -0800

wait what kind of dinosaur is a thesaurus? or is it one of those "not actually a dinosaur but kind of adjacent archosaur because it too lived during the Mesozoic but has the wrong hip bones"

By: Greg_Ace

Greg_Ace — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:56:23 -0800

A Thesaurus is a dinosaur who likes to read.

By: winesong

winesong — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:09:41 -0800

Ha! I sidled up to my loved one, and once they determined that I wasn't need want them go out tonight for whatever, I secured a "sure that sounds great" so now I'm looking at square footage, rental trucks, mileage, and the possibility of unseating phunniemee as Best Dinosaur In Chicago, Sort Of.