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Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom » DinoLand U.S.A.
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Address
| East Savannah Circle
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| Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
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| Latitude — 28.356218
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| Longitude — -81.58796
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Dinoland U.S.A. is a carnival themed land of Disney's Animal Kingdom lightly featuring dino-kitsch with rides and a midway.
[edit] Back Story
DinoLand U.S.A. was originally a small highway town where dinosaur bones were discovered by an amateur fossil-hunter in 1947. The fossil-hunter realized how important his discovery was and contacted some scientist friends who pooled their money together to purchase the site, including an old fishing lodge.
Since then, scientists, volunteers and grad students have inhabited the site leaving a paper trail of notes, theories, questions and answers about the dinosaurs around the site. Some of the grad students who studied there were not as serious as their instructors and left pranks all over the town.
The Dino Institute was then founded and opened the site to the public as a “fossil discovery park”. The old fishing lodge became Restaurantosaurus which features class notes and tacky collectibles.
Two locals, Chester and Hester decided to make a fast buck and turned their gas station into a fossil souvenir business and named it Chester and Hester's Dinosaur Treasures which was an Emporium of Extinction. It was a gaudy roadside shop including rubber dino's and plastic knickknacks. After The Dino Institute uncovered how to travel in time, Chester and Hester decided to build the next best thing, Primeval Whirl. They also added the Triceratop Spin and Fossil Fun Games, a midway of sorts.[2][3]
[edit] Planning
Joe Rohde was the main planner of the land and had massive plans for this area. Unfortunately for Rohde, Eisner had other plans and ordered the land be lightly themed.
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