{"id":186638,"date":"2025-09-28T02:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/186638\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:29:09","slug":"new-jersey-theme-park-puts-animatronic-dinosaurs-on-facebook-marketplace-as-it-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/186638\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Theme Park Puts Animatronic Dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace as It Shuts Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wanted to own gigantic, realistic-looking dinosaurs for your backyard? Now might be your chance to scoop some up. Provided you have a few thousand dollars lying around.<\/p>\n

The New Jersey theme park Field Station: Dinosaurs is closing Nov. 9, and they\u2019re listing all their dinos on Facebook Marketplace<\/a>. There are plenty to choose from, including a 52-foot-long Spinosaurus<\/a> ($2,900), a Hadrosaurus<\/a> with eggs and nest ($2,450), and a bright blue Parasaurolophus<\/a> ($2,410).<\/p>\n

Some of the dinosaurs have limited movement and voice boxes, along with controls. And everything must go, according to the park.<\/p>\n

\"551775752\u00a9 Field Station: Dinosaurs \/ Facebook <\/p>\n

\u201cWhere do 30 plus dinosaurs go when their park closes?\u201d Guy Gsell, the park\u2019s executive producer, told NewJersey.com<\/a>. \u201cHopefully to a good home \u2014 or maybe a few unexpected places. We\u2019re ready to let the public make their best offers. Just be sure you\u2019ve got a big backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n

The theme park opened in Secaucus in 2012 but had to close down in 2015 to make way for a new high school that was being built. Field Station: Dinosaurs moved to the Henry Hoebel Area of Overpeck Park in Leonia, New Jersey, in 2016.<\/p>\n

The dinosaurs range in price from about $500 to almost $3,000, depending on the size. Listings for the dinosaurs note<\/a> that \u201cBuyers are responsible for all deinstallation and shipping\/transportation costs,\u201d while explaining that the theme park \u201cwill arrange to have all necessary equipment on site. Dinosaurs available for pick-up after November 9.\u201d<\/p>\n

The theme park recently appeared on a Fox reality show called The Fixer, where struggling small businesses get help, but it obviously wasn\u2019t enough to keep this New Jersey attraction around.<\/p>\n

Anyone who wants to see the theme park for its last hurrah still has an opportunity. There\u2019s the \u201cJurassic Petting Zoo\u201d Sept. 27 and 28, where visitors can get up-close encounters and \u201camazing photo ops\u201d next to the dinos.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s a special \u201cDinosaurs After Dark\u201d event happening Friday and Saturday nights from Oct. 3-25 between 7:00 and 9:30 pm.<\/p>\n

From the theme park\u2019s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A spooky, funny and thrilling adventure for the whole family featuring a lantern lit tour of the park, games and activities where everyone is a winner, and The Dinosaur S\u00e9ance, a mysterious thrill ride into the shadowy realm of dinosaur ghosts. America\u2019s only Mesozoic medium and Cretaceous conjurer will be our guide as we journey into the Jurassic (Spirit) World and summon the long-lost spectres of the prehistoric dearly departed. Sometimes scary, sometimes funny but always surprising, the show features new puppets created by the acclaimed fabricators at Palmieri Puppets.<\/p>\n

At the end of the night, everyone will gather around the campfire for a dinosaur song-a-long with the Dinosaur Troubadour. A thrilling adventure you don\u2019t want to miss. Limited tickets; reservations highly recommended.<\/p>\n

The park is also hosting a \u201cDogs & Dinos\u201d day on Monday, October 13, from 10 am-5 pm, where visitors are allowed to bring their dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you ever wanted to own gigantic, realistic-looking dinosaurs for your backyard? Now might be your chance to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[109519,37129,74,52675],"class_list":["post-186638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-animatronics","tag-dinosaurs","tag-technology","tag-theme-parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}