6-630: Dinosaur World may refer to: Dinosaur World (Arkansas) , a defunct theme park in Arkansas, USA Dinosaur World (Creswick) , a defunct theme park in Creswick, Victoria, Australia Dinosaur World (theme parks) , a family of theme parks in Florida, Kentucky and Texas in the US, each with over 150 life size dinosaur sculptures Dinosaur World (video game) ,
12-427: A 40 feet (12 m) tall statue of King Kong , known as the "World's Largest King Kong", being built for it. The owner, a friend of film actor John Agar , received permission from Agar, who had appeared in the 1976 version of King Kong , to use his name in the name of the park. Many articles report that John Agar was either the owner or part owner, but he was never either one. Sculptor Emmet Sullivan also designed
18-654: A free downloadable video game published by the BBC See also [ edit ] Dinosaur Planet (disambiguation) List of dinosaur parks Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dinosaur World . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dinosaur_World&oldid=991412717 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
24-499: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dinosaur World (Arkansas) Dinosaur World , earlier known as John Agar's Land of Kong and Farwell's Dinosaur Park , was a tourist attraction in Beaver, Arkansas . It was a theme park covering 65 acres (260,000 m ), which contained a hundred life-size sculptures of dinosaurs, cavemen, and other prehistoric creatures as well as
30-649: The dinosaur statues in Dinosaur Park and Wall Drug in South Dakota , and the Christ of the Ozarks statue in nearby Eureka Springs, Arkansas . Two local men, A. C. McBride and Orvis Parker handled the actual construction of the dinosaurs. Along with the nearby Beaver Dam, a few of the park's dinosaurs are featured briefly during the opening scenes of the 1969 horror movie 'It's Alive!' . The tyrannosaurus
36-436: The world's largest Noah's Ark Mural painted by local artist Will Johnson. The park closed in 2005. At one time it was the largest dinosaur park in the world. The park was started in 1967 when Ola Farwell hired Emmet Sullivan to build between six and ten life-size replicas of dinosaurs, and the park opened as "Farwell's Dinosaur Park". In the late 1970s the park was sold to Ken Childs and became "John Agar's Land of Kong", with
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