The themed signs of Chester & Hester’s Dinosaur Treasures, including the shop’s main sign, have been removed from the closed DinoLand U.S.A. gift shop at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

Chester & Hester’s Dinosaur Treasures Signs Gone

The gift shop located at the back of DinoLand closed permanently with the rest of Chester & Hester’s Dino-Rama this week. Demolition began quickly and crews were removing signs from Dinosaur Treasures on Wednesday. Now most of the themed billboards are gone.

For comparison, above is a side-by-side of two photos of Dinosaur Treasures. On the left are the shop’s billboards as they looked just before closure. On the right is how the building looked on Thursday morning.

Some frames remain on the rooftops, showing where signs advertising dinosaur memorabilia used to be. The backstory of Dino-Rama explained that couple Chester and Hester turned their old gas station into the Dinosaur Treasures gift shop to capitalize on recent fossil discoveries in their home of Diggs County.

When we visited on Thursday morning, the main Chester & Hester’s Dinosaur Treasures sign was still in place —  but not for much longer.

Crew members in lifts quickly descended upon the sign, which features the gift shop’s name in big red and gold letters. “DINOSAUR” was highlighted with sparkling sequins. There was once an inflatable T. rex that loomed over the sign, as seen in the old photo by Disney below.

The “It’s Fossiliferous” billboard also remains on top of the roof. So does the back of the billboard that featured two dinos with signs reading: “You don’t need to go to the end of the Earth — You’re here now!”

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