Cabazon, California - Cabazon Dinosaurs

Cabazon, California - Cabazon Dinosaurs

Overphotographed dinosaurs in the desert. Built by Claude Bell, who ran the Wheel Inn on I-10; currently owned by folks who don't buy the Theory of Evolution. Roadsideamerica.com Report...

Cabazon, California - Cabazon Dinos

I love the dinos because of Pee-Wees Big Adventure. I love the Wheel Inn. Great service, great food.

What I no longer love is the religious agenda. It was amusing at first going into the "museum" and seeing an army dude and a medieval knight with the dinosaurs, and then you start reading about anti-Darwin BS. I paid $5 to get preached at. $20 total, since I took 2 teenagers and my mate. Luckily, they are old enough to know that science disproves that a knight was jousting with a t-rex, and I didn't have to explain anything.

Museums should be educational, and this was not. The preaching really took the wind out of the experience for me.

I've been multiple times in the last few years, and almost always stop at the Wheel Inn. Don't think I'll be going back into the "museum" any time soon. [liz w, 10/28/2009]

Cabazon, California - Cabazon Dinosaurs

It looks as if they are adding to the dinosaurs. I passed through on my way home from Palm Springs and they had added quite a few more dinos....there were a few raptors, a stegasaurus, triceratops, and about 6 others. There was also a random medieval knight. The whole area is under construction and is fenced off. We could only look through the fence. The T-Rex is currently closed to visitors -- no climbing inside. The website said they're making additions that are "coming soon." [Dino Hunter, 05/28/2008]

Cabazon, California - Cabazon Dinosaurs - Disproving Evolution!

My girlfriend and I went to see the famous "Dinny and Rex" in Cabazon, California today, and were a little surprised to find the new owners using the two as a back drop for their theology agenda. Attached to the toys in the gift shop were laminated tags proclaiming Darwinism as wrong, and bible scriptures to back them up. There message is also evident from the HUGE sign at the entrance of Dinny's belly as well as the pamphlets and DVDs customers received if they spent $20 or more. It was definitely a little weird.

The dinosaurs appear to have been painted recently, as one previous updater stated. What we didn't find were any signs of neon eyes or a bathroom inside Rex. Along with the dinosaurs are a snake (With video camera in its mouth??) and a giant sea turtle. There is also no Dennys restaurant (also previously reported), and the Wheel Inn is open and ready for business. There was a nice size crowd around lunch time, and a brand new Burger King on the grounds. [Richard Hamilton, 09/15/2004]

Cabazon, California - Claude Bell's Dinosaurs - Vegetarians?

My father would have a fit if he knew what they've done to his dinosaurs. He tried to keep them real, he would get fan mail from children as far away as Japan, they would study them in school and ask him for facts, not fiction! He was proud that he was able to stay as close to the originals as possible in height, length, coloring, even down to the texture! Please encourage Ms. Minkoff to refrain from "dangling a human dummy from Dinny's mouth," they didn't eat meat! [Wendy Bell (daughter of Claude K. Bell), 10/29/2000]

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