Find educational dinosaur toys at Brookfield Zoo Dinosaurs Alive exhibit

May 12, 2:04 PMChicago Children's Toys ExaminerRenée Carver

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Shopasaurus entrance at Chicago Brookfield Zoo Dinosaurs 
Alive! exhibit (credit: Renée Carver)

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Chicago families searching for a great selection of fun and educational dinosaur toys and other products can visit the Shopasaurus gift shop that is part of the Chicago Brookfield Zoo  Dinosaurs Alive! Exhibit.

Brookfield Zoo Dinosaurs Alive! exhibit

Chicago families and tourists visiting Chicago can have an educational and exciting time seeing and interacting with animatronic dinosaurs currently on exhibition. Read a full review of the Brookfield Chicago Zoo Dinosaurs Alive exhibit for all the details about which prehistoric creatures are displayed and how kids can manipulate four of these amazing beasts with electronic remote-controls.

Animatronic Ruyang Yellow River Dinosaur at Chicago Brookfield
Zoo Dinosaurs Alive! (credit: Renée Carver)

Shopasaurus dinosaur gift shop

After walking along the Mesozoic forest trail and viewing all the animatronic creatures, zoo visitors can enter and shop at a dinosaur gift shop that is fully stocked with dinosaur toys and other products.

Dinosaur toys at Brookfield Zoo

Dinosaur toys available at the Dinosaurs Alive! gift shop include:

• Dinosaur excavation kits of a variety of sizes, levels of complexity, and prices, from great brands like I Dig Dinosaurs, Kidz Labs, and GeoSafari.
• Wild Republic Morphs Snap Sets, which come with plastic pieces to snap together to build different kinds of dinosaurs.
• Mattel Matchbox Dino Mega Rigs trucks.
• Zip Bin Dinosaur playsets.
• RepPals soft and stretchy dinosaur toys.
• Melissa & Doug wooden dinosaur puzzles and dinosaur rubber stamp kits.
• Plush dinosaurs from brands like The Petting Zoo and Wild Republic.
• Dinomech II transforming dinosaur robots from Toysmith.
• A great library of dinosaur books by publishers such as Usborne, including the touchy-feely book That's Not My Dinosaur and The Great Dinosaur Seach.
• Tubes of small plastic dinosaur figures from Safari Ltd.
• 3-D snap together dinosaur-themed wood kits from Action Products.
• Eyewitness dinosaur casting kits.
• A robotic T-rex.
• Dig Up Dinosaur Skeletons to assemble from Mega Core Sample.
• Snap & Fix Dino kits from Dino Horizons (with an informational DVD about each dinosaur featured).
• Inflatable dinosaurs of various sizes.

Dinosaur games at Brookfield Zoo

The Shopasaurus also stocks a variety of fun, dinosaur-themed games such as:

• The Jurassic Park Explorer DVD game.
• Dino Opoly board game.
• National Geographic Electronic Dino Xcavator game (like Operation, but removing dinosaur fossil bones from rock).
• Dinosaur-themed chess and checkers sets.

Dinosaur stuff at Brookfield Zoo

Other dinosaur items at this dinosaur gift shop include dinosaur shirts, silicone ice makers shaped like dinosaurs, Dinosaur cookie cutters from Fox Run, and an adorable Wishosaurus birthday cake topper. And, just for fun, the shop also carries some neat volcano toys, like a Volcano Making Kit from Toysmith and the Poof Slinky Volcano Island Earth Science kit.

Shopping for toys at Brookfield Zoo

Money spent at gift shops at the Brookfield Chicago Zoo goes to support the Chicago Zoological Society's wildlife conservation programs. Check the Brookfield Zoo Web site for admission prices, operating hours, and location information.

The Brookfield Zoo Dinosaurs Alive! exhibit (and its Shopasaurus) will be open through the end of October 2009.