The exhibit displays a replica of the decoy T.rex defending the treasure chest at A Little Jurassic Treasure Hunt, held at the American Museum of Natural History in 2011. The photo on this page is of the original.
Excerpt from the book Matching Minds with Sondheim, as recounted by Daria Bagley:
With the destination of the treasure now known, they were off and running. “We almost sprinted but did our best to suppress our excitement.” Arriving at the location, they looked around. The only object in the room was a stand draped in a black velvet cloak in the corner displaying a glass case filled with toy dinosaurs. “After everyone on the team took a ‘trophy,’” she wrote, “the case was empty. We were perplexed! There had to be more.” The guard told her and her team they had won. “But all we had were little plastic dinosaurs!” They asked their team coordinator: Was this really the final clue? The coordinator had no idea; Sondheim wouldn’t tell anyone what the final clue was. “That’s when I went back to the glass case,” she told me, when I asked her more than a decade later, “and yanked the cloak off the area that the little dinosaurs were on and everyone screamed.” There it was, a small treasure chest, with a latch. “I opened the chest and in it were several small white bags which contained a Motorola Droid, and a card saying we won a ‘weekend in the country’ (at a resort in Saugerties, NY).” From start to finish, it took the winning team only fifty minutes. Her response to it all? “Incredible.”
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