Only 4 hectares (10 acres) large, it included around twenty life-size dinosaur models, a museum, playground and barbecue area.

Dinosaur Park was opened in 1982 by Stephanie and Bill Myers, who built the first fibreglass models himself.

It was situated on 7.3 hectares (18 acres) of natural bushland[citation needed] 1.5 km east off the Midland Highway,[1] outside Creswick, Victoria.

[6] Dinosaur World was a successful tourist attraction for Creswick, as visiting Gold Coast theme parks was not feasible for many families.

After the Myers retired in the late 1980s, they sold it to the local Plunkett family who also worked in the tourism industry.

Public imagination of the tyrannosaurus shifted after the first two Jurassic Park films; a second head was created for promotional purposes as the first was too "egg-shaped".