Cookies bring Jurassic Joy to Hasson Heights

People line up at the I Heart Cookie Company trailer to purchase cookies for entry into the animatronic dinosaur display at the Family Dollar parking lot on Monday afternoon in Hasson Heights.

On Monday afternoon, Oil City’s Dollar General in Hasson Heights was transformed into a prehistoric playground as the traveling I Heart Cookies Company rolled into town. The Kansas-based business, which tours the country year-round, brought along an impressive lineup of animatronic dinosaurs — including towering tyrannosaurus rexes, a triceratops, raptors, and even baby dinos — along with interactive attractions like a raptor enclosure and fossil dig pit. Visitors could meet, play with, and snap photos of the creatures, all for the price of a cookie, making for a sweet and memorable afternoon.

 

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