family adventure type restaurant industry casual dining founded 2006 headquarters kansas city kansas website official website t rex is a prehistoric themed restaurant that includes a gift shop along with animatronic dinosaurs that move and roar . t rex has differently themed restaurant sections such as prehistoric insects which includes enlarged animatronic insects ice age which includes ice caves and animatronic mammoths and under the sea complete with jellyfish ceiling and large aquarium . in the dinosaur themed area a gift shop allows customers to build a dino which is provided by build a bear workshop who works in partnership with t rex . t rex is owned by landry s restaurants which started back in 1980 in katy texas . landry s went private in 2010 when tilman fertitta the ceo of landry s and a large shareholder made an offer to buy all shares . landry s is no longer traded on the nyse . the first t rex restaurant opened in kansas city followed by the opening of another at disney springs formerly downtown disney in walt disney world on october 17 2008 . it appears to have been themed around the rite of spring segment of fantasia . it features tyrannosaurus rex apatosaurus albertosaurus triceratops mammoths stegosaurus parasaurolophus arthropleura pterosaurs including pteranodon and rhamphorhynchus sea jellies large insect models alongside a pachycephalosaurus 13 foot wide octopus and 2 fish tanks . there is a 2 min . meteor shower with various sized asteroids and the ice cave turns from a blue or purple pink color to orange to give the feeling it is melting and all animals hoot roar and go berserk . t rex has a fossil dig in which kids can uncover a t rex or find their own fossils to keep and or split a geode open . they have interactive touch screens that have games toon clips and things to learn about several of the creatures at the restaurant . outside there is an argentinosaurus skeleton and on the other side a parasaurolophus sits in a pond fed by a waterfall with some plants by it . the restaurant looks like a forest with snowy mountains in the middle . 1 a model from the restaurant in disney springs . t rex cafe disney springs . references edit t rex restaurant opens at downtown disney . v t e landry s inc. tilman j. fertitta entertainment destinations downtown aquarium denver downtown aquarium houston galveston island historic pleasure pier golden nugget atlantic city golden nugget las vegas golden nugget laughlin kemah boardwalk restaurants bubba gump shrimp company claim jumper fish tales mccormick & schmick s morton s the steakhouse muer seafood restaurants rainforest cafe saltgrass steak house t rex cafe tower of the americas vic & anthony s steakhouse this us based restaurant or restaurant chain article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this disney related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title t rex restaurant & oldid 707998619 categories theme restaurantsanimatronic attractionsrestaurants established in 20062006 establishments in kansasunited states restaurant stubsdisney stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 march 2016 at 00 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view