After we reported multiple times on a crack in Gertie the Dinosaur’s tail at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, the broken tail fell off. Now, Disney is attempting to hide the missing piece with a couple of random boxes.

Gertie’s Tail Hidden by Boxes

A blue box and an orange box — both splotchy and rusted — now sit on the banks of Echo Lake in front of the missing piece of the dino’s tail. Despite the placement of the boxes, the severed spot is still visible.

The broken piece appears to have been removed from the water, however.

In mid February, our reporters noticed a deep horizontal crack running along Gertie the Dinosaur’s tail. The spot is normally hidden by landscaping, but with the removal of vegetation due to Florida’s recent freezing temperatures, the structure became fully visible to guests.

Within a few days, the crack had been patched and painted over. But this fix was insufficient, and the crack had reopened by February 27.

Gertie’s tail then fell off into the water, as seen in the photo above.

Gertie is a life-size dinosaur-shaped building, home to Dinosaur Gertie’s Ice Cream of Extinction, which remains open and operating normally. The structure is based on Gertie the Dinosaur, a 1914 animated short film by Winsor McCay. Gertie was the first animated dinosaur and one of the first animated characters ever.

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