A stolen dinosaur, which was reunited with its Sunshine Coast owner this week more than two years after it was stolen, is apparently doing well despite missing an eye and a tail.

The velociraptor was stolen from the Big Pineapple Music Festival in 2014, but was strangely found this week at the top of Mount Coolum with a note attached asking for it to be returned to its rightful owner.

Festival director Mark Pico said the dinosaur was part of a collection brought in for the festival two years ago and it remained on stage all night before being stolen in the early hours of the morning — but the tail was left behind.

"Just like Cinderella and the slipper, wasn't it?" he laughed.

"It would've taken a couple of guys to walk 40 minutes to get it up the top of Mount Coolum — it's crazy." Julia Blake and Madison Bothe were the first ones to read the note attached to the dinosaur. ( Supplied: Madison Bothe )

And it would appear the dinosaur may not be reunited with its tail anytime soon with some media reporting that the owner recently gave the tail away to an intrigued child, figuring the dinosaur had already been missing for two years and there was little point in keeping it.

An unusual find

Two Sunshine Coast women, Madison Bothe and Julia Blake found the 1.5-metre structure on top of Mount Coolum on Tuesday morning.

"The funny thing is I'd actually climbed Mount Coolum the afternoon before to catch the sunset and it wasn't there, so between then and Julia and me climbing it at 7.30 in the morning, they'd obviously done it overnight or early morning," Ms Bothe said.

The women noticed there was a note attached with masking tape to the back of the dinosaur and after some discussion, they opened the note and the next chapter of the story unfolded. The note attached to the dinosaur. ( Supplied: Madison Bothe )

"[The note] said that it needed to go back to its home at the Big Pineapple … so we thought it might've been a joke but then we googled it and to our surprise it came up that the dinosaur had actually been stolen from the Big Pineapple Music Festival in 2014."

Being a stolen item, Ms Bothe made the phone call to police who found it quite amusing.

"I actually had to reassure the woman a few times that it wasn't a joke, that we'd actually found a dinosaur at the top and that the dinosaur had apparently been stolen and she was laughing so much."

Ms Bothe and Ms Blake along with passer-by Julie carried the structure down the mountain they had just hiked up. A successful mission: the women hike the dinosaur down Mount Coolum. ( Supplied: Madison Bothe )

"It wasn't too heavy … it was more awkward than anything," Ms Bothe said.

"One of the sides kept getting caught on different trees and it was awkward to manoeuvre it down the stairs especially, but people thought it was hilarious and were taking selfies with us along the way and just laughing hard about."

But the laughs did not stop at the foot of the mountain, with the next stop being the Coolum Police Station. Julia Blake and another walker Julie get ready for the drop off at Coolum Police Station. ( Supplied: Madison Bothe )

"At first they thought it was a bit of a joke and were looking at us quite dumbfounded again and so after that we said 'we'll actually prove to you that we have a dinosaur in our car'," Ms Bothe said.

"Two police officers came out and had a look and were just laughing so hard." It was an unusual day at the office for Coolum Police. ( Supplied: MyPolice Sunshine Coast )

Sergeant Ben Cox from the Coolum Police Station said he got quite a surprise at work that day.

"I wasn't aware of it at the time but a few of the boys at the station positioned it at the entry door so when I walked in, you're face high with a dinosaur," he laughed.