Do you have a favourite dinosaur?

[BookTenTiger]

Deinonychus. It's like a Velociraptor, but actually large.

I love feathered dinosaurs so much.

It's funny how Spielberg wanted big raptors in his movie, but none had been discovered yet... and then after they started filming, paleontologists discovered the Utahraptor, which is (I believe) still the biggest raptor found!

 

[Deset Gled]

I continue to not quite understand how the Dino Riders IP has failed to conquer the world. I'm sure the show was mediocre (it came and went without me ever catching an episode) but the toys were phenomenal and the story tells itself.

I mean what part of
did people not understand?

I watched the show as a kid and owned the Brontosaurus and a couple of others. As cools as the toys seemed, they probably would have been better for adults than kids. The dinos were awesome, but the characters were tiny (smaller than GI Joe, and with less articulation). The motorization was expensive and the batteries died quick. And there was just so much kibble.

The art was awesome, though. One of the cases where I held on to the box longer than the toy.

On the subject of dino books, I have to shout out to Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up. One of the books from childhood that I distinctly remember for actually having a realistic story about the life of a dino (as opposed to pure fantasy, or just "here's a few facts, and speculation about how they died").

 

[BookTenTiger]

I watched the show as a kid and owned the Brontosaurus and a couple of others. As cools as the toys seemed, they probably would have been better for adults than kids. The dinos were awesome, but the characters were tiny (smaller than GI Joe, and with less articulation). The motorization was expensive and the batteries died quick. And there was just so much kibble.

The art was awesome, though. One of the cases where I held on to the box longer than the toy.

On the subject of dino books, I have to shout out to Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up. One of the books from childhood that I distinctly remember for actually having a realistic story about the life of a dino (as opposed to pure fantasy, or just "here's a few facts, and speculation about how they died").

I missed that one, somehow!

I must have read "Raptor Red" a dozen times as a kid... it's another book with a realistic story about a dinosaur.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

But stegosaurus has a thagomizer.

This thread has me wishing for a ankylostegotriceratops chimera. Giant spiked ball tail, big spinal plates, face shield & horns.

Going in the ole GM notebook....

 

[pukunui]

@Deset Gled: I’m not sure where the book is, but I still have the plush Maia that came with it!

 

[trappedslider]

Sue is my favorite dino.

 

[JustinCase]

You're only correct if your favourite is any of The Terrible Thunderlizards.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

T REX CAUSE IT THE KING

 

[BookTenTiger]

Sue is my favorite dino.

I remember watching a documentary in which they'd analyzed all the breaks, fractures, and dents in Sue's skeleton and put together a rough biography of her life as a T-Rex. It turns out she'd had a pretty rough go of it!

 

[Gradine]

As a parent I am definitely required to have an answer to this question, and it is absolutely the ankylosaurs.