Do you have a favourite dinosaur?

[Benjamin Olson]

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I prefer dinosaur tanks

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?

 

[Maxperson]

And why is it stegosaurus?

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That's why. And the best part is the term was picked up by paleontologists who now use when they speak of the stegosaurus tail.

 

[cbwjm]

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.

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did people not understand?

A cartoon from the 80s, that means that the cartoon was created to sell the toys.

I think it only had something like 12 episodes, I loved it back in the day and had some of the toys along with the small comic books that toys often came with back then (I'm thinking mostly these guys and masters of the universe).

 

[BookTenTiger]

And without them we might not have avocados....

As a Californian I'm very grateful to those megafauna with wide digestive equipment!

 

[BookTenTiger]

I need to post another one because I still love dinos!

Therizinosaurus is great for a number of reasons...

1) it's a theropod that evolved into an herbivore (kind of like how a panda is the descendant of omnivorous bears, but is an herbivore)

2) it has enormous claws... that it likely used to strip bark off of trees

3) its name means "scythe lizard"

4) it was likely covered in feathers, so it might have looked something like this:

 

[pukunui]

Oh man, thinking about it, I need to get to Auckland museum while they still have the T-Rex skeleton there!

I took the family yesterday. It wasn't as big as I was expecting, but it's still pretty fun to see. Man, those arms are tiny!

 

[pukunui]

I continue to not quite understand how the Dino Riders IP has failed to conquer the world.

I remember the Dino Riders! I think I had a few of the toys. Weren't there some comics as well?

I really enjoyed the Dinosaucers as well!

 

[BookTenTiger]

I remember the Dino Riders! I think I had a few of the toys. Weren't there some comics as well?

I really enjoyed the Dinosaucers as well!

For me the ultimate children's dino-media was Dinotopia...

I've been fantasizing about a D&D campaign that combines Game of Thrones style politics with Dinotopia... each house represented by a different dinosaur type... Wildlings riding Quetzalcoatlus, throwing spears at knights on Utahraptors...

 

[cbwjm]

For me the ultimate children's dino-media was Dinotopia...

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I've been fantasizing about a D&D campaign that combines Game of Thrones style politics with Dinotopia... each house represented by a different dinosaur type... Wildlings riding Quetzalcoatlus, throwing spears at knights on Utahraptors...

I always wanted these books as a kid. I guess now that I'm an adult I can go out and buy them. I wonder if they're still around.

 

[Imaculata]

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