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by **travicon** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:47 am

i just came across a bunch of my old dino riders toys that my parents had stashed at their house, and i gotta say, how cool! i totally forgot about this show/cartoon! haha! did anyone else watch this show?

by **Fatconvoy** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:31 am

i never watched the cartoon but i remember the toys! a friend of mine had the triceratops. good,solid boys-toy; dinosaurs + action figures = fun.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:55 am

I think I had one of the KO T-Rexes.
Here's a site I found while looking for info on this:
http://www.dinoriders.com/

News Credits: 7 · by **Roadbuster** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:06 am

I remmeebr that stuff very well. It's a greta idea that didn't last long enough.

I had most of series 1 minus 2 of them.

by **Fatconvoy** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:01 pm

Dead Metal wrote:I think I had one of the KO T-Rexes.
Here's a site I found while looking for info on this:
http://www.dinoriders.com/

great site! it's always nice to see dedication to one of the more obscure cartoon/toylines.

by **Grahf** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:22 pm

God, I loved those. It was one of my favorite toy lines back then. The biggest one I had was the Diplodocus. Looking back at pictures of them now, I think I had all of the first release of them except the Trex. I used to make huge battles between them and either MASK or GI joes. Fond memories indeed.

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:54 pm

I loved them, but my parents couldn't afford stuff like the T-Rex, so I only had:

Valorian Quetzalcoatylus
Valorian Styracosaurus
Valorian Edmontoniasaurus
Rulon Ankylosaurus
Rulon Triceratops

Had the rereleases of some of the dinosaurs in that educational toy line.

Since I had soo few, I wound up playing with them and MASK at the same time. When I was older it was Dinoriders + MASK + Vortech + Exosquad.

I loved my Dinoriders, but they were pretty dang fragile.

Oh, and I picked up the first issue of the comic a few months ago. :lol:

News Credits: 7 · by **Geekee1** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:59 pm

I loved Dinoriders. I remember saving my allowances for months so that I could buy the T-Rex.

News Credits: 7 · by **Roadbuster** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:05 pm

Caelus wrote:I loved them, but my parents couldn't afford stuff like the T-Rex, so I only had:

Valorian Quetzalcoatylus
Valorian Styracosaurus
Valorian Edmontoniasaurus
Rulon Ankylosaurus
Rulon Triceratops

Had the rereleases of some of the dinosaurs in that educational toy line.

Since I had soo few, I wound up playing with them and MASK at the same time. When I was older it was Dinoriders + MASK + Vortech + Exosquad.

I loved my Dinoriders, but they were pretty dang fragile.

Oh, and I picked up the first issue of the comic a few months ago.

I always found that the figures and dinots themselves were's necessarily fragile, it was the armor and weapons that were breakable, though I did end up breaking the tip of the tail off my T-Rex somehow. I can't quite remember how it happened.

I did want the Stegosaurus more than anything but between that, Thundercats, Real Ghostbusters, and TF somethings I could never have.

Dino riders has so much potential, I wish some toy company would pick it back up with new updated dino molds, armor, etc. But toy safety laws would probably bar having battle armor like there used to be given how fragile it was.

by **travicon** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:12 pm

thats awesome that you guys remember this stuff too! i'll post some pics of my collection here soon! a lot of them are not complete and have broken parts but last night i got some super glue and fixed some ot the broken armor, it worked really well, its gonna be a pain to store this stuff safely though.... oh, Roadbuster, the tip of my t-rex's tail is also broken off too :cry:

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:28 pm

I actually used some of this stuff and a Jurassic Park 2 Bull T-Rex to make a 3-3/4" scale Dinorider T-Rex a few years ago. Used a piece from a telephone for the horrible brain shackling device.

If it's still assembled, I'll take some pics over Christmas.

News Credits: 1 · by **Duke of Luns** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:23 pm

I had....a coloring book, that's it. But when did the series come out, like 87ish or before? I was born in '85, but had I been older, you better believe I would have loved these guys. Fortuneately Jurassic Park filled in any void left by not having any of the Dino Rider figures.

Thanks for the site, it'll be fun to look through.