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News Credits: 1 · Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:44 pm

Well Seibtrono's, it would seem the time of the dinosaur is upon us once again)though it's questionable if it ever really left).

This past summer we saw the return of the Dinobots to Transformers, Rescue Bots are getting dinosaurized, Power Rangers is adapting Koryuger(which has dinosaur mecha), Toy Story has some sort of dino-themed toyline, and last but oh certainly not least Jurassic World comes out next year!

So to commemorate this occasion, what's your favorite pieces of dinosaur media or merchandise?

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:55 pm

I saw the new toys for the latest power ranger adaption (Dino Charge or something, it was in this month's previews magazine) they looked pretty cool.

Anyway favourite dinosaur like toy line. ..Does Zoids count? My father and older brother collected them in the 80s and I loved playing with them.

As in media? Jurassic Park was a favourite as was the original power rangers (forget what sentai show it adapted)

News Credits: 241 · Tue Dec 02, 2014 6:15 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:I saw the new toys for the latest power ranger adaption (Dino Charge or something, it was in this month's previews magazine) they looked pretty cool.

Anyway favourite dinosaur like toy line. ..Does Zoids count? My father and older brother collected them in the 80s and I loved playing with them.

As in media? Jurassic Park was a favourite as was the original power rangers (forget what sentai show it adapted)

Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, think Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger reversed

My favourite Dinosaur media and merch? I only have some static Dinosaur toys, Dinosaur Transformers (but no G1 Dinobots *gasp*) and I have (now outdated) educational books on Dinosaurs. That's it.

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Dec 02, 2014 6:25 pm

Hah thanks Jelze

oh I did have some dinosaur toys (like Jelze said, static ones) but they have now been passed on to my eldest.

News Credits: 23 · Tue Dec 02, 2014 6:48 pm

Ohhh tough question...I'd say Jurassic Park and it's accompanying sequels, sue me, I liked the third one. I used to have a ton of dinosaur toys. I wish I could afford the G1 Dinobots or any of the 3d Party figures.

News Credits: 22 · Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:48 pm

My MP-08. Love it. I'd like to get an MP-08X, though. Marvel Comic Grimlock is my favorite character of all time.

I love the Marvel Comics, mostly because of Furman's characterization of Grimlock.

Also, most of you are too young to remember this show:

News Credits: 1350 · Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:50 am

Wow I haven't seen that in a very long, long time. Channel 4 in the UK used to show it with reruns of other toons like Back to the Future among others. Sure one was called the California Prunes or something like that.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:21 am

ZeroWolf wrote:Wow I haven't seen that in a very long, long time. Channel 4 in the UK used to show it with reruns of other toons like Back to the Future among others. Sure one was called the California Prunes or something like that.

California Raisins:

I don't remember why it was popular, but I vaguely remember watching the show when I was little, and I've never forgotten the name.

And Denver wasn't on when I was little, or at least not on either channel I had. I do recall Dink the Little Dinosaur though:

The stegosaurus was my favorite dinosaur as a kid, and I think I was annoyed it wasn't one of the main cast members. Jurassic Park also annoyed me in that respect too, but I've certainly come to appreciate the film a whole lot more despite the exclusion.

Yeah, Jurassic Park was my thing from when I was like eight to ten. One of my favorite Christmas presents ever is the Jurassic Park Command Center. That thing had soooo many voice and sound effects, lots of play areas, several breakaway features, good detail, so so so many awesome times with that thing as a backdrop. And of course I had a number of figures, like the T-Rex Junior(which I used finernail clippers to clip off one of the fingernails for...some reason), the aforementioned Stegosaurus, Dennis Nedry.....

Speaking of Dennis, isn't it odd how he had rip off arms? And I remember there was a T-Rex that could eat a guy in a cage or something, and a lot of the bigger dinosaurs had "dino damage" that showed their interior muscles and bones. Kinda gruesome for a toyline aimed at kids. And yet, I think most of the weaponry was mentioned as being tranquilizers on the box :lol:

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My memories of the toy line can't be overstated enough because it just gave any random plastic/static dinosaur a place to easily fit into, a universe easily adaptable to whatever else my imagination had prepared that day. So...commercials!

Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:23 am

for me it's a toss-up between bakuryuu sentai abaranger and zyuden sentai kyoryuger. they're both just awesome imho.

News Credits: 767 · Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:26 am

I loved Jurassic Park, I have vivid memories of The Lost World Jurassic Park, since my dad went with me to the cinema to see it on my birthday. It was super creepy, because it had a new kind of surround sound that made it sound like the raptors where behind you.

There are a few fave Dino shows for me, apart from Denver, and Dink, I also quite enjoyed

(No English opening for some reason, well, I did watch it in German anyway.)

Those are the ones that most stuck in my head anyway, but yeah, there were more shows with Dinosaurs I watched and loved.