Revisiting My Childhood Dino Magazines: Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong
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Yep ! There wasn't any real kids magazine like that outside this series.
In the 90's dinosaurs became highly popular (and the popularity level have remain the exact same since) and these magazines, even if by today standards almost everything inside is outdated, was one of the main true educationals books (easily findable and accessible for everyone due to the low, almost cheap prize of 50c) that allowed youngs people and many kids to learn about dinosaurs and their life.
And every kid was able to know new things about his favorite specie, among many others lesser know and popular at time too !
Truly, because of his importance, because this magazine series manage to become cult overtime and to remain in the deep but strong memories of so many people even when adult today, the books magazines series "Dinosaurs ! Discover the giants of the past" or simply"Dinosaurs !" deserved to be remembered to the end of time !
In one of the issues of this magazines series, the number 66, there a section that show Dougal Dixon's drawns of his book "The New Dinosaurs", the second book of his "After Man" trilogy !
It's was a very good idea to put this section about speculative evolution domain ! Because kids were able to discovers new ways to imagine dinosaurs, in addition to learn a new and recently created modern form of a scientific domain that will become in almost two decades later highly popular overtime.
Genius ! Just genius !
I'd consider it, but I'm poor as dirt. 🤷♀️ Best I can offer is a like and comment for the Almighty Algorithm.
can we please get ceratosaurus it's one of my all time favorites
I still have all of these books too, no glasses or skeleton though
I'm still so mad about oviraptor. One poor dinosaur dies protecting its eggs, and then the whole genus is named "egg thief" because the people who dug it up went "well those can't be ITS eggs, it must have been stealing them to eat" like that's just so rude.
To be fair, it still did eat other dinosaurs' eggs lol.
But yeah, reminds me of how the depiction of Neanderthals as hunch-backed is mostly because of "The old man of La Chapelle'' which was the first mostly complete neanderthal skeleton ever found, and he was very old and had severe osteoarthritis. They actually had a similar lower lumbar curve to us, though they were shorter.
@@snakewithapen5489 well what you say in the first part, many dinosaurs would eat eggs so that wouldn't be a good argument
@@snakewithapen5489 We don't have proof they ate eggs.
As far as we know, they could be Herbivores.
It's kind of like medieval names. You forge horseshoes, you're called Smith. Your father made tunics, you're a tailor. But if you accidentally fall into ONE cowpie, suddenly you and all your descendants are named Poopsnorter. :P
I remember someone on the internet somewhere suggesting that we change the genus name to "Ovipater" (egg father). Sounds similar enough, and fits the updated narrative.
"The artist struggled mightily..." is now my favorite Phrase about art. Period.
I'm an artist and I approve this message.
A majority of the art was original and commissioned, although there was also plenty of licenced stuff (mostly from John Sibbick and Bernard Robinson). Artists who produced original material include Neil Lloyd, John Francis, Graham Rosewarne and Steve White. The works of Rosewarne and White especially hold up quite well today (e.g. the "Syntarsus" by Rosewarne you flagged up). You can see some of them get better as time goes on. Neil Lloyd's fighting dinosaurs on the cover of issue 18 is miles ahead of, say, his Tyrannosaurus on the first issue. From what I know of people who worked on the magazine I get the feeling the whole thing was run a bit scattershot and last minute, but you wouldn't know from looking at it.
I loved the Rosewarne and White art, and spent many a weekend coping their style ♥️
I can't remember Steve White's art. Unless it was those pieces that had fine brown outlines? I'll have to look it up.
Who did the 3D illustrations in the later issues? I remember being blown away by these artworks. They looked most modern to me and also usually depicted a cool action scene from the life of dinosaurs 😄
Ps: the artist must have been inspired by Gregory s. Paul
I remember when we thought spinosaurus was a dimetrodon on 2 legs
I think I prefer my Dimetrodon licking itself and playing with yarn.
I remember when we had that old playing card where Spinosaurus was just a big Dimetrodon
I remember the issue that focused on Spinosaurus. They actually made it look like a big Baryonyx with a sail, which was as accurate as it got at the time.
Like many people I was a passionate dinosaur fan as a child, but at some point in time it just went away as life happened and different interests came. As an adult my interest returned and I found this channel years ago. I just want to say thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge with us all, and for me personally for rekindling those fond childhood memories of wonder and discovery.
I had these as a child too! I'd completely forgotten about them, but that cover art is a HUGE hit of nostalgia.
Me too, the text treatment for DINOSAURS! brought it all back. Was this the same series that came with parts for a glow in the dark t-rex skeleton, or am i confusing it for another childhood dino magazine.
Edit ok it is exactly the same thing i had as a kid in England, such a nostalgia rush!
They looks great ! But when these were published I was reading stuff like ‘ Proceedings ‘ ‘ Jane’s defense weekly’ stuff like that about 15 years older than the target audience for these mags.
Mee too
Me too, in German, because I live in Germany.
My cousin collected these, and then 20 years ago, he gave them to me.
Imagine not being subscribed to Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong
I know, right! Those who aren't subbed are missing out.
I dont have to imagen that!
I would like to subscribe more than once
@@Rinocapz You can if you make more than one account
I didn't think that was allowed?
I remember absolutely _begging_ my mom to let me get a subscription to these when I was a kid, but we couldn't afford them. I think we had the first 3 issues of it, and I would read them _constantly,_ and then like 3 years later my parents found one of those binders with the first 11(?) issues in it at a yard sale and buying it for me. I was even nerdy enough to have read all the super wordy bits! Man I loved those magazines.
you wondering why the silhouette was offering a flower is just so sweet
I had a bound book copy of Dinosaurs! when I was a kid, I wasn't aware that it was originally a magazine. This book was probably the main catalyst for me wanting to go into palaeontology as a serious career when I was younger, beforehand I just liked dinosaurs because I thought they were cool, but this book helped me see them in a more scientific light and realize that people could actually have a job where they learn about dinosaurs, especially that art of the palaeontologists on a dig site.
Oh, I *KNOW* my dinosaur book was wrong. It started with a Brontosaurus standing in the middle of a pond that was barely bigger than it... and ended with explaining that dinosaurs went extinct because they couldn't adapt to _flowers_ . *FLOWERS!*
The apex predator which roamed in a stationary way this world! The flowers! Why, on all gravesites we find lots of them: coincidence? I don't think so!
*wheeze*
That's halarious
THE FLOWERS ARE TOO POWERFUL!
I had a few dinosaur books, but my main fount of information was a weekly magazine called "dinosaurios" (dinosaurs, yes, very simple name), it was a 100 part series and my grandma got me every week's magazine.
This was interesting because of 2 reasons:
1- each edition had its own mini articles and a 4 page part featuring the edition's dinosaur, with an ilustration and a bone illustration and a bunch of data.
2- every edition came with a part of a tyrannosaurus rex model skeleton/skin and the full body was 1 meter tall.
I loved it.
This magazine was also a great success here in Argentina, it came out during the Jurassic Park frenzy and there were reissues up to 10 years later, before it became out of date, I remember that I compiled this until I finished the skeleton, but I didn't complete the skin. Since you are starting to analyze graphic media, maibe it will be interesting to review C. M. Kosemen's book All Yesterdays (is not that kid friendly but can skip the unconfortable parts)
Jajaja si, yo también la tenía. Aunque nunca pude terminar el esqueleto, no llegaban muchos ejemplares de la revista al noroeste así que más que nada las conseguía cuando mi papá viajaba a Buenos Aires
when they first came out I had just finished my last cancer treatment, my perants didnt have much but they made sure each week I could get the magazine. Its one of my favorite memories.
I can relate. I think when these came out I was just starting my cancer treatments.
I'm glad you two made it
This magazine was also translated into Swedish, and I collected it as a dino-crazy kid. Super strong nostalgia watching this, I immediately knew it by the look on the T-rex on the logo and the 3D glasses, but I also remembered stuff like the Iguanodon comic. Thanks for this episode, it was a blast! :)
I had the first issue of this magazine when I was a child, all the way down here in New Zealand and seeing it here for the first time in decades was a truly nostalgic experience, thank you Steven for this utterly delightful exercise. I don't think I have it anymore, though I certainly do have many of the Dinosaur books I had growing up and this has inspired me to flick through them to take the trip down memory lane :)
I had these as a kid in Australia too!! This is such a throw back, wish we had kept them like he has.
This reminds me so much of the books I read growing up! I had a big A-Z encyclopaedia of dinosaurs that I used to read all the time. There was a diagram of deep time in the front that I always looked over.
Still have the Folders full of magazines and also the trading cards! Now my 5 year old daughter is going through them page by page like her dad when He was her age. So cool 😬
Greetings from germany!
I'm from Argentina, and this magazines and JP were how i fell in love with dinosaurs as a child. I remember loving this magazines. Reading all the issues and lovint most of the art, specially the two page pieces. Oh man the nostalgia.
Yep ! There wasn't any real kids magazine like that outside this series.
In the 90's dinosaurs became highly popular (and the popularity level have remain the exact same since) and these magazines, even if by today standards almost everything inside is outdated, was one of the main true educationals books (easily findable and accessible for everyone due to the low, almost cheap prize of 50c) that allowed youngs people and many kids to learn about dinosaurs and their life.
And every kid was able to know new things about his favorite specie, among many others lesser know and popular at time too !
Truly, because of his importance, because this magazine series manage to become cult overtime and to remain in the deep but strong memories of so many people even when adult today, the books magazines series "Dinosaurs ! Discover the giants of the past" or simply"Dinosaurs !" deserved to be remembered to the end of time !
Oh how I loved these magazines as a kid back in the early 90's! I think the german magazine name was simply translated into "Dinosaurier", but I am not sure anymore... me and my brother were fascinated with it and had so much fun to build the glow in the dark T-Rex with all the pieces every single issue had~ good old times haha
Jup. Faszinierend
Ich habe sie erst 95 auf dem Flohmarkt entdeckt und wollte sie von da an alle haben, (war richtig Süchtig als Kind) aber mir fehlten am Ende immer noch ein paar.
Bis zu dem Video wusste ich nicht einmal, das diese Heftreihe aus den USA stammte. Nach dem zusammenbaubaren T-Rex ging es mit Sammelkarten weiter, aber der Hype war bis dahin dann schon abgeflacht. Auch diese schicken Sammelorder gab es hierzulande nicht.
Man, that one at 12:58 really brings back memories. That instantly sold me for good on Iguanodon's badassery!
Gotta love how slowly he turns pages. His eyes exploring all every inch lol. This dude is truly loving this and Im completely on board with this :)
I use to get these Dino books at Wendys during early to mid 90s. I use to get mad because I grew up a Christian and thought.... This couldn't have been how it was. God makes better crap than shades of brown on EVERYTHING lol all the Dinos and plants and rocks and skies were all kinds of browns. Anywho good video
Best part of this is the excitement we get from his reminiscing about each and every magazine! I never had a subscription when I was a kid, but my parents had bought a set of World Book encyclopedias and I started by looking at the pictures, but then I noticed there were questions at the end of major entries, as well as "you should also read..." referencing other (related) entries as well as books! I still have this habit as an adult, much more satisfying than watching TV all the time (which I also remember doing until my late teens/early 20s)....
In one of the issues of this magazines series, the number 66, there a section that show Dougal Dixon's drawns of his book "The New Dinosaurs", the second book of his "After Man" trilogy !
It's was a very good idea to put this section about speculative evolution domain ! Because kids were able to discovers new ways to imagine dinosaurs, in addition to learn a new and recently created modern form of a scientific domain that will become in almost two decades later highly popular overtime.
Genius ! Just genius !
My parents decided that they should end my subscription at issue 100. A sad day. What was sadder was that years later I learnt that the series ended at issue 102! Still have them all, though many have been replaced with better condition ones I’ve come across at secondhand shops. My kids now absolutely love them: they’ll sit next to me and ask me what all the dinosaurs’s names are.
It’s worth noting the the early issues, especially the first, had some of the worst and less accurate art - even for the time. They do get much better quite quickly.
Oh: and I have a tattoo of the Deinonychus in issue 8. Hard choice between nostalgia and accuracy, but nostalgia won. :)
I remember collecting these when I was young. I must have had two of those binders full of them, and was on my way to a third before I refocused my disposable income towards video game magazines. I wonder if my Mother still has these around at home?
This made me want to go to my parents and dig for my copies! It also made me dig out my VHS's (which I had to smell because it's necessary) of The Great Dinosaur Hunt. The Gobi dig in 87 with Dale Russell, and the one done by The Infinite Voyage from 89 that I taped.
These videos are so delightful. Low-energy, high-enthusiasm, completely geek...perfect while recovering from a migraine. This one in particular transported me back to being a little 8 year old girl in rural Oklahoma, poring over my old dinosaur books and magazines on a rainy day, or at the public library while my parents did the grocery shopping a few blocks away. I've still got all my old dinosaur books and toys and posters and things too, and a parasaurolophus family tattooed around my arm. I'd love to send you a pic of the latter so you could tell me how wrong it is. Not even joking; that would make my day.
I had (still have) the THICK compilation book of all(?) those magazines - all these pages are VERY familiar. I always wondered why they were arranged in sort of "chapters" - I realize now that those corresponded to separate magazine issues. And I still have those 3D glasses somewhere! One of my favorite features were the comic strips that told the story of the paleontologists behind all the biggest discoveries (the Bone Wars "arc" and Mary Anning's stories were most memorable to me). Hats off to Dr. Norman for bringing all these stories and images to thousands of kids' bedrooms all over the world (including the Philippines)!
I remember I thought most of the illustrations were trash and inaccurate even as a 9 year old child...
Velociraptor was in issue 3 btw. I remember that illustration distinctly because it's what started my interest in raptors.
This is where I got my Rex skeleton and I still have those 3-D glasses somewhere !!
Oh my, what a ride down the memory lane! We even had these in my small town in Central Europe, they were really widespread apparently.
I just can't forget how I lost one of the issues - my not-so-older-than-me aunt borrowed it for school (fossil related geography lesson) and never returned it. As I've later found out, her mother used it as a kindling to fire up the heating stove, like any other run of the mill newspaper. To make it worse, it was the first one, with the T-rex! Now put yourself in my parents' shoes and explain to the 5 year old, that his grandma destroyed his favourite possession.
I remember that Syntarsus artwork so vividly! The colors they chose made it beautifully striking.
I remember these from when I was a kid! Never owned them myself, I was a little too young to read them when they first came out, but my local library had a stack of them and I rented them all the time!
These old dinosaur depictions are weirdly nostalgic, even for someone who grew up at the time when our understanding of dinosaurs was not far off from today.
Yeah, old paleoart have kind of a fog of time or myth that dissapears as time advances. I have found some artist that do have this effect but they are much much rarer. It's kinda alien and forgotten, like a lost world. But if you ask me it is due to the art itself and not the dinosaur depictions, like Jurassic Park-inspired depictions from the 90s don't have this effect either despite being relatively old and outdated by now and some animals, specially dromeosaurs, not being that diferent from older paleoart.
same, its astonishing that my favorite dinosaur wasn't even really known of at this point. Considering i was born not long before deinocheirus had its body discovered. Considering how young i am compared to most dinosaur fans i genuinely wonder if it was better growing up as a dinosaur fan back then or now. Having information trickle in instead of all at my finger tips was probably less intimidating to learn compared to what it is now.
@@kaiju3646growing up with more and more feather discoveries was mind blowing.
Wow what a nostalgic trip! I absolutely adored these magazines when I was a child. I only had about the first 10 issues I think but loved the artwork and looked at them countless times. Thanks for sharing
when i was a kid, my local miniature golf place had a dinosaur statue called "oviraptor" but it looked like a gallimimus
This made me smile! I have so many books like those as a kid; I think i recognize the artist too. I still have them, and they really got me into animals and natural history. I want to go and read them again now! Thanks for the video!
I was also collecting these magazines (although in a different language in Europe) as a child. They are still in my "dino suitcase", essentially an old suitcase where I stored all my dinosaur books, toys, and other dinosaur paraphilia, that is stored in my parents' house.
Awesome! I had these in Sweden, too, but they had completely hidden away in a dark corner of my memory until you showed that logo. Then, all of a sudden, a ton of images from them came flooding back. And how annoyed I was that I missed out on a few issues and thus never got to complete the glow-in-the-dark tyrannosaur. This was a very fun, nostalgic video. Thank you!
As someone with a similar past, be it in a different environment with different paleontological offerings, this was one of the most comfy and relatable videos I've seen in a while!
Thank you for spending this moment with us.
Just did a dinosaur themed birthday party for my now 5yo son. Your videos are both fun and informative and became a must watch for me since my son got into dinosaurs. Keep up the good work and if possible give us more episodes more frequently :)
That was a fun romp through time! Thanks for sharing; I'm starting to feel nostalgic again about my own choices of childhood dino literature now.
...And yes, that cragged-handed plateosaur clutching the globe is boss.
Thanks for sharing Steven! I had a recycled version of these that came as a monthly subscription with something like 30 binder pages a month (you received a binder with the first month) breaking these books up. The Syntarsus I distinctly remember was credited in them as by Graham Rosewarne and even kid me in the mid-nineties put all of the cards with their artwork together and not in order because it was easily the best of all the various artwork the publishers used. I also recall really loving the historical comics as well, great stuff.
PBS the dinosaurs is still up and its quite great and still contains relevant information. I also had tons of fossil sites to visit plus books and museums
I watched that one a lot as a kid and given how often they talked with Bakker I'm not too surprised to see this magazine following his reconstruction for Deinonychus, it was very much his moment.
Is that the Microsoft-produced Show?
@@beneficent2557 Not that I know of; it was a four episode WHYY miniseries that ran in 1992 on PBS; last I checked there's a copy on here somewhere
Ho. Ly. Shit.
I'm Brazilian, from a small city in the southernmost state in Brazil, and I remember buying the Dinosaurs! magazine (translated to Portuguese of course) when I was kid in the mid 90s. Finding your video nearly 30 years later is like opening a time capsule. Each one of these pages and colorful artwork comes packed with a ton of emotions and memories from my childhood.This will certainly be the best video I watch this year.
got therese as a kid too here in germany and i can't deny it these artworks imprinted themselves in my brain too, even like alsmost 30 years have passed since then. as u were looking at these sites my brain permanently went "hey u remember these too". Thx for sharing that with us
I actually learned to read using these, and seeing you holding the first issue makes me feel nostalgic in a surprisingly strong way.
Thank you for bringing back those memories of my budding love for dinosaurs (and paleonthology) as a child. 🙂
Seeing those first two covers was like a flash from the past. i remember having those and the glow in the dark T-rex skeleton. I have no idea where any of those things went though. Cool to see them again as proof I didn't just imagine them.
You’ve unlocked so many memories. In Poland we had exactly the same magazine, just translated. That was the time I was crazy about dinosaurs. And after all these decades I still remember most of pictures and articles.
Holy shit, this whole time I’m like “man I was born in 94 I wish I would have been alive to get these” then when you showed the iguanadon I went OH WAIT NO YEAH I HAD THAT ONE. I thought that was the most metal thing ever. Talk dumb get the thumb indeed.
DUDEEEE!!! I DIDN’T REMEMBER THOSE!!!! Wow, what a throwback! And the 3D images!!! This video just made my day. Nay. My week!
I loved these! They were so varied and thorough for their small size, and they had name pronunciation guides! Great magazine.
This series of magazines and Commodore Format hold more nostalgia for me that anything else. Thanks for this.
My first book of dinosaurs was "Giant Golden Book of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Reptiles" when I was 5-6 in the 60's. Loved those illustrations. Just seeing the cover with a half submerged sauropod in a swamp watching a tail dragging carnosaur approaching. I can picture Steven having a time discussing the updates needed to make "my dinosaurs (less) wrong"!
I still love dinosaurs, but somehow they have lost some of their ‘aura’ of mystery since the days of the upright, tail dragging, “man in a suit” depictions have gone extinct.
Oooooh man....memories man! Love the retro old school art work and i can smell the plastic pages through the screen....i miss being a child. And these kind of dinos will always come to mind for me
I actually have a book that's called The Humongous Book of Dinosaurs that is just all of these magazines crammed together into a massive book (with a few sections like the ask column missing), so I immediately recognized this art in the thumbnail. I was and still am obsessed with dinosaurs, so my grandmother got it for me from a book fair at the school she taught at when I was in maybe middle or high school and I spent a summer reading through it. Even at the time I received it I knew the information was massively incorrect or outdated and I found myself laughing at most of the really bad art (every single depiction they made of Oviraptor haunts me to this day), but I remember this as a fond memory and still look at the book to this day.
15:22 "And it turns out it's a oviraptorid" So close!! It's an deinocheirid, ornithomimisaur. I would love to see an episode on Deinocheirus though, it's history is so cool and we know just so much about it now compared to then!
Aw, thanks so much for taking us on this nostalgia trip, Steven. I still have tons of my old dinosaur (and other animal) books, and every once in a while I'll crack some open on a whim and get caught up for half an hour or so reveling in the memorable images and graphics of my youth. You're definitely right-some stick with us and form the basis of our interpretations even well into our adulthood; DK"s brown, scaly, lizardy Megalosaurus will always be how I envision the genus no matter what new insights we might gain in the future.
Like you, I didn't develop scientific interests in paleontology (or the subfields of zoology I'm currently most familiar with) until I was in high school or college, but such books were hugely instrumental in planting those early seeds of fascination and curiosity in my mind as a child. So, faults, inaccuracies, outdated info, and all, I owe a lot to them. :) Thanks again!
Aw this nostalgic spirit of recognizing smth so emotional from your childhood as an adult! Made me think of my "comfy book". Growing up in post-Soviet Kazakhstan of the 90s, I had a bunch of my freshly translated "Western" encyclopaedias on dinosaurs, the favourite one featured what used to look like real dino photos to me, and god did it set standard of realism for years to come... I remember lending this book to some class friend and never getting it returned, which was what a tragedy in my pre-teens! And now think of me as a presumadly all grown-up history undergrad, way many years later walking into a random old books store in Vienna, Austria - just to find exactly the same book but in German! Clearly, it´s in my collection, and being re-read on gloomy days (although I must admit, dino photos are so freaking obsolete now... :) Thanks for these sweet memories, YDAW!
Talk about a trip down memory lane. As soon as you opened that first magazine the memory of that bounded into my head. I am pretty sure that I only ever got the first issue (or maybe it was at school), but I remembered every page you turned to.
They compiled these into a book called the Humongous Book of Dinosaurs which my parents bought me as a kid in the 90’s. I ADORED that book, but, yeah, it’s quite out-of-date.
I bought a new encyclopedia that was published in like 2018 that I realized used the same art. I was so mad that it just reused 20 year old material, I immediately retuned it.
Thanks so much for making this episode. I still have all my issues from when I was a kid and I'm 37 now! I live in South Africa and thankfully Jurassic Park was a huge hit here to, or we night have never gotten these magazines here! My mom and I did, however, miss a few issues so it was really cool to see how they look in your video. Thanks again! I wish they would re-release the series, even if the info inside will be outdated
So much Memories! Collected these back in the day in Germany. Thank You!
Holy moly that's a nostalgic buzz ! I remember collecting them, thank you for putting a massive smile on my face 😃
I used to have piles of these - I'm so excited to watch, I'm commenting before starting watching.
I'm slightly too young to have gotten these in subscription, but my mother's friend found a partial set for me while op-shopping nearly 10 years later.
Between this and a little A7(?)-size pocket-dinopedia with a companion rectangular-format mini-disc, these were my childhood guides to dinosaurs.
The mini-disc was designed to run in a full-fat cd-drive, and allowed you to view a full version of the book on PC, with all illustrations and references that couldn't fit into the pocket guide.
Oh my! I didn't knew these were translated and published in different countries! I had all the magazines and the glowing skeleton model for many years. This brings me waaaaaay back (it was published here in Brazil around 1993-94)
Well you just gave me a hit of nostalgia, I had forgotten about these entirely, and yet after seeing your look through of them I somehow remember them so clearly now. Definitely helped me develop a love for dinosaurs all the way up into adulthood.
I had them too as a kid in Austria! Few of them are still in my possession, so good on you that you were able to recover those artifacts and can share them with us!
Oh wow.... This gave me an unexpected rush of childhood nostalgia....
I am from Germany and was sure, that I would not know any of these magazines, until I saw the first front page and was like "Wait a sec.... I DO know these!"
I'm not sure where I read them, they may have been gifted to us or i read them at a place in the neighbourhood, but I HAVE read these an LOVED them.
I didn't know they have been so popular... Always thought they where just some random magazines that nobody really knew. Sheesh! This video was so nice to watch! Thank you so much!
Oh man, I remember being so _dedicated_ to collecting this series as a kid! I still dig them out once in a while to look at progression of the artwork and the depiction of prehistoric creatures changed over the years.
I think the articles exploring the idea of how we could live and work with dinosaurs in the modern day were my favourites. Especially how it made having a little turkey-sized velociraptor as a pet look plausible!
Man, we had these magazines in Brazil back in the 90's. I remember asking my parents to pick some up in school when they had these book fairs or something. The image of an Allosaurus getting impaled by the Iguanodon thumb spikes on the neck was stuck in my head all my life and still is the reason Iguanodon is one of my favorite herbivores! These are awesome! The young boy in me was so disappointed about not having any of the glow-in-the-dark T. rex parts though. I got these after they came out and looked everywhere for that skeleton... Still hope to find it some day 😃 Awesome video my friend!
I loved these, I’ve been searching for these magazines for ages. The nostalgia really hurts, I’d love to go back in time and discover these for the first time again. Thank you for the trip way down memory lane.
I loved those DK or Nat Geo magazines as a kid! I remember those from the early to mid 90s I think, I remember the amazing cover art they had. Maybe I got the name wrong, it's been 25-27 yrs, long, long years.
Love the channel! I got into your videos when I was looking for a dinosaur video for my son when he was 5-6 yrs old, now 10 yrs old!
He would love to sit and watch your videos during lunch or snack time, then he would go and watch or play Roblox dinos or another one. Keep up the amazing work, to you and your amazing helper 😄
- From Dave in the amazing state of Alaska!
Love those paleogeography maps. I think maps like those of old continents are what got me into geology
I haven't seen those books in almost 30 years. I remember I had 4 binders of those things and it started featuring mammals after a while. This video was a nice nostalgia trip.
This video brought back so many memories, thanks for going through this. All I had was a vague memory of building the glow in the dark skeleton, but I recognised the 3D image and comics, which I had completely forgotten about
DAMN THAT'S NOSTALGIC, i'm from spain and back then i was the only kid who had these, and I still do have them, it really influenced my love for dinos a lot
This brought back a bunch of memories for me - I didn't have the individual issues but I did have a book called "The Humongous Book of Dinosaurs" which looks like it was basically a compilation of the full run of this magazine.
Very wholesome video. I have very good memories of reading those (there was an edition traslated into spanish) when I had like 8 or 9 years old, impressed by the artwork and all of those facts. I only had some issues, but a classmate of mine had the entire collection and we readed it together. Some numbers even came with baseball-like cards were each dinosaur had stats.
Hi! New sub here! I'm from Argentina, and I have the same magazine collection, but they are in spanish of course. I' ve kept those for my kids... I spent so many good times reading the magazines, wathcing the illustrations... they are really enjoyable!! They are a big part of my nerdie childhood and I'm just happy and shock finding it on youtube, man. Great channel, this is my first video but I'm gonna check out the rest for sure!
One of our breakfast cereals here also did a 3D picture thing roughly the same time as those magazines. I also remember for one of my projects at school I used the Tyrannosaur skeleton as a display, it was a quick history of dinos, from Triassic through to Cretaceous on fold out cardboard. We also had those magazines in South Africa, loved them think I stopped when I got the skin. These might still be at my dads house
Thanks for inadvertently sending me on an (ultimately fruitless) quest to find a certain book of my own which shares some art from these magazines. That fighting dinosaurs illustration with the slit pupils on Velociraptor and the super sharp claws on Protoceratops was in my book. It has been burned into my brain for ages, I love that picture so much.
Damnnn, you really Hit me with that nostalgia bomb here!
Omg I had these books and had completely forgot about them. Thank you so so much for bringing back these memories.
I was a subscriber too! Not sure about the magazines, but the Tyrannosaurs and Stegosaurus models are probably still somewhere back in my parents' house. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!
I had a couple of these as a kid! I don't have them anymore, unfortunately. I moved so many times when I was young that a lot of things I had kept for years ended up getting lost. I had completely forgotten that David Norman was involved in these! I dunno how I forgot that! Right around the time these magazines were coming out was right before Jurassic Park was made, and that was the time when I was going crazy over dinosaurs. For several years I was insistant on becoming a paleotologist, and still love paleonotology, but I'm a teacher now and I just bring my knowledge and love of the field into my classroom.
Edit: I also wanna mention that I was obsessed with reading and I remember reading every word in the magazines I had. I was into a lot of wildlife magazines too, and the more text, the better. It's no surprise, cause when I was 7 years old I asked my parents for a dictionary for Christmas, lolol!
Growing up in a country town in the 80’s, Dinosaur books were few and far between, but my Dad nearly always bought them for me when we would come across them. I had quite a big collection. A lot of them were written for adults and had really nice artwork. Chapter 1 always had the Crystal Palace Park dinosaurs and when I got to take a trip to London in 2006, I made a pilgrimage out to there to see them…. It was well worth the effort.
Yeah I got this series when I was a kid. I think I may have missed one or two issues but other than that I got them all.
This is a great video! So awesome to see Stephan geeking out over his childhood influences. I would have loved that, but all I had were a few dinosaur books (I was a kid in the sixties...).
Awesome books! They were also popular in Argentina I had them as a child and all of this images brought me some really lively memories. Thanks so much for sharing! Loved the video!
I had the same one! It was my first magazine I've ever read and subscribed to. I fondly remember getting the first issue from a little shop I used to visit with my grandpa. Normally I would get ice cream, but on that day I wanted the magazine instead. It's for some reason the clearest memory I have with my grandpa.
I had these too - they made it all the way to Austria, in translation. My initial reaction to your video title was "OMG OMG OMG OMG" and I was not disappointed.
This unlocked a core memory that I forgot about. I remember looking for hours at the middle 3D pages omggg that’s amazing I love this! I LOVE YOU
That retro brachiosaurus/ giraffatitan looks so cool !
And that purple tongue corythosaurus ! The big nose egg-eating oviraptor ! And the fish-eating, web-footed segnosaur !!! How amazed i was by those illustration back then
Oh, and btw in France, we had these magazines too ! A bit too young to get them first-handed, but they also published an encyclopedia (full of dramatic dinoaur's depiction !)
Nostalgia's striking hard with this video
Thanks so much for sharing this. I collected these magazines as well and I had almost completely forgotten. I loved them so much. 1 was delivered to the tiny post office of the remote British village I lived in and I loved it so we got a prescription. Vital way of learning now sadly lost. Never became a palaeontologist! Now seeing them I am recalling them to vividly. I think the Parasaurolophus cover was my fave.
I'd watch anything you make. I love seeing your childhood books. It's so fun to see how other people were introduced to dinos
These same part works were a formative reference for dinosaurs as a child too. Seeing that first issue, and the glow in the dark skeleton brought back so many memories.
My primary source, however, was a big coffee table book my parents owned, David Norman's The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. With some rather influential illustrated reconstructions by John Sibbick, as well as multiple angles of skulls, teeth, claws, etc. it was a visual treasure trove, though many of the reconstructions have not aged gracefully.