On the subject of Pixar, the Toy Story that Time Forgot short featured a fictional toy line called Battlesaurs. It mostly featured anthropomorphic dinosaurs, but it also had extra armor and gun pieces that they gave to Rex and Trixie. I’m kinda disappointed that they never tried to make it a real thing, since it seemed like an amalgamation of the best parts of a lot of the toy lines featured in the video.
Well, when they released the short, I remember a good handful of figures based on the Battlesaurs characters came out, in fact almost all the characters seen in the short ended up with a figure.
Random fun fact, Rex from Toy Story movies are made based on the Dino Riders T-Rex By the way, I remember Mattel have a Dino-Riders like toy as a Sub brand of Imaginext
Rex from Toy Story reminded me of those dinosaurs who had moveable parts and a little mechanism on its back to make its mouth open and close. Very different from DinoRIders even though both have moveable parts. I would have never had made the DInoRider connection.
Great video! Thank you! The Creative Beast Studio started a line called Beasts of the Mesozoic, and they're working their way through the various clades of dinosaurs. They're super-articulated and look amazing, but they're a bit too pricey for my budget. And, funnily enough, there's a spin-off line from them called Cyberzoic, which is super-articulated prehistoric creatures, with space-age weapons and armour, and humanoid buddies.
Another dino line from Mattel from around the same time as Xtractaurs was Prehistoric Pets, they made a few of these but the main two were Screature (which I had) a dilophosaurus that spat water, and D-Rex, an animatronic RC T-Rex with a spiked collar like you'd see on a bulldog from an old Warner Bros. cartoon. Honestly D-Rex looks incredibly impressive and I want to find a working one so bad.
Bone Age was the #1 toy line I wanted as a kid, but never got. I don't think I ever even saw them in store shelves, drooling over them in the pages of a small catalogue that come in another toy's box.
Love seeing people talk about Dino Riders, I've started collecting them recently and I love them so much! Also, if and when you make another video there's two lines from the 90's I'd love to see you cover: One is Extreme Dinosaurs from 1997, which were made by Mattel as a spin-off of Street Sharks. The other is Darlin' Dinos from 1992, a girl-centric toyline from Meritus akin to My Little Pony. They're very obscure, but dear to my heart. 🥰
4:27 there actually is something very similar to this just like you described it its called Cyberzoic, where prehistoric animals are mechanized and have their own personal riders. Its by Creative Beast Studio, who makes incredibly accurate and realistic dinosaur action figures with articulation Cyberzoic not only includes realistic dinosaurs with mecha armor and weapons, but also pterosaurs, mammals like the saber toothed cats, and even DRAGONS! they dont have any figures up right now, but they do have a kickstarter, and many of their normal, non Cyberzoic dinosaur figures are purchasable too
Thank you for featuring a bit from my vid! It's really difficult to get Bone Age in a good condition and i'm glad that mine that i gotten when i was a kid in the 80s manage to survive up to this date, though missing the accessories. I don't even dare to mess around with that toy, fearing that the pegs will break.
I remember having a lot of Bone Age toys as a kid! They weren't really as modular as you might think, with angles and colors clashing mightily making then not nearly as versatile as dedicated building toys like construx or lego.
I know! Why not check out the Walking With Dinosaurs toy way line from 1999!? They're usually just figurines, but the figures actually look pretty good during their time. Nowadays on eBay, they could go up to a hundred to even hundreds of dollars depending on the species and the conditions. I should know because I own a few. I only owned the T-Rex, Allosaurus, Torosaurus, Polacanthus, and Stegosaurus from eBay while I owned the Utahraptor from a garage sale event while it was in a bag of dinosaurs and lizards for only $10.
One Dinosaur toyline I never see discussed is the toyline for Disney's Dinosaur theme park ride (Which is separate from the Dinosaur movie). They had a figure in McDonald's Animal Kingdom set, there was an RC Car of the Time Rover that transports you to the asteroid impact during the ride, as well as lots of stuff for the infamous Carnotaur. But when I went, they had something I've never seen since, which was latex dinosaur eggs that you could rip open to reveal a mystery dinosaur that was also made out of latex. I got lucky and got the Iguanadon, but, as the years have gone by, mine has been damaged, and I've never been able to find a replacement
Thanks for the shout-out! Tbh I didn’t even know Disney’s Dinosaur had proper action figures. I did have the McDonald’s hand-puppets though. Now those XTractors…those were at my local 99 Cent store for about a decade. Shame because they were such nice toys. My dream dinosaur toyline would have been Dinosaur Planet, a cancelled N64 video game that eventually became Star Fox Adventures. It’s filled with amazing Dino and lizard duders who would’ve made awesome toys. There’s a leaked press junket that mentions McFarlane Toys and Galoob were signed on as potential licensees….ah what could have been!
I didn't know about mattel's dinosaur line either, it was actually hard to research because the name "dinosaur" is so vague, terrible SEO on Disney's part lol
@@dumbjakeworld Oh yeah! Horrible marketing. That whole film's production was an absolute nightmare. Disney historian Jim Hill wrote an amazing blog on the film's troubled history. It honestly reads like a novel. I kinda love a classic big, expensive mess of peak cinema.
Great vid and quite a nostalgia trip. If you plan to do another one of these I would like to see your thoughts on "Jurassic Park Chaos Effect", never owned the toys as a kid but I loved the bright colours and crazy fusions they made for the dinosaurs.
Man, I learned quite a bit in this video. I was only familiar with Dino Riders (rip). I loved playing Turok on N64, but I had no idea there was a line of action figures. It really seems like some of these should have done better than they did. I wonder how the Dinosaucers toyline would have been received if it hadn't been cancelled... Awesome work!
I remember the Animal Planet Dino Valley toyline in the 2010s. It was so cool, it had absolutely awesome looking dinosaurs, and various human figures, vehicles, weapons, etc. They even had an absolutely enormous (and very angry looking) Apatosaurus which you could build a treehouse on. Absolutely awesome
@ratau8239 That's pretty solid choice! There were so many that I can't choose just one but some of my favourites were: Hwaron, Enok, Gutho, Kabell, Kali to name a few
really cool video man My most favorite lines is the dino Valley line it's still going the line but the toys now are really not good 2012. Lego dino line And the Carnegie Collection Safari LTD line The 2 lines ended in 2015.
I would love a second video about this topic. I visited your channel a few times but now I going to sub to you. Perhaps do a video about the plastic dinosaurs? Like safari ltd, sleich, papo etc
I actually have two Xtractors still in there boxes. The main T-Rex that comes with the game and a white mega stomp rex! So hearing you bring them up was so sick! And it made me happy!
7:01 OH OKAY I didn't think I'd ever heard of this toyline before - I definitely never saw any of those toys in person - but I have ABSOLUTELY seen the advertisement with the drag-racer and helicopter skeletons before! Memory unlocked! I miss Dino Riders. It had a lot of potential.
It’s really funny that you mention Extractorz having competitors for cheaper prices in dollars stores bc I learned about the toyline as a kid seeing them in 99 Cent stores
Ever heard of Dinozaurs? It was like Transformers but with Dinosaur skeletons. It also had an anime, which was something of a Transformers knock-off... but if you were, say, a 10 year-old girl who loved dinosaurs, that doesn't matter.
@dumbjakeworld Oh, okay then! Does the Chaos Effect line from Jurassic Park count? I know the colors were a bit jarring, but I didn't care, I loved the concept.
Please talk about Jurassic Park Chaos Effect/Night Hunter from 1998/1999, I love that toy line so much (I have all of the figures and prototypes involved with it)
I used to collect “Turok - Son of Stone” back in the early 80’s. It was published by either Gold Key or Whitman comics. I only had 5 issues. I think it was cancelled after that. Man I read those almost every day though. Turok and his buddy Andar were 2 Native Americans who were in The Lost Valley, trying to find their way home. There were no sci-fi elements, with the 2 heroes having to rely on their wits and poisoned arrows to survive against the nefarious cave man tribes they would encounter and all the dinosaurs, which they called “Honkers”. Great stuff!
OMG I remember Bone Age I had the plesiosaur, the stegosaur and the pterosaur. Most of the connecting pieces broke and I was left unable to put the dinosaurs back together. Also, I loved DinoRiders, and wish they did more.
nice, I got back into dinosaurs after reading Michael Crichtons Dragon teeth, after that Life of a Fossil Hunter and watching some lectures on yt. I absolutely would get interested in something like Dino Riders with recent accurate depictions f.e. T.rex with libs or weird billboard croc Spino
Dino Riders is such an iconic toyline to me. Like the idea of armoring up a dinosaur with all these crazy weapons???? the show is good too, pretty nice animation for the time and interesting stories iirc
I had some Bone Age figures as a kid, I was always very careful with them, but the clear pegs would inevitably break. I think the cavemen were all just recolors. Another constraction dinosaur line to look into is Skeleflex in the late 2000s; they used ball joints but the plastic still wasn't durable enough for repeated reassembly. They also had aliens and monster lines, but by then it was dying.
A lot of people also don't know Turok started as a comic book and novel series before translating to video games. I recommend the Valiant and Dark Horse Turok comics... If you can find them. They've been out of print for ages.
Dino Riders is so nostalgic to me and should be brought back to all the dinosaurs' fans with accurate dinosaur designs. XTRACTAURS is also nostalgic because of its commercial. And Dinosaurs from Disney is still an amazing movie for those who watched it and I won't deny it.
While its not Dino Riders proper, David Silva's Cyberzoic is exactly what you described in the Dino Riders of what you want out of a modern Dino Riders line and I highly recommend you check it out!
I loved Playskool’s Definitely Dinosaurs as a kid! It was because of that line that the spinosayrus became my favorite dinosaur, and each toy also had… what was it, I want to say it was an accompanying comic book or illustrated storybook? Anyway, it was neat
My favorite dinosaur toys of all time were the ones from the Imaginext Dinosaurs line. Specifically, the ones from 2004 and 2005, where Cavemen and Neanderthals rode saddled dinosaurs that each had their own name.
There is one fairly obscure toyline that should me mentioned. EcoZoo was a short lived European toyline that was basically Bionicle-style constraction figures. They had very peculiar pieces that were shaped like claws or bones and mainly made either bugs or dinosaurs. But the main attraction was Makrobion, a subline that featured alien creatures that, you guessed it, looked like either bugs or dinosaurs and were meant to battle eachother by using cards (each character came with its own deck). But the most interesting part was the lore where, to make it short, humans go on the Makrobion planet to colonize it and they enslave the local fauna by implanting mind control devices in their spines so that they can be used as construction tools. Then after a few centuries they decide to make them fight as Pokémon/gladiators and thus the "fighting card game" is a recreation of this part of the plot.
When I was really young I used to have a ton of Fisher Price Imaginex Dinosaur toys that had these like mechanized parts and armor you could slap onto them. the biggest one being this massive t. rex that was literally the size of me when i was a kid. looking back at them now they definitely don’t look as fierce or intimidating as they did back then, but it’s still cute
This video came at a great time because I was recently trying to find a toy from my childhood. I remember that it was a dinosaur skeleton, that it came disassembled in the box and you had to assemble it, most of its connections were made by balljoints. It was the skeleton of a dinosaur that looked a lot like a T-Rex but had horns on its head. It wasn't a Carnotaurus because the horns were in the middle of the head and not on the sides, which makes me believe it was the skeleton of a Ceratosaurus. I spent a whole night trying to find the figure or something along the same lines but without success.
5:05 Hey just a heads up. One doesn't download from a CD, one installs or copies. Download and upload imply remote systems communicating. Local action on a machine is simply called copying. Installing is an elaborate form of copying that follows instructions and organizes data in a predetermined way on the target machine. Hope this helps
I never had any of the Dino Riders dinosaurs as a kid. I had a ton of the figures, though. My favorites were the shark and the cobra. And they were the perfect scale for my M.A.S.K. vehicles.
If you do another one of these, (or an episode about failed/overlooked constraction toylines please please please), you *absolutely* have to look into Skeleflex by Wild Planet Toys. They’re another skeleton constraction toyline, though they ended up doing a lot more than just dinosaurs by the end.
It should be noted that Dino Riders does have an enduring legacy thanks to Pixar since Rex from Toy Story is actually based on the T-rex from the toyline.
Dude! I had Ptero as a kid! I just liked to think the cavemen had some kind of shamen power to reanimate the bones. Sadly, after about six months one of two of the plastic pegs broke and Ptero ended up buried in a closet. And I loved the DinoRiders cartoon but sadly never got any of the toys. I had wondered though, I mean I remember even as a kid seeing those dinosaurs popping up in various TV shows and movies as just generic toys kids are playing with. It must have been the Smithsonian sets since they probably wouldn't make an issue of their products being used in various media. But as a kid I didn't know that so it always bugged me that the kids on TV didn't have the armor or action figures.
I had Bone-age toys as a kid. They broke a lot then too. the plastic they used for the bones was too heavy for the fragile connectors. I think if they made them now they'd be better.
When I was a kid, I think I also had one of those rubber T-Rex toys… maybe two of them… or something. I’m not sure… but I maybe had them at some point. From like 2012 or whatever year I had them.
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The craziest thing about the Dino Riders T Rex is that its the Final boss of the PS3/360 Famnily guy game even has all the armour on.
What
That's rad.
On the subject of Pixar, the Toy Story that Time Forgot short featured a fictional toy line called Battlesaurs. It mostly featured anthropomorphic dinosaurs, but it also had extra armor and gun pieces that they gave to Rex and Trixie. I’m kinda disappointed that they never tried to make it a real thing, since it seemed like an amalgamation of the best parts of a lot of the toy lines featured in the video.
Well, when they released the short, I remember a good handful of figures based on the Battlesaurs characters came out, in fact almost all the characters seen in the short ended up with a figure.
Extreme Dinosaurs × Dino Riders = Battlesaurs
Fun fact, Rex from Toy Story is actually based on the dino riders Trex
Yeah battlesaurs seem very cool
I always thought those toys would be cool to actually own
Random fun fact, Rex from Toy Story movies are made based on the Dino Riders T-Rex
By the way, I remember Mattel have a Dino-Riders like toy as a Sub brand of Imaginext
Rex from Toy Story reminded me of those dinosaurs who had moveable parts and a little mechanism on its back to make its mouth open and close. Very different from DinoRIders even though both have moveable parts. I would have never had made the DInoRider connection.
11:03 FYI Turok is originally a pulp comic character from the 50s.
Great video! Thank you!
The Creative Beast Studio started a line called Beasts of the Mesozoic, and they're working their way through the various clades of dinosaurs. They're super-articulated and look amazing, but they're a bit too pricey for my budget.
And, funnily enough, there's a spin-off line from them called Cyberzoic, which is super-articulated prehistoric creatures, with space-age weapons and armour, and humanoid buddies.
Awesome video! Super happy to see the Xtractaurs I picked up featured!
Another dino line from Mattel from around the same time as Xtractaurs was Prehistoric Pets, they made a few of these but the main two were Screature (which I had) a dilophosaurus that spat water, and D-Rex, an animatronic RC T-Rex with a spiked collar like you'd see on a bulldog from an old Warner Bros. cartoon. Honestly D-Rex looks incredibly impressive and I want to find a working one so bad.
Bone Age was the #1 toy line I wanted as a kid, but never got. I don't think I ever even saw them in store shelves, drooling over them in the pages of a small catalogue that come in another toy's box.
Love seeing people talk about Dino Riders, I've started collecting them recently and I love them so much! Also, if and when you make another video there's two lines from the 90's I'd love to see you cover: One is Extreme Dinosaurs from 1997, which were made by Mattel as a spin-off of Street Sharks. The other is Darlin' Dinos from 1992, a girl-centric toyline from Meritus akin to My Little Pony. They're very obscure, but dear to my heart. 🥰
4:27 there actually is something very similar to this just like you described it
its called Cyberzoic, where prehistoric animals are mechanized and have their own personal riders. Its by Creative Beast Studio, who makes incredibly accurate and realistic dinosaur action figures with articulation
Cyberzoic not only includes realistic dinosaurs with mecha armor and weapons, but also pterosaurs, mammals like the saber toothed cats, and even DRAGONS!
they dont have any figures up right now, but they do have a kickstarter, and many of their normal, non Cyberzoic dinosaur figures are purchasable too
Don't forget the beast of the mesozoic.
I backed Cyberzoic. I'm excited to get my Achillobator later this year
@@tnevy511 yeah thats.. what I mentioned in the comment
@thegodzillafandomsrookie5514 Oh right my bad.
“Everybody walks the dinosaur”
"Open the door, get on the floor"
Thank you for reminding me of BC Builders! I'd forgotten about it entirely until this very moment!
Thank you for featuring a bit from my vid! It's really difficult to get Bone Age in a good condition and i'm glad that mine that i gotten when i was a kid in the 80s manage to survive up to this date, though missing the accessories. I don't even dare to mess around with that toy, fearing that the pegs will break.
I remember having a lot of Bone Age toys as a kid! They weren't really as modular as you might think, with angles and colors clashing mightily making then not nearly as versatile as dedicated building toys like construx or lego.
Absolutely loved Dino-Riders - the size of figures also made them compatible with GI Joe which I got a lot of play time out of as a kid
I know! Why not check out the Walking With Dinosaurs toy way line from 1999!? They're usually just figurines, but the figures actually look pretty good during their time. Nowadays on eBay, they could go up to a hundred to even hundreds of dollars depending on the species and the conditions. I should know because I own a few. I only owned the T-Rex, Allosaurus, Torosaurus, Polacanthus, and Stegosaurus from eBay while I owned the Utahraptor from a garage sale event while it was in a bag of dinosaurs and lizards for only $10.
Please talk about skeleflex. It's the same spirit of extractors but a most variety toy lyne and play value
One Dinosaur toyline I never see discussed is the toyline for Disney's Dinosaur theme park ride (Which is separate from the Dinosaur movie).
They had a figure in McDonald's Animal Kingdom set, there was an RC Car of the Time Rover that transports you to the asteroid impact during the ride, as well as lots of stuff for the infamous Carnotaur.
But when I went, they had something I've never seen since, which was latex dinosaur eggs that you could rip open to reveal a mystery dinosaur that was also made out of latex. I got lucky and got the Iguanadon, but, as the years have gone by, mine has been damaged, and I've never been able to find a replacement
Dino Riders deserved better. It was only five years short of the JP1 Boom.
True
Even less than that. Tyco ended the toyline in 1991.
@subraxas Still before the Jurassic Park Boom.
@@dubuyajay9964 Yep
Eventually, these figures ended up like their own ancestors
Nahh brooooo that's crazy
In a Ross for discounted prices?
Their ancestors get me to and from work
fossil fuel?
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3:30 that is possibly the coolest toy I've ever seen. Sauropods were always my favorite!
Thanks for the shout-out!
Tbh I didn’t even know Disney’s Dinosaur had proper action figures. I did have the McDonald’s hand-puppets though. Now those XTractors…those were at my local 99 Cent store for about a decade. Shame because they were such nice toys.
My dream dinosaur toyline would have been Dinosaur Planet, a cancelled N64 video game that eventually became Star Fox Adventures. It’s filled with amazing Dino and lizard duders who would’ve made awesome toys. There’s a leaked press junket that mentions McFarlane Toys and Galoob were signed on as potential licensees….ah what could have been!
I didn't know about mattel's dinosaur line either, it was actually hard to research because the name "dinosaur" is so vague, terrible SEO on Disney's part lol
@@dumbjakeworld Oh yeah! Horrible marketing. That whole film's production was an absolute nightmare. Disney historian Jim Hill wrote an amazing blog on the film's troubled history. It honestly reads like a novel. I kinda love a classic big, expensive mess of peak cinema.
More dinosaur toys, please! Your videos ROCK (Pun intended)
Yeah!
you got me jake, i'm subscribed now. videos are great
Great vid and quite a nostalgia trip.
If you plan to do another one of these I would like to see your thoughts on "Jurassic Park Chaos Effect", never owned the toys as a kid but I loved the bright colours and crazy fusions they made for the dinosaurs.
I love them too especially the Dinobots from the Transformers they are so freaking awesome
I can't get enough of dino toys, I'm all in favor of more videos like that
I’d love to see you talk about dinosaur king toys
Hey he hearted my comment also love your videos
Man, I learned quite a bit in this video. I was only familiar with Dino Riders (rip). I loved playing Turok on N64, but I had no idea there was a line of action figures.
It really seems like some of these should have done better than they did. I wonder how the Dinosaucers toyline would have been received if it hadn't been cancelled...
Awesome work!
I remember the Animal Planet Dino Valley toyline in the 2010s. It was so cool, it had absolutely awesome looking dinosaurs, and various human figures, vehicles, weapons, etc. They even had an absolutely enormous (and very angry looking) Apatosaurus which you could build a treehouse on. Absolutely awesome
There is a toyline that has been lost to time and it is a shame, Predasaurs!
It had an interesting and very ridiculous premise but I loved itas a kid!
Predasaurs is peak. Vojkor is my favourite of them all
@ratau8239 That's pretty solid choice! There were so many that I can't choose just one but some of my favourites were: Hwaron, Enok, Gutho, Kabell, Kali to name a few
FR
Although its not all dinos,you should dig unto the primal rage toys
Loved the video, you should make videos about other 80s toy brands like inhumanoids and visionaries: nights of the magic light
really cool video man My most favorite lines is the dino Valley line it's still going the line but the toys now are really not good 2012. Lego dino line And the Carnegie Collection Safari LTD line The 2 lines ended in 2015.
Please keep branching out to non-TF toy videos. Would love a retrospective on Rescue Heroes one day.
Rescue Heroes! Great pull, will definitely talk about that line one day
I would love a second video about this topic. I visited your channel a few times but now I going to sub to you. Perhaps do a video about the plastic dinosaurs? Like safari ltd, sleich, papo etc
I actually have two Xtractors still in there boxes. The main T-Rex that comes with the game and a white mega stomp rex! So hearing you bring them up was so sick! And it made me happy!
7:01 OH
OKAY
I didn't think I'd ever heard of this toyline before - I definitely never saw any of those toys in person - but I have ABSOLUTELY seen the advertisement with the drag-racer and helicopter skeletons before! Memory unlocked!
I miss Dino Riders. It had a lot of potential.
little known fact but the T rex was the inspiration for rex from Toy Story. if you look at his body is looks just like the Dino Rider T-rex
Man I love these type of videos
It’s really funny that you mention Extractorz having competitors for cheaper prices in dollars stores bc I learned about the toyline as a kid seeing them in 99 Cent stores
Ever heard of Dinozaurs? It was like Transformers but with Dinosaur skeletons.
It also had an anime, which was something of a Transformers knock-off... but if you were, say, a 10 year-old girl who loved dinosaurs, that doesn't matter.
Talked about them in my video "MORE transformers that are NOT transformers"
@dumbjakeworld Oh, okay then!
Does the Chaos Effect line from Jurassic Park count? I know the colors were a bit jarring, but I didn't care, I loved the concept.
Yes Jurassic Park will get it's own video at some point
@@dumbjakeworld Yay!
Please talk about Jurassic Park Chaos Effect/Night Hunter from 1998/1999, I love that toy line so much (I have all of the figures and prototypes involved with it)
I used to collect “Turok - Son of Stone” back in the early 80’s. It was published by either Gold Key or Whitman comics. I only had 5 issues. I think it was cancelled after that. Man I read those almost every day though. Turok and his buddy Andar were 2 Native Americans who were in The Lost Valley, trying to find their way home. There were no sci-fi elements, with the 2 heroes having to rely on their wits and poisoned arrows to survive against the nefarious cave man tribes they would encounter and all the dinosaurs, which they called “Honkers”. Great stuff!
I'm plastered after watching Galaxy Quest and I found this video incredibly informative.
I LOVED BC BUILDERS!! Totally forgot about that toy line use to have so many
Extreme Dinosaurs is another line that has been forgotten.
Dude I watch you cause I love how casual you are and nostalgic too. If you grab a random topic and go for it as ling as its toys im here
OMG I remember Bone Age I had the plesiosaur, the stegosaur and the pterosaur. Most of the connecting pieces broke and I was left unable to put the dinosaurs back together. Also, I loved DinoRiders, and wish they did more.
7:11 great video bone age reminds me of battle bones caring case from the 80s master of the universe
There is a company that owns the Dinorider IP and were going to make a toyline back in 2017 or so but nothing came out of it.
I think they made the battle pack
I wanna see more videos about dinosaurs and could you please make video about Jurassic Park toys like Kenner and Mattel
I wanna see videos about zooooids 8D
Cool
nice, I got back into dinosaurs after reading Michael Crichtons Dragon teeth, after that Life of a Fossil Hunter and watching some lectures on yt. I absolutely would get interested in something like Dino Riders with recent accurate depictions f.e. T.rex with libs or weird billboard croc Spino
Hell, the Dino-Riders dinosaurs were accurate at the time, so a modern one continuing that would be awesome.
Dino Riders is such an iconic toyline to me. Like the idea of armoring up a dinosaur with all these crazy weapons???? the show is good too, pretty nice animation for the time and interesting stories iirc
Hell yeah, man! Talk about other toys too! ..do you know what a monsuno is? 🐻❄️
All the toys with armoured/cybernetic dinosaurs really had me thinking of the series Zoids for some reason
Dino model collector here. Please do more!
Where's Extreme Dinosaurs at?
I loved that show❤
There is a company remaking very nice updated versions there called the beasts of the mesozoic!!!
I had some Bone Age figures as a kid, I was always very careful with them, but the clear pegs would inevitably break. I think the cavemen were all just recolors.
Another constraction dinosaur line to look into is Skeleflex in the late 2000s; they used ball joints but the plastic still wasn't durable enough for repeated reassembly. They also had aliens and monster lines, but by then it was dying.
If you don't mind me suggesting if you do another dino video could you talk about primal rage, very underrated franchise and needs a revival
A lot of people also don't know Turok started as a comic book and novel series before translating to video games. I recommend the Valiant and Dark Horse Turok comics... If you can find them. They've been out of print for ages.
7:29 Certified Grug Moment
1:21 I actually managed to find like a newer toy if you look up Dino riders they made a new toy recently I think a few years ago
Dino Riders is so nostalgic to me and should be brought back to all the dinosaurs' fans with accurate dinosaur designs. XTRACTAURS is also nostalgic because of its commercial. And Dinosaurs from Disney is still an amazing movie for those who watched it and I won't deny it.
While its not Dino Riders proper, David Silva's Cyberzoic is exactly what you described in the Dino Riders of what you want out of a modern Dino Riders line and I highly recommend you check it out!
Make sure you stick to your roots of Transformers fandom, but touching on a bunch of old nostalgic toy lines will bring us in droves
Wish granted for the dino rider successor with Creative beast studio Cyberzoic 😉
Primal Rage had a really cool toy line to go with the game. I had three of them. Pretty good figures.
I loved Playskool’s Definitely Dinosaurs as a kid! It was because of that line that the spinosayrus became my favorite dinosaur, and each toy also had… what was it, I want to say it was an accompanying comic book or illustrated storybook? Anyway, it was neat
My favorite dinosaur toys of all time were the ones from the Imaginext Dinosaurs line. Specifically, the ones from 2004 and 2005, where Cavemen and Neanderthals rode saddled dinosaurs that each had their own name.
There is one fairly obscure toyline that should me mentioned.
EcoZoo was a short lived European toyline that was basically Bionicle-style constraction figures. They had very peculiar pieces that were shaped like claws or bones and mainly made either bugs or dinosaurs. But the main attraction was Makrobion, a subline that featured alien creatures that, you guessed it, looked like either bugs or dinosaurs and were meant to battle eachother by using cards (each character came with its own deck). But the most interesting part was the lore where, to make it short, humans go on the Makrobion planet to colonize it and they enslave the local fauna by implanting mind control devices in their spines so that they can be used as construction tools. Then after a few centuries they decide to make them fight as Pokémon/gladiators and thus the "fighting card game" is a recreation of this part of the plot.
I'd love to see more weird old toys, for sure!🎉
When I was really young I used to have a ton of Fisher Price Imaginex Dinosaur toys that had these like mechanized parts and armor you could slap onto them. the biggest one being this massive t. rex that was literally the size of me when i was a kid. looking back at them now they definitely don’t look as fierce or intimidating as they did back then, but it’s still cute
I'm surprised nobody has tried to revive dino riders. As a stand alone movie it would probably do gangbusters
This video came at a great time because I was recently trying to find a toy from my childhood. I remember that it was a dinosaur skeleton, that it came disassembled in the box and you had to assemble it, most of its connections were made by balljoints. It was the skeleton of a dinosaur that looked a lot like a T-Rex but had horns on its head. It wasn't a Carnotaurus because the horns were in the middle of the head and not on the sides, which makes me believe it was the skeleton of a Ceratosaurus. I spent a whole night trying to find the figure or something along the same lines but without success.
UPDATE: I DISCOVERED THE NAME OF THE LINE: Skeleflex
Oh my God I had that terodactyl and blue raptor thing from good dino so that's where it's from
Just started this but I hope to see dino riders make an appearance. I never had any toys but had the first episode of two on some, probably, vhs
11:45 I had like an fully grown aladar plastic hand puppet... Twas a weird little goober
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If you wanna wear a dinosaur name, look up dinosaur with 500 teeth
9:39 I think I still have that purple dino rex/giga to the right of the screen somewhere
Dinoriders were pretty cool. Born in 79 i was smack middle right time for all the cool 80s toys. Only had the Pteradactyl tho.
Honestly, I like the idea of Bone Age. Living dinosaur skeletons that form into horrific deformed body horror weapons of warfare. Sounds metal
I never had any of the Dino Riders dinosaurs as a kid. I had a ton of the figures, though. My favorites were the shark and the cobra. And they were the perfect scale for my M.A.S.K. vehicles.
Welp, a new favorite video to watch while eating
I remember breaking the tabs on my bone age dino as a kid. Worst day ever. Never recovered
If you do another one of these, (or an episode about failed/overlooked constraction toylines please please please), you *absolutely* have to look into Skeleflex by Wild Planet Toys. They’re another skeleton constraction toyline, though they ended up doing a lot more than just dinosaurs by the end.
Jake you forgot Dinotrux and Dinocore
And the switch and go dinos toys
Love the video man
It should be noted that Dino Riders does have an enduring legacy thanks to Pixar since Rex from Toy Story is actually based on the T-rex from the toyline.
They did actually announce a new Turok game at the Game Awards last year!
Dude! I had Ptero as a kid! I just liked to think the cavemen had some kind of shamen power to reanimate the bones. Sadly, after about six months one of two of the plastic pegs broke and Ptero ended up buried in a closet.
And I loved the DinoRiders cartoon but sadly never got any of the toys. I had wondered though, I mean I remember even as a kid seeing those dinosaurs popping up in various TV shows and movies as just generic toys kids are playing with. It must have been the Smithsonian sets since they probably wouldn't make an issue of their products being used in various media. But as a kid I didn't know that so it always bugged me that the kids on TV didn't have the armor or action figures.
I had Bone-age toys as a kid. They broke a lot then too. the plastic they used for the bones was too heavy for the fragile connectors. I think if they made them now they'd be better.
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When I was a kid, I think I also had one of those rubber T-Rex toys… maybe two of them… or something. I’m not sure… but I maybe had them at some point.
From like 2012 or whatever year I had them.
Fun fact: The Dino-Riders T-rex is the inspiration for Rex in the Toy Story movies.
I'm an Ankylosaurus man, personally. I love Warhammer equipped War Turtles, man.
Bone Age reminds me of Skeleflex from the 00s, was mainly prehistoric then branched into aliens & mythical creatures
I forgot about Bone Age. Its a cool concept that should be brought back.