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• what were the toys that came with these little orange people and you could make the dino eat them

• Worst thing about Dinoriders is, that it's really that short . . only 14 episodes or so . . and as a child, it seemed to be so much longer!

• I tried to pay attention to the DinoRiders video, I really did. But all I could focus on were the voices: Peter Cullen and Frank Welker. It seems that no matter the circumstances, like Superman and Lex Luthor, these two are destined to be enemies.

• Very nice list. I think the writer understates the importance of the Marx Prehistoric Playset. These started production in 1955 and really inflamed the imagination of early dinosaur fans. As a kid in the early sixties, these things were everywhere with little competition until dime-store dinos and knock-offs by toy makers like MPC began production, in many cases copying the poses of the Marx dinosaurs.

• Papo dinosaurs are, indeed, really impressive. Their new allosaurus is unbelievably cool. You also might want to check out the new Safari lines (which includes the "Carnegie Collection) and the CollectA line from Great Britain, which includes some amazingly unusual dinosaurs.

• Where is Trypticon on this list??

• I was thinking this too...his fucking head came off and was a gun !!!

• Best Christmas gift I ever got was that compound. I even took my little brother's toy dump truck to be the loading cage for the raptor.

• Awwwwww man! Dino-Riders ruled!!! I was obsessed with those things!. Did you see the rig on that brontosaurus? That thing fricking killed it! Even though the toys we grew up with were rad the toys my kids play with now are unreal! I have a nine and ten year old obsessed with these remote controlled toys called Rokenbok. They have built everything from entire animated cities to furniture with these building blocks. I'm stoked that in 20 years my kids will be nastalgic about these things! I'll post a link to some incredible builds from their site if you want check them out. Happiness was so much easier when a new T-rex Dino Rider could make you week! http://www.rokenbok.com/hard-hat-area#

• I trust nothing Brazilian,not after Two Girls, One Cup. Well maybe Morena Baccarin and Xuxa,but that's where I draw the line. ;]

• Or the awesomely named Turbodactyl, Bionatops or Tyrantisaurus Rex?

• beat me to it.

• If my wife sold an alien queen out from under me, she'd be in the ground so fast it'd fuck with the time/space continuum and no one would know she even existed. Not that I wouldn't love my wife, but goddamn, I'd burn down a stadium full of orphans for an alien queen. (Not to marry though, that's a little too FFF.)

• i had a transforming dinosaur egg

• He-Man Battlebones. Stuipid? yes. Great memories? yes.

• Not true, Nerdberger. The Glasslite company of Brazil got the molds and artwork from Galoob, who cancelled the line before bringing it out. The good news? Dinosaucers toys totally exist. The bad news? You will never afford them. Google them and Super Toy Archive to make yourself cry. Also, Robotix freaking RULED. This is the first list where I loved EVERY ENTRY. God, dinosaur toys are AWESOME. I as well had Bone Age, but only got one small set before they vanished from retail. Boy it was fun!

• Too bad they only made test models for Dinosaucers. =[

• It had struck me as bizzare how the Chap Mei sets contain some true shit mixed with decent budget toys, but the dinosaurs are very excellent sculpts. Another bizzare thing is the trademark features of the Jurassic Park line. One was the JP tatoo on everything, in an attempt to pretend they invented toy dinosaurs and everything without te logo wad ripping their idea off. The other is the tear away section of flesh that revealed bone and muscle. That's pretty fucking nasty and brutal. And cool.

• I could be wrong, but I think the place where the Dinobots landed turned out to be the Savage Land. If true, that's amazing to me. If not, they're still big fucking robosauruses.

• Thaaank you. That was the one comment I forgot to make. That thing is really cool.

• -I "definitely" had those Definitely Dinosaurs, or at least someone I knew did. They were simple but very fun for some reason. -That Imaginext dinosaur playset looks pretty fun (I'm 29 and don't really buy toys any more but I'll fiddle around with them if they look fun and the room is empty). -Those Zoid things look amazing, first I've seen them. -Did the one voice in the Dino Riders commercial not sound exactly like the villain from Inspector Gadget? Dr. Claw or something?

• What about the Papo dinosaur figures? Limited articulation but the sculpts are absolutely amazing! The Allosaurus, T-Rex and Spinosaur are my little boys favourites.

• Zoids for the win. I recall going into a mega-mall / department store / toy store in HK and discovering that Zoids were alive, well, and now had ample ancillary accessory packs to make the badass toys even more badasser-er; which isn't a word yet does describe the impulse that subsequently scoured my Visa card dry. e

• You forgot the Pleo! http://www.pleoworld.com/Home.aspx

• I practically shat my 10 year old self the Christmas I got the Robotix T-Rex. A month later I'm staring at a half-built robot dinosaur, and finally conclude that either the Taiwanese children who boxed the thing left out a part, or the Milton Bradley company somehow feeds off the frustration and disappointment of little boys.

• YES. I was fully expecting to see this on the list. I fucking loved Bone Age, and was lucky enough to pick up many of them at closeout prices after the line inexplicably failed at retail. They not only fed my dinosaur obsession, these things also made great monsters for my gigantic MOTU battles.

• Hey, Grimlock was onl dumb in the later series of the show. In the comics he was much more intelligent (grammar issues aside) an even was Prime's chosen successor for a while after he died for like the 4th or 5th time

• I've actually got a couple of those in my apartment room right now. I brought the JP T Rex when I heard Stan Winston passed away. It's on top of my bookshelf with the Predator riding it. I also got G1 Grimlock somewhere here. Also, I totally forgot about those Definitely Dinosaurs. I remember having the Dimetrodon one. Plus I had the Dino Riders Deinonychus. I remember loving Deinonychus before the whole Jurrasic Park raptor craze. Deinonychus was more the size of the movie raptors than actual Velociaptors. Plus I had just some generic dinosaurs an uncle from another state had my mom pick up for me because he knew kids love dinosaurs. They were like a soft vinyl. In particular I remember Ankylosaurus.

• Yep, I remember that fairly well. If I remember correctly, they were introduced into the storyline when Ratchet was the sole escapee of an assault on Autobot HQ by Shockwave. He went off in search of the Dinobots to help him rescue the rest of the Autobots. It seemed like a pretty epic storyline to me when I was a kid. I wonder if it would hold up today.

• That Dino Hunter GI JOE set was junk, and doesn't deserve a spot on any "awesome" list. The set was mostly reissued recolored items with a sorry looking, fairly small, cheap-quality t-rex that was molded with its arms clutching its chest in a sissy like manner. The set is worth a lot on the aftermarket now, because it was a Toys R Us exclusive.

• No one mentioned Papo Dinos??!?!?!?!?!?!? All the exclamations and q's=faggy, hahah, I hate when people do that! For real though, Papo Dinosaurs, which are 1/24 scale replicas of the various Jurassic Park Dino's, sculpted to look exactly like them. I have of them: T-Rex, Raptor, and Tri-tops, and they're very worth the money. They can be a tad expensive ($18 for the raptor, as an example) but the sculpts are really worth it. Their paint apps are also very incredible. The Papo Dinos do have some, limited, but some articulation as well, making them toys rather than fine art statues. Here is more about them (or google): http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCIQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papo-france.com%2Fcollection.asp%3Flangue%3Den%26nav%3D6&ei=F2N1TK_lFIK78gaRw6CjBw&usg=AFQjCNH3Jwc8L46dK076bwUsG2k0RgSfeA The Bone Age dinos someone elese mentioned are damn cool! When those came out, I lucked out and saw the Trex and a few others on clearance for super cheap, and got mine that way. They were THE best play feature toy I had. (

• I didn't realize there was a dino hunter for gi joe. that seems bad ass. just another thing to scour ebay for today.

• At first I was a little miffed that Robo Strux wasn't included on here, but then realized that was just the Tomy name for Zoids. I loved the Robo Strux. I didn't have any of the really big ones, but I had about a half dozen of the little ones that I loved putting together and playing with.

• the absolutely massive t-rex that came out with the movie release of the lost world - thing had to be like 2, 2 and a half feet long - fought many an awesome battle with the awesome massive godzilla my bro got for his birthday that year too.

• Dino Riders were such awesome toys. My parents weren't really into the whole buying me toy thing though, so the only Dino Riders toy I ever had was the teradactyl, which was the cheapest of the bunch. I wanted the stegosaurus so badly. It looked so badass.

• Fairly certain I had one of the sets mentioned for #9. Dinosaurs never stop being cool. Ever. However, as a lifelong bookworm, I had way more books on dinosaurs than toys. Actually, I've had more books just in general than toys.

• dude im glad im not the only one who wasnt happy with NOT SEEING BONE AGE on this list >__> seriosly Rob WTF gives ??

• I used to freaking sleep with the 3-foot long T. Rex that came out in '93. Hell yes.

• Zoids rock! (very slowly)

• Those Jurassic Park toys are pretty much the best thing ever. I still have my Velociraptor and Dilophosaurus figures tucked safely away. Heh, I made my own "audio book" of some of my favorite scenes from the novel, enhanced by sound effects from the figures. /coolstorybro

• Thank God Dino Riders came in at #1, if that had not been the case someone was getting throat punched.

• I know Imaginext is represented here, but Spike the Ultrasaurus needs his own entry. It's a 2 foot tall remote controlled Dinosaur for gods sake.

• It's great that the Imaginex dinosaurs made the list. If I was still a kid, I would have loved those dino toys.

• The Dinoriders toy line was excellent. What could be better than fully weaponized dinosaurs? How long before there's a Michael Bay movie in the works???

• No Lego Dino Hunters? For shame...

• I think those were Zoids. I remember K'Nex had dinosaur kits.

• Random question: I remember a line of robotic, Lego-style constructible dinosaurs in the 90s that had the jingle "YOU DON'T JUST BUILD EM, YOU BRING EM TO LIFE" Google isn't helping too much. Were these Zoids?

• You probably remember it from the Marvel comics version. They were built to defend the Ark from Shockwave who came to usurp Megatron's command while he and the other Transformers were still in stasis (or whatever they were in). They all got stuck in tar and were dug out millions of years later.

• I thought I was the only person that remembered that line. That line needs a top 10 list here. I still kick myself that my wife sold my Alien Queen from that line in a garage sale while I was at work.

• Funny story. Robert Muldoon with a rocket launcher? -Totally canon.- Read the book, it was the only lethal weapon he was allowed to have on the island. Because InGen and Hammond were a bunch of dicks. Also: lol@the Stone Age Dinosaurs set. Fantastic usage of a Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect Raptor.

• What about that Huge ass Remote Control T-Rex that fisher price put out a couple of years ago? that thing was awesome it was like 2 ft tall and fully controlable. it freaks kids out which is always a bonus in my book

• No mention of Xtreme Dinosaurs?

• gotta love the second episode of "Dinobot Island" from G1, where Grimlock leads the Dinobots and an army of real dinosaurs into battle against the Decepticons. and he called Megatron ugly, to boot.

• YES. I've still got several of mine on display right now, including the T-Rex, Ankylosaurus, and Pterodactyl. I've tried explaining to my wife (who's usually very supportive of my toy collection) how awesome these things were, but she can't get over the absurdity of the toyline's name. Also on display: a few Dinoriders, and a few Jurassic Park figures. That's all to say: this list makes me tingly. And, so glad you mention Definitely Dinosaurs. I've had a Deinonychus and caveman figure since I was a kid, and had no idea what toyline it came from. Now I know.

• kudos for including definitely dinosaurs. i had a heap of those things. they were pretty well sculpted (for the era), and included a li'l caveman rider and some kind of saddle usually. the articulaton was also pretty stellar, especially on the larger ones like t-rex and brontosaurus. i remember as a child playing with these guys all day long. they eventually released smaller ones that usually had one point of articulation, but nothin beats those originals.

• I'm just trying to figure out the name of a Dinosaur toy set I had when I was a kid--so it couldn't have been later than the early 90s--that featured an assortment of snap-together dinosaur skeleton parts in a faux-wooden case. The idea being that you could assemble a T-rex or Triceratops from the parts included (though I think they left out one of the quadruped front legs), or create some semiarticulated hybrid abomination. I don't *think* it was Kenner's "Bone Age," as there were no cavemen included, and the bones were actually pretty realistic in shape and proportion. Luckily, I'm sure I've still got the whole thing stashed in my attic, so I'd be able to check for myself some time. If I want to brave the heat and spiders.

• I thought too thought that they'd built back in the day, like 'anonymous'. I watched the G1 series with my kids the other day and was surprised to see you were right about them being built from scratch by Wheeljack. Now, why do I (and apparently someone else) remember this other version of events?

• Oh man I remember I had a video cassette that I used to watch that had a commercial for the Dino-Riders toys and I wanted them so bad. But sadly it was 1996.

• No love for Battle Bones?

• when i saw the article i figured if not din riders which were kind of a head of their time toy wise that at least the dino bots would make the list. for they were almost two toys for one combining kids love of robots with dinosuars.the Jurressic park line showed that toys can be used to get kids to become movie goers. a good list.

• Man, Dinoriders, I had the T-Rex. And I remember wanting the triceratopsi so bad... Also, I had Zoids back in the 90s. So glad to see them on here.

• THIS. I loved this toy series growing up, but could never get more than a handful of the playsets. It wasn't just that the dinosaurs were skeletal, you could turn them into vehicles! Combine them into even BIGGER vehicles! And bases! It was the perfectly fuck-win center of the Lego-Dinosaur-action vehicle Venn Diagram.

• Dino-Riders were my god as a child. Still have nearly all the dinos.

• +10 for making Dino Riders numero uno. Why the fuck don't people dork out about Dino Riders the way they do about He-Man or GI Joe? Sure, it wasn't nearly as successful, but we all know it was awesome. Maybe more awesome? You essentially got an action figure AND a fucking vehicle. A vehicle that is a velociraptor. What more do you want?

• Dino Riders. For the love of Jeebus, yes!

• Beast Wars Megatron is not pleased with his exclusion from this list, nooooo.

• That wasn't the cartoon origin - they found some bones near the Ark and built 'em from scratch.

• Dino Riders are the best. Why aren't they reissued/updated yet.

• Between Robotix, Zoids, and Dinobots I don't think there's a child of the 80s that doesn't immediately pair robots and dinos. It's like peanut butter and chocolate.

• Also, while we're considering insanely awesome dinosaur toys and the Viewmaster (and yes, I remember how awesome the Little Yellow DInosaur discs were): GODZILLA!! 3-D art by Marvel's Herb Trimpe, too.

• I loved the Dino Riders so so much. I think I'll go watch the cartoon now. Also, the Jurassic Park toys were some of my favorites. The playset that was the Visitor Center compound was so cool.

• I'm pretty sure the toyline and G1 cartoon (and comics) all explained the Dinobots along much the same line: the Ark crashed back in the time of the dinosaurs, those Autobots were the only ones operative at the time and were sent out to scout. The Ark thought (correctly) dinosaurs were the dominant species of the planet and so converted the bots to look like them; but the bots got trapped (for far more ridiculous reasons) and never came back. Millions of years later, the Ark reactivates, mistakenly thinks humanity's VEHICLES are the dominant lifeform on the planet, converts the bots to disguise themselves appropriately.

• Ahem, the Dinobots do make sense. They weren't made to have disguises they were made to kick ass.

• Two things: 1) We used to get Zoids at Wal-Mart in the '80s. They were shelved between the Star-Wars guys and the shitty Power Lords toys. Definitely not a niche item though. 2) My Robotix dinosaur crushed the living shit out of many a stormtrooper and Cobra soldier. Loved that thing.

• I still see Dino-Riders dinosaurs (packaged as something else of course) on the shelves at stores. Loved those toys when I was a kid.

• LOL So true... Awesome Dino Riders are awesome.

• "...sitting on my self..." awesome, yet disturbing, typo.

• The evil T-Rex from "Dino Riders" was awesome. You really can't go wrong with a T-Rex decked out with missile launchers and laser cannons.

• holy fuck, the Jurassic Park toys were awesome. I always liked how they'd have ridiculous accessories that were not in the movie - the car had a cannon, Muldoon had a rocket launcher, and someone else had a noose to choke dinosaurs. and what about Primal Rage figures - those were pretty cool - Diablo the T-Rex(ish) figure that shot "fireballs" from his mouth when you pressed his hand down.

• Confession: I collected the "Jurassic Park" human figures -- including that Dennis Nedry -- but not the dinosaurs. I was buying the "Aliens" (later "Aliens vs. Predator") line, and I needed to boost the numbers of the Space Marines. Fortunately, they had another line with compatible figures, so I created the Space Marines' civilian squad, the Junior Patrol.

• "Put THIS in your Easter Basket!" The hell?

• I think Dino Riders gave me my first prepubescent erection.

• I still have my T-Rex from the number 7 vid. I bought it when I was in my twenties.Both of my kids have played with it and loved it. It is now sitting on my self staring at me while I type this out. I think it is the best ever than the Dinobots.

• Fantastic list! I owned way too many of those over the years. And if you've never played with the Imaginext animated Mega T-Rex in the store - holy crap - despite the cartoony appearance it's probably the coolest dino-toy EVER made.

• If this were a list of twelve, hopefully "Bone Age" would've rounded everything out. I remember being really fascinated with that line at the tail end of the '80s, but it disappeared before I could pick up more than a couple of 'em. People riding dinosaurs = inherently awesome People riding dinosaur skeletons = even better?

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