Hello, welcome to even more Dino Dan creature analysis. I may have run out of canon species to look at, but nothing’s stopping me from doing the website and app exclusive animals!
Unlike the previous episodes, I’m only looking at the accuracy of the designs and thing else about them, I’m not gonna desperately filter though the internet for information about a long dead flash website or toys I prolly can’t buy any more.
Positives = Accuracies
IDK = Can’t find or tell weather that’s accurate/possible or not
Negatives = Inaccuracies
For context of the 1st 6 dinos we’re looking at, the OG Dino Dan series had a toy-line and website with exclusive dinosaurs with 3 designs. A concept art (which everything got, from the main cast to one-offs never got any more), a toy and a 3D model (which were just reskins/slight remodels of the pre-existing cast, tho more understandable for a website than the show itself)
The concept is prolly the best looking among the 3 Velo designs due the feathers and mohawk, though the hands and skull are a turn off. The green blue colors are also really cool.
The toy is honestly just ugly, shame it’s the only one with a good skull
While the website one is kinda bad, I do think it does the colors better than the concept.
Ideal design could concept’s designs, toy’s shape and website’s colors with wings added and neck shortened.
I really don’t like the weird proportions on concept one, but the blue color is also pretty and I think I prefer it to the movie design’s colors
The toy’s face is ugly but has a better body and the website does the colors better than the concept, adding a lovely hint of purple to the mix.
The concept Para is goofy and bad, but it does have the best colors of the 3. The blue is really pretty, tho yellow as a base color wasn’t a good call.
The toy is just mid despite the better face, the website one isn’t a para, it’s a demon.
For context, the Dino Dana games have this weird boxy 2D style which is pretty hit or miss, but they randomly brought back Para and the design is pretty good, especially the new head shape. Too bad it doesn’t have the concept version’s color and has a weird dip in spine.
The concept Styraco has a pretty green with yellow stripes, but the proportions are kinda wonky.
Toy has a better shape, but the eye and mouth freak me out and the colors are washed out
Website has 2nd best color, the addition of blue is great, but the lack of detail makes me prefer the website, tho all 3 are pretty bad in one way or another.
This one’s labeled as “original” cuz I hear Anky will return in Dino Dex BTW
The lavender color on the concept is again, really appealing, but I don’t agree with any of the design choices it has.
Toy’s addition of blue is good, but armor and face are really weird so I don’t like it either.
The website goes for a less appealing pink instead of purple and I don’t about it too
I don’t care for all 3 of these Apato designs, tho the blue with hint yellow looks kinda cool and agian is best on the website version.
The concept Carno has cool spikes and the better colors, the burnt orange looks wonderful but he’s too thicc and the face is all wrong.
The toy is ok, only main issues are color downgrade and still thicc
Notably, it’s the only toy that lacks a website version, prolly cuz they knew nobody would fall for an orange Rex with horns
So on the Dino Dan website, there was art of the Trek’s Adventure dinosaurs (presumably before they appeared in the show) of which I’m skipping most, I promised I wouldn’t do the website/app/whatever versions of the show designs. However, Amarga, Psitacco and Alberto do have completely different designs so…
This Amarga I’m not the biggest fan of, this sail type is fine and the tail’s too short, but it is decent overall and MUCH better than the official one we got. In terms of colors, the Trek’s Adventures precursor is fine, don’t care for it too much, the purple is really pretty, but the show version’s colors are even better than both. I’m kinda sad they didn’t go with this design, (say for the colors).
The mixture of black, orange and white look much prettier to me than the show version. I think the only problem with the body tail is the length and I don’t like it being quadrupedal. The show’s design was good, but with some polishing, I think this one could have been better
This is just a generic blue theropod, kinda boring and I think I owe angy boi an apology.
Just for fun, I also did the Dino Dana ones, even tho them appearing in the website was definitely a coincidence
This Kentro is simply dull and ugly, that’s all that can be said
I am so f***ing upset Dino Dana didn’t use this Incisivo design instead, becuase this one is so much better! The green and orange are much more beautiful and vibrant than the bland cyan and yellow and the mohawk is a much more acceptable goofy feather cut. I don’t even care if it lacks wings and pronates its arms, this would have been so much better!
This Eo is mid, the colors are fine enough, but the deep green of the Dana ver. solos this design, I don’t care if the Dana version is just a green Compy.
I honestly can’t tell if I prefer the green, orange and yellow mix of the show version or prefer the simplistic shades of blue this one has. I also really like the blue eye. With that said, that face is f***ed.
For context, the Dino Dan/Dana AR app randomly added Caribou and Arctodus from another AR app (Planet Ice AR) made by the same company. This appeared in a Dino Dana app, so it counts for my list.
Arctodus is a bit too similar to a regular bear for my tastes, it doesn’t have the freaky proportions nor intimidating presence Arctodus has normally. Colors look kinda cool I guess, I prefer this color scheme to most Arctodus designs
Pretty bland and not even worth my time talking about. These guys only count cuz they too were added to the Dino Dana AR app via codes.
The combo of edgy boi and small boi features is cursed, they really shoulda picked only one. Also that eye is really uncanny. Cool to see it present either way.
Cameroceras is fine, carried by the fact it’s really cool in general, the purple color was a good choice, tho the small shell is really throwing me off, especially for a creature often mislabeled as “Giant Orthocone”.
Weird these two only appeared as mini games enemies with no further focus, too bad they and Dino World Para didn’t get more focus.
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