Dinosaur Train

I looked for any prehistoric bug that looks like mine for hours and couldn’t find an exact match I need someone to help me see what bug is in my amber

I remember this show when I was a little boy. I used to watch it and play PBS Kids a lot when it's some type of dance going on at my elementary school. Yeah, I'm not a fan of proms/dance. I just like staying at home watching movies/TV shows

Yes, you read the title. It’s about dinosaur television shows. For children. No, we’re not ranking them or whatever.

A little context for the question of the post:

So, for this post I want to ask a question. What would the best EDUCATIONAL show for children would be? I’m not talking about learning math or whatever, I’m talking about learning about prehistoric life. You can suggest YouTube videos also by the way.

Note the children I’m talking about here are my two special need brothers. The youngest is only 10 years old, but he’s only in Pre-K to Kindergarten level studies. My other brother can’t talk with words(he knows a bit of sign language), and he does watch a some Dino Dan and Dinosaur Train.

Now, onto the requirements for the shows:

1. They should not have a lot of gore(JFC for example)

2. They should be relatively accurate, with maybe a bit of stylization or inaccuracies every once in a while, hopefully due to outdatedness

3. Mating animals is a no go, unless they’re heavily censored such as in Prehistoric Planet

4. A good host to make the show entertaining would be something that this show should have, so this would be something like Nigel Marvin or Tiny

5. It would be very helpful if the show has designs that are at least 90% accurate in total. Prehistoric Planet is an example

6. A standard documentary would not really work, due to their shorter attention spans

7. If you do suggest a documentary, try to make sure there is a fair amount of action scenes sprinkled in throughout the episode(s) to capture their attention

8. A 20-30 minute episode would likely be the best time for a show, though shorter would be fine also

9. The show shouldn’t have that many dubious or invalid genera, except for Troodon because that’s in some of the best shows

Thanks for any help you guys may have, and by the way, this is NOT for sympathy points for me running for mod. This is an actual genuine question, and if this makes you want to vote me, then go for it, but I’m not forcing you to.

(Yes, I’m stealing this from the DBWC wiki. We’re gonna do mod election poll soon, so I don’t need to save my posts for propaganda)

@Nizaluddin : Hi there fellow sapient crows! I’m Nizaluddin, but you can call me Nizal, and I’ll be your announcer for today!

@HerbivoreEnthusiastAlt : And I’m HerbivoreEnthusiastAlt, but I think you can just call me Herbi, and we’re ready to show you the Tyrannosaurus BATTLE ROYAL!!

Nizal: Our contestants are Hank, the star of Prehistoric Planet. While not shown hunting often, he is a 10 tonne behemoth of ultimate destruction!

Herbi: I’m not so sure about “ultimate destruction” if he has to go up against the plot armor duo of Rexy 1993 and Rexy 2022. Stars of the Jurassic Park franchise, and amazing in their own right, they’re ready to kill.

Nizal: Our next contestant is Momma Dino from Ice Age 3. While not a mascot, she is ready to do anything to protect her children.

Herbi: Can we mention her relationship with Sid?

Nizal: Nope! Stumpy is out next. With a lost arm, he’s a veteran, but the intimidating skull pattern on his face may help him pick fights he wants.

Herbi: Buddy is out next, and while he’s the smartest, he has no fighting capabilities whatsoever. He’s gonna die.

Nizal: Brumal is coming out now. Being from Prehistoric Kingdom, he might die from just seeing all the inaccurate designs!

Herbi: Ark Tyrannosaurus is next, and he’s large, at a whopping 24 meters, we’re happy he’s not mutated for boss fights!

Nizal: Another JP classic, Buck is ready to *uck others up!

Herbi: Terry is up next. With his fire breath and mobility, he’s a challenging opponent to fight.

Nizal: Black T. rex takes the throne for firepower though. Fire Scorcher is a very powerful move. Everyone should be glad it takes a while to charge up.

Herbi: 1933 King Kong Tyrannosaurus, also known as Meat Eater is truly a sight to behold. Coming from the retro, tail dragging days, all the boomers in the crowd will love him

Nizal: Lego Rex is coming now. Yes, he is a master builder. I don’t know how he’ll fight though.

Herbi: Grumpy is next. Being from the Land of the Lost, I wonder how he found his way here!

Nizal: Dino Dana Tyrannosaurus is next. Nothing’s really special about her, besides for the fact she has children.

Herbi: Rexy from Night at the Museum is up next. I’m unsure how they’ll defeat him since we’re in an enclosed stadium.

Nizal: Tyrantrum is coming now. With his strong jaw, all biting moves are stronger than before!

Herbi: The next contestant is one we all don’t appreciate, Nanotyrannus! Sorry to all of his fans in the crowd, but he’s invalid.

Nizal: Jane was once thought to be a member of that genus, but she’s now a juvenile Tyrannosaurus.

Herbi: Sue is one old lady, but one amazing one. She was, and I think still is, the most complete skeleton of Tyrannosaurus.

Nizal: She might be the most complete, but Scotty is larger, making the largest Tyrannosaurus reach 11 tonnes just due to his weight estimates.

Herbi: Sharptooth is up next. Once thought to be a murderous killer, he’s now beloved by Rudi10002

Nizal: Up next is Walking With Dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus, who we’ll abbreviate later. She managed to survive for a day after an Ankylosaurus tail club, so she’s highly resilient.

Herbi: A longer name belongs to When Dinosaurs Roamed America Tyrannosaurus. I haven’t watched the show, so I don’t know what happens.

Nizal: Spider Rex, Spider Rex, can do whatever a spider can! He’s our newest contestant, only being in movies or TV in June of 2023.

Herbi: Valley of the T. rex Tyrannosaurus is up next, and he can’t fight, since he’s a scavenger. Like a dingus.

Nizal: We have a much smaller contestant with Fang. She is by far the BEST fighter in this squad, and with her own kids, she’ll fight to her end. Don’t even get me started on her losing her original kids, Red, and Spear, because then I’ll cry.

Herbi: One of the last contestants here is the oldest, being 1925 The Lost World Tyrannosaurus, who well just call 1925 Tyrannosaurus. They are nearly 100 years old at this point.

Nizal: We cannot forget our wonderful host, DBWC Tyrannosaurus for letting us battle in the Crystal Caverns.

Herbi: Last but not least is Gwangi. We don’t really know if he’s a Tyrannosaurus or Allosaurus, but he’s invited to both groups!

Nizal: With our contestants introduced, let’s start the battle!

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As the cages are opened, Brumal steps outside to see everyone, before collapsing on the ground coughing in pain.

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Nizal: I told you that he’d die from the bad designs

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Buddy runs over to investigate and help Brumal.

A bit further away, Stumpy starts looking around, seeing who he should fight. Rexy NatM sees Stumpy, and thinking that he’s another skeleton, charges to talk. Stumpy sees this and runs away.

Black T. rex surveys the battlefield to find opponents, as Ark Tyrannosaurus bites his shins. Infuriated, Black T. rex knocks him away before chafing up Fire Scorcher. Momma Dino and Terry notice and try to help defeat Black T. rex before he fires off the attack.

Tyrantrum runs across the battlefield to attack Rexy 2022, but Rexy 1993 comes and bites Tyrantrum on the neck and throws him to the ground, killing him.

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Herbi: First death! Wahooo! I reckon the plot armor duo will be working together.

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Hank finds Scotty and Sue sitting in a corner, and he decides to sit with them.

Nanotyrannus finds Jane and bites her neck and starts to push her into the ground. Jane is not having any of this and tries to throw Nanotyrannus off the edge, but falls alongside her enemy. They die.

WWD Tyrannosaurus and WDRA Tyrannosaurus charge at DBWC Tyrannosaurus, but he jumps into the air and tail smacks both of them to the ground, before crushing their skulls.

Spider Rex grabs Lego Rex on a web and throws him at Grumpy, who then swallows Lego Rex whole, with the web still on. Spider Rex drags Grumpy near him, but Grumpy slams him into Dino Dana Tyrannosaurus before snapping his neck. Dino Dana Tyrannosaurus gets trapped under Spider Rex.

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Nizal: Out of 30 contestants, 7 have already died

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Buddy stands next to Brumal, making a hypothesis, as Gwangi comes from behind and decapitates Buddy, before hiding behind Brumal.

1925 Tyrannosaurus charges at Meat Eater, knocking him down to the ground and rips out his throat.

VotT Tyrannosaurus smells the dead body of Meat Eater and knocks 1925 Tyrannosaurus to the ground as he eats Meat Eater.

Brumal gets up, and starts running to Hank, Scotty, and Sue, but Rexy 1993 charges in front of him and knocks him to the ground. Sue gets up and charges at Rexy 1993, but Rexy 1993 dodges and throws Sue off the edge. Brumal gets up and escapes the commotion.

Sharptooth charges at Buck, but misses and has their throat crushed by Rexy 2022, who winks at Buck.

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Herbi: A third of the contestants have died already. Shall we place our bets?

Nizal: I don’t know if we should do that at the moment. It looks like it’s anyone’s game. We’re still keeping the surprise for the final 2, right?

Herbi: Correct, unless it is the plot armor duo against the last other, and then we show it there also.

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Black T. rex finishes charging up Fire Scorcher, but DBWC Tyrannosaurus jumps into the air, and makes him aim at the ceiling. The attack hits the ceiling, causing sunlight to flood the battle and debris to fall from above.

Rexy NatM starts dissolving due to the sunlight, much to Stumpy’s happiness.

1925 Tyrannosaurus and VotT Tyrannosaurus both get crushed by a giant falling crystal.

Fang jumps up on a falling crystal and kicks DBWC Tyrannosaurus to the ground as she bites Black T. rex on the nose.

Momma Dino, Sharptooth, and Terry all charge and knock Black T. rex down as Rexy 1993 stabs his eyes with a crystal, killing him.

Ark Tyrannosaurus bites Sharptooth and drags him along the floor and kills him.

Brumal reaches Hank and Scotty, and makes them run as a giant crystal falls, and it crushes Scotty.

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Nizal: Well folks, this battle took an unexpected turn. We now have 16 dead combatants.

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Gwangi comes out of his hiding spot with a cowboy hat and a big iron on his hip. Stumpy charges at Gwangi, but is shot right in the heart. Stumpy realizes he never should’ve challenged the Tyrannosaurus with a big iron on his hip.

Momma Dino bites Terry, but Terry uses Volcano Burst to burn the face of Momma Dino off, killing her.

DBWC Tyrannosaurus charges at Fang, but she dodges and knocks him into a crystal. DBWC Tyrannosaurus gets up and bares his teeth, but is shortly killed by Gwangi with a big iron on his hip.

Gwangi turns to Fang and prepares to shoot her, but Dino Dana Tyrannosaurus bites Gwangi and disembowels him.

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Herbi: We are down to the last third, which contains 10 contestants!

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Terry charges at Hank, but Brumal smacks him with a steel chair, incapacitating Terry so Ark Tyrannosaurus can crush his neck.

Brumal turns to Hank, but Rexy 1993 and Rexy 2022 rip off Brumal’s legs, leaving him to die.

Fang lunges at Rexy 1993, but misses and tries again. This time, Grumpy also lunges at Rexy 1993, who turns to look at him. Grumpy and Fang seem to phase through Rexy 1993, and they hit each other, dying in the process.

Buck tries to bite Hank, who dodges and retaliates by grabbing a mini gun and shooting Buck to death, before dropping the gun.

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Nizal: Final 5! This is just like the time I was at Freddy’s for 5 nights.

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Rexy 1993 and Rexy 2022 go behind Ark Tyrannosaurus’s legs, and start biting at him. Ark Tyrannosaurus tries to fight back, but can’t due to his horrible turning radius. He eventually falls and dies.

Dino Dana Tyrannosaurus bites Hank on the tail and tries to drag him off the edge, but Hank slams her into Rexy 1993, and she is shortly killed by Rexy 2022.

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Herbi: It’s time

Nizal: Play it

Herbi: Ok

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Music* floods the battlefield as Hank turns to face the plot armor duo. They do the same.

*(I will be putting lyrics in quotation marks, ok?)

”Standing here”

Hank charges at the duo, who flank to Hank’s side.

”I realize”

Hank turns and manages to bite Rexy 1993 on her face, and he drags her to the ground.

”You were just like me”

Rexy 2022 charges and bites Hank’s neck, but he throws her off.

”Trying to make history”

Hank charges at Rexy 2022, but Rexy 1993 bites his leg, throwing him off course.

“But who’s to judge”

Hank turns around and tail smacks Rexy 1993, knocking her into Rexy 2022

”The right from wrong”

Hank bites Rexy 2022 on the neck as Rexy 1993 struggles to get up.

”When our guard is down”

Hank bites harder. Rexy 1993 looks in terror

”I think we’ll both agree”

Rexy 2022 starts to lose the life from her eyes

”That violence breeds violence”

Rexy 2022 dies in Hank’s jaws. Rexy 1993 gets back up and turns to Hank, who is looking at Rexy 2022’s body, dead on the floor.

”It has to be this way”

Hank lifts his head up and stares at Rexy 1993

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Nizal: The final 2!

Herbi: I can see all the Rexy 2022 fans in the stadium fighting and causing the security to come just because she lost. Sore losers

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”I’ve carved my own path”

Hank and Rexy 1993 charge at each other

”You followed your wrath”

Both of them collide and exchange bites and body slams

”But maybe we’re both the same”

Hank bites Rexy 1993 on the neck and rolls over, bringing her with him

”The world has turned”

Rexy 1993 frees herself and bites Hank’s skull, and drags him

”And so many have burned”

Hank gets up and pushes Rexy 1993 off of him and away

”But nobody is to blame”

The two stare at each other for a moment

“Yet starting across this barren wasted land”

They charge at each other. Hank bites Rexy 1993’s neck in a firm hold and starts to crush it

”I feel new life will be born”

Rexy 1993 loses the life in her eyes

”Beneath the blood stained saaaaaand”

Hank finishes killing her and drops her to the ground.

”Beneath the blood stained SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!”

Hank looks at the corpses that riddle the battlefield and sits.

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Nizal: Well folks, we have our winner after an emotional scene. Good job to Hank and everyone else!

Herbi: Tune in next time to whatever animal is suggested first in the comments down below!

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By the way, on the original post, Allosaurus was suggested first, so it’ll be next. I will be doing these every once in a while, but I’ll always do them on the DBWC wiki first if I remember.

1. I'm A Dinosaur: What can I say? It has a very cool art style it is quite cartoony, especially the Gorgosaurus episode or even the Smilodon one, I was introduced to it by the Velociraptor episode. Though yeah a few nitpicks here and there like how dinosaurs cannot pronate their wrists, but still a good art style. Also it's quite a good beginner art style for those who are wanting to draw cartoony dinosaurs.

2. The Land Before Time: Ok, yes ik ik it's a film in 1988 but it's still a cartoon, as it still follow the same logic as one, but I think grittiness of the original probably amped up this art style. I mean yes it's very inaccurate now and highly outdated to today's standards. So that's why it's in 2nd place

3. Gigantosaurus: Ok this the first and probably only cartoon that uses CG models on this list. But it makes up for it in terms of the designs I mean all of the designs are quite well made especially the main characters, but I think it lacks the charm of The Land Before Time, and I'm A Dinosaur due to them being made in 2D while this Disney Junior show is made in 3D, maybe if it where to be made in 2D it could be higher up on the list.

4. Dinosaur King: Yeah could've ranked it up higher because it is made by the company who made that blue hedgehog who has 2 very good films, and plus the dinosaurs have this mix of cute and cool, the cutesy art style go towards their chibi forms and then their other forms are cool looking. But this is an anime and idk if it could be considered a cartoon.

5. Dinosaur Train: Ok I did sorta lie on the 3rd one, as Dinosaur Train is another 3D animated show, but why I placed it in 5th place is because of Troodon of which is no longer a valid genus, maybe if they called something else like Stenonychosaurus then I could've ranked it higher.

6. The Good Dinosaur: Ok I was originally gonna include it on the list but it is a cartoon, I don't art the style I think the designs are decent, but yeah Arlo looks weird especially that one scene in the film.

So, that's all of the cartoons ranked are the any that I have missed? Please comment down below and I am NOT including dinosaur related episodes from shows that aren't about dinosaurs.

Shiny is my second favorite character behind Buddy in Dinosaur Train, she's not as outgoing as some of her siblings and seems to prefer staying at home, but she does occasionally join them on their adventures.

In the show, Shiny has a short head, and short body like the others, and unlike the rest of her family she is colored blue, the only other family member of hers who's colored like this is her grandmother.

Shiny here has a longer head, her crest is still as sharp as it is in the actual show, unlike most of her family she has a downward facing beak instead of a forward facing one, and she's the only Pterosaur me and my brother have made who is in an actual flying pose.

And also, you may be wondering what I use to color these guys, I use Maped color pencils along with Diamond color pencils, you probably don't know that latter company since it's quite obscure, tell me your thoughts in the comments and also, off topic comments are not allowed.

Gilbert the Troodon was one of the main protagonists although he doesn't show up as much as most of the others, in the show he has a big head, small body, and short tail and he stood upright, now, while I do know that Troodon is invalid, me and my brother just wanted to show what we think Gilbert would look like if he had a more realistic look.

As you can see, he doesn't have a hat mostly because we wanted to differentiate him from his uncle, he has a much more narrow head than in the show since it was quite round, we tried our best at what we could do with the feathers since we weren't exactly good at making them but I think they turned out well, most of the feathers are brown while their tips are orange.

We will be making a drawing for Mr. Conductor but that's gonna take a while since he's actually going to have his hat and vest, tell me your thoughts in the comments.

As you guys might know, I'm a huge fan of the TV show, Dinosaur Train, it's an educational TV show that does take creative liberties with it's designs, me and my brother decided to draw some of the characters from that show to be a bit more realistic in a sense, they still have a few creative liberties but we intended to make them look more authentic to what the animals are supposed to look like.

First off is the main protagonist of the show, Buddy was a Tyrannosaurus Rex who was adopted by a family of Pteranodons, in the show he is small and has a big head with a short body, but here he's been redesigned to look much closer to what a Tyrannosaurus looks like, he's much more muscular, but we still tried to stay faithful to his original design by leaving in his colors and the fact that his eye still looks cartoony.

Next up is the deuteragonist of the show, that being one of Buddy's adopted family members, his sister Tiny, in the show she also has a bit head and a short body like Buddy, and she has noticable bat like wings that aren't present on real Pteranodons, here she's much more accurate, with her wings not looking like bat wings anymore, and her wing membranes now have cream as their main color, her head is also drastically different but her eyes and crest are relatively similar.

I'll be posting more of these in the future, so let me know your thoughts.

I always hear that when my little sibling is watching shows, and it just kinda irritates me a bit. They're supposed to be teaching kids.

That's why Dinosaur Train was such a high-quality show. It was actually ACCURATE, at least for its time, and didn't call stuff like that dinosaurs, when they were really just unrelated prehistoric reptiles.

WHY IS THERE A MAMMOTH IN DINOSAUR TRAIN! I understand Dimetrodon and other Paleozoic animals appearing, but a Mammoth and other Cenozoic life should NOT appear in Dinosaur Train! Sure, it lets kids learn about the Cenozoic, but it doesn't feel right, going to the Cenozoic when pretty much ALL OF YOUR KIND IS DEAD. Please excuse my rant, and also this is currently the 3rd to the last episode of ALL OF DINOSAUR TRAIN.

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