Hello, and welcome back to the return of me analyzing the creatures of Dino Dan! The first batch of Dino Dex episodes has recently come out and given us a slew of new creatures and redesigns for some returners. I’m gonna assume you already know the gist, so I’m just gonna dive straight in! Let’s start off with the redesigns first.
This T.rex design is kinda good, accurate Rexes aren’t a go to for me, but it’s still kinda good. I just wish it had one of the previous designs’ color schemes, because the brownish orange seems kinda generic and black feathers look kinda clashing. If anything, it feels like a downgraded version of the Dinosauria Rex. The hints of blue or green are nice I guess. For me, it’s less good than the Dana Rex designs, but I can’t tell if I like it more or less than the OG Rex.
WHAT THE F#&% DID THEY DO?! They had a near perfect Tricera design for the Dino Dana movie and they tossed that away for this Bobbleheaded Chinasaur! Why is the frill so big!? Tho I do prefer it over the OG Tricera, I can’t lie. I do like the brownish orange and greenish blue highlights. But still, this face shape is pretty atrocious.
New design for Meganeura is fine, tho the new colors I’m not that big a fan of, nor the body proportions. I prefer the old design or Prehistoric Park. Also, nice to see that it is still just Parave food (I sigh, laced with sarcasm).
Hey guys, the early 2000s called, they want their Velociraptor back. Not only is the naked face nearly as bad as the Theri, and the wrong choice of feathers also feels worse than the other paraves, but I also really don’t like the shorter skull or oversized scales on the face. The colors are fine, but a far cry from the website design with the beautiful shades of blue and green, which make me dislike the design even further, given its higher potential. But the orange and yellow face, striped body and blue limbs are kinda cool still, the colors are still good regardless. Also, sad to see they’ve stooped down to uses f***ing Jurassic Park noises. When I look at, it’s good enough, but this design becomes a lot worse when you realize its potential, regardless if it were based on the website or not. Also, nice to see someone go against that pack hunting raptor trope, a trope with such allure that not even f***ing Prehistoric Planet could not resist apparently.
Dreaddy is a neat addition, I like the shape, the coloration is nice and I think the neck flap’s design was done well. Kinda sad how the feet are wrong again, given how Europa had correct feet. Also, I’m suspect that it and Velo were brought in because Dominion and Prehistoric Planet had and they were just late to the party
Tsintao’s crest too wonky and the wrong shape, but honestly, I aesthetically don’t mind it, it looks kinda cool, tho I would prefer something a little more accurate. Also, the inflatable sacs coulda worked on the neck, them being in the crest was a bad call, same for the freaking antenna. I don't like the short face. The body looks nice and I honestly take more offense to it being biped and the weird hands than the crest. The coloration is neat, the grayish purple is simple but effective and the light orange is nice too. Also, nice to see Tsintaosaurus be more than Tarbo fodder.
Megaraptor is cool too, I like shades of orange, the stripes and streak of green. The overall shape looks good too. Tho I don’t really have much else to say about it, so I won’t.
Anky boi looks good, the variety of colors looks really nice and most of the body appears to be spot on. While I do kinda wanna see it with website colors, that would be more for more the novelty of it, because the mix of blue purple and orange is already great.
Man, this Sarco is only the 3rd worst design I’ve seen (*cough* Dino Time Sarco Bros). I do like the colors of the green body and yellow spikes, but they shoulda get make the osteoderms yellow tipped, not those crazy long spikes. That and I’m pretty sure this is just a spikey reskinned gharial from Jane by same studio (basically Dino Dana with modern animals). Really big disappointment, since Sarco is much an awesome looking crocodiliomorph.
Shuvuuia is pretty cute and I like the crest and waddle. The peacock tail fan was good in concept but could’ve been done better. Nice to get some alvarezsaurid representation.
In-case you didn’t know, I’ve also created a blog post where all of my notes for this series have been posted, in case you don’t feel like searching for all the separate episodes (plus a new misc. section). Feel free to check it out.
Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed and goodbye.
