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So as of writing this, the official Dino Dan channel just uploaded a trailer for some cruddy MetaQuest VR game called DinoHab. This prolly shouldn’t count for the purposes of this series, it wasn’t even made by the same company, but it’s on their channel, and it’s about dinosaurs, so f*** it, let’s do it.

I can’t really say much about the Tricera, it’s pretty generic. The color variants are decent, but nothing notable.

It really bothers me how official sources just call this a “titanosaur”, that’s very unspecific. The head is pretty laughable and a little ugly. The colorations on the other hand is actually pretty solid, the white with dark splotches of this, or the bluish colors of one the alts would look splendid on a proper model.

There’s nothing to say about the Rex, so instead I’m gonna complain about how the baby looks more like a gross little T.Rex goblin creature than an actual baby dinosaur.

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Hello, welcome back to the next installment of me looking at the creatures Dino Dan. More episodes of Dino Dex have (unofficially) released, so it’s time for me to look the new information and creatures. Let’s start off with the newbies + sole redesign of this batch.

So Meg got a redesign, and it may have gotten better. I ended up liking slim Meg quite a bit, and the whale shark colors were an excellent choice, might be better than the previous one’s colors, tho both are great in their own ways.

Albertonectes looks pretty good, I like the white base with purple stripes, kinda reminds me of the Snapper from the Meg. And this is obviously a much better design than the Plesiosaurus (ignoring color, that can be debated). I would explain what else I like about the design, but it’s more so just compliments about plesiosaurids in general. Main criticisms are the head shape, and the neck length due to this being Albertonectes, not Elasmo, but they’re not really big deals.

While it would’ve been nice to see regular/short horn Elasmotherium, I’m used enough to the unicorn verison to let it slide (under the context of entertainment rather than education). I do have slight distaste for the double horn, but not as much as a should, and as implausible as the colored horn and gray splotches are, they look kinda cool. Another fairly good addition and nice to see Elasmotherium get more love.

My thoughts on the Dire Wolf are complicated. For years I used to think “oh it’s just a big wolf, who cares”. But then came the reclassification as a jackal relative, which combined with this amazing design of the outdated version, has left me questioning everything I thought about how I felt about the Dire Wolf. I mean look and that majestic, beautiful black pupper! I love it! Why do I think this is cool now!? Do I prefer the outdated version? But how, it’s just a wolf! A beautifully designed wolf, but still! Great design, bad accuracy wise, I like it anywaysies, but that existential crisis will haunt me for a while

For the context of these next four, the episode “Dino World” did the thing with single-appearance creatures in an animated style.

Argentino’s design isn’t that good, I’d argue even Pirmal had a better shape, but the the dark green and brown color scheme are pretty good. There is also an alt with brighter green in its coloration and I like than one a fair bit too.

Deinocheirus looks great in terms of design, and my only issue with it is that the arms and that colors are rather bland. Also, this is the 2nd time an ornithomimosaurid has been relegated to a single appearance as a cartoon, they deserve better.

The Hatzeg is kinda bad, I don’t really like the face shape and the colors aren’t doing much to sway me. The weird crest is definitely what I take the most issue with.

This is basically the JW Mosa but more universally unappealing. I especially hate the dumb eyebrow ridges. Even the colors are a downgrade from the JW one.

Let’s be honest, they just wanted a Kraken to attack the sub and get eaten by Beeg Shark and the Swimmer longnecks, those are only reasons why this goober is here. I should be mad, but honestly, that’s just whatever, I like giant monster cephalopods too. Also, this the 2nd time now Colossal Squid has been given the appearance of Giant Squid and shoved in with a bunch of prehistoric stuff of some reason (Jurassic Park Builder)

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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.

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