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.

Updated notes (updates in highlights):

Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed , and goodbye.

Hello, welcome back to me looking at the creatures of Dino Dan, where we’ve reached the end of the road, as I complete the remaining creatures from Dino Dana. To summarize, I look at the design of each creature, along with any oother info shown, mentioned or implied and look at how accurate or inaccurate it is, followed by personal opinion based notes in the design itself.

Positives = Accuracies

IDK = Can’t find or tell weather that’s accurate/possible or not

Negatives = Inaccuracies

Titanis is kinda cool, I like the head shape, the feather crest and the colors are nice (though yellow/pink may not be best combo). With that said, I wish the legs were bigger and the arms highlight the worst of this series’s bizarre avoidance of proper wings

I LOVE this design so much! Gigantoraptor is one of my favorite dinosaurs and this design does the giant chicken justice. The dull red and white are such a great color scheme and all my favorite features like the neck, legs and size are still intact. And most importantly FINALLY A DESIGN WITH WINGS!!! I’m glad they picked this creature out of all to give the wings (even if that sucks for the rest). One of my favorite designs of this entire series probably. Too bad it only appears twice

Like Hippodraco, Europa is another wild-card inclusion, though not as exciting for me. The colors are still nice I suppose. Can’t really say much for or against it, but it’s inclusion is neat I guess.

Man, this Archaeopteryx is just a mess. It wasn’t until I heavily analyzed the design, but even when I first said eyes on this thing, I knew something was wrong. The ostrich head looks lame, the chest and stomach proportions are unfit for a bird, the posture is weird too and for the love of Raptor Jesus WHY does this BIRD have ARMS instead of WINGS!?!? It’s a shame, since the coloration actually looks pretty cool.

Also, I find it kinda dumb how there’s an entire episode dedicated to Dana struggling to figure if this creature is a dinosaur or a pterosaur, even though any paleo-fan/nerd, fresh out the metaphorical eggshell could tell that’s an Archaeopteryx on first try.

Livyatan is just fine, I think blue and white are a decent mix. It’s a big predatory whale, that’s kinda cool on its own. But I do really wish we saw a curved jaw design with a more unique head shape and the small teeth size is pretty jarring. The wrinkles too bring down the design a bit.

Also, I don’t care if it’s dumb, watching it and a submarine breach together was awesome.

Meganeura (and Arthorpleura) are weird in that I for some reason get excited about what’s just an upscaled arthropod (tho at least Arthro I prefer with the armored look). Meganeura is just a big dragonfly and that’s enough for me, somehow makes it a favorite for me and this design looks cool to me.

(Tho maybe that’s me giving into some of my edgelord tendencies, since arthropods are the definitive edgiest animals and better edgier when giant).

Also, I feel so bad for it in its 2nd appearance, where it only exists to get dunked on and eaten by various paraves.

Bronto is another fine one, but man that face is goofy as hell. Life on Our Planet Megacerops is a Chad, this guy is straight virgin material by comparison. Also, wish we saw more of it regardless.

Eoraptor as the 1st (proper) Triassic animal is decent. The vivid green colors really carry the design and it’s prolly the least obvious the recolors. If this were the only recollection, I’d be fine.

I honestly don’t care about ProCompy since it’s superficially the same thing to me regardless of design. Tho they could have tried just a little bit harder than Compy but duller and naked.

Honestly, do you care about these 2 sauropods? Are you a genuine fan of Bellu or Amygdala and upset they’re just recolors? Well I’m not and let’s not kid ourselves, neither are you. These 2 could have been 100% ace in the hole accurate design and I still wouldn’t care at all. Just another 2 random dinosaurs that blend into the crowd (my personal 2nd least favorite type of extinct animal).

Procerato and Eustrepto are such cool and unique creatures, so them being s***y recolors doesn’t need to be explained as to why that’s bad. Procerato definitely was worse off a color pattern that looks like literal ****, but Eustrepto’s colors would have actually looked pretty cool if given a proper model.

This was what I meant when I said this series treats the Triassic like s***.

Zuul is a surprising choice but a welcome one. I think the natural browny green colors looks better than Euoplo, really nice design, tho I do wish it were a bit thicker.

Gorgo has a great model, the plain brown with liver spots pattern are kinda dull and unpleasant. Gorgon from the WWD movie is always be best Gorgo.

Fun fact, the reason these 2 are as accurate as they are (I assume) is because the company who made the show, also made an animation for the Royal Ontario Museum (which was also visited in all 3 shows and the movie) to go along with the discovery and exhibit of Zuul. And since they had the Zuul and Gorgo lying about, they decided, may as well put them into the Dana Movie.

Too bad both make mere cameos, despite new additions usually getting at least one full episode about them.

Pachycephalosaurus, while an odd final species, looks really nice with the blue color and long build to it. Pachy boi looks simply majestic (say for the weird neck).

Stygi and Draco are here too and we’re totally children the whole time (even tho there’s no way it’s coloration would change that drastically IRL). If you wanna hear my thoughts about them just go read parts 1 and 3.

Also, it’s kinda sweet the Pachy trio are used to teach both dinosaur ontogeny and a family lesson about ignoring what’s different to focus on what’s in common.

Updated notes (updates in highlights):

Dinosaur Revolution Quetz’s cooler blues and greens are also amazing.

I was trying to the right wording for Diplo neck flexibility

I forgot Titanosaurids didn’t have the claw on its front feet.

And there it is, every creature has been covered. Where do we go from here?

Well 1st I’m going to do one last bonus episode about all the non-canon creatures from toys and games so be ready for that (ignoring Dino Timeline for the website or the Activity Book, because you’d never see me again otherwise).

And then one last send off to this series via compiling all my notes

But until then, thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed , and goodbye.

Hello, once again I’m looking at every creature in the Dino Dan franchise. We’re now at the final stretch as we begin with the new Creatures from Dino Dana. To recap, I’m looking at each creatures’ design, behavior and any other information given and looking at how accurate/inaccurate it is and some personal notes on the design itself.

Positives = Accuracies

IDK = Can’t find or tell weather that’s accurate/possible or not

Negatives = Inaccuracies

Stellar design for the first new creature of the series. The orange with white stripes is nice on its own and the green spikes really sell it for me. I also really like the shape and kinda prefer the long neck.

In terms of pure aesthetics, this is fine, but honestly I prefer stuff like the Primeval Titanoboa (hottake). Also the pink comes off as a bit humiliating, more so than the yellow on the Rex and Tricera. Also, interesting this is what they went for as first Cenozoic of the series

That stupid goofy feather cut really tanks the design for me. A feather cut which every individual Incisivo has BTW. That and the head is bizarrely small, the lack of proper wings and the color not really doing anything for me. Notability, the 2D app version of this design lacks the dumb feather cut, making it automatically better.

Say for the lack of hooves, this design looks pretty good overall. With that said, purple with yellow spots has got to be the most humiliating coloration of any creature in the show yet (the male looks a bit better though).

The mix of purple, red, blue and green look gorgeous in Sinornitho. It rivals Kosmo and Futa for favorite of any creature in the show. The head also looks nice, Unfortunately, it still lacks wings but whatever. Fix the wings and the skinny-ness, then the design will be perfect.

Meg is a fine creature in general and I primarily only dislike Meg design when they’re just Great White but big. While going the thicc boi route would have been preferable, I do really like the black with purple spots and stripes look.

Also, before you say it’s too big, I can head-canonize the IMAGINARY submarine as being bigger inside like the Tardis. Also I find so bizarre how Meg and Livy are seen exclusively in Dana’s imagination

I actually prefer feathered medium boi Nanuq. This design looks really good with the black n white color and the spots and I prefer the old thinner build, tho this might be a bit too thin. Also the roar is sometimes cool and other times annoying.

This might be one of my favorite designs in the show. Horn length aside, the build is splendid and the grayish-blue with orange frill are just fantastic. Accurate and appealing, A+.

It’s not big surprise this design is super accurate, you’d have to try to make a bad wooly design. This one looks really good too, but the design really speaks for it

Smilodon looks really cool too, I love white face markings and shades of brown and the leopard spots (though you can’t really see from the photo). I’m pretty this is meant to be S.fatalis. Good kitty.

While I do wish the skull and skin were ironed out, the overall design looks nice and the horse splotches look really cool, I don’t care how inaccurate or on the nose it is. Also the straight up horse noises are ironically funny.

Also weird they still won’t add an ornithomimid but did add Hippodraco of all dinosaurs (not that I’m complaining about horse dragon)

While it sucks that this guy is a reskin, the orange brown with white stripes is still gorgeous. I also kinda prefer this design over both Maia and Edmonto

Updated notes (updates in highlights): Thank you so everyone who pointed some of these out it me.

Had to look close at the feet to see if I was right or not. Also I didn’t know forehead nostrils were inaccurate for Brachio.

I decided that for Stygi and Draco the invalid genus inaccuracy only applies to the series since it’s (kinda) fixed in the movie.

Reworded to just say Troodon is dubious

Had a good close look at the Theri feet are there are 4 toes

Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed and goodbye.

So blah blah blah I'm using a website that teaches me new words and such and blah blah and THIS comes up for Primeval! The Mer-Creature is in the background by the way

Better view:

Welcome back to looking at more Dino Dan creatures. Today we are moving on to all the new creatures introduced in Trek’s Adventures. Basically I’m looking at the design and any other information the show gives and amazing how accurate/inaccurate it is, followed by personal notes on the design itself.

Positives = Accuracies

IDK = Can’t find or tell weather that’s accurate/possible or not

Negatives = Inaccuracies

Alberto is fine design, but I don’t like the eyes and how it looks angry all the time. Also the shrinking wrapped skull and weird neck posture feels worse on the here than on the OG Rex.

Major improvement, I like the new skull shape a lot. But with that said now the colors look much too bright, the darker shades of blue were better. This deisgn with the old colors would be perfect

The colors look cool and the tail fans’ nice, but just like the original Dromaeo, he’s got a terrible feather cut. The skull shape is kinda bad too.

This looks much better, nice thin skull shape and a kinda cool feather crest. It’s a shame about the face and arms tho.

This Amargasaurus design is whack. Why is it so big and what’s with the proportions?! Also, while I prefer the spiked look for Amarga, I’d take any accurate neck sails over these weird Spino fins. With that said, I can’t deny the colors are beautiful (on the male, the female’s fine). Like the original Tricera, the color barley save it, but to a slightly higher degree

This Giga has really cool gray colors (would love to see this design in the shape of the RJ Palmer one), but the proportions are just wack. The arms come off as particularly goofy, since they’re way too small with hands much too big. Also, the ischium and pelvis thing I pointed out feels wrong. Head is alright though. If the proportions were better, this could have been really cool.

I’m not sure how I feel about the Micro. The colors, while outdated, look nice. Ignoring how skinny it is, the proportions look nice. The face is a mixed bag, but it’s a bit tolerable every now and then.

The face is better, but the crest looks silly and dumb. The body is honestly a bit of a downgrade, maybe because of the wings, colors, legs and chest. And it still baffles me that as late as the movie, they STILL avoid giving the dinosaurs proper wings!

Pterodaustro has a great face and actually looks really pretty with the red color and blue patterning. Quite a unique choice of creature too.

Draco has a really nice combo of green white and purple. Ignoring face being off a bit and the side spikes, pretty good design

I adore the coloration of Kosmo, blue with white and purple works so well! The face and shape are spot on as well. With that said, I don’t understand nor appreciate the rocky skin and osteoderms. But I can overlook that, one of my favorite herbivore designs from this show.

Why is Theri so small?! Also, the face looks kinda unappealing, especially how it doesn’t have feathers on the face. That and the back is weird. The rest of it is fine, the colors on the male looks pretty cool, with the white base and red spots (like Amarga, the female is just fine). Overall, kinda bad, I much prefer even Dominion Theri over it.

Psittacosaurus looks good. The brown and white stripes with hints of yellow go well together. I also find it neat how I can actually tell what species it is based on the skull. I’m also kinda upset it couldn’t use the quills for defense IRL. Also the body is a bit off

I’m doing the “Meteorite Survivors” trio cause well, I did do the Triassic Lizard boi, this is fair game too. That and unlike the one-off creatures from “Tyrannosaurus Trek” and “Quetza Grandma”, these aren’t so overly-cartoony to the point of being fruitless to cover.

I do like the colors, but I don’t really care for Tuatara. My absolute least favorite extinct animals are the ones that are too similar to modern stuff, because they’re often not unique enough, so not-lizard boi over here gets no praise from me.

What the hell is that?! It looked like a 10 yr old edgelord tried designing a shark. The fins look stupid and the face isn’t much better. Colors are neat I guess. So yeah, really bad design.

While this design doesn’t fit a Createous bird, the colors are really pretty and it’s unironically a better design for Archeopteryx than the one Dino Dana gave us.

The proportions for Deino aren’t nearly as bad as the Giga, and it’s kinda cool, mainly cause it’s a big crocodile. The tealish-green and reddish purple are another really good color scheme.

Archelon is also fine. The blue colors and orange shell looks pretty good here. The pointed shell is such a weird choice to me (tho looks a little cool) and the alt. isn’t much better. The flippers are also kinda bad.

Plesiosaurus is also decent, I like the green and orange patterning but its pretty un-notable beyond that

Like Kosmo, Futa has a beautiful green and blue color scheme with red highlights. I also don’t mind the shape, despite being inaccurate. The lips not closing is a red flag tho.

I honestly take more offense to the overly rough face of Ozraptor than the over-feathering. The colors are neat, but the design becomes kinda bad once you realize what Ozraptor is meant to be (small abelisaurid).

Also I find it weird how Futa and Ozzie were were introduced in Trek’s Adventures but only appeared once until Dino Dana

This color scheme would look beautiful on an accurate Utahraptor, but the face, arms and toe claws are a new level of “WTF that’s so wrong”.

This one is just disappointing, given how the toy and website version actually had feathers. Colors are still nice I guess, despite those also being a downgrade.

Updated notes (updates in highlights):

Thank you to @ScaryLookinHobo for pointing out some of these out to me.

This one was more of a grammar error, (original just said “shrink”)

Realized/forgot to mention the Stygi’s pronated arms

Can dinosaurs shiver?

I think I was wrong about Compy having 2 fingers

I didn’t notice the wrong fingers on Quetz before

Forgot to mention eppcopitals

The Stego plate placement looked off initially but I think mainly just a body shape and plate shape that threw me off.

Anyways thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed and goodbye.

The animals that are confirmed are listed on the Surviving Earth page, but here are some animals that might appear, even if they aren’t 100% confirmed.

A quadruped reptile, possibly a sauropod or close relative.

Dimetrodon.

Dendrorhynchoides.

Caihong.

Mamenchisaurus.

Streak 8 of being the only person posting about Surviving Earth by the way.

There's a event happening at the audobon zoo that involves dinosaurs a lot, so will a page be made for it?

Hello, and welcome back to me analyzing the creatures of Dino Dan. If you haven’t seen part 1, basically I’m looking at the design of each creature along with any information given in the show and listing any accuracies or inaccuracies, along with some general thoughts on the design removed from accuracy.

Positives = Accuracies

IDK = Can’t find or tell weather that’s accurate/possible or not

Negatives = Inaccuracies

(Creatures in appearance order)

The T.rex was one thing, but this Triceratops design being this wrong is just baffling. I think aesthetic wise, it’s barely saved by the colors, but still, wow

Ahh, much better. I am bothered by the short brow horns, but this Tricera design looks simply majestic. I appreciate the correct legs BTW. Also, while I don’t like the body, the kid Tricera is the only juvenile design that looks notably cute. (Also ironic how Jurassic world had a more accurate juvi tricera, even if barley)

This is mostly the same as the last one, but I think the new colors and rough texture make me prefer it.

While I’m not one for most 2000s Spinosaurus designs, the shades of green with orange stripes are gorgeous enough to (partially) overlook that.

I never really cared for this design, the new texture and recollection removed what I liked about it. Also, it’s really weird to watch 2000s Spino designs swim.

This design is BEAUTIFUL. Hands down one of, if not my favorite Spino design of all time and prolly favorite design of the show. The really long tail and body are lovely, the head is at its finest and I like the m sail shape. I’m unsure if I like it being quadruped or think it’s just fine. I do miss quad Spino for how unique and weirdly cool it was. Only negatives aesthetically would be the colors not being as vibrant as I’d like and the croc skin, but those aside, just fantastic.

This design is fine, great colors aside, don’t really care for it. Accurate Pterodactylus designs are much more interesting.

I can’t tell if this design is bad or I’m indifferent. It’s times like these that remind me why I prefer pycnofibered pterosaur designs, because this looks like a bald vulture. That and the colors are boring now. I do appreciate the updated skull I guess.

This design is decent, I do like how long it is, but not much to not beyond that. The color scheme is interesting, but I don’t know what to think of it.

This one is really pretty, while I wish it were longer and had more of the green on it. The rest does long boi justice. Also, this one of the few Diplodocus in pop culture with a face I like. Shame it and the Corytho redesign are barely in the movie.

My opinions on this one are essentially harsher versions of what I thought about the 1st Triceratops design. Not even the colors save it (yet), despite the frosty red plates looking cool.

While the color scheme is now perfected, the design itself I’m not fond of. Mainly because I prefer the shape of straight backed designs. That and the short neck is weird.

Eew, bad, I wanna leave.

Another big glow-up, I think one’s nice, although the colors throw me off a little.

I was so upset by this as a child and I still am. The Triassic has so many cool interesting creatures, dinosaur or not, and the only creature showcased are these stupid lizard things?! At least 65 has the excuse of the Createous being overplayed! (Even if 65 is much worse in general)

Updated notes: (updates in highlights)

I noticed the running speed pointed in the one of the episodes and reconsidered the alarm call thing

I prolly should have noted the legs on the baby Rex, and after giving it some thought, the skin looks inaccurate compared to paleo art and Prehistoric Planet. I also forgot about the Rex vs Giga episode pointing out T.rex smarts.

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed and goodbye

Don’t forget, it’s not going to be like the original series.

We won’t know who’s making the music or who’s narrating until when it’s close to release, most likely.

The main animal of each episode will have a name like Big Al (pretty curious as to what they’re going to call the Spinosaurus).

Each episode focuses on a particular dig site that’s active or has been active recently (possibly explaining the lack of a Triassic episode).

So one night I went crazy and randomly started skimming through the Dino Dan franchise (lovely shows from my childhood) for accuracies and inaccuracies and now I’m here to show all my notes as well as some additional opinions on the design in general. Why? Cuz why not and also I didn’t waste my time for nothing. Note, this is not just about design, but anything such as behavioral information or measurements given too. (No, I’m not covering supplementary material like the toys, dead flash website, mobile apps, books or anything else of that nature)

Positives = Accuracies

IDK = Can’t find or tell weather that’s accurate/possible or not

Negatives = Inaccuracies

(Creatures are listed in order in appearance BTW)

(Also, this in parts because this is WAY too much info for one post)

Pretty bad feathered raptor design. He has a terrible feather cut and naked arms that look pretty lame. The weird small head and big body don’t help much. You'll see that the color scheme itself isn’t that bad. Also, the original series sound effects are satisfying for me, IDK why.

This design looks better and kind of decent, though not my personal preference for feathered raptors. At least the feather crest is kinda cool. Also, the lack of primaries on the hands (which even in Dino Dana, the inclusion of primaries on the hand is avoided like the plague) will always confuse me from an aesthetic few. How are feathered designs “cooler” without the wings?

This is a fine Brachiosaurus design. Brachiosaurus is a dinosaur which in general doesn’t really have bad designs (say for the face of the JP3 one). This one doesn’t stand out too much, say for the back spines, which look cool.

Not a fan of the new face, but not that bad. I’m not that much of a fan of the shorter neck, and the inclusion of the additional spikes feels off.

The red white color combo is pretty cool, but the design itself feels off, mainly the stocky build of it. Not bad, but I don’t like it much either.

This design (say for the tail) is a perfect example of the Pachy designs I like. The slim proportions just do it for me. Also the color scheme is still mostly intact.

Not that big a fan of this design, mainly because of the face shape. That and the hands remind me why I prefer hoofed Hadrosaurid designs. The blue colors are kinda nice. It bothers me so much that even by the time of the movie (by which, literally every other original series creature was redesigned), Edmonto STILL had the same design it started with (oh, and Compy too, but it was mostly good design to start with).

I love the colors of the Corythosaurus, mainly the vivid orange. The design colors aside is whatever.

While I miss the original colors, the Corytho redesign is amazing, particularly the face shape. Also the best Hadrosaurid design in the series and one of the best herbivore design.

It’s strange they made the mere concept of “Yellow T.rex” look as cool as it is. Maybe that because it looks more like a golden brown with orange stripes. As I said, (say for the colors) this thing is just the Walking with Rex but if it looked appealing to an extent. While the proportions still bother me, I can’t help but think it’s a cool design. Maybe that’s just me fixating on the texture, looks appealing to rub hand against. (Also, feels weird that of all topics, the 1st show went with the low hanging fruit of “did T.rex lift its tail while walking?” for one episode).

This is definitely the most accurate T.Rex design I consider to be a favorite. Everything about this build just works for me in a way it never has before or since. I also really like how long it is. I also really like the hissy roar it has.

I will admit I am a little bit of a Feathered Rex apologist. When it and Quadruped Spino were revealed and shook the Paleo-Community, I remember accepting both with open arms and the feelings I had for them still stick around whenever I look at them. I do still prefer the series version, but the feathered T.Rex designs like this always looked cool to me (maybe because they remind me of Dromaeosaurid feather crests or lion manes). I also like the darker shades of color given around the body.

The juvenile design is cool, I like slim theropods like it, tho the coloration is far inferior to the adult. Also, it bothers me how it is designed in a completely different style than the grown up and baby and as such is feather-less.

Don’t ask why I called the Comy’s feathers “primitive fluff”, just felt right. Another decent design, I can’t really say much about, other than the feathers may be a bit too poofy. I also find it funny how this guy in the 1st series felt more like a wacky neighborhood menace character more than an animal (that’s just my interpretation).

I have never been fond of retro Quetzie interpretations like this, the Schleich toy, or WWD. The stork neck and pointed crest have always been cooler to me. That and the shrink wrapping is pretty bad here and the stance is almost always hunched-backed or upright on two legs. With that said, it does have the objectively best roar of every creature in the show and I’m sad it’s not used in the sequel series.

This is one of my favorite Quetzalcoatlus designs. I really like the long neck (which I prefer flexible BTW) and shape of the head. I also really like the vibrant colors of the face and wings. Although I’m bothered of the lack of Pycnofibers and the wings bending incorrectly

This design is fine, though I consider the colors to be a downgrade and the face shape and neck fall to just not be my preference. Personally I prefer the Dominion Quetzie.

Updates:

This section is empty because this is the first part. Whenever I notice I missed something or I figure something in the “IDK” sections, I will update the notes and post them here at the bottom.

Anyways, that’s for reading, hope you enjoyed and goodbye.

So I just wanted to discuss some hot takes I have with popular(ish) designs in Paleo-Media, because some of these annoy me and also cuz why not. (Note: all of these are my opinions and based on design, NOT behavior)

Hottake 1#

I’m unsure how popular Rex is around the Paleo Community is, but I have heard consider him cute. I honestly can't tell why. To me, his face looks like an ugly monkey, or that weird Vinemeat Earthworm, mainly because it feels like they tried too hard to make his face cutesy and human-like and he has too many wrinkles. That and the fin crest isn’t doing it for me and the design seems quite generic for me. JWA’s Coelurosauravus on the other hand is absolutely precious (and one of many underrated designs from that game). They have the pointed head shape and crest to make them look like the creature it’s based on and the eyes make them adorable (without being slightly uncanny). That and the coloration is stellar. The only shortcomings compared to Rex would probably be the tail length and the base brown color of the center one. But that aside, excellent designed cute gliding bois and much preferred over Rex.

Hottake 2#

I have personal beef with the Jurassic Park Dilophosaurus. I can’t for the life of me comprehend why it would be designed so wrong (even for its time) or why people like it to the extent they do (Nostalgia’s not THAT strong is it?!). I have to admit I the colors are spectacular, but great colors on a bad model doesn’t justify said model (*cough* JW Pteranodon and WWD Theropods in general *cough*). The poison would have one thing on its own, but the inclusion of the frill just feels wrong to me, like it doesn’t belong in a creature like this. Also the small size and abelisaurid shaped skull only makes this design worse for me, given that the long skull and size are my favorite features of Dilo. Dilophosaurus is a cool creature on its own and this design takes away everything I like about it. The main reason I dislike this design (other than the fact it’s barely even a Dilophosaurus anymore) is that this THING is now Dilo’s reputation. Although, I have to admit, the colors make it so that I can’t myself outright hate the design, assuming it stays confined to the Jurassic Franchise WHERE IT BELONGS. I’m just sick of frilled Dilo is all.

Hottake 3#

The Walking with Dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus in my opinion, is hands down the most overrated designs on this list (colors aside). I’m convinced the praise it’s gotten is solely due to nostalgia. At the very least, JP’s Frilled Spitter can be cool to a young impressionable kid, but how does ANYONE think the WWD Rex is cool?! The face is really ugly, shaped like a rock doing an impression of a crumpled up plastic bag, rather than something that looks like a T.rex. That and the tail is weirdly small and limp (which reminds me, why what’s up the WWD Diplo’s limp tail whipping about and why am I the only one bothered by said limp-ness?). This looks more like a child’s cruddy drawing of T.rex rather than a documentary design.

The Allosaurus is definitely less offensive but still overrated in my opinion. For the first design, the body length and tail are a bit off, but it’s mainly the ugly face once again which is overly round for some reason. The Ballad of Big Al version is better (no complaints about the body), but the face is still ugly, too short and because of some horrendous shrink wrapping, looks kinda lumpy too. (Also, I’d put WWD Eustrepto and Utah here, but not enough people like those designs for me to consider).

Hottake 4#

Whenever I see people talk about the Disney Carno, they say it “cool unique choice that’s different from T.rex”, which feels more like Nostalgia talking again. Gee I WISH it was a unique choice that felt different from T.rex. I don’t mind the colors or the spikes, but the main issue is that its far too big and bulky and basically just a T.rex (which is what these were originally supposed to be), even tho Carnotaurus was medium sized and slim. This isn’t a Carnotaurus, it’s a mega-theropod wearing a Carno cosmetic. What’s weird is that Jurassic World actually gives Carno a decent design (as did Ark and The Isle), with a smaller and slimmer build that actually makes it feel different from T.rex. The spikes and arms bother me a little bit, it at least it’s distinct and feels like Carnotaurus.

Hottake 5#

The Iguanodons’ faces in Disney’s Dinosaur are super ugly

This one’s on list, not cause of popularity, but I seen quite a few compliments and almost no criticisms so… I don’t mind most of the Igaundon’s design (even if the texture feels off and the horns are weird). But the faces are kinda gross. I could forgive this if we’re just the eyes, but the lips in place of a beak come off as extremely uncanny, only made worse by the weird teeth. I get that having beaked dinosaur designs talking and expressing would have been weird, but this feels much worse. Part of this may be the nature of a realistic textured 3d model compared to a simplified 2d design, but as is, foul, vile, no thanks.

Hottake 6#

I find it understandable why people hate the Dominion Giga is bad, but I’d argue there’s worse. I don’t hear many complain about it, but Primeval’s Giga is a such a weird and jarringly gangly sight with a bizarrely short skull and I can’t even tell what’s going on with its neck. Meanwhile, while not my favorite design (I prefer the RJ Palmer one), Dominion’s Giga to me is decent enough. It’s mainly just some of the croc skin and the skull being too wide that get me. The rest of the body, primarily in shape, seems alright to me (and it doesn't look like it’s crossed with a homeless man).

But anyways, hope you enjoyed, feel free to debate with me or tell me any design hottakes you have. Thank you and goodbye.

We have the official logo for the next Jurassic Film.

This is the only CGI design leak we have from Surviving Earth. It’s confirmed to appear in a Triassic segment alongside a dicynodont. It appears to resemble a theropod, although there’s no ruling out the possibility that it’s another type of archosaur like a pseudosuchian.

Behind the scenes shot if you missed it.

In other news:

Expect teaser soon, maybe.

The dinosaur designs apparently look amazing.

Aw man (don’t worry, it will release this year and there are only 4 months left in 2024).

Walking With Dinosaurs 2025 will have no Triassic episode. Apologies to Triassic fans, who now only have Surviving Earth to look forward to.

https://x.com/TomHoltzPaleo/status/1828194088862335316

This changes up episode layout, which is now:

1. Unknown Early Jurassic area.

2. Lourinha Formation.

3. Cedar Mountain Formation.

4. Bahariya Formation.

5. Dinosaur Provincial Park.

6. Hell Creek Formation.

Show will be released in the summer by the way.

https://x.com/PrehistoricMus/status/1804163093163053336