Dinosaurs Rock!

[Shreddhead]

So I've been a big fan of dinosaurs ever since I was a wee lad pretending to be a paleontologist, and I've spent a good deal of my life reading about, watching, and playing with all things prehistoric. Now I'm asking for suggestions for anything Dino related that you're a fan of or think would be a good investment of my time to check out. (TV, Movies, Comics, Video Games, Everything else!)

Some of my favorite dino related stuff:
Jurassic Park- movies, novels, comics, toys
Xenozoic Tales- comics
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs- Tv show and video game
Dinotopia
Dinosaurs- Tv show


What are your personal favorites?

[zkarlette]

I really liked Dinosaucers.

[Oculus Orbus]

I think this is probably gonna be very cool.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Well my faves are;

Movies: the Jurassic Park Trilogy
Books: Jurassic Park and The Lost World
Video Games: Jurassic Park of course
Magazines: Dinosaurs! Discover The Giants of the Prehistoric World
TV Shows: Denver the last Dinosaur; Cadillacs And Dinosaurs; Dinosaurs!

[Ecto Jedi]

Originally Posted by Oculus Orbus

I think this is probably gonna be very cool.

Whoa!! Love that Dinosaurs Attack! Topps mythology!

[Machias Banshee]

We actually used to have a Dinosaur News thread for whenever anyone wanted to share an update on new discoveries, fossils, etc... Maybe we can bring that back.

Movies: I've always loved the 'Jurassic Park' movies, no matter how scientifically inaccurate the dinosaurs might be. The books were alright... but I'm seriously thinking of seeing the new 3-D'd 'Jurassic Park' on the big screen again.

Books: Long ago there was a book in the library called 'Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up', that had beautiful artwork about a maiasaur going up in the forests of Canada. I am bound and determined to find this book and add it to my Library. The 'Dinotopia' books by James Gurney are absolutely gorgeous to look at and fun to read. There was a Live/CGI mini-series made of it, but it did it No justice... And how could one forget 'Raptor Red' by Robert T. Bakker?

TV: I used to love 'Dinosaurs' when I was growing up - Roy the T-Rex was always my favorite. Another old favorite was the 90s 'Land of the Lost' with the strange looking Sleestacks (sp?). Today, I'll try to catch every new BBC/Discovery/History Special made for TV nowadays...

Live Events: 'Walking with Dinosaurs: The live Experience' - if you like dinosaurs, you HAVE to go see this - The music for the show is also fantastic (and for sale at the shows!)

Comics: I have One issue of 'Cadillacs and Dinosaurs', and a few issues of Lawson's 'Paleo'.

Online stuff: There's an artist on DeviantArt that's currently working on a project called 'Mark of the Conifer', and she did a mini-comic prequel to the story called 'The Pact', As well as post some of her major character designs. She does an amazing job...

[Powder]

I love Extreme Dinosaurs, an animated series similar to Street Sharks/TMNT, as well as Jim Lawsons Paleo comic.

[ObiWanFan4life]

Saw Jurassic Park 3D. It was a BLAST

[TheCanadiandrome]

Originally Posted by Machias Banshee

TV: I used to love 'Dinosaurs' when I was growing up - Roy the T-Rex was always my favorite. Today, I'll try to catch every new BBC/Discovery/History Special made for TV nowadays...

Live Events: 'Walking with Dinosaurs: The live Experience' - if you like dinosaurs, you HAVE to go see this - The music for the show is also fantastic (and for sale at the shows!)

oh man i'd love to see 'Walking with Dinosaurs: The live Experience'. perhaps if it's ever in Canada again. and yeah i try to catch every new documentary that comes out also

[Blossombrooks]

I used to be dinosaur mad too, I have some fairly cool fossils but they're packed away in the loft. I'd be happy to post some pics when I find them if anyone is interested. They're mostly ammonites and various bark/tree pieces.
I still like to watch all the dinosaur documentaries and I love going to the natural history museum in London, there are some truly breathtaking exhibits there.
Growing up I loved Denver the last dinosaur, Land before Time, Dink and 'Dinosaurs'. Not a huge fan of Jurassic Park but I thought the ride and experience at Universal were pretty amazing. Velociraptors scare me lol.

[Oculus Orbus]

Originally Posted by Blossombrooks

I love going to the natural history museum in London, there are some truly breathtaking exhibits there.

Oh yeah, I love that place! I remember the first time I went there, I was blown away.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Hey BB I'd love to see those fossils! And I totall forgot the Land Before Time franchise

I'm stoked cause at the local Western Development Museum in town, there's a T-Rex skull on display til September! I want to go see it badly!

[Shreddhead]

Originally Posted by zkarlette

I really liked Dinosaucers.

Originally Posted by Powder

I love Extreme Dinosaurs, an animated series similar to Street Sharks/TMNT, as well as Jim Lawsons Paleo comic.

Ahh I totally remember these! I checked out the intros on youtube to refresh my memory and found myself remembering the lyrics to the Extreme Dinosaurs theme song. I'm gonna have to try and get my hands on these.

Originally Posted by Oculus Orbus

I think this is probably gonna be very cool.

Holy crap that looks awesome! I just got into the IDW Mars Attacks books so now im super stoked about this!

Originally Posted by Blossombrooks

I used to be dinosaur mad too, I have some fairly cool fossils but they're packed away in the loft. I'd be happy to post some pics when I find them if anyone is interested. They're mostly ammonites and various bark/tree pieces.
Growing up I loved Denver the last dinosaur, Land before Time, Dink and 'Dinosaurs'.

I'd love to see pics of those fossils if its not too much trouble. Ive got a huge nature collection myself including a decent amount of fossils, mostly plants and small sea creatures and one small chunk of dino i got in Yosemite. And I forgot to mention my extreme love of the first Land Before Time film, its the first movie I have a memory of seeing.

Spoiler:

Originally Posted by Machias Banshee

We actually used to have a Dinosaur News thread for whenever anyone wanted to share an update on new discoveries, fossils, etc... Maybe we can bring that back.

Movies: I've always loved the 'Jurassic Park' movies, no matter how scientifically inaccurate the dinosaurs might be. The books were alright... but I'm seriously thinking of seeing the new 3-D'd 'Jurassic Park' on the big screen again.

Books: Long ago there was a book in the library called 'Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up', that had beautiful artwork about a maiasaur going up in the forests of Canada. I am bound and determined to find this book and add it to my Library. The 'Dinotopia' books by James Gurney are absolutely gorgeous to look at and fun to read. There was a Live/CGI mini-series made of it, but it did it No justice... And how could one forget 'Raptor Red' by Robert T. Bakker?

TV: I used to love 'Dinosaurs' when I was growing up - Roy the T-Rex was always my favorite. Another old favorite was the 90s 'Land of the Lost' with the strange looking Sleestacks (sp?). Today, I'll try to catch every new BBC/Discovery/History Special made for TV nowadays...

Live Events: 'Walking with Dinosaurs: The live Experience' - if you like dinosaurs, you HAVE to go see this - The music for the show is also fantastic (and for sale at the shows!)

Comics: I have One issue of 'Cadillacs and Dinosaurs', and a few issues of Lawson's 'Paleo'.

Online stuff: There's an artist on DeviantArt that's currently working on a project called 'Mark of the Conifer', and she did a mini-comic prequel to the story called 'The Pact', As well as post some of her major character designs. She does an amazing job...

If there's interest, I'd love this thread to become the new Dinosaur news/updates spot. And how is Raptor Red? Ive always been interested but never found the time to read it. I also forgot to mention I really enjoyed Dinotopia as a kid, gonna have to revisit that as well.


Thanks for all the awesome suggestions everyone!

[Blossombrooks]

[QUOTE=Shreddhead;1085629]

I'd love to see pics of those fossils if its not too much trouble. Ive got a huge nature collection myself including a decent amount of fossils, mostly plants and small sea creatures and one small chunk of dino i got in Yosemite. [QUOTE]

Sure I'll try to dig mine out (we have mouse sized spiders in the loft and I may be gone a while, lol). I'd like to see the sea creatures and the dino chunk from your collection too tho.

Argh, every time I say 'fossils' now I end up doing the 'dum, dum, dummm' from Phineas and Ferb

[Powder]

Extreme Dinosaurs was on Netflix for the longest time, so if you by chance have it you could look on there.
Also always loved the animated film "We're Back!" about three Dinosaurs that end up in a city befriending two kids.

[Machias Banshee]

Originally Posted by Shreddhead

If there's interest, I'd love this thread to become the new Dinosaur news/updates spot.

Sounds good to me!

And how is Raptor Red? Ive always been interested but never found the time to read it. I also forgot to mention I really enjoyed Dinotopia as a kid, gonna have to revisit that as well.

Raptor Red is fantastic. You're basically following the life of a young female raptor and her flock members. I've rented the library one so many times (it's the issue that has some REALLY nice inside cover art...), but I'm hoping to get my own copy.

The artwork in Dinotopia is absolutely beautiful, and there's been several 'sequel' books since - The world beneath is the only one I've actually gotten my hands on. James Gurney has his own website where he blogs about dinosaurs, his books, different events that he attends...

[Pterobat]

Dinosaurs, dinosaurs, I love dinosaurs and other things prehistoric and reptilian!

Currently I live in Alberta, which is a gold mine for dinosaur fossils and home to the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology, one of the best paleontological institutions in the world. Sadly, I haven't been there in almost a decade, but will change that this summer. It also bears a large Tyrannosaur statue as an attraction.

When it comes to dinosaur media, I like a lot of things, but I'm picky. Like many, I grew up in Jurassic Park and the Land Before Time, and a million other things. My current favourites are indeed Raptor Red, and Dinotopia has beautiful illustrations, but is a little cheesy now that I'm a grown-up.

But besides those, I haven't seen mentioned:

"The New Dinosaurs" by Dougal Dixon: a book of speculation about what dinosaurs may have evolved into had they not become extinct. Some are uninspired because they're basically dinosaur versions of current animals, but others are wonderfully weird, and many are furry.

Ricardo Delgado's "Age of Reptiles" comic series: a set of silent comics telling stories of dinosaur life at various periods during prehistoric times. It has incredible artwork and has been released in an omnibus edition by Dark Horse, so go for it!

Far-seer / Fossil Hunter / Foreigner: a trilogy of science fiction novels by Robert J. Sawyer involving the societal growth of a species of small Tyrannosaurs who are the result of aliens implanting dinosaurs from Earth. Fun reads.

End of an Era: Also by Robert J. Sawyer, a more standard time-travel novel.

Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds by John Long and Peter Schouten. The best illustrated book of feathered dinosaurs that I've seen.

And someday, I'm going to see the dinosaur statues in Crystal Palace Park in London. They were sculpted in the eighteen-hundreds and look very different from what we see today, but have been declared a national monument and been preserved.

My favourite dinosaurs were always carnivores, since they were more intelligent, and following that, I preferred the smaller models. My absolute favourite is Troodon Formosus, which is famous for having the largest brain of any dinosaur. Not that that's a huge achievement, but it's still fun, and inspired the odd thought experiment "The Dinosauroid" which involved building a statue of what a dinosaur would look like, had it evolved into a humanoid being:



I am 100% in favour of the new depictions of dinosaurs as feathered. I like the look of reptilian dinosaurs, but feathers are reality and science, so there's nothing to disagree with. And I like the look of feathered ones, too.

[The Stryker]

[TheCanadiandrome]

I love Drumheller Pterobat! One of my fave places, I've been twice, last time being 2009!

[MikeyISbest]

Awesome a dinosaur thread.I love it.
Like most people here I was a Land before time then Jurassic Park man...loved the movies and the two novels....I recall having a dinosaur reference book or two as a youngster.
Is there any really good Encyclopedia type dinosaur books out there that anyone would recommend.
I still get to enjoy dinosaurs on tv now as my sons watch Dinosaur train and Dino Dan....and maybe another one came think what its called haha

I'm also keen to see these pictures when the get posted