It's funny how much cooler and more dangerous the more accurate version looks. Even if you have never seen the true form of an animal, your brain has an inherent visual sense of how body mechanics should work. I remember the first time I saw depictions of dinosaurs in the more modern "spine parallel to the ground and tail up off the ground" attitude, and something immediately clicked. It looked true. Whereas the old tail-dragger versions has always seemed wrong.
Bit if an old comment, but I felt the exact same way about a recent Tyrannasaur reconstruction, looking at it simply makes alot of sense, it's huge. Thick, muscular animal, much like a bear, and when you look at a bear, it makes perfect sense how it works and what it's built for.
@@mongomanproductions1049 Same thing happend to me and feathered raptors; even if they're not shrink wrapped they just look wrong with just scales. It doesn't look like a real animal, it looks like a horror movie monster.
I love this series. The animations demonstrating the changes that ought to be made to make the toys more accurate are so helpful. Thank you for making this a thing. Keep doing it and I'll keep watching.
Great vid! The most interesting part to me is when you show your old t-Rex skeleton from the Dinosaurs Magazine. Fun fact, I’m a 35 years old guy from Brazil, in the early 90’s my parents started to buy this mag for me, and I too had my t-Rex’s tong painted just like you did :D
Actual Dinosaur There are several dinosaur models that can stand on two legs, I have the decent Safari ltd. feathered Tyrannosaurus, two legs, the Papo Carnotaurus and Allosaurus, two legs, etc.
This is one of my favorite shows on TH-cam. They bring back memories of my childhood addiction with dinosaurs and also satisfy my geeky desire to learn about dinosaur anatomy LOL. I think I've watched all of these YDAW shows, and they're as hilarious as they are educational.
OMFG! I had that magazine too, AND I too acquired the glow in the dark T-Rex skeleton set!!!!! I realize that isn't in any way remarkable, but you just dropped the BIGGEST nostalgia bomb on me with that! I had to have been, like, three or four. This video is several years old, but I could not help myself from commenting immediately because this is easily one of my formative memories and I was just rocketed almost thirty years into the past by just mentioning, and then showing me this.
Did you say you were designing a more accurate version? You should definitely do that and the geek group could sell accurate wood models like this! I want one!!
Massive nostalgia bomb at the recounting of a magazine series which gave you pieces of a glow in the dark T-rex skeleton! One of my favourite things as a kid!
The original (incorrect) skeleton looks like it should be covered in purple fur, and sound like Goofy when it talks. The corrected visualisation looks truly fearsome; and that's without any flesh or scales or other intimidating adornments.
The blooper/“continuity” bits at the end were very amusing. Please do these again. It helps relieve the sadness at the DEstrUcTiOn oF mY cHILdHoOD ViSiOn Of DInoSauRs 🦖
People talk about the pauses, and of course this was a long time ago and the newer videos edit that out, but i think it humanizes him and shows these subtle thoughtful expressions. I also do these long pauses because I have adhd and my brain has the RAM of a dead 2003 Dell computer. People have called this my loading screen lol. Anyway I think it's fun to think of what he might be thinking and feeling during these pauses.
It also gives you time to process the information he just gave you before he gives you more information! You can learn and retain information much better this way:D
6:20 the "obsolete" nature of dinosaurs also made more sense before we learned their extinction was caused by a cataclysm. ....because otherwise being out-competed by newer lifeforms would indeed be a very likely cause.
I remember that magazine! Wish they still printed it. I just got the back of the skull and the vertebrate. I later bought a compilation book of most issues of the magazine. It's hard to find but well worth the buy!
Dude!! I TOTALLY remember those Dinosaur magazines! I had like the first 30 of them. Never did well with keeping my dinosaur parts, though. And that first issue was the BEST!! The comics at the back educating you about dinosaur archeology and the 3D pics were the best part. Thanks for the trip down memory lane there, man. Keep up the good work guys!
I have the two books published over here into which all the Slovenian translated issues of the magazines were compiled many years ago. Unfortunately, I believe a part of the issues were never translated (the index at the end of each issue end with Rhoetosaurus in the Slovenian edition, indicating the issues indexing the dinosaurs from there to Z were never translated). I also used used to have the first few issues in Italian but I've long since lost them.
archeologists only study people & pre-humans. paleontologists study dinosaurs, among other animals of the distant past. paleontology is a branch of geology, whereas archeology is a branch of anthropology.
Oh my! I subscribed to this magazine as a kid and still got all the issues in my attic, in nice, tidy folders. This series started my interest in dinosaurs and evolution as a kid.
I think it would be accurate to say I am fascinated by these videos. Also, no amount of Stephen is too much Stephen. I'm not expecting every YDAR to be this long, but I certainly don't mind. :)
I have been binging these and they are SO interesting! I would love to see a react video from you of the dino segment in Fantasia...I watched it last week for the first time in years and was appalled 😂
I have a velociraptor toy that balances bipedally, and also a troodon toy that does balance on three points, but instead of using the tail they posed in in a way where one of the arm feathers happens to be touching the ground to give a third point.
I was thinking the vintage upright tail dragging posture was originally inspired by kangaroos. It also makes the animal look taller and scarier - similar to the way taxidermists always pose grizzly bears on their back legs. Then it stuck in popular culture due to movies using a man in a rubber suit to portray t-rex.
Cool man, loved the moment you balanced the model on two feet with tail pointing upwards ;) None the less, I do love those wooden kits, just a childhood sentiment...
I would love to see an updated version of that set. The magazines you showed at the beginning, we had them in Poland too back in 1992, I have them until today. My sister was afraid of the skeleton of the T-Rex standing on the shelve and glowing in the night, so we had to get rid of it. Would love to assemble it again but properly made :)
Oh Man ! I had the whole series of these dinosaur magazines here in France (104 issues total) ! Such a wave of nostalgia ! Also I didn't know these were also published in English (makes sense though)
i love that carnosaurs have tons of huge members (allosaurus giga carcharodontosaurus maposaurus siats acrocanthosaurus and kin) as well as megalosaurids( megalosaurus torvosaurus suchomimus spinosaurus) but celorosaurus are basicly tiny then BAM tyranosaurs are a thing
Holy jay-heezus, I remember those magazines... My older brother was really into dinosaurs when he was younger, but he lost interest really fast, so I inherited his magazines. There were *dozens* of them... I read through them so fast my mom had to resort to getting me a whole encyclopedia of dinosaurs just to keep me occupied for more than 20 minutes.
I remember that I once bought a Wooden Tyrannosaur skeleton set (which I unfortuantely lost) which could actually stand in a horizontal position due to it having 2 pieces that acted as the side toes (altough they were placed in an akward angle so they could act their purpose)
This used to be one of my favorite subjects of study. However, I had and still have many interests that distract me from one line or specialty. Now days, I criticize movies of what they get horribly wrong with space or physics. Although entertaining, they get it so wrong. And when I state what I know to be inaccurate, people around me say that I bitch too much. I say ignorance is no excuse. I love your content and how you go about explaining what is wrong with what is being depicted with these creatures that once roamed the Earth. Thank you for your genius on the subject of dinosaurs. I'll be subbing now so perhaps I can do some watercolor paintings of these creatures. Thanks again!
Terence Smith I do bitch too much, as you say. But is pointing out blazing flaws in movies such a bad thing? People do it on YT all the time in videos and get paid. Let's take for example the latest I have seen. Doctor Strange. He tracks down a man that had a spinal injury to the C-8 spine. There is no such thing. The "C" stands for Cervical portion of the vertebra. We have only 7 of those in us. And that was just an easy one. How hard is it to know the anatomy of something you are writing about before you publish it in a movie? Hollywood needs to hire me to fact check for them. And pay me properly for "bitching".
Lana it's because movies are fiction and people watch fiction to escape reality for an hour or 2. A person constantly correcting things that everyone probably also noticed is just pretentious, and it's clear that is your belief that you are smarter than everyone else. The smarter people are, the more they realize they don't know.. and you're apparently not smart enough to notice social cues around despite repetition from multiple people asking you to stop ruining their quiet recreational suspension of disbelief
Growing up in Northfield, IL. I GOT those mags and had that model. LOVE the 80's/90's for Glow in the Dark EVERYTHING! I see you've already don an episode on my Mom's favorite Dino- Pachycephalosaurus..mine are Coelophysis, Compsognathus and Struthiomimus.
I too was subscribed to that magazine back in the 90s. It was also here in Europe. :D You could get a plastic green skin for the skeleton, but that was kinda uggo (like a lot), and it glowing in the dark was precisely what made it so cool.
One of the companies that makes these things actually did release some relatively accurate ones (or at least accurate in the 90s, when I got them). The feet have an additional sideways bit to help support them but they're still real unstable in comparison to the outdated tripod-style ones (most of mine broke, in fact, almost all by falling from shelves).
And this is why realism doesn't always work. If given the choice between realistic but unstable skeleton model vs an unrealistic but stable skeleton model, the toymaker always chooses the stable model. Because at least it wouldn't cause costumers to not buy their future toys. In regards to the T. rex, I think kids would like to see it in the flesh rather than just bones. If accuracy and realism needs to be applied anywhere it's in the art and animation rather than toys.
Enjoyed your vid! Though, when looking at the final result of your suggestions (in 30:28), I got the feeling that the head as a whole is a little too small.
Would it work for a dino toy, to stand correctly, if it had some weights in the tail, so it matched the weight of the front. I think it would just give it some stability
Very interesting, this series keeps getting better and better. Your knowledge on the subject is awesome. A suggestion, if I may. You displayed a tyrano-type lineage and mentioned birdlike and reptilelike dinosaurs. It might be really cool to show the anatomical differences between the two via some appropriate dinosaur figures? And I've heard it said that dinosaurs are still with us today in the form of birds. Is the same not true in the case of today's reptiles? Are these also as closely related to dinosaurs as birds may be?
Yes, birds are dinosaurs! I personally find the anatomical similarities more compelling than the differences--but at some point I will HAVE to do Archaeopteryx & there's no way I'll get through that episode without covering the dinosaur-bird relationship. Crocodilians are the only other extant archosaurs. They are distant cousins to the dinosaurs, whereas birds are the dinosaurs' direct descendants, if that makes sense. I'd hesitate to describe the Carnosaurs as 'reptile-like.' It's not as though they were left in the dust by the Coelurosaurs--we have Carnosaurs right up to the K-Pg extinction, and some of them exceeded Tyrannosaurus in size!
i hate it when they make dinosaurs stand on their tails but for real i used to have a velociraptor skeleton thing like that with its tail in the air like it should be but that was an absolute pain to stand up
i had these amazing things, where you get a plastic dino skeleton, in pieces, embedded in an actual piece of dry clay, some 5x20x15 cm and you have to dig them out and asseble them. I had Stegosaurus, Triceratops and T-Rex and the best part, they were all almost completely accurate, except for Stegosaurus dragging its tail and Triceratops being a bit slouchy, but no tripodal stance on T-Rex, completely parallel :D
One should remember: An ostrich can still gut with its claws. They may not be the raptor talons you see in hawks and eagles, but it is still a formidable weapon.
I don't know why people think tyrannosaurus arms are small it's only small(it's small for large animals) the length of the arm of a full grown t-rex is the same length of a full grown mans arm
Question about gastralia... do you have a reference on the belly to 2nd rib span on the gastralia. I’ve seen a lot of variability in mounts with some articulated with the scapulae and others not ending close to the 5th rib. I’m building a 3D printed model and looking for up to date info.
We have a tree model trex at my grandma's house that actually stands with its tail sticking out and it's back horizontal with the ground. It's a bit finicky with falling over but it can stand. It has two small weights balance it.
29:24 I think you've answered your own question about the so-called "tongue" with this diagram: The "tongue", and by extension the piece it is attached to, are meant to replicate the top profile of a Tyrannosaurus' head, albeit crudely. You can see the wide portion at the back, and then the abrupt tapering into the snout.
I collected all issues of that magazine. It was so informative and cool. Still got it, unfortuantely most of the information presented is outdated now.
Now I want a video that just goes into all the terminology of dinosaur skeletons. And a video that goes into the phylogeny and classifications of the dinosaurs. I have a list of dinosaurs that confuse me on where they should go in terms of phylogeny classification.
If you go to tinysaur.us now they have a new true rex model that fixes what was criticized! well done Steve! you have impacted educational model making already!
I bought the exact same magazines, assembled the exact same model. Perhaps you painted the tongue red because in the last few issues of that model, came with a casing you put over the glow in the dark skeleton to make it looked fleshed out? Planning for the future.
I had some of those magazines, and the complete skeleton. The magazines also had 3d pictures if i remember correctly. I gotta go home and look for that thing.
16:54 This video was rated M for Mesozoic due to exposed dinosaur bones.
Ha-ha! Dino Bone(r)
LolloBlue96 bruh
Eberhard OMG
*bones* ;^)
*sigh*
It's funny how much cooler and more dangerous the more accurate version looks. Even if you have never seen the true form of an animal, your brain has an inherent visual sense of how body mechanics should work. I remember the first time I saw depictions of dinosaurs in the more modern "spine parallel to the ground and tail up off the ground" attitude, and something immediately clicked. It looked true. Whereas the old tail-dragger versions has always seemed wrong.
Bit if an old comment, but I felt the exact same way about a recent Tyrannasaur reconstruction, looking at it simply makes alot of sense, it's huge. Thick, muscular animal, much like a bear, and when you look at a bear, it makes perfect sense how it works and what it's built for.
@@mongomanproductions1049 Same thing happend to me and feathered raptors; even if they're not shrink wrapped they just look wrong with just scales. It doesn't look like a real animal, it looks like a horror movie monster.
Open the door, get on the floor, everybody adjust the tripodal stance and then walk the dinosaur!
THIS...You win the internet for today!
I love this series. The animations demonstrating the changes that ought to be made to make the toys more accurate are so helpful. Thank you for making this a thing. Keep doing it and I'll keep watching.
I can't wait until someone uses these animations to CAD up and laser-cut their own "correct" tyrannosaurus skeleton puzzle.
Ryan Willis , I've been working on exactly that for the past 2 days :-) I have a little more work to do on the pelvis.
Awesome!
@@bpatricksullivanHeyo, still got it after 9 years? I’d love to see it!
Great vid!
The most interesting part to me is when you show your old t-Rex skeleton from the Dinosaurs Magazine.
Fun fact, I’m a 35 years old guy from Brazil, in the early 90’s my parents started to buy this mag for me, and I too had my t-Rex’s tong painted just like you did :D
How do you get a bipedal model to stand up? A clear plastic stand, of course
Actual Dinosaur There are several dinosaur models that can stand on two legs, I have the decent Safari ltd. feathered Tyrannosaurus, two legs, the Papo Carnotaurus and Allosaurus, two legs, etc.
Or a base that you can attach
Fr tho
Have a staggered stance.
@@unluckyomens370 then it looks like an age of sigmar mini
This is one of my favorite shows on TH-cam. They bring back memories of my childhood addiction with dinosaurs and also satisfy my geeky desire to learn about dinosaur anatomy LOL. I think I've watched all of these YDAW shows, and they're as hilarious as they are educational.
Also I really wish tyrannosaurs held their tails perfectly upright like your bipedal skeleton simply for the hilarity of it, haha!
+InkBird I think we all do.
I agree
Like an ancient squirrel of death
Well the do. But only when wearing heels.
When I modified my T-Rex to stand on two legs with horizontal body and tail, I added plasticine behind the hips to balance it.
♫its feet were made for walking, and that's just what they did♫
xD right...
I mean it could have kicked with it but that would hurt her toes.
Ah yes, perfecT
Top notch! One of the best in the series to be sure!
Now go on Kickstarter and start a project for an accurate T-Rex skeleton toy!
OMFG! I had that magazine too, AND I too acquired the glow in the dark T-Rex skeleton set!!!!!
I realize that isn't in any way remarkable, but you just dropped the BIGGEST nostalgia bomb on me with that! I had to have been, like, three or four.
This video is several years old, but I could not help myself from commenting immediately because this is easily one of my formative memories and I was just rocketed almost thirty years into the past by just mentioning, and then showing me this.
Did you say you were designing a more accurate version? You should definitely do that and the geek group could sell accurate wood models like this! I want one!!
Andrew Shriner I would love to see them partner with someone for a whole product line of more accurate dino toys.
Massive nostalgia bomb at the recounting of a magazine series which gave you pieces of a glow in the dark T-rex skeleton! One of my favourite things as a kid!
Caveman Napoleon Dynamite: "Do the T-Rex's have large talons?"
So the t.rex's poll should always be the highest point, like the poll of a horse in dressage? Neat!
The original (incorrect) skeleton looks like it should be covered in purple fur, and sound like Goofy when it talks. The corrected visualisation looks truly fearsome; and that's without any flesh or scales or other intimidating adornments.
The blooper/“continuity” bits at the end were very amusing. Please do these again. It helps relieve the sadness at the DEstrUcTiOn oF mY cHILdHoOD ViSiOn Of DInoSauRs 🦖
Can't our dinosaurs be right, just once ? :(
msylvain59 uhhhh carnotaurus
*NO YOU STUPID CHILD*
Due to the fact that we only know dinosaurs from bones there is never really gonna be a right dinosaur
This is the best comment in the entirety of this channel
No
Those 5 second Awkward pauses between every statement tho xD
the pauses make me very anxious
It's like there was supposed to be a laugh track but they forgot to edit it in.
Anubis 666 I love them. It’s a sign of people who actually think before they say something 🙌
I think it fits with the whole awkward paleontologist character
Or it's a sign of a really awkward individual.
6:56 - it is looking like reconstruction of Tarbosaurus' skeletal by Szymon Górnicki but with so long arms
you're amazing also you should pride yourself in how well you explain everything so perfectly
People talk about the pauses, and of course this was a long time ago and the newer videos edit that out, but i think it humanizes him and shows these subtle thoughtful expressions. I also do these long pauses because I have adhd and my brain has the RAM of a dead 2003 Dell computer. People have called this my loading screen lol. Anyway I think it's fun to think of what he might be thinking and feeling during these pauses.
It also gives you time to process the information he just gave you before he gives you more information! You can learn and retain information much better this way:D
"Now obviously I have not made this accurate"
6:20 the "obsolete" nature of dinosaurs also made more sense before we learned their extinction was caused by a cataclysm.
....because otherwise being out-competed by newer lifeforms would indeed be a very likely cause.
I remember that magazine! Wish they still printed it. I just got the back of the skull and the vertebrate. I later bought a compilation book of most issues of the magazine. It's hard to find but well worth the buy!
Dude!! I TOTALLY remember those Dinosaur magazines! I had like the first 30 of them. Never did well with keeping my dinosaur parts, though. And that first issue was the BEST!! The comics at the back educating you about dinosaur archeology and the 3D pics were the best part. Thanks for the trip down memory lane there, man. Keep up the good work guys!
I have the two books published over here into which all the Slovenian translated issues of the magazines were compiled many years ago. Unfortunately, I believe a part of the issues were never translated (the index at the end of each issue end with Rhoetosaurus in the Slovenian edition, indicating the issues indexing the dinosaurs from there to Z were never translated). I also used used to have the first few issues in Italian but I've long since lost them.
archeologists only study people & pre-humans. paleontologists study dinosaurs, among other animals of the distant past. paleontology is a branch of geology, whereas archeology is a branch of anthropology.
Your version of the T-Rex skeleton looks cooler overall, too.
- Lewis
Yeah, the accurate T-Rex looks more fearsome and spry.
I'd buy one.
Oh my! I subscribed to this magazine as a kid and still got all the issues in my attic, in nice, tidy folders. This series started my interest in dinosaurs and evolution as a kid.
2:24 i have that magazine (the spanish version) but it was a present that a friend of my father gives to me.
i have 8 of this magazines.
What i have learned is that except the head Trex was one of largest theropods but had short everything compared to theoropods
OH MY GAWD!! I had a subscription to the same magazine! That dino still stands in my grandparents' living room!
...BUT ITS SO CUTE THOUGH. the tiny one oh my gosh.
It's not cute it's just snall
+james henriot small
I think it would be accurate to say I am fascinated by these videos. Also, no amount of Stephen is too much Stephen. I'm not expecting every YDAR to be this long, but I certainly don't mind. :)
I have been binging these and they are SO interesting! I would love to see a react video from you of the dino segment in Fantasia...I watched it last week for the first time in years and was appalled 😂
I love the fantasia dinosaur segment, but I love me some dinosaur lies, stop motion being my favourite.
I have a velociraptor toy that balances bipedally, and also a troodon toy that does balance on three points, but instead of using the tail they posed in in a way where one of the arm feathers happens to be touching the ground to give a third point.
2:27 Damn I had the same glowing kit as a kid, my mother threw it and the magazines away q.q
I love these videos. I have always been interested in dinosaurs and evolution (and I am 78), but I just think Steve is adorable.
I was thinking the vintage upright tail dragging posture was originally inspired by kangaroos. It also makes the animal look taller and scarier - similar to the way taxidermists always pose grizzly bears on their back legs. Then it stuck in popular culture due to movies using a man in a rubber suit to portray t-rex.
Cool man, loved the moment you balanced the model on two feet with tail pointing upwards ;)
None the less, I do love those wooden kits, just a childhood sentiment...
We had this magazine in Germany, too, including the glow in the dark T-Rex! And of course I religiously bought them. Haaaa, nostalgia!
that name Tyrannosaurus rex must ahve come in a flash of pure awsomness. no long convoluted names describing cheekbones or thing slike that
I would love to see an updated version of that set. The magazines you showed at the beginning, we had them in Poland too back in 1992, I have them until today. My sister was afraid of the skeleton of the T-Rex standing on the shelve and glowing in the night, so we had to get rid of it. Would love to assemble it again but properly made :)
Oh Man ! I had the whole series of these dinosaur magazines here in France (104 issues total) ! Such a wave of nostalgia ! Also I didn't know these were also published in English (makes sense though)
i love that carnosaurs have tons of huge members (allosaurus giga carcharodontosaurus maposaurus siats acrocanthosaurus and kin) as well as megalosaurids( megalosaurus torvosaurus suchomimus spinosaurus) but celorosaurus are basicly tiny then BAM tyranosaurs are a thing
I think the tongue might be to represent the dorsal view of the head.
Holy jay-heezus, I remember those magazines... My older brother was really into dinosaurs when he was younger, but he lost interest really fast, so I inherited his magazines.
There were *dozens* of them... I read through them so fast my mom had to resort to getting me a whole encyclopedia of dinosaurs just to keep me occupied for more than 20 minutes.
Can you do quetzalcoatlus and a doedicurus ( yes I know doedicurus is a mammal but it would still be cool to see.
Deodicerous is a really good idea
He could do a sub series like "your creatures are wrong" for all the non dinosaurs
Quetzalcoatlus isn't a dinosaur either, but again, it'd be cool!
I remember that I once bought a Wooden Tyrannosaur skeleton set (which I unfortuantely lost) which could actually stand in a horizontal position due to it having 2 pieces that acted as the side toes (altough they were placed in an akward angle so they could act their purpose)
Oh my god, I had that same glow-in-the-dark skeleton. I'd forgotten about it until you brought it out! Wow. Weird nostalgia.
Woah, I had the exact same dinosaur magazines when I was really young! My great grandmother collected them for me.
Re-watching this after getting the LEGO dinosaur skeletons kit makes me appreciate that build all the more.
I still have the magazine you talk about.
AND the light on the dark T-Rex, Triceratorps and Stegosaurus that came with that series.
This used to be one of my favorite subjects of study. However, I had and still have many interests that distract me from one line or specialty. Now days, I criticize movies of what they get horribly wrong with space or physics. Although entertaining, they get it so wrong. And when I state what I know to be inaccurate, people around me say that I bitch too much. I say ignorance is no excuse. I love your content and how you go about explaining what is wrong with what is being depicted with these creatures that once roamed the Earth. Thank you for your genius on the subject of dinosaurs. I'll be subbing now so perhaps I can do some watercolor paintings of these creatures. Thanks again!
Terence Smith I do bitch too much, as you say. But is pointing out blazing flaws in movies such a bad thing? People do it on YT all the time in videos and get paid. Let's take for example the latest I have seen. Doctor Strange. He tracks down a man that had a spinal injury to the C-8 spine. There is no such thing. The "C" stands for Cervical portion of the vertebra. We have only 7 of those in us. And that was just an easy one. How hard is it to know the anatomy of something you are writing about before you publish it in a movie? Hollywood needs to hire me to fact check for them. And pay me properly for "bitching".
Yump Bagle Only if I get paid to do it from a far from the state of Fruits and Nuts!
Lana it's because movies are fiction and people watch fiction to escape reality for an hour or 2. A person constantly correcting things that everyone probably also noticed is just pretentious, and it's clear that is your belief that you are smarter than everyone else. The smarter people are, the more they realize they don't know.. and you're apparently not smart enough to notice social cues around despite repetition from multiple people asking you to stop ruining their quiet recreational suspension of disbelief
I want a wood kit like the one you made more accurate in the animation! It looks far cooler then the stupid outdated one I see everywhere.
Growing up in Northfield, IL. I GOT those mags and had that model. LOVE the 80's/90's for Glow in the Dark EVERYTHING! I see you've already don an episode on my Mom's favorite Dino- Pachycephalosaurus..mine are Coelophysis, Compsognathus and Struthiomimus.
who else takes their toy and checks if it's accurate after the video?
+Ocean Sparkle I make damn good and sure my dinosaurs are accurate before I'll even spend my money on them.
+Josh Ray >no money spent
I left all my toys at my parents place 😭😭😭
I too was subscribed to that magazine back in the 90s. It was also here in Europe. :D
You could get a plastic green skin for the skeleton, but that was kinda uggo (like a lot), and it glowing in the dark was precisely what made it so cool.
0:14 the look of utter disgust and judgement
I had that magazine subscribed, even found my folder with the old issues recently. Ah, nostalgia!
That magazine was also published here in Brazil circa '92/'93.Good memories.
How about ceratosaurus, I know it's basal but it one of my favorites.
One of the companies that makes these things actually did release some relatively accurate ones (or at least accurate in the 90s, when I got them). The feet have an additional sideways bit to help support them but they're still real unstable in comparison to the outdated tripod-style ones (most of mine broke, in fact, almost all by falling from shelves).
And this is why realism doesn't always work. If given the choice between realistic but unstable skeleton model vs an unrealistic but stable skeleton model, the toymaker always chooses the stable model. Because at least it wouldn't cause costumers to not buy their future toys.
In regards to the T. rex, I think kids would like to see it in the flesh rather than just bones. If accuracy and realism needs to be applied anywhere it's in the art and animation rather than toys.
2:24 No way!! I had the entire collection of these when they were on sale!! I loved them!!
Enjoyed your vid! Though, when looking at the final result of your suggestions (in 30:28), I got the feeling that the head as a whole is a little too small.
It seems about time for a ceratopsian of some kind...
Would it work for a dino toy, to stand correctly, if it had some weights in the tail, so it matched the weight of the front. I think it would just give it some stability
You know the depiction in that era. It's pretty consistent with our current understanding of that mammal-like reptiles like Dimetrodon
The more accurate version you created looks sooo much better 😍
Thank you for critiquing the "scala naturae" idea of humans at the "top of the ladder." That's my biggest pet peeve.
(The mustache suits you. )
Very interesting, this series keeps getting better and better. Your knowledge on the subject is awesome. A suggestion, if I may. You displayed a tyrano-type lineage and mentioned birdlike and reptilelike dinosaurs. It might be really cool to show the anatomical differences between the two via some appropriate dinosaur figures? And I've heard it said that dinosaurs are still with us today in the form of birds. Is the same not true in the case of today's reptiles? Are these also as closely related to dinosaurs as birds may be?
Yes, birds are dinosaurs! I personally find the anatomical similarities more compelling than the differences--but at some point I will HAVE to do Archaeopteryx & there's no way I'll get through that episode without covering the dinosaur-bird relationship.
Crocodilians are the only other extant archosaurs. They are distant cousins to the dinosaurs, whereas birds are the dinosaurs' direct descendants, if that makes sense.
I'd hesitate to describe the Carnosaurs as 'reptile-like.' It's not as though they were left in the dust by the Coelurosaurs--we have Carnosaurs right up to the K-Pg extinction, and some of them exceeded Tyrannosaurus in size!
i hate it when they make dinosaurs stand on their tails but for real i used to have a velociraptor skeleton thing like that with its tail in the air like it should be but that was an absolute pain to stand up
i had these amazing things, where you get a plastic dino skeleton, in pieces, embedded in an actual piece of dry clay, some 5x20x15 cm and you have to dig them out and asseble them. I had Stegosaurus, Triceratops and T-Rex and the best part, they were all almost completely accurate, except for Stegosaurus dragging its tail and Triceratops being a bit slouchy, but no tripodal stance on T-Rex, completely parallel :D
One should remember: An ostrich can still gut with its claws. They may not be the raptor talons you see in hawks and eagles, but it is still a formidable weapon.
I don't know why people think tyrannosaurus arms are small it's only small(it's small for large animals) the length of the arm of a full grown t-rex is the same length of a full grown mans arm
I first saw a version of the wooden T rex skeleton back in the early 1980s, so it has been around for quite a long time.
Question about gastralia... do you have a reference on the belly to 2nd rib span on the gastralia. I’ve seen a lot of variability in mounts with some articulated with the scapulae and others not ending close to the 5th rib. I’m building a 3D printed model and looking for up to date info.
We have a tree model trex at my grandma's house that actually stands with its tail sticking out and it's back horizontal with the ground. It's a bit finicky with falling over but it can stand. It has two small weights balance it.
i'd love for the channel to get a CNC machine and actually cut out new models based on the corrected anatomy!
Yes, that would be cool. Or 3D printed for the fleshy models.
What do you think steve thinks about the JW theropod toys being able to stand fine.
did those magazines have a 3d spread that needed red/blue glasses to see properly
29:24 I think you've answered your own question about the so-called "tongue" with this diagram:
The "tongue", and by extension the piece it is attached to, are meant to replicate the top profile of a Tyrannosaurus' head, albeit crudely. You can see the wide portion at the back, and then the abrupt tapering into the snout.
I checked the url and it looks like they fixed the tinysaur! it's weight distribution looks much better now!
I collected all issues of that magazine. It was so informative and cool. Still got it, unfortuantely most of the information presented is outdated now.
My parents bought that magazine for me!!!!! That's what got me into Dinosaurs in the first place!!!!
This was recommended to me today. I have no idea why, but this was interesting.
what is the intro song?
Found my new favourite chanel 🙌🎉
Now I want a video that just goes into all the terminology of dinosaur skeletons.
And a video that goes into the phylogeny and classifications of the dinosaurs. I have a list of dinosaurs that confuse me on where they should go in terms of phylogeny classification.
If you go to tinysaur.us now they have a new true rex model that fixes what was criticized! well done Steve! you have impacted educational model making already!
Duuude! I had those magazines as a kid I loved making that skeleton even if it is wrong.
I bought the exact same magazines, assembled the exact same model. Perhaps you painted the tongue red because in the last few issues of that model, came with a casing you put over the glow in the dark skeleton to make it looked fleshed out? Planning for the future.
Steve is the most adorable human...
I had some of those magazines, and the complete skeleton. The magazines also had 3d pictures if i remember correctly. I gotta go home and look for that thing.
you sir, are an artist.
26:37 well now i can never unsee that... what is that you ask? well: he didnt put the arm back in its socket
"There are organs there" :D
Thoroughly enjoyable and completely understandable. Thanks for posting.
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THAT'S IT! THAT'S THE MAGAZINE THAT GOT ME INTO PALAEONTOLOGY!!! With the T.Rex chomping on the title and everything. Bloody hell...
How about coelophysus to show the pelvis facing downwards. It kinda started the dinosaurs off.