I cant remember if it was a deity or not but The Beast of Hollow Mountain was a dinosaur that was feared by the locals like some kind of evil spirit (deities arent always worshiped, sometimes just feared like many gods related to death, disease, misfortune, etc)
@@nobodyinparticular9640 sounds like WW2 alright. The Nazis, Soviets, and Japanese were like aliens compared to the rest of humanity. Their medical experiments, genocides, callus disregard for human life, insane ideologies, and blood lust all make them seem more like creatures from another planet than human regardless of their outward appearance.
It was already explored properly enough by Xenozoic Tales/Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, actually. Speaking of which, I find it amusing that the franchise hasn't ever been covered in this channel yet.
Flesh is another comic with dinosaurs that gets shafted a lot. The idea of going back in time to factory produce dinosaur meat to send back to the future is very wacky.
funnily enough, Tim Burton actually wanted to make an adaptation of Dinosaurs Attack, but decided to adapt Mars Attacks instead due to him not wanting to exploit the success of the Dinosaur Boom that Jurassic Park made edit: turns out Diego already said that in the Legacy section lmao
I think that problem re: Jurassic Park still looms large over hollywood when it comes to dinosaur movies. Naturally they'd all just get compared to Jurassic Park, probably detrimentally.
I actually like how modern weaponry works against them and the military uses the airforce against them, but still keep the monsters dangerous. I feel like too many movies and media make the weird decision for jets and to lose to kind of giant fleshy targets and for human weaponry to have little effect.
Or they even make it so once the humans start killing whatever creatures they need to, suddenly it's easy as hell to beat them and it montages as the creatures get wiped out.
True they did the same in transformers but actually stated modern military would destroy them with ease but evened it out to make the decepticons more of a threat
that always bothers me since if you know anything about modern bombs you'd know just how destructive they are. Even high strength steel, much less flesh, cant withstand it. "bunker busters" and similar can punch through meters of steel reinforced concrete and still destroy most if not all of a building so if you hit a giant monster with it even if it's skin is as strong as steel and the creature is bigger than a skyscraper it's still toast. That's all without bringing up nukes, chemical weapons, or incendiary weapons. Even some anti-armor rockets and missiles can punch through flesh and metal pretty easy, some like certain RPGs melt copper or other metals in the rocket and force a jet of molten metal into the target melting it as much as blowing it up, similar story with weapons like Thermite.
"Demonic god of dinosaurs" is without a doubt the most batshit insane villain concept I've ever heard of. That sounds like it'd be from a movie called "Turn off brain before viewing."
I have a similar concepts of this : The gods that we currently known are not the eldest entities existing, before the Olympians and Aesirs, there were “gods before the gods” that thrived in Paleozoic and Mesozoic Era. However, these old gods were overthrown by new gods in Cenozoic,the old gods basically became the basis of dragons,giants,Titans and other primordial deities in various mythologies.
Honestly, if someone knew me in person and decided to put me in a card where I'm being brutally murdered by a retro-dinosaur, I'd be less "That's kinda cool" and more "Man really pulled a Dante, didn't he?".
Every time I see someone in the paleontology fandom propose that certain herbivorous dinosaurs (e.g. ceratopsians) may have actually been omnivorous, I think of all these cards which have even the herbivores munching on people.
It actually is quite common for modern herbivores to eat meat in the wild, so I wouldn't put it past Stegosaurus to eat little rats and birds that got unlucky.
@@starstorm1267 For every actual paleontologist there are 10 "dino enthusiasts" who follow the paleo community closely and come up with their own theories on dinosaurs and other ancient creatures, argue about dino depictions in Jurassic Park, etc. I'd call them a fandom lol.
kind of a shame they didn't make a movie of it though, it sounds like a Dinosaur story that isn;t just the usual "Dino park gone wrong" or "so you are lost on a dinosaur island" this implies that dinosaurs are just literal demons, kind of wish they made the film
The series Primeval does kinda go in the direction of Dinosaurs Attack where temporal anomalies cause dinosaurs and other dangerous creatures from the past to show up and wreak havoc in modern day Britain
yeah and nowadays a film of it would never work, both because I feel like in the current cultural moment this kind of satirical-wackiness-with-a-dark-edge would be hard to pull off, but also because they'd probably try to make it no more than PG-13-rated to milk as much money from the idea as possible (because not enough groups of adults go out to theaters anymore, it's mostly families now), and that would absolutely mean the violence would need to be massively watered down, and fuck that.
I think the best person to direct a dinosaurs attack movie would be Sam raimi because I’m pretty damn sure he’d be able to capture a lot of what made the cards awesome. He’d be able to make it a gory horror along with some dark comedy and satire. Best example would be ash vs evil dead
I never knew about this series. But I like how the story was told in Dinosaurs attack via newspapers, snippets of an interview, and so on. It is an interesting method and makes it feel like you are one of the characters in the story's universe who can only piece together what is happening via media.
I always just flat-out didn't understand why Hollywood seems to be persistently insistent not to do more dinosaur media for fear of competing with the Jurassic Series, but will happily turn out period pieces, fantasy films, and superhero films by the truckload.
This is pure nostalgia for me! I was 8 years old when these cards came out. I have always been a dinosaur fanatic, and happened upon this box set at a local 'Big Lots' of all places. I begged my parents to by them for me. And they did. I remember like it was yesterday. I'm sure they didn't realize how gorey and violent they were, because my mom especially would have said no! Lol. Man I loved those cards...
Would like to see Dinosaurs Attack! adapted into a video game similar to Rampage (with elements also based on Primal Rage and Hungry Shark/Hungry Dragon).
To be honest, Dinosaurs Attack is one of the things that helped inspire me to have Dinosaurs in a post apocalyptic version of Earth-ni from svtfoe. Jurassic Wars
Thank you Double D for hearing the fans! Respect your hesitancy and so excited to watch this one! It might be gory pulp but Dinosaurs Attack has a lot of love for old B movie dinosaurs!
Two things: 1. I wonder if you know about Topps & IDW publishing their own Jurassic Park comics (with the latter having plans to make more to follow Jurassic World but were presumably never made)? 2. For headcannon reasons, how would these storylines (cards & comics) connect together?
Please don't. I am honestly tired of Jurassic Park becoming the end all be all when it comes to dinosaurs in science fiction. I can talk about sharks without someone trying to find a way to connect it to Jaws. I can watch a video about a space opera without someone immediately bringing up Star Wars. I grew up in the 80s when looking up one of my childhood favorites, Dino Riders, there's multiple comments going or "They should do a cross over with Jurassic Park to explain why the dinosaurs can get hit with missiles through genetic engineering". People talk about King Kong in the frame of "It was their Jurassic Park" or some old Back to the Future clout chaser in My Science Project. No one even mentions Back to the Future, the movie it is aping, but they do mention Jurassic Park when the tyrannosaur shows up. It is getting to the point that I am actually starting to dislike Jurassic Park.
I remember looking through the cards in order and getting the basic story, and honestly with a little fleshing out it has serious potential as a cool movie.
I remember getting some of those cards from the most unlikely source, my Sunday school teacher. A sweet old lady named Mrs. Miller. Along with the church stuff she would sometimes just take us outside on short walks to the nearby park. I got a bunch of the kids excited for a game that we were tracking dinosaurs. Not too long after there was an easter Sunday celebration and she got easter baskets for all the regulars in her Sunday class. My brother and I had some of those cards in the basket. It was pretty horrific when we opened them on the way home. The card with the Parasaurolophus holding a stroller with a fat little arm and leg falling from its mouth was probably the most disturbing. Luckily our Mom saw the cards and took them away, but in no way blamed Mrs. Miller. She knew her well enough to know she just got them because they had dinosaurs on them, not realizing just how messed up they were. Also the humanoid Saurian from the cards was a theory going around at the time of what Dinosaurs would have looked like today if they had never gone extinct. If anyone else remembers all those dinosaur specials that used to air around that time they might remember seeing that.
Here’s an idea. How about a dinosaurs attack 2? The supreme monstrosity and the Saurian returns, summons some dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Or a movie like the carnosaur films.
Honestly, imagine an adaptation of this story today! I didn’t even realize this was connected to Mars Attack until you mentioned it. Just imagine a comic accurate adaptation in all its glory on the big screen with todays technology! It would be a perfect blend of horror, action, and comedy. And just when you think the movie is over, you see an image of a saucer coming to earth and BAM! You just realized you were watching a Mars Attack sequel and there will be a third one to complete the trilogy.
would only make sense if they somehow used the particle beam to reset the timeline to before the dinosaurs invaded which alerts the martians and prompts them to enact their invasion
I know that the original cards had origin in the earlier monster movies, but I can't help but to think of Getter Robo. I've already mentioned in another video, but I can comment again, because theme of humans vs. dinosaur is also there, but with mecha. It was first published in the early 70s, but it's unlikely the creators of the cards knew of it because it wasn't really translated.
I had these cards when I was a kid and actually still have them. I especially remember "Satansaurus Rex" in particular. Thank you soooo much for doing this it made subscribe to your channel finally.
I love these cards and comic! Thank you for covering this!!! If I were to make a movie about these, I would try to make it like a reverse Jurassic Park. The dinosaurs would be stop motion and looking inaccurate which I think would be funny!
These cards were given to me as a little kid by my folks, thinking it was about Dinosaurs and not thinking past that, the gore and violence scared the literal shit out of me and I had nightmares for days, I wouldn't even look at the cards out of fear of having more Nightmares. So, eventually I buried them outside of our old house under a pile of old rocks out in the back. Now I think about that and think I was very weird for doing that but I was only like 10 at the moment or littler. Feels stupid now, but then I was scared completely shitless and the nightmares were not fun.
Being early feels nice but i have nothing of value to say so im going to let the funnier, more complex comments wash over me and allow this one to be forgotten to time
So Mars Attacks from Tim Burton was just a film adaptation of this cards? Wow - maybe someone will also make Dinosaurs Attack Movie one day? That would be awesome!
I've never heard of Dinosaurs Attack and now I feel like I missed out on something niche and fun. The Supreme Monstrosity is a really cool concept and I wish this was a more expansive universe.
My dad gave me a pack of these back in the early 90's and my mom freaked out and took them away; but I never forgot the shocking imagery and the feeling of horror and intrigue they gave me. Years later in 2019, I found a seller that shipped me the entire card collection + the stickers in a nice glass case. Just ordered the 'Supreme Evil' dinosaur-satan figure by ReAction and it arrived today. Such a cool series.
Great overview. DINOSAURS ATTACK! remains the funkiest thing I ever created, and I'm very proud of it. It was designed with a film adaptation in mind, and I hope there will indeed be one in my lifetime... even if I have to make it myself. By the way, I was co-writing the original screenplay for Stan Winston's PUMPKINHEAD when I was preparing DINOSAURS ATTACK! back in 1987, which may explain the demonology connection (along with my need to parody QUATERMASS AND THE PIT). And the Supreme Monstrosity/Dinosaur Diety will apparently be making a dramatic comeback in 2023, as will my alter-ego, Elias Thorne. That's all I can say right now, folks, but trust me... something pretty cool is on the way. Best regards, Gary Gerani
Dinosaurs are mostly unrepresented as monsters in movies nowadays, it would be refreshing to see a film adaptation of Mars Attacks, Dinosaurs Attack and then the combination would make an awesome R-rated trilogy
My theory is because dinosaurs were actually real and not something made up by people, like dragons or aliens (which might be real if you think about it) And well, things like paleo twitter just love to tear into movies that have “tropey” dinosaurs
A perfect middle ground is to have explanation that allow dinosaurs to be a monsters, like Hell Creek story from the other day where we got zombie dinosaurs, which also help contrasting the 50s monster dinos, and the more animal-like depiction of recent dinos, it's a win-win.
I remember reading a really graphic dinosaur graphic novel when I was a kid, I'm curious if anyone else remembers it, All I remember is its violent graphics and the fact that they travels to Dinosaur nation park in Texas. I think it was a Jurassic park canon product.
What I expected Dinosaurs Attack to be: A Jurassic Park rip off with a B movie bend, deliberately cheesy. What Dinosaurs Attack turned out to be: “Okay, the good news is that God is real. The bad news is that He’s a dinosaur and He’s pissed.”
I find the "Fiery Doom" card's description rather interesting, one could see it as the Supreme Monstrosity as a sort of time guardian, and that his actions prior where to punish man-kind for tampering with time!
I remember reading this comic when I was a kid. I actually jumped in joy when I saw this thumbnail. Great work for unlocking s great childhood memory!!!
My dad used to take me to this weird little toy store called "Scooby's" on saturday mornings, and I would always get a pack of dinosaurs attacks cards. We both had complete sets of the cards in plastic binders. Neat little psuedo factoid: I believe that some of the sticker cards were illustrated by Hal Robbins, who did the voice of the scientists in Halflife, improvized a lot of the techbobabble for the game.
Idk, I kinda like dinosaur Satan It gives me lovecraftian vibes, this ancient, demonic being that ruled during the Mesozoic suddenly brought into our time, commanding hordes of prehistoric monsters to kill and devour everything It could explain why the dinosaurs, even the herbivores are so bloodthirsty to begin with He’s commanding them to kill everything in sight Edit; That’s exactly what’s going on
When I was a kid I loved these cards, and a few years ago I bought an entire box of them for like 30 bucks? Still have it to this day. Thank you for covering this.
14:45 oh goodness! That brown dinosaur in particular seems to resemble the rhedosaurus in beast from 20,000 fathoms! 15:42 oop and there's way more, Reptilicus is the one I spotted out first pfft. too...starting to bridge more into kaiju territory than dinosaur territory
2:50 I like how the card on the right just looks like the darkest three stooges sketch ever. Like the Dinosaur is just minding its own business, and these two bumpkins manage to kill each other with their own bad trigger discipline.
This is out of the blue but I kinda wish that Primal Rage was made into a film too even though it was an arcade game. Hope there are others out there that have heard of this game. 😅
I've never heard of this before - never heard of your channel before either, but definitely subbing now. Thanks for the recommendation, TH-cam - but man it seems really awesome! I wish the creative types behind stuff like this wouldn't just be looking at movies for adaptations nowadays though, as this property seems like it might be perfect for some kind of video game. Some over-the-top open world destruction fest a la Destroy All Humans! ReProbed or some kind of insane action game like Earth Defense Force or maybe even some survival thing like the Japan-only Kyohei Toshi/City Shrouded in Shadows (where you play as a normal human trying not to get killed during different, fictional disasters such as Godzilla attacks, battles between Ultraman and Kaiju, or the collateral damage caused by fights involving the mecha from Patlabor (it was published by Bandai Namco; they threw a lot of their licensed properties into the thing, lol). Dinosaur Attacks! may not have gotten it's chance to be a movie, but it could make for a heckuva fun game if the stars aligned :) Still, even just learning about the cards and the story behind it makes me really happy now. Great video!
"For as long as I could remember, people have asked me to cover Topp's Dinosaurs Attack series here on the channel, and I've hesitated to do it for a couple of reason." everyone who has seen the cards/comic adaptation: th-cam.com/video/Va0vs1fhhNI/w-d-xo.html
i will be entirely honest, living in a world where martians and dinosaurs are fighting a primeval war that killed civilization sounds more like heaven than any hell that needs to be avoided.
Speaking of dinosaur deities,I do sometimes imagine,that there are “gods before the gods” that rules prehistoric Earth in Paleozoic and Mesozoic Era,but these old gods were defeated and overthrown by newer gods in Cenozoic Era. The new gods became the basis of the gods we know in various mythologies,while the existence of old gods were implied by the accounts of Dragon, primordial deities, giants, etc.
The idea of a “dinosaur deity” is actually pretty terrifying & something I’ve never seen done in fiction
Iirc, something of that sort happens in the games Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, as those games are all about time travel shenanigans
I cant remember if it was a deity or not but The Beast of Hollow Mountain was a dinosaur that was feared by the locals like some kind of evil spirit (deities arent always worshiped, sometimes just feared like many gods related to death, disease, misfortune, etc)
Because dinosaurs are typically in science fiction, thus no god(s). The concept of deities is very unscientific.
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Dinosaur society and what they would think of the concept of creation is great tho
I think primal rage was the only other media that I'm aware of that introduced god or god-like dinosaurs as well as cosmic horror dinosaurs
Mars Attacks was drawn by a real war veteran who was going by their experiences so that's one of the reason they feel so visceral.
Correction: his experiences.
Correction his nightmares
How many people are you talking about?
So there really had been an invasion from Mars?!
Jokes aside, damn, that's gruesome
@@nobodyinparticular9640 sounds like WW2 alright. The Nazis, Soviets, and Japanese were like aliens compared to the rest of humanity. Their medical experiments, genocides, callus disregard for human life, insane ideologies, and blood lust all make them seem more like creatures from another planet than human regardless of their outward appearance.
Dinosaur apocalyptic fiction is honestly a pretty underused concept.
It was already explored properly enough by Xenozoic Tales/Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, actually.
Speaking of which, I find it amusing that the franchise hasn't ever been covered in this channel yet.
Flesh is another comic with dinosaurs that gets shafted a lot. The idea of going back in time to factory produce dinosaur meat to send back to the future is very wacky.
The guys who made Ultraman had a series where dinosaurs invade earth and a brother and sister have to fight them off with a super ship.
Fax
@@sizzis2045 Hell even Lego did a theme of that with 2005's Dino Attack
Considering that Mars Attacks already had a movie adaptation, someone really ought to adapt this. Bring dinosaurs back to horror.
Tim Burton wanted to make Dinosaur Attacks originally instead of Mars Attacks but he changed his mind.
funnily enough, Tim Burton actually wanted to make an adaptation of Dinosaurs Attack, but decided to adapt Mars Attacks instead due to him not wanting to exploit the success of the Dinosaur Boom that Jurassic Park made
edit: turns out Diego already said that in the Legacy section lmao
JP already did horror.
I think that problem re: Jurassic Park still looms large over hollywood when it comes to dinosaur movies. Naturally they'd all just get compared to Jurassic Park, probably detrimentally.
Dinosaurs attack movie anyone?
I actually like how modern weaponry works against them and the military uses the airforce against them, but still keep the monsters dangerous. I feel like too many movies and media make the weird decision for jets and to lose to kind of giant fleshy targets and for human weaponry to have little effect.
Or they even make it so once the humans start killing whatever creatures they need to, suddenly it's easy as hell to beat them and it montages as the creatures get wiped out.
True they did the same in transformers but actually stated modern military would destroy them with ease but evened it out to make the decepticons more of a threat
that always bothers me since if you know anything about modern bombs you'd know just how destructive they are. Even high strength steel, much less flesh, cant withstand it. "bunker busters" and similar can punch through meters of steel reinforced concrete and still destroy most if not all of a building so if you hit a giant monster with it even if it's skin is as strong as steel and the creature is bigger than a skyscraper it's still toast. That's all without bringing up nukes, chemical weapons, or incendiary weapons. Even some anti-armor rockets and missiles can punch through flesh and metal pretty easy, some like certain RPGs melt copper or other metals in the rocket and force a jet of molten metal into the target melting it as much as blowing it up, similar story with weapons like Thermite.
@@arthas640 maybe they're magic.
@@sethleoric2598I just want you to know that I absolutely love this in response to the paragraph above hahaha
"Demonic god of dinosaurs" is without a doubt the most batshit insane villain concept I've ever heard of. That sounds like it'd be from a movie called "Turn off brain before viewing."
I have a similar concepts of this : The gods that we currently known are not the eldest entities existing, before the Olympians and Aesirs, there were “gods before the gods” that thrived in Paleozoic and Mesozoic Era. However, these old gods were overthrown by new gods in Cenozoic,the old gods basically became the basis of dragons,giants,Titans and other primordial deities in various mythologies.
@@伊斯塔與艾蕾修卡都是 that's brilliant.
@@lilqueso8190 are you having a stroke?
Literal Dinosaur Devil
what’s that?
"The Supreme Monstrosity" has to be the coolest name I've ever heard for a villain
That's a monstrosity with mayo and guac.
Honestly, if someone knew me in person and decided to put me in a card where I'm being brutally murdered by a retro-dinosaur, I'd be less "That's kinda cool" and more "Man really pulled a Dante, didn't he?".
I was really confused for a few seconds before I realized you meant Alighieri and not Sparda.
Every time I see someone in the paleontology fandom propose that certain herbivorous dinosaurs (e.g. ceratopsians) may have actually been omnivorous, I think of all these cards which have even the herbivores munching on people.
It actually is quite common for modern herbivores to eat meat in the wild, so I wouldn't put it past Stegosaurus to eat little rats and birds that got unlucky.
even cows will munch on snakes and carrion now are then
Kinda weird to see a job have a fandom.
Paleontology ain’t a fandom, their a community
@@starstorm1267 For every actual paleontologist there are 10 "dino enthusiasts" who follow the paleo community closely and come up with their own theories on dinosaurs and other ancient creatures, argue about dino depictions in Jurassic Park, etc. I'd call them a fandom lol.
kind of a shame they didn't make a movie of it though, it sounds like a Dinosaur story that isn;t just the usual "Dino park gone wrong" or "so you are lost on a dinosaur island" this implies that dinosaurs are just literal demons, kind of wish they made the film
The series Primeval does kinda go in the direction of Dinosaurs Attack where temporal anomalies cause dinosaurs and other dangerous creatures from the past to show up and wreak havoc in modern day Britain
@@depressedrocksenjoyer9472 true, and primeval also gets a thumbs up for showing known prehistoric animals
That's more or less Pacific rim
@@paolofranciscopavan6491 oh yeah, in a way, but they are CLEARLY alien in nature, plus they are all kaiju which are all disasters in of themselves
yeah and nowadays a film of it would never work, both because I feel like in the current cultural moment this kind of satirical-wackiness-with-a-dark-edge would be hard to pull off, but also because they'd probably try to make it no more than PG-13-rated to milk as much money from the idea as possible (because not enough groups of adults go out to theaters anymore, it's mostly families now), and that would absolutely mean the violence would need to be massively watered down, and fuck that.
I think the best person to direct a dinosaurs attack movie would be Sam raimi because I’m pretty damn sure he’d be able to capture a lot of what made the cards awesome. He’d be able to make it a gory horror along with some dark comedy and satire. Best example would be ash vs evil dead
I have never needed something as much as I need Sam Reimi's Dinosaurs Attack! film that will never be
I feel like a dinosaurs attack tv show could work on adult swim.
You mean Primal?
Definitely
Floyd County would be the perfect animation studio for it
This reminds me of that weird comic panel of two teenagers saying "When dinosaurs came to our school, God went out, and drugs came in"
I never knew about this series. But I like how the story was told in Dinosaurs attack via newspapers, snippets of an interview, and so on.
It is an interesting method and makes it feel like you are one of the characters in the story's universe who can only piece together what is happening via media.
I always just flat-out didn't understand why Hollywood seems to be persistently insistent not to do more dinosaur media for fear of competing with the Jurassic Series, but will happily turn out period pieces, fantasy films, and superhero films by the truckload.
They think jurassic park invented dinosaurs
That's why I had high hopes for 65. It could be the herald of other great things to come
They must believe dinosaurs are an ip
Carnasaur lol
I guess dinosaurs cgi is expensive?
This is pure nostalgia for me! I was 8 years old when these cards came out. I have always been a dinosaur fanatic, and happened upon this box set at a local 'Big Lots' of all places. I begged my parents to by them for me. And they did. I remember like it was yesterday. I'm sure they didn't realize how gorey and violent they were, because my mom especially would have said no! Lol. Man I loved those cards...
Honestly, Dinosaur attack should have its own movie and series
Hopefully Better then that yoki series
I Agree
Should it be r rated or kid friendly just with a little gore
Yeah this is so metal, I'd love to see a film
Would like to see Dinosaurs Attack! adapted into a video game similar to Rampage (with elements also based on Primal Rage and Hungry Shark/Hungry Dragon).
yes it works for me
Dino crisis
To be honest, Dinosaurs Attack is one of the things that helped inspire me to have Dinosaurs in a post apocalyptic version of Earth-ni from svtfoe.
Jurassic Wars
Whats svtfoe
@@alchemistofsteel8099 Star VS the Forces of Evil, but I have no clue what they're talking about
Thank you Double D for hearing the fans! Respect your hesitancy and so excited to watch this one! It might be gory pulp but Dinosaurs Attack has a lot of love for old B movie dinosaurs!
Two things:
1. I wonder if you know about Topps & IDW publishing their own Jurassic Park comics (with the latter having plans to make more to follow Jurassic World but were presumably never made)?
2. For headcannon reasons, how would these storylines (cards & comics) connect together?
Well you could make the connections from cards to the panels of the comics.
The Supreme Monstrosity takes control of the JP dinosaurs and turns them loose. Easy simple premise.
Ermm... the power of imagination?
Please don't. I am honestly tired of Jurassic Park becoming the end all be all when it comes to dinosaurs in science fiction. I can talk about sharks without someone trying to find a way to connect it to Jaws. I can watch a video about a space opera without someone immediately bringing up Star Wars. I grew up in the 80s when looking up one of my childhood favorites, Dino Riders, there's multiple comments going or "They should do a cross over with Jurassic Park to explain why the dinosaurs can get hit with missiles through genetic engineering". People talk about King Kong in the frame of "It was their Jurassic Park" or some old Back to the Future clout chaser in My Science Project. No one even mentions Back to the Future, the movie it is aping, but they do mention Jurassic Park when the tyrannosaur shows up.
It is getting to the point that I am actually starting to dislike Jurassic Park.
The dinosaurs found jumbo sized floaties and swam back to main land.
I remember looking through the cards in order and getting the basic story, and honestly with a little fleshing out it has serious potential as a cool movie.
Dinosaurs Attack is like what if Paul Verhoeven Made The Jurassic Park film Series. which is actually pretty Decent
This plot is pretty batshit insane. Make it into a movie please
You know my shape-shifting alien parasite oc that has the main form of a very specific dinosaur could benifit from this art-style.
I remember getting some of those cards from the most unlikely source, my Sunday school teacher. A sweet old lady named Mrs. Miller. Along with the church stuff she would sometimes just take us outside on short walks to the nearby park. I got a bunch of the kids excited for a game that we were tracking dinosaurs. Not too long after there was an easter Sunday celebration and she got easter baskets for all the regulars in her Sunday class. My brother and I had some of those cards in the basket. It was pretty horrific when we opened them on the way home. The card with the Parasaurolophus holding a stroller with a fat little arm and leg falling from its mouth was probably the most disturbing. Luckily our Mom saw the cards and took them away, but in no way blamed Mrs. Miller. She knew her well enough to know she just got them because they had dinosaurs on them, not realizing just how messed up they were.
Also the humanoid Saurian from the cards was a theory going around at the time of what Dinosaurs would have looked like today if they had never gone extinct. If anyone else remembers all those dinosaur specials that used to air around that time they might remember seeing that.
Here’s an idea. How about a dinosaurs attack 2? The supreme monstrosity and the Saurian returns, summons some dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Or a movie like the carnosaur films.
15:49, I can now confidently say that Dino Diego is youtube's Dino Media king.
JoJo reference?
I love this concept. I never thought dinosaur horror and a little comedy could be this good
You haven't seen Jurassic Park?
Honestly, imagine an adaptation of this story today! I didn’t even realize this was connected to Mars Attack until you mentioned it. Just imagine a comic accurate adaptation in all its glory on the big screen with todays technology! It would be a perfect blend of horror, action, and comedy. And just when you think the movie is over, you see an image of a saucer coming to earth and BAM! You just realized you were watching a Mars Attack sequel and there will be a third one to complete the trilogy.
would only make sense if they somehow used the particle beam to reset the timeline to before the dinosaurs invaded which alerts the martians and prompts them to enact their invasion
8:44 A card of Dinosaurs Attack parodying Three Men and a Baby must be the most hilariously unhinged pop culture reference I've ever seen.
A post apocalypse with martian invaders, dinosaurs, and mutated human monsters would make such a good video game.
Even dinosaurs have lost media
I know that the original cards had origin in the earlier monster movies, but I can't help but to think of Getter Robo. I've already mentioned in another video, but I can comment again, because theme of humans vs. dinosaur is also there, but with mecha. It was first published in the early 70s, but it's unlikely the creators of the cards knew of it because it wasn't really translated.
Getter Robo not only has outer space dinosaurs, but also Oni (aka demons from Japanese Mythology) and Alien Insects!
Getter also has a delicious helping of Dino-gore. Dinosaur War Izenborg is another anime thing close to this too.
I had these cards when I was a kid and actually still have them. I especially remember "Satansaurus Rex" in particular. Thank you soooo much for doing this it made subscribe to your channel finally.
I love these cards and comic! Thank you for covering this!!!
If I were to make a movie about these, I would try to make it like a reverse Jurassic Park. The dinosaurs would be stop motion and looking inaccurate which I think would be funny!
These cards were given to me as a little kid by my folks, thinking it was about Dinosaurs and not thinking past that, the gore and violence scared the literal shit out of me and I had nightmares for days, I wouldn't even look at the cards out of fear of having more Nightmares. So, eventually I buried them outside of our old house under a pile of old rocks out in the back. Now I think about that and think I was very weird for doing that but I was only like 10 at the moment or littler. Feels stupid now, but then I was scared completely shitless and the nightmares were not fun.
I was 12 when these came out and would have absolutely gone mad for these if I had known they existed.
Paleo nerds: Inaccurate dinosaurs look more stupid than scary, accurate dinosaurs are scarier
Also inaccurate dinosaurs:
one of the most eye catching thumbnails ive ever seen. and then a just as good vid on an incredibly weird comic. thanks for sharing this.
A dinosaur apocalypse story like a zombie apocalypse is an interesting idea
Raptor Jesus vs Dinosaur Satan
In cinemas soon...
Being early feels nice but i have nothing of value to say so im going to let the funnier, more complex comments wash over me and allow this one to be forgotten to time
So Mars Attacks from Tim Burton was just a film adaptation of this cards? Wow - maybe someone will also make Dinosaurs Attack Movie one day? That would be awesome!
I'm convinced there are no original movies lol. Everything is an adaptation of something
I've never heard of Dinosaurs Attack and now I feel like I missed out on something niche and fun. The Supreme Monstrosity is a really cool concept and I wish this was a more expansive universe.
SUPER NICE, I first learned about Dinosaur Attack through CGPgrey's podcast
If this makes a comeback,they should lean more into the dark comedy. The card backs are hilarious IMO.
I would loooove to see it go into dark comedy akin to The Return of the Living Dead, Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn and countless other horror comedies.
No, I miss schlock taking itself seriously
Men will literally unleash an inter-temporal Dinosaur invasion instead of going to therapy
Have you ever covered Dinotopia?
The book, movie, or TV show?
Stinktooth lore video when
Is there an animated Dinotopia movie?
@@SlapstickGenius23 Yes, there is.
I can't believe this is the first time I'm hearing about this. And it's got stuff I thought up for fanfics, thinking I was being original.
Damn, I've never heard of this series until now but I would've loved it as a kid. Feels like I missed out on something awesome
“The Martians traveled too far back in time to where there was no universe at all, only hell”
Goddamn, that goes hard!
This story can work very well in an analog horror style the more that I think about it lol
My dad gave me a pack of these back in the early 90's and my mom freaked out and took them away; but I never forgot the shocking imagery and the feeling of horror and intrigue they gave me. Years later in 2019, I found a seller that shipped me the entire card collection + the stickers in a nice glass case. Just ordered the 'Supreme Evil' dinosaur-satan figure by ReAction and it arrived today. Such a cool series.
thamk you for picking up my suggestion. I haven't started watching but i'm sure this is gonna be one heckuva video!
Thank you for suggesting it!
Mars and Dinosaurs in hell?
(Doomslayer intensifies)
I love how in the comic one of the us army soldier is just reading a magazine with Mary Jane from Spider-Man on the back
Great overview. DINOSAURS ATTACK! remains the funkiest thing I ever created, and I'm very proud of it. It was designed with a film adaptation in mind, and I hope there will indeed be one in my lifetime... even if I have to make it myself. By the way, I was co-writing the original screenplay for Stan Winston's PUMPKINHEAD when I was preparing DINOSAURS ATTACK! back in 1987, which may explain the demonology connection (along with my need to parody QUATERMASS AND THE PIT). And the Supreme Monstrosity/Dinosaur Diety will apparently be making a dramatic comeback in 2023, as will my alter-ego, Elias Thorne. That's all I can say right now, folks, but trust me... something pretty cool is on the way. Best regards, Gary Gerani
Lol... the way the dinosaurs get to this timeline is absolutely absurd. I love it
Dinosaurs are mostly unrepresented as monsters in movies nowadays, it would be refreshing to see a film adaptation of Mars Attacks, Dinosaurs Attack and then the combination would make an awesome R-rated trilogy
My theory is because dinosaurs were actually real and not something made up by people, like dragons or aliens (which might be real if you think about it)
And well, things like paleo twitter just love to tear into movies that have “tropey” dinosaurs
A perfect middle ground is to have explanation that allow dinosaurs to be a monsters, like Hell Creek story from the other day where we got zombie dinosaurs, which also help contrasting the 50s monster dinos, and the more animal-like depiction of recent dinos, it's a win-win.
I remember reading a really graphic dinosaur graphic novel when I was a kid, I'm curious if anyone else remembers it, All I remember is its violent graphics and the fact that they travels to Dinosaur nation park in Texas. I think it was a Jurassic park canon product.
I kinda wish Dominion ended up like this.
Least it would have gave what the people wanted
@@ksoundkaiju9256 Precisely. At that point I don't really care for a high art experience. I just wanted to see dinosaurs destroy a city or something.
Wonderful video. I really loved the behind the scenes type of info and you laying out the plot to the cards. Overall one of my fav videos this year :)
What I expected Dinosaurs Attack to be: A Jurassic Park rip off with a B movie bend, deliberately cheesy.
What Dinosaurs Attack turned out to be: “Okay, the good news is that God is real. The bad news is that He’s a dinosaur and He’s pissed.”
This comic is basically if you took Jurassic Park, Turok, lizard people conspiracy theory, and a whole bunch of crack.
Indeed.
I had so many of these cards as a kid. Huge nostalgia trip seeing these.
15:44 is it just me or is this a great example of the me and the boys meme
I find the "Fiery Doom" card's description rather interesting, one could see it as the Supreme Monstrosity as a sort of time guardian, and that his actions prior where to punish man-kind for tampering with time!
Huh. I actually wondered what was the mindset behind the Mars Attacks movie. Now, I see it's an adaptation of an earlier work.
This would make a killer game
How about exoprimal
I remember reading this comic when I was a kid. I actually jumped in joy when I saw this thumbnail. Great work for unlocking s great childhood memory!!!
This and Mars Attack are so full of violence people will only come out of a movie adaptation filled with anger and hatred
This video ruled dude! I especially like at 16:00 where you showed all the references they made to Dino cinema. Keep at it 🤙
The saurian looks a lot like a Martian from Mars Attacks. I wonder if that's intentional.
huh? It doesn't in any way?
My dad used to take me to this weird little toy store called "Scooby's" on saturday mornings, and I would always get a pack of dinosaurs attacks cards. We both had complete sets of the cards in plastic binders.
Neat little psuedo factoid: I believe that some of the sticker cards were illustrated by Hal Robbins, who did the voice of the scientists in Halflife, improvized a lot of the techbobabble for the game.
Remove Dinosaur Satan and I'd like to actually see this get made as a movie
Idk, I kinda like dinosaur Satan
It gives me lovecraftian vibes, this ancient, demonic being that ruled during the Mesozoic suddenly brought into our time, commanding hordes of prehistoric monsters to kill and devour everything
It could explain why the dinosaurs, even the herbivores are so bloodthirsty to begin with
He’s commanding them to kill everything in sight
Edit; That’s exactly what’s going on
Nah, Dinosaur Satan is an OG. Can't remove him from the plot XD
So you can roast the hell out of it? Lol
When I was a kid I loved these cards, and a few years ago I bought an entire box of them for like 30 bucks? Still have it to this day. Thank you for covering this.
14:45 oh goodness! That brown dinosaur in particular seems to resemble the rhedosaurus in beast from 20,000 fathoms! 15:42 oop and there's way more, Reptilicus is the one I spotted out first pfft. too...starting to bridge more into kaiju territory than dinosaur territory
Ah yes, carnivorous Triceratops and bronto
Dinosaur Satan means they dinosaur God exists… that means Raptor Jesus is real
2:50 I like how the card on the right just looks like the darkest three stooges sketch ever.
Like the Dinosaur is just minding its own business, and these two bumpkins manage to kill each other with their own bad trigger discipline.
Oh yeah I’ve read this comic. It was some years ago but I think I still have it in my room.
They are expensive today you can sell them
I just love how the IDW Dinosaurs Attack Comics has this vintage comic book vibes with the art and visuals
Aliens and dinosaurs been fighting since the start of time.
indeed
This is out of the blue but I kinda wish that Primal Rage was made into a film too even though it was an arcade game. Hope there are others out there that have heard of this game. 😅
That would be fire
Is anyone else irked by the mispronunciation of Prometheus? It's not pronounced Promithius the "m e" is pronounced "ME"
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I've never heard of this before - never heard of your channel before either, but definitely subbing now. Thanks for the recommendation, TH-cam - but man it seems really awesome! I wish the creative types behind stuff like this wouldn't just be looking at movies for adaptations nowadays though, as this property seems like it might be perfect for some kind of video game. Some over-the-top open world destruction fest a la Destroy All Humans! ReProbed or some kind of insane action game like Earth Defense Force or maybe even some survival thing like the Japan-only Kyohei Toshi/City Shrouded in Shadows (where you play as a normal human trying not to get killed during different, fictional disasters such as Godzilla attacks, battles between Ultraman and Kaiju, or the collateral damage caused by fights involving the mecha from Patlabor (it was published by Bandai Namco; they threw a lot of their licensed properties into the thing, lol). Dinosaur Attacks! may not have gotten it's chance to be a movie, but it could make for a heckuva fun game if the stars aligned :)
Still, even just learning about the cards and the story behind it makes me really happy now. Great video!
Dinosaur Satan. Gotcha
in the scene where the dinosaurs are pulled back, the year 1841 is the year when the scientific term dinosaur first appeared.
"For as long as I could remember, people have asked me to cover Topp's Dinosaurs Attack series here on the channel, and I've hesitated to do it for a couple of reason."
everyone who has seen the cards/comic adaptation: th-cam.com/video/Va0vs1fhhNI/w-d-xo.html
i will be entirely honest, living in a world where martians and dinosaurs are fighting a primeval war that killed civilization sounds more like heaven than any hell that needs to be avoided.
Speaking of dinosaur deities,I do sometimes imagine,that there are “gods before the gods” that rules prehistoric Earth in Paleozoic and Mesozoic Era,but these old gods were defeated and overthrown by newer gods in Cenozoic Era. The new gods became the basis of the gods we know in various mythologies,while the existence of old gods were implied by the accounts of Dragon, primordial deities, giants, etc.
I love this concept so much, I wanna buy these cards
Does this style of art have a certain name? I love the grainy/old comic book vide i get from these
15:05 Mary Jane on the magazine cover
This whole concept is easily a 3 hour movie classic 🔥👏
This channel is underrated. Perfect video for a fellow paleonerd 🦕
"Three Men Lose a Baby!"
"Seasons Bleedings!"
"The Unfriendly Skies."
*"Whom Gods Destroy."*
The supreme monstrosity reminds me of Ridley
I spent ALL my allowance on these cards!!
5:20 the "trapped in the basement" card actually did scar me for life, tho -
The dinosaur in that card reminds me of Gorosaurus from Godzilla series.