I attended several inking workshops by Mark Schultz in college. He wasn't in love with the name Cadillacs and Dinosaurs but he said that it was a godsend when it came to making the toys. He said one of the first prototypes they showed him was horrible, basically a box with wheels and he had little to no say in it. But since Cadillac was in the title for the cartoon, GM got involved and said absolutely not and they had to produce a much better looking toy. He also said he was amazed at how close the animation and production schedule cut it to airing the cartoons. Some were just finalized hours before it was set to air.
I love the arcade game. Played through it more times than I can count. It's just so much fun. Also love the show. I'd love to see it get remade. It would be awesome to see a more modern "mature" animation of it that better fits with the original material. Though honestly for a cartoon, it was epic.
@@RIVALContentJammerz I understand. But the commenter you replied to was probably just joking and as a famous clown said, "if you explain the joke, it's no longer funny."
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The concept art for Fallout 1 (man/women in blue jumpsuits over green mutants/mist) was inspired by Xenozoic tales according to the artist. I always felt there was a lot more inspiration from this in the Fallout universe then its original creators ever let on (I know the sources they publicly stated), there is a very high degree of overlap in plots, ideas, style.
Galaxy brain move, like the guy who made Helltaker claims he did it solely for the reason of "I like sharply-dressed demon girls" Now he has an infinite supply of fanart of precisely that.
I'm more perplexed as to why anyone would dislike a Toy Galaxy video. Dan and his team fire out gold on every video. I've seriously had the history of my childhood explained on levels I never knew I needed. Keep up the awesome work guys!
Clever naming, Jack Hannah is the name of America's most famous zookeeper and animal conservationist... I had this for PC, could never get past the first level.
If you never played the Capcom game and only ever played the Sega CD or PC game I could understand why you'd have bad memories. I'd love to be able to play the arcade machine but I'm willing to bet there probably less than 100 out in the wild still. I keep meaning to play it on emulation as that's pretty much the only way you can these days.
Anyone reading this who has access to The Rock's ears, please pitch the movie idea to him. Just tell him, it's an action adventure movie based in a "jungle" with dinosaurs!
One of the best things about my childhood was that my mom would usually take me to hand me down stores like the goodwill and savers instead of the big box stores, and it was in places like those I would find these “cult classic shows” if you will. I had the first VHS tape of the first 2 episodes of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and it was in my regular rotation of tapes I watched
Wish this series got a movie. I’d cast Bruce Cambell as Jack Tenrac Catherine Zeta-Jones as Hannah Dundee Ice Cube as Mustapha Dolph Lundgren as Hammer Paul Hogan as Vice
Same here. I remember it well and I also remember it was always interrupted for some baseball game or something, just like Schultz said! Same with an anthology show called "Two-Fisted Tales"; it took me googling it to realize it wasn't just a false memory and that yes, it had existed, lol.
This really pumped me up! I am currently trying to get some love for my comicbook character and her story. It was cool to see that Cadillac and Dinosaurs did not go extinct.... I was really impressed with candy bars as a marketing tool.🍫
I remember watching this cartoon as a kid, and always wishing they had done more with it. It was such an insane premise that really was everything I wanted. There was an arcade downtown that had the game and this made me nostalgic for the place. It was such a weird hole in the wall place but they had the best games!
I didn't even know most of these old shows existed. Thank you for all the shows, and movies that you've discussed, and showing the newest generation what we've been missing out on. As some people say, the past must be preserved.
Oh this show is on Tubi? Thanks for the heads up! I've heard so much about this series - toys and games but got lost in my youth. Always been curious about it.
Great video Dan! I was 22 years old and an avid reader of Death Rattle and Xenozoic Tales. I am 57 now and had no idea about anything that came after those titles. Well done.
Dan, I'm glad you really took those comments to heart and started taking this stuff more seriously by wearing a jacket and talking about vehicular safety...retro toy, TV cartoon shows, and Videogames is serious business
Hard to find even if you’re looking pretty well sums up this franchise. When I stumbled across a TPB of Xenozoic Tales at the library, I decided it must have fallen through a portal from another, cooler universe.
@AT Productions That and that super sweet alien vs predator game are definitely top of the list of games I'd love Capcom to release but they probably never will or simply can't due to legal nonsense and licensing.
@@kechidonick What's even worse is literally the only home version we got of that was a very meh genesis/mega drive port. I would say it's better than nothing but nah it really isn't.
@AT Productions Yeah I know the one you're talking about the giant Capcom shaped one. Unfortunately it was crazy expensive and I don't think it was released in the US as far as I'm aware which is probably how they were able to get away with it. I doubt we'll ever see it come out in any other official capacity considering that was a real one-off sort of situation. Again technically you're right (and I knew that when I was writing it) But like I said considering the circumstances I just don't count that.
The first time I heard about Cadallacs and Dinosaurs was when I took $5 to the laundromat to play some games. It was 1993, so they must have just got the thing. I beat the game, took the change home and that was the last I had heard of Cadallacs and Dinosaurs...until today...almost 30 years later. I remember having fun and I was able to beat it with less than $5, which was weird because I had never beat an arcade game before or after that, lol. I had no idea there was a show, comic and candy bars...I just thought it was a crazy Japanese arcade game.
It's funny because I was more aware of the comics and I guess the cartoon even though I never saw it live I don't think then the arcade machine which I have never seen in my entire life out in the wild. I keep meaning to play it on MAME as finding an actual physical machine at this point is probably extremely unlikely.
My wife says that this game was extremely popular in the 90's when she lived in Bangladesh. For some reason in her part of the world it was called "Mustapha". I'm taking a trip there sometime next year presumably, and I might make a short video about its influence there if I can find the time for it.
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs sounds like the name of a rock band. There was a weird animated series by the name of Van-Pires. The premise was a group of teens who hung around a junkyard got turned into various vehicles, whose purpose in life was to battle a group of vampiric monster vehicles who had an insatiable thirst for motor oil. Definitely the weirdest cartoon I had ever seen.
The only thing missing from this overview is that, in a weird sort of way, Mark Schutlz's comic wound up helping create one of the richest people on the planet today, even if only incidentally. You see, that Sega CD & PC game by Rocket Science Games that wasn't very well received? One of the guys who did some of the programming for it was a no name college intern named Elon Musk. Yeah, THAT Elon Musk. It's a small little world, isn't it?
@@toddjones1480 That's why I said it was "incidental". I never said that Cadillacs & Dinosaurs directly lead to Musk's later success, but he did work there as part of an internship during college, which in turn helped lead to him graduating. After that, it was all Musk, but I wouldn't be surprised ifhe did put his time at Rocket Science Games on his resume early on, which showed that he knew what he was doing professionally.
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs aired on Teletoon here in Canada. Have you done a vid on the Turok: Dinosaur Hunter franchise? I first heard of it with the N64 game, but apparently it was a comic series in the 50s
Xenozoic Tales is still one of my favorite comics of all time, and I'm so happy to hear that Schultz is working on new material. I recommend any of the B/W collected editions as his work is some of the best brushy inking ever seen anywhere. And have you SEEN his Conan illustrations? To slay for.
I have some animation cells of the Cadillacs & Dinosaurs Saturday morning cartoon in my animation cel collection, as well as a beautiful hardbound book of the original Xenozoic series. I still love this story concept, all these years later. And Mark Schultz's original drawings are right up there with Frank Frazetta, in quality in my humble opinion. Love the series. Fun fact: The Sega CD Cadillacs & Dinosaurs game by "Rocket Science Games" had work done on it by Elon Musk, who worked for the company at the time.
In the 26th century, Mankind faces an epic struggle for survival. The forces of nature have spun wildly out of control. Mighty cities have crumbled, and the Dinosaurs have returned to reclaim the earth. In this savage land, on man stands alone: Jack Tenrec. Defending humanity in a world gone mad. A world where only the strong survive. a world of.... Cadillacs and Dinosaurs!
The world did done dirty on this franchise. How something so awesome can be so woefully underappreciated. We need new movies and games based on it with everything modern budgets and technology can afford.
The 90s was a weird transition time for toys and cartoons. All the kids of the 80s were outgrowing animation as it was seen as very 80s and everyone was scrambling for live action stuff like Power Rangers, BeetleBorgs, and captain power.
@@HeadCannonPrime I think the show would have done much better had it come up a bit later when adult animation started gaining mainstream acceptance. Today they cold do something like Castlevania and have the dinosaurs actually eat someone every now and then. I think even kid-friendly Camp Cretaceous today has more of a body count than the Cadillacs & Dinosaurs cartoon. The 90s were kind of lame in that regard.
@@Rodrigo_Vega the 90s? Thats children's cartoons in general......It was a CHILDREN'S show not a neckbeard show....Just like every other CHILDREN'S cartoon...Nobody died in He-Man, Nobody died in G.I. Joe. Rambo, Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos etc..... It wasn't a "lack of violence"....Kids didn't like it PERIOD....Thats obvious by it only being on for 13 episodes, it wasn't done dirty. It was literally nobody wanted to watch it, Kids didn't want the toys.....They don't keep doing things that have no interest behind them and wildly killing people wouldn't have made it interesting to kids...
@@lutherheggs451 It's not just about not dying, they couldn't do anything back then. People complain about "censorship" today, but 90s Spiderman literally couldn't even punch a bad guy. The show wasn't disliked at all. It was awesome and clever and had everything anyone likes. I was a kid and I loved it I have at least one of the toys. (I'm from SA, so we didn't get ALL the toys), I know other people close my age who watched it and had some toys. It probably wasn't liked _enough_ for being such an expensive show. The art and animation really was top-notch, so it was probably on the expensive end of cartoons for a show that didn't sell amazingly in merchandise. At least compared to other shows with much cheaper animation but extensive and extremely popular toys of the time. The toys were manufactured by Tyco, because they had the rights to the Cadillac brand, but they specialized of course in cars and made rather weak and not very varied action figures. If they had had done something like Kenner, and gotten a line more similar to Jurassic Park's the story might have been quite different. Besides I'm talking about the franchise, not the cartoon. It wasn't a "children's" franchise to start with. That's... exactly my point. The comics have politics, ecology, spirituality and seedy characters. They _made it_ a childrens cartoon because back then all cartoons were expected to be for children. But that's no the case today and we wouldn't have to kneecap the story or expect it to rely on toy sales to stay afloat today. That's what I'm saying.
(I caught a couple of episodes when I was a kid) I love Mark Schultz art and I've tried to get a hold of some of his comics like, of course, xenozoic tales as well as subhuman but they go for a lot
I was always a massive fan of this series. The arcade game was amazing, the show was fun, and the comics have some of the most incredible art. I would LOVE to see this make a comeback. Someone needs to get in touch with Netflix and have them start up a series for it. Animated or live action, I'd be happy with either.
Freaking love the Xenozoic comics. Damn shame it ended on a cliffhanger and we never got to see the end, but each story was stand-alone with slight overlapping so it wasn't too hard to follow what was going on....
This is why I love this channel, You learn something in every video. I had no idea Cadillac and Dinosaurs was a pre existing comic called Xenozoic Tales. Here I thought it was just another early 90s cartoon that had a toy line and arcade game. The comic sounds very interesting and the artwork is phenomenal. I might even track down one of the first collected omnibus or which ever collected graphic novels are available. Back in 1993 I remember seeing Cadillac and Dinosaurs on tv but I wasn’t interested in watching the cartoon at the time. Thanks to Dan I now know it’s available to watch for free on Tubi and I definitely plan to check it out since I missed it the first time around. As always this has been a great video and I look forward to seeing the next one! Cheers!
I never forgot Dan & have enjoyed reading the comics from time to time! In fact I'll still use the term 'old blood mechanic'. Also Pepperidge Farm remembers!
Bro I used to watch a few years back but sadly forgot the channel. I just remembered it and got instant nostalgia for just a few years back! Glad to be back to the channel!!
I do not understand the inside jokes....but just for the record I have always appreciated this channel, recommend it to anyone that will listen, and talk about how high quality and educational these videos are. Another great video!
I recall seeing the cartoon on TV, but didn't pay much attention to it and it seemed to just disappear. Eventually discovered the arcade game, i was surprised how good it was.
I got into this franchise because of the rpg. When the flgs put the rpg on the shelf, they also put several issues of the comic next to it. I was hooked. Good Video. Thanks.
I got to play the arcade game for the first time just last year. It led to me researching the series and reading much of Xenozoic tales by hunting down the Kitchen Sink compilations, and watching the cartoon here on TH-cam. The original comics are fantastic.
I live in a third world country and almost 99% of the things which Dan explain goes over my head but still I watch every video. It's like living my childhood which I never had. And I am a 30 year old grown-ass man.
I don't know who published it this particular publication (might have been Topps), but I got into Xenozoic Tales via a Jurassic Park comic which had reprints of it AND Age of Reptiles (the finest dinosaur comic to ever exist). Worth the pocket money for Xenozoic and AoR alone.
Dad has some of the action figures but never saw the cartoon, he would see advertisements for it set for a later time on Saturday morning only to have a sports or news program that time spot.
You just made me remember such a deep rooted memory of the cartoon and toy line, and you helped out people on ebay because I just started buying up the toys.
Looking sharp dude! I ran into this as a kid off and on at random. Went to see Jurassic Park and saw this in the theater lobby. I ended up playing this the whole time rather than see the movie. My old man was PISSED! XD Then, my buddy Anthony picked up a random comic issue of it and I started seeing the show on TV. Always a trip.
The tv series needs to be on blu ray and shout out to Mark Schultz. Xenozoic Tales is one of the best comics ever produced and deserves a bigger audience.
I remember getting the RPG without ever seeing any other elements of the franchise. Just one of those weird things where you feel like there must be so much out there that I've seen just this small slice of
My first experience with XenoTales was getting a comic book at DisneyLand of it as a kid that had a carnivore dinosaur that was basically being held as a pet being blamed for brutal nightly mutilations that was being done by another meat eater that snuck into the city and I remember how parents had a gigantic fit on the news over it when they saw all the mutilations/implied mutilations in the comic and Disney did a big apology thing an ensured they would remove all relations to it.
The pride of my collection is the cadillac hanna and jack they are not so expensive but i worked very hard to find them now i got to buy the complete run of the comic
I only know of this show because of my nephew (I was adopted, and he is technically older than me by 5 years), first told me about the cartoon some time in 95, thinking it was still on the air. I actually came across some of the figurines in a Dollar Tree some time in 96 or 97.. i had Jack, Hannah and Hammer, my other nephew had Hammer and Vice
I always thought this was just a cash in from Jurassic park. I LOVED the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs arcade game. I have it on my arcade emulator and still enjoy it. Its one of the best beat-em-ups from the early days.
By the time this cartoon was airing ,even though I was already a fan of the comic,I didn't watch it. I was in my late teens and sleeping in each Saturday. But in 96 I was in a local Dollar Tree store and they had gotten in a case of the action figures from Tyco. I bought a full set of the figures for myself,couldn't pass them up at a buck a figure. Then bought every Hannah Dundee figure they had. Cause at the time they were considered rare and selling for 15 a figure. Sold off the extra Hannah figures and used the profits to fund my trip to a convention.
The animated series was ahead of its time. There wasn't anything that looked that well drawn or animated at the time. The Capcom beat 'em up is right up there with other greats like AVP and Captain Commando.
The show came out in 1993. Ren and Stimpy, the show that single-handedly revitalized the idea of the creator driven animated shows and priorituized drawing quality and animated acting above everything else came out in 1991, and Batman: The Animated Series which also pushed mature themes and excellent art far beyond anything else at the time, debuted one year earlier. Catalliacs and Dinosaurs may have helped try to contribute in small way to animation being taken seriously again, but to say that it was the only one at the time, the first one, or the best one going at the time is far from true.
@@the-NightStar hard disagree. Both of those shows were heavily stylized and didn't have as fluid animation. There was something very unique about how Cadillacs and Dinosaurs looked in motion.
I attended several inking workshops by Mark Schultz in college. He wasn't in love with the name Cadillacs and Dinosaurs but he said that it was a godsend when it came to making the toys. He said one of the first prototypes they showed him was horrible, basically a box with wheels and he had little to no say in it. But since Cadillac was in the title for the cartoon, GM got involved and said absolutely not and they had to produce a much better looking toy. He also said he was amazed at how close the animation and production schedule cut it to airing the cartoons. Some were just finalized hours before it was set to air.
Very interesting.
One of the best beat-em-up arcades games ever made.
Main reason I clicked on video. Because the game is known to be very badass
I love the arcade game. Played through it more times than I can count. It's just so much fun.
Also love the show. I'd love to see it get remade. It would be awesome to see a more modern "mature" animation of it that better fits with the original material.
Though honestly for a cartoon, it was epic.
So great via Mame
Final uppercut!
Right!😀
When you refill your gas tank, you're putting dinosaurs into your Cadillac.
@@RIVALContentJammerz But Cadillacs and Petunias doesn't sound as catchy.
That's a good one.
@@RIVALContentJammerz I understand. But the commenter you replied to was probably just joking and as a famous clown said, "if you explain the joke, it's no longer funny."
Editor's Note: When you refill your tank of gasoline, you are pumping petroleum, which is derived from fossilized flora and fauna, into your motor vehicle. This may result in your car, if a Cadillac brand automobile, having traces of a dinosaur, a form of fauna from centuries ago, inside of it.
We are sorry for the confusion.
Used to be mainly Dinosaurs that drove Cadillacs, pre-Escalade...
Who doesn't love Cadillacs & Dinosaurs?! Thanks for the shout-out, Toy Galaxy!
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The concept art for Fallout 1 (man/women in blue jumpsuits over green mutants/mist) was inspired by Xenozoic tales according to the artist. I always felt there was a lot more inspiration from this in the Fallout universe then its original creators ever let on (I know the sources they publicly stated), there is a very high degree of overlap in plots, ideas, style.
Working as a security officer while writing the perfect story he himself always wanted to read? Damn, dude, that's my life, too!
Galaxy brain move, like the guy who made Helltaker claims he did it solely for the reason of "I like sharply-dressed demon girls"
Now he has an infinite supply of fanart of precisely that.
My wife walking by "Oh he looks fancy in this one, good for him"
that actually made me chuckle. (i thought so too)
@@theflyingninja1 That's why she the girlfriend not the wife.
Mark Shultz really is a fantastic artist that doesn't get enough acclaim, imho.
Reminds me of England's Ron Smith (Chopper/Judge Dredd) in style.
I'm more perplexed as to why anyone would dislike a Toy Galaxy video. Dan and his team fire out gold on every video. I've seriously had the history of my childhood explained on levels I never knew I needed.
Keep up the awesome work guys!
Clever naming, Jack Hannah is the name of America's most famous zookeeper and animal conservationist...
I had this for PC, could never get past the first level.
Yeah, I was gonna comment this too.
If you never played the Capcom game and only ever played the Sega CD or PC game I could understand
why you'd have bad memories.
I'd love to be able to play the arcade machine but I'm willing to bet there probably less than 100 out in the wild still. I keep meaning to play it on emulation as that's pretty much the only way you can these days.
Anyone reading this who has access to The Rock's ears, please pitch the movie idea to him.
Just tell him, it's an action adventure movie based in a "jungle" with dinosaurs!
Oh man I'd watch this a million times over
No. Please, just no.
One of the best things about my childhood was that my mom would usually take me to hand me down stores like the goodwill and savers instead of the big box stores, and it was in places like those I would find these “cult classic shows” if you will. I had the first VHS tape of the first 2 episodes of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and it was in my regular rotation of tapes I watched
Wish this series got a movie. I’d cast
Bruce Cambell as Jack Tenrac
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Hannah Dundee
Ice Cube as Mustapha
Dolph Lundgren as Hammer
Paul Hogan as Vice
Oh my God yes! That's almost the exact same cast I always imagined except it was Ernie Hudson as Mustafa and Salma Hayek as Hannah.
Now I can't get Henry Cavill out of my head to play Tenrec.
I'll also take Claudia Black as Hannah.
*sounds like a dream cast to be sure*
We’re about 15-20 years too late but great casting tbh.
Once again, another show that I thought was some weird fever dream I had when I was a child. I saw a few of these episodes then it just vanished!
Same here. I remember it well and I also remember it was always interrupted for some baseball game or something, just like Schultz said! Same with an anthology show called "Two-Fisted Tales"; it took me googling it to realize it wasn't just a false memory and that yes, it had existed, lol.
Me too but the name stuck with my 6 year old mind.
Still love the arcade game. The cartoon deserved so much better. Thanks for covering this Dan!
"Say it loud, Say it clear." I'm crying with that 11/10 *chefs kiss* #mikeandthemechanics
This really pumped me up! I am currently trying to get some love for my comicbook character and her story. It was cool to see that Cadillac and Dinosaurs did not go extinct.... I was really impressed with candy bars as a marketing tool.🍫
Honestly though. Very strong bait for a kid, especially if the chocolate has a print of something amazing looking from the show.
I vaguely remembered the cartoon from childhood, for years I thought I’d imagined it! This spawned my love of red American motors!!
I remember watching this cartoon as a kid, and always wishing they had done more with it. It was such an insane premise that really was everything I wanted. There was an arcade downtown that had the game and this made me nostalgic for the place. It was such a weird hole in the wall place but they had the best games!
I didn't even know most of these old shows existed. Thank you for all the shows, and movies that you've discussed, and showing the newest generation what we've been missing out on. As some people say, the past must be preserved.
Oh this show is on Tubi? Thanks for the heads up!
I've heard so much about this series - toys and games but got lost in my youth. Always been curious about it.
"I am tired of these mutha****in dinosaurs in these mutha****in Cadillacs!"
This is the best comment. Thank you for your service.
Great video Dan! I was 22 years old and an avid reader of Death Rattle and Xenozoic Tales. I am 57 now and had no idea about anything that came after those titles. Well done.
Seriously, if you guys have ever seen the arcade game, it's literally the best brawler of all time. Fire up a MAME machine and give it a go!
Gotta agree. Really cool game!
Dan, I'm glad you really took those comments to heart and started taking this stuff more seriously by wearing a jacket and talking about vehicular safety...retro toy, TV cartoon shows, and Videogames is serious business
Hard to find even if you’re looking pretty well sums up this franchise. When I stumbled across a TPB of Xenozoic Tales at the library, I decided it must have fallen through a portal from another, cooler universe.
Learning the history of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs makes me think of the comic series of Elf-Quest.
I wish the arcade game was made available on a compilation release or something.
You can get it in a lot of arcade emulator compilations. I have one and it is still fun.
@AT Productions
That and that super sweet alien vs predator game are definitely top of the list of games I'd love Capcom to release but they probably never will or simply can't due to legal nonsense and licensing.
Don't forget The Punisher Beat'em up.
@@kechidonick
What's even worse is literally the only home version we got of that was a very meh genesis/mega drive port. I would say it's better than nothing but nah it really isn't.
@AT Productions
Yeah I know the one you're talking about the giant Capcom shaped one. Unfortunately it was crazy expensive and I don't think it was released in the US as far as I'm aware which is probably how they were able to get away with it. I doubt we'll ever see it come out in any other official capacity considering that was a real one-off sort of situation.
Again technically you're right (and I knew that when I was writing it)
But like I said considering the circumstances I just don't count that.
That Triceratops in the toy commercial is the exact same model used for Dino riders!
The first time I heard about Cadallacs and Dinosaurs was when I took $5 to the laundromat to play some games. It was 1993, so they must have just got the thing. I beat the game, took the change home and that was the last I had heard of Cadallacs and Dinosaurs...until today...almost 30 years later. I remember having fun and I was able to beat it with less than $5, which was weird because I had never beat an arcade game before or after that, lol. I had no idea there was a show, comic and candy bars...I just thought it was a crazy Japanese arcade game.
It's funny because I was more aware of the comics and I guess the cartoon even though I never saw it live I don't think then the arcade machine which I have never seen in my entire life out in the wild. I keep meaning to play it on MAME as finding an actual physical machine at this point is probably extremely unlikely.
I was OBSESSED with this show. Hit me at just the right age. Still love it.
I'd really like to see a deep dive on how many times Tyco reused those Dino Rider molds
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, rad AF.
My wife says that this game was extremely popular in the 90's when she lived in Bangladesh. For some reason in her part of the world it was called "Mustapha". I'm taking a trip there sometime next year presumably, and I might make a short video about its influence there if I can find the time for it.
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs sounds like the name of a rock band.
There was a weird animated series by the name of Van-Pires. The premise was a group of teens who hung around a junkyard got turned into various vehicles, whose purpose in life was to battle a group of vampiric monster vehicles who had an insatiable thirst for motor oil. Definitely the weirdest cartoon I had ever seen.
The arcade game is frickin amazing!
The only thing missing from this overview is that, in a weird sort of way, Mark Schutlz's comic wound up helping create one of the richest people on the planet today, even if only incidentally. You see, that Sega CD & PC game by Rocket Science Games that wasn't very well received? One of the guys who did some of the programming for it was a no name college intern named Elon Musk.
Yeah, THAT Elon Musk. It's a small little world, isn't it?
And I was like, "Emilioooooooooooo!"
It probably helped more that he had a dad who sent him to computer camps and bought him an extremely expensive PC when he was six years old.
@@toddjones1480 That's why I said it was "incidental". I never said that Cadillacs & Dinosaurs directly lead to Musk's later success, but he did work there as part of an internship during college, which in turn helped lead to him graduating. After that, it was all Musk, but I wouldn't be surprised ifhe did put his time at Rocket Science Games on his resume early on, which showed that he knew what he was doing professionally.
So it's all Musk's fault that it sucks! Dammit Elon!
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs aired on Teletoon here in Canada.
Have you done a vid on the Turok: Dinosaur Hunter franchise?
I first heard of it with the N64 game, but apparently it was a comic series in the 50s
This was actually a good show
Too bad it didn't last long. It suffered the same fate "Spider-Man Unlimited" suffered, being cancelled after one season. A real bummer.
Xenozoic Tales is still one of my favorite comics of all time, and I'm so happy to hear that Schultz is working on new material. I recommend any of the B/W collected editions as his work is some of the best brushy inking ever seen anywhere. And have you SEEN his Conan illustrations? To slay for.
I have some animation cells of the Cadillacs & Dinosaurs Saturday morning cartoon in my animation cel collection, as well as a beautiful hardbound book of the original Xenozoic series. I still love this story concept, all these years later. And Mark Schultz's original drawings are right up there with Frank Frazetta, in quality in my humble opinion. Love the series.
Fun fact: The Sega CD Cadillacs & Dinosaurs game by "Rocket Science Games" had work done on it by Elon Musk, who worked for the company at the time.
I was eating when I paused on that Mike and the Mechanics gag - I almost choked to death laughing, dorks!
Every Retro gaming device reviewer's ears just perked up... Somebody talkin' about Cadillacs & Dinosaurs?!?
Beefcake Man is here...
In the 26th century,
Mankind faces an epic struggle for survival.
The forces of nature have spun wildly out of control.
Mighty cities have crumbled,
and the Dinosaurs have returned to reclaim the earth.
In this savage land, on man stands alone:
Jack Tenrec.
Defending humanity in a world gone mad.
A world where only the strong survive.
a world of.... Cadillacs and Dinosaurs!
The world did done dirty on this franchise. How something so awesome can be so woefully underappreciated.
We need new movies and games based on it with everything modern budgets and technology can afford.
The 90s was a weird transition time for toys and cartoons. All the kids of the 80s were outgrowing animation as it was seen as very 80s and everyone was scrambling for live action stuff like Power Rangers, BeetleBorgs, and captain power.
@@HeadCannonPrime I think the show would have done much better had it come up a bit later when adult animation started gaining mainstream acceptance. Today they cold do something like Castlevania and have the dinosaurs actually eat someone every now and then. I think even kid-friendly Camp Cretaceous today has more of a body count than the Cadillacs & Dinosaurs cartoon. The 90s were kind of lame in that regard.
@@Rodrigo_Vega the 90s? Thats children's cartoons in general......It was a CHILDREN'S show not a neckbeard show....Just like every other CHILDREN'S cartoon...Nobody died in He-Man, Nobody died in G.I. Joe. Rambo, Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos etc.....
It wasn't a "lack of violence"....Kids didn't like it PERIOD....Thats obvious by it only being on for 13 episodes, it wasn't done dirty. It was literally nobody wanted to watch it, Kids didn't want the toys.....They don't keep doing things that have no interest behind them and wildly killing people wouldn't have made it interesting to kids...
@@lutherheggs451 It's not just about not dying, they couldn't do anything back then. People complain about "censorship" today, but 90s Spiderman literally couldn't even punch a bad guy. The show wasn't disliked at all. It was awesome and clever and had everything anyone likes. I was a kid and I loved it I have at least one of the toys. (I'm from SA, so we didn't get ALL the toys), I know other people close my age who watched it and had some toys. It probably wasn't liked _enough_ for being such an expensive show. The art and animation really was top-notch, so it was probably on the expensive end of cartoons for a show that didn't sell amazingly in merchandise. At least compared to other shows with much cheaper animation but extensive and extremely popular toys of the time.
The toys were manufactured by Tyco, because they had the rights to the Cadillac brand, but they specialized of course in cars and made rather weak and not very varied action figures. If they had had done something like Kenner, and gotten a line more similar to Jurassic Park's the story might have been quite different.
Besides I'm talking about the franchise, not the cartoon. It wasn't a "children's" franchise to start with. That's... exactly my point. The comics have politics, ecology, spirituality and seedy characters. They _made it_ a childrens cartoon because back then all cartoons were expected to be for children. But that's no the case today and we wouldn't have to kneecap the story or expect it to rely on toy sales to stay afloat today. That's what I'm saying.
I loved this show as a teen
(I caught a couple of episodes when I was a kid) I love Mark Schultz art and I've tried to get a hold of some of his comics like, of course, xenozoic tales as well as subhuman but they go for a lot
I was always a massive fan of this series. The arcade game was amazing, the show was fun, and the comics have some of the most incredible art.
I would LOVE to see this make a comeback. Someone needs to get in touch with Netflix and have them start up a series for it. Animated or live action, I'd be happy with either.
I remember this show and then reading the comics and how cool they both were.
Of course, now Cadillacs might seem more prehistoric to kids than the dinosaurs. jk
Played the game every day on the way home from school.
I still think this is one of the very best comics ever made.
Freaking love the Xenozoic comics. Damn shame it ended on a cliffhanger and we never got to see the end, but each story was stand-alone with slight overlapping so it wasn't too hard to follow what was going on....
This is why I love this channel, You learn something in every video. I had no idea Cadillac and Dinosaurs was a pre existing comic called Xenozoic Tales. Here I thought it was just another early 90s cartoon that had a toy line and arcade game. The comic sounds very interesting and the artwork is phenomenal. I might even track down one of the first collected omnibus or which ever collected graphic novels are available. Back in 1993 I remember seeing Cadillac and Dinosaurs on tv but I wasn’t interested in watching the cartoon at the time. Thanks to Dan I now know it’s available to watch for free on Tubi and I definitely plan to check it out since I missed it the first time around. As always this has been a great video and I look forward to seeing the next one! Cheers!
Aye the comics was really watered down to make the cartoon for kids.
I learned about this show a year ago and I will never forget it.
The life of C&D reminds me of The Tick. Which if it’s not on “the list”, it definitely should be
I never forgot Dan & have enjoyed reading the comics from time to time! In fact I'll still use the term 'old blood mechanic'. Also Pepperidge Farm remembers!
Dear god i was just doing research into this. Well this will certainly help
Twighlight 2000.....now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time.......
Bro I used to watch a few years back but sadly forgot the channel. I just remembered it and got instant nostalgia for just a few years back! Glad to be back to the channel!!
I remember this franchise from my childhood mostly Hannah good memories lol.
I do not understand the inside jokes....but just for the record I have always appreciated this channel, recommend it to anyone that will listen, and talk about how high quality and educational these videos are. Another great video!
I recall seeing the cartoon on TV, but didn't pay much attention to it and it seemed to just disappear. Eventually discovered the arcade game, i was surprised how good it was.
I got into this franchise because of the rpg. When the flgs put the rpg on the shelf, they also put several issues of the comic next to it. I was hooked. Good Video. Thanks.
Played the beat-em-up version of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs in the arcades in my country, really loved it!
I got to play the arcade game for the first time just last year. It led to me researching the series and reading much of Xenozoic tales by hunting down the Kitchen Sink compilations, and watching the cartoon here on TH-cam. The original comics are fantastic.
YES! THANK YOU TOY GALAXY CREW! It might have been forgotten by the time, but not by you. Great episode! 🚗🦎
I still remember all of it. The game, the show, the toys. I love it all so much
I still have the comics. God, they're fantastic.
I live in a third world country and almost 99% of the things which Dan explain goes over my head but still I watch every video. It's like living my childhood which I never had. And I am a 30 year old grown-ass man.
Did you know: DC-8s and Thetans was originally called Xenuzoic Tales.
I love this channel. It's bringing back so many memories of shows and toy lines from my childhood that I'd totally forgotten about. 😁
I don't know who published it this particular publication (might have been Topps), but I got into Xenozoic Tales via a Jurassic Park comic which had reprints of it AND Age of Reptiles (the finest dinosaur comic to ever exist). Worth the pocket money for Xenozoic and AoR alone.
Dad has some of the action figures but never saw the cartoon, he would see advertisements for it set for a later time on Saturday morning only to have a sports or news program that time spot.
This sounds like "The Fast and the Furious meets Jurassic World."
That was basically it!
I'm surprised hasnt tried this
More like Mad Max than Fast and the Furious.
Universal wants to make that crossover happen.
@@temporalshenanigans like mel gibson is a future descendant of vin diesel?
Shultz has also been writing “Prince Valiant” since 2014.
This review made me realize how cool driving without my seatbelt can be. Thanks Toy Galaxy!!
You just made me remember such a deep rooted memory of the cartoon and toy line, and you helped out people on ebay because I just started buying up the toys.
If you weren't the turtles, CBS didn't care.
Looking sharp dude! I ran into this as a kid off and on at random. Went to see Jurassic Park and saw this in the theater lobby. I ended up playing this the whole time rather than see the movie. My old man was PISSED! XD
Then, my buddy Anthony picked up a random comic issue of it and I started seeing the show on TV.
Always a trip.
@2:16: Is Hannah wearing a merkin?
I love the Mike & the Mechanics reference. *chef’s kiss.*
As a 90s kid OBSESSED with dinosaurs, I somehow missed this.
Please consider doing Attack Pack (toy series) next!
Love that Mike + the Mechanics reference! lmao
Awesome synchronicity.
I was just thinking of C & D a few weeks ago.
One of the best beat'um ups ever.
The tv series needs to be on blu ray and shout out to Mark Schultz. Xenozoic Tales is one of the best comics ever produced and deserves a bigger audience.
I remember getting the RPG without ever seeing any other elements of the franchise.
Just one of those weird things where you feel like there must be so much out there that I've seen just this small slice of
That first unsubscribe joke made me laugh so hard I had to watch it two more times.
Just bought the Xenozoic collection, it's gorgeous.
My first experience with XenoTales was getting a comic book at DisneyLand of it as a kid that had a carnivore dinosaur that was basically being held as a pet being blamed for brutal nightly mutilations that was being done by another meat eater that snuck into the city and I remember how parents had a gigantic fit on the news over it when they saw all the mutilations/implied mutilations in the comic and Disney did a big apology thing an ensured they would remove all relations to it.
That was one of the episodes of the cartoon.
This franchise deserves an movie
I love this game sooo much. I grew up playing this in arcades
The pride of my collection is the cadillac hanna and jack they are not so expensive but i worked very hard to find them now i got to buy the complete run of the comic
Dude the illustrations on those old comic books look pretty great especially for the time.
I only know of this show because of my nephew (I was adopted, and he is technically older than me by 5 years), first told me about the cartoon some time in 95, thinking it was still on the air. I actually came across some of the figurines in a Dollar Tree some time in 96 or 97.. i had Jack, Hannah and Hammer, my other nephew had Hammer and Vice
This really does need to be turned into a live-action series or film. And don't change a thing.
I spent SO MUCH CASH on C&D beat em up at the arcades. One of my favourite games to this day.
I always thought this was just a cash in from Jurassic park. I LOVED the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs arcade game. I have it on my arcade emulator and still enjoy it. Its one of the best beat-em-ups from the early days.
By the time this cartoon was airing ,even though I was already a fan of the comic,I didn't watch it. I was in my late teens and sleeping in each Saturday.
But in 96 I was in a local Dollar Tree store and they had gotten in a case of the action figures from Tyco. I bought a full set of the figures for myself,couldn't pass them up at a buck a figure. Then bought every Hannah Dundee figure they had. Cause at the time they were considered rare and selling for 15 a figure. Sold off the extra Hannah figures and used the profits to fund my trip to a convention.
The animated series was ahead of its time. There wasn't anything that looked that well drawn or animated at the time. The Capcom beat 'em up is right up there with other greats like AVP and Captain Commando.
The show came out in 1993. Ren and Stimpy, the show that single-handedly revitalized the idea of the creator driven animated shows and priorituized drawing quality and animated acting above everything else came out in 1991, and Batman: The Animated Series which also pushed mature themes and excellent art far beyond anything else at the time, debuted one year earlier.
Catalliacs and Dinosaurs may have helped try to contribute in small way to animation being taken seriously again, but to say that it was the only one at the time, the first one, or the best one going at the time is far from true.
@@the-NightStar hard disagree. Both of those shows were heavily stylized and didn't have as fluid animation. There was something very unique about how Cadillacs and Dinosaurs looked in motion.