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Were dinosaurs "big" before Jurrasic Park (1993)?

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  • #32
    Kablamo!
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    Duggy747 wrote: »
    Remember the Dinosaurs magazine that came with 3D glasses for the 3D pictures and every week came with skeleton pieces so you could build a glow-in-the-dark T-Rex?

    Spent months and plenty of hard earned pocket money assembling that fella...
    And then my old lad fecking stood on it.


  • #33
    stmol32
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    Adamantium wrote: »
    Born in 91, I was obsessed with dinosaurs since forever, reading nature encyclopedia and been fascinated as a kid about it. I think it might have been the very first thing I ever took a large notice of.

    It seems an almost universal thing among engineers and science students that are 20 something (especially lads) who grew up around the time of the movie. It seemed in the 90's people couldn't get enough of dinos in just about everything. It was nuts. Very much like Star Wars for that generation.

    Did the interest exist before Jurassic Park, at least in the mainstream?


    Just to be painfully boring I'll answer without being a smart arse (also it's only 7 on a Friday and that's the soberest I'll ever be on any one day of the week).

    Dinosaurs have always excited the imagination and when it comes to dino films they tend to pop up in twenty year cycles or so.

    Jurassic park put them on the map again for about the whole of the 90s but the main reason wasn't that paloentolists dinosaur dudes had learned a lot more about them since the last films (they had by the way, yay science :)) it was more that CGI was around for a few years and had finally started to become really realistic looking.

    Nowadays if a film is mostly computer generated you expect as a given that the graphics to be great so we're back to plots and character development.


  • #34
    deise08
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    Dinosaurs were always a big thing I think.
    In our house though it was more Star wars and g.i Joes.
    Fossils and all that were never really being found in Ireland, not like in America. I'd say if we did have more dinosaur bones then, there would've been more Irish paleantologists. I'd say it was Jurassic park moreso set the ball rolling over here


  • #35
    mikemac1
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    There used to be a weekly magazine about dinosaurs that I got as a kid and it was hugely popular. I'm pretty sure that was before Jurassic Park

    I collected it in 1991 and 1992

    The first 16 magazines you got a piece of bone which you could build into a glow in the dark T Rex skeleton.

    Publishers were smart as it meant people bought every one!

    Then the next 16 or so you got a plastic covering for the skin of the T Rex.

    After that it was collecting cards which you'd bring to schooll, swap, swap, got it, swap :)

    It cost 1.50 punts per week and the Mammy would be giving out to me about the cost of it! I was a young un so she was paying


  • #36
    Adamantium
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    stmol32 wrote: »
    Just to be painfully boring I'll answer without being a smart arse (also it's only 7 on a Friday and that's the soberest I'll ever be on any one day of the week).

    Dinosaurs have always excited the imagination and when it comes to dino films they tend to pop up in twenty year cycles or so.

    Jurassic park put them on the map again for about the whole of the 90s but the main reason wasn't that paloentolists dinosaur dudes had learned a lot more about them since the last films (they had by the way, yay science :)) it was more that CGI was around for a few years and had finally started to become really realistic looking.

    Nowadays if a film is mostly computer generated you expect as a given that the graphics to be great so we're back to plots and character development.

    So I imagine studio executives sitting around saying "well those kids are now in their 20's and 30's, all aboard the nostalgia train". (If it's good I don't I don't care)



    I remember a similar thing with Toy Story 3 in 2010 in college, been released years after the last one as in "Here's your childhood".

    And the same thing with Jurassic World next year.

    And the last decade was an 80's love fest with Transformers and the like.

    80= gritty and dark, in your face
    90's = fluffy and full of wonder, hope, gentle almost.
    00's similar to the 80's
    10's similar to the 90's

    I've a noticed more blockbuster movies and the like slowly returning to as you say to slightly improved plots and character development in the face of diminishing CGI improvements. I could be imagining it though.


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  • #37
    Bassfish
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    I'm about ten years older than you OP and can confirm that kids loved dinosaurs before Jurassic Park. There was a cartoon called Dino Riders which was class in the late 80s. My dad took me to the natural history museum in London when I was seven and seeing the skeleton of the Brontosaurus enthralled me.
    I didn't like the cinema as child, the darkness and crowd used to bother me but in 1993, my dad told me to suck it up because I HAD to to see this film and seeing Jurassic Park for the first time was pretty much one of the highlights of my childhood. Happy days.


  • #38
    Gunmonkey
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    I collected it in 1991 and 1992

    The first 16 magazines you got a piece of bone which you could build into a glow in the dark T Rex skeleton.

    Publishers were smart as it meant people bought every one!

    Then the next 16 or so you got a plastic covering for the skin of the T Rex.

    After that it was collecting cards which you'd bring to schooll, swap, swap, got it, swap :)

    It cost 1.50 punts per week and the Mammy would be giving out to me about the cost of it! I was a young un so she was paying

    Still have the binder for the cards, think they got turfed out years back though.

    Think they re-isssued it a while back, saw a copy with part of the skeleton in Easons about 3 or 4 years ago. Dunno if the same content or just a similar style, they also put out Treasures of the Earth (same deal but about geology) that came with little shards of gemstones and rocks.

    Now if only they went about re-issuing The Ancestral Trail, that was a partwork for the ages.


  • #39
    Naydy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭Naydy


    This thread reminded me of Dino Babies, anyone else love that show? And yes, I was totally obsessed with dinosaurs for years!


  • #40
    foggy_lad
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    I was interested in dinosaurs as a child and that was only shortly after they disappeared!


  • #41
    Dirty Dingus McGee
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    There was a brilliant series of weekly magazines about Dinosaurs in the 90's and each week you collected a piece of a dinosaur skeleton and built a glow in the dark dinosaur with it.Does anyone else remember that.Unfortunately my mother dumped all the magazines so i can't recall the name of this particular magazine collection.


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  • #42
    RED L4 0TH
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    They were big enough in 1966 when they were chasing Raquel Welch around in One Million Years B.C. But who the f**k would be looking at the dinosaurs in that film............


  • #43
    Irish Guitarist
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    When I was about four in 1980 I had a 3D View-Master and a set of dinosaur reels that I used to spend hours looking at. I was also fascinated by a book I had about dinosaurs.


  • #44
    LETHAL LADY
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    Anyone go to Dino Live in Dublin zoo? It was on in the early 90s I think. My brother was dinosaur mad at the time and was amazed by it.


  • #45
    Capt'n Midnight
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    One of my favourite dinosaur pictures from the 90's when dinosaurs were cool.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laelops-Charles_Knight-1896.jpg


    BTW that's the 1890's


  • #46
    jester77
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    Showing my age :p but back in the mid-80's, a time when cereal came with little collectibles, Kellogs had really cool dinosaur lenticular cards that you could collect.


  • #47
    Grayson
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    jester77 wrote: »
    Showing my age :p but back in the mid-80's, a time when cereal came with little collectibles, Kellogs had really cool dinosaur lenticular cards that you could collect.

    I had a set of them :)

    I had a load of dinosaur books as a kid. I remember having a collection of tiny dinosaur toys. Little mono colour plastic things. I think they came with cereal too. Ring any bells?


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