Binged the whole series recently & this really make you appreciate what a technical achievement this show was. Each of the full sized dinosaurs is played by 3 people ; a voice actor, a suit actor & a puppeteer remote controlling the head, & all 3 of them have to be totally in sync to create a believable character
Anything Jim Henson related I always watched. I learned about how in sync they had to be when I saw the making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back when they had to make Yoda look believable.
Never realized how crazy these suits were.. as a kid you just kind of take it all in as you watch, never really realizing how much work went into making this amazing show happen.
Apparently it was very expensive to produce which is one of the major reasons for why it got canceled. It’s also crazy how basically a two person team were controlling the suit. The person in the suit itself and the person controlling the animatronics in the head.
This show was extremely artsy and advanced for its time. And the humor very clever and not corny or childish like I would have expected. Very underrated
Still holds up after so long, currently binging the series in 2023 and not only is the technical quality and production so on point but the humor is timeless.
I feel this show was underappreciated back then, at least form a tech and special effects standpoint. The coordination between the actors and the puppeteers that controlled the faces must have been astounding not to mention the actors be in good shape to actually do their jobs in those heavy suits.
Never forget this day as it was my first day puppeteering Earl’s animatronic head after taking over from Dave Goelz. It led onto two of the happiest years of my puppeteering career.❤
just because people don't use puppets doesn't mean they don't care, listen to the guy he was stuck in a heavy stuffy latex suit! It was uncomfortable and unpractical,
@@kuaalname I think it was one of my parents who told me the person in the suit wasn't the one moving the face. From there on I imagined some kind of remote control being used to move the facial expressions.
Kudos to the suit actors on this show, the way they are able to move in such bouncy, fluid ways while wearing so much weight has to be one of the hardest things in the world.
@@anotherguy9402 I was gonna say, surely that should be credited to the people who designed it that way, not the people that just show up and pop on a costume. Anyone can do that.
@@BaldMancTwat These costumes weighed dozens of pounds! The guy at the beginning said his costume weighed over a _hundred_ pounds! On top of that, they also had to wear the head, with all the motors to animate the face, which only add more weight! Bill Barretta lost inches in height play Earl Sinclair! Not to mention, he was mostly working blind! And you think his job was _easy_ ‽
Since my three years old has been on and on about "baby t-rex", I decided to show Dinosaurs to her and her 7 years old sister. When it started, they both start yelling "Not the momma! Not the momma!" I was surprised they knew about this show at all. There is hope in humanity after all.
This show was aired in Germany up until the late 90's when I was about 7. I remember watching it, sometimes with my parents, although most jokes went over my head back then. I kinda miss the crazy times when most things had to be created without the help of CGI^^
WOW! We're so lucky that there's always a person who is so smart that he/she can subtract the release date from today's date. Nobody would know otherwise.
No, I object. It'd be ruined with butt ugly CGI that would make Michael Bay's TMNT jealous with envy. That's why puppetry & practical effects age far better.
Dude the show can still hold, it had an amazing quality with the actors and animatronics, all the team behind the show look like they cared a lot, i can't see any show that can stand just like this not to mention that they always tried to deliver a message at the end of the show.
As a child, and even years later during the rewatch, I never considered that this are real people inside a suit. They were so unbeliveble good in charakter plus the animatronics. This show is absolutely unique and I'm happy I growed up with this!
Meanwhile me who got scared as kid cause i grow up with Anime looneytoons stuff... Nowadays i still cant watch it, for some reason they were creepy and i still think that this is creepy.
I always loved this show, its strange though, as a kid it feels so normal to watch this, but if you notice how much effort people are doing behind the scenes to make this show a reality, it's mindblowing.
the show started with no intentions of being thought of as a "Kids Show" So because of that i think why it did so a dark finale. (I know that isnt really answering any question its just people always comment about how the show was a "Kids Show" even though if you really examine the episodes you could see otherwise)
For some reason I thought those were puppets... Not human sized suits! As a kid, I noticed that outside of the main characters, they reused the "models" for side characters all the time. And I didn't know if I was to think they were the same characters or not. Well, now I know why. Those suits had to be expansive as hell to make.
I love love looooove that show! The attention to detail, the love they poured into this. Though cliché to say, they really don't make shows like that anymore!
The fact that they were so unbelievably expressive able to reveal subtle emotions made you really forget that they were just animatronic puppets and get absorbed into things
This was my absolute favorite show as a child! I had rubber puppets of the characters for bath time and I had so much fun recreating my favorite scenes!
Amazing how real it looked then. Just imagine what they could do today. Wish shows did stuff like this still. Costumes/Makeup/Animatronics were amazing.
wish theyd randomly bring something like this back man the magic i felt watchin each episode it really transported you into their world and made it such a unique feeling especially knowing each of them was a person in a suit not just some small puppets.
after watching this.. absolutely nothing in my brain triggered fetish. Either you have a bit of personal soul searching ahead of you, or somebody is in deep denial about a certain fetish. I'm aware of the existence of furries and rule 34 everything. But your brain told you that this was a comment that needed to be shared... about an experience you fantasize about
"Sooooo, what do you do for a living?" "Well, I put on this giant latex suit and ... " "Wow, I forgot! I have to pick up my brother at the airport!!" ;)
I watch it with my eight year old daughter she is literally obsessed, she laughs even more than I do. It’s crazy to think that an old school show like this can still be enjoyable by todays generation.
I recall Fred Gwynn always making a fuss over his costume under the hot stage lights of The Munsters, but can you imagine THIS OUTFIT?!?! It might also be the reason why a few short seasons were made as opposed to several.
