@@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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?".
"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.
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.
My favorite thing about _Dinosaurs Attack!_ is the cameos sprinkled throughout the cards and comics, by other famous fictional dinosaurs. IIRC, Godzilla, Gorgo, the Rhedosaurus, and even Gertie the Dinosaur show up as cameos.
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.
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
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.
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.
Mars Attacks! always surprised me tbh. This is pretty graphic (especially for a kid-aimed card set), but I’m not totally surprised it was released in a decade that’s known to have some pretty hefty media even for kids. Mars Attacks! came out at a time when even adult media tended to be pretty mild, so seeing 80’s-tier gore in a kid’s aimed card set from the early 60’s is honestly a little mind blowing!
I took this as a joke at first then realized this is technically true. Dinosaurs being labeled as the Supreme Monstrosity's children, who IS a demon, would mean they are demons too.
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!
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.
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.
Even if Tim Burton would've made Dinosaurs Attack film before Mars Attacks, both would've been a neat parody of old-school B-movies. I'm a huge fan of Tim Burton's directing and art-style.
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.
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 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.
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 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!
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
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.
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
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.
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.
“The dinosaurs went extinct because we accidentally warped them all through time to modern day and to save earth we had to annihilate them and also they are ruled by dino Satan” goes so hard
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 needs to be a summer blockbuster. It has great scenes and a storyline perfect for mindless viewing. This should have been a movie series rather than those Transformer atrocities we got.
This reminds me of the plot of the game "Rampage 2: Universal Tour". The initial plot is about the original trio of giant monsters being rescued by a new trio, and then end up fighting against aliens who attempt to invade Earth just as most of our major cities had been destroyed already.
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.
Doesn’t matter dinosaur are awesome and I’m thankful the book end happy unlike that yoki series which ends with the most terrifying way that was trying to beat jaws and even the original Godzilla
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!
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.
"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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Va0vs1fhhNI.html
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.
With this new wave of dino media after the wake of the Jurassic series pretty much ending, maybe we’ll get a big screen adaptation of (or something inspired by) Dinosaur Attack.
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.
I've never heard of this before - never heard of your channel before either, but definitely subbing now. Thanks for the recommendation, RU-vid - 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!
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. 😅
GOT DINOSAUR LOST MIDEA MEDIA FOR YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The lost world jp arcade game had an alternate version of it and it got scrape, now it's lost media. I saw this in a Jurassic Park Arcade Retrospective video
