Dinosaurs

[battyrat]

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It was shown as part of Swap Shop.

[staffslad]

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I have a feeling for us 70's kids many sci-fi and fantasy films were our main go to when it came to moving dinosaur images. Who could forget the old king Kong film with the T-Rex, or any of the Ray Harryhausen animations that graced the big screens.

Just a thought, who remembers this,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdYPlcNYMJA

I remember that series. I think it was shown by the BBC maybe on saturday mornings, but not sure about that.

[battyrat]

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I have a feeling for us 70's kids many sci-fi and fantasy films were our main go to when it came to moving dinosaur images. Who could forget the old king Kong film with the T-Rex, or any of the Ray Harryhausen animations that graced the big screens.

Just a thought, who remembers this,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdYPlcNYMJA

[battyrat]

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Not the Mamma(smacks dad over head with frying pan), lol.

Quite a dark ending that series had. Quite enjoyed it when it was on.

[wispa lover]

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The 90s Jim Henson Dinosaurs sitcom. I got the DVDs.

[staffslad]

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Walking with Dinosaurs came out in 1999 long after dinosaurs became popular and familiar.



I have not seen this programme. Is it on YouTube?

Not sure if it is on Youtube. I think it was examining the meteor impact theory of what killed the dinosaurs. I only saw it that one time, and it has stuck in my mind due to that image--or maybe it was a model?--of a man-sized dinosaur in a spacesuit.

[cbenee]

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there were dinosaur toys etc in the late 70's and 80's I had some

[battyrat]

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Dinosaurs had entered into popular culture by the 70's.I had quite a few of those models along with a box of plastic dinosaurs. I had many books on dinosaurs and prehistoric life. There was a series on TV about dinosaurs in the mid 70's as well. I can even remember a sticker album on dinosaurs. Don't forget the film, One of our dinosaurs is missing from the mid 70's.Then there was that classic Dr Who series with Jon Pertwee in the early part of the 70's.And who could forget Godzilla, the biggest and bad arsed dinosaur of them all.

[Arran]

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We did a dinosaurs in primary school in about 1983 so it must have been on the syllabus. At around the same time I had a dinosaur sticker book which I think came from Marks and Spencer's, so pretty mainstream. It had those vinyl stickers that can be peeled off and stuck back on multiple times to create a 'scene' picture. It had different scenes and dinosaurs depending on the period - Jurassic etc.

I was thinking around the late 1970s to early 1980s. My mother was at primary school in the 1970s and there were only a few books about dinosaurs and none of the teachers knew much about them or could recognise different species.

[Arran]

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Another programme that I think stoked interest in dinosaurs was the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs and associated series. It strayed beyond the usual suspects of T-Rex, Brontosaurus (or whatever it is called now) etc, to show very early creatures. To me, this was far more interesting than Jurassic Park--no Raquel Welch with fur bikini in Jurassic Park .

Walking with Dinosaurs came out in 1999 long after dinosaurs became popular and familiar.

Another I remember stirring my interest was an episode of Horizon on what killed the dinosaurs from around 1982. Right at the end it speculated how some species of dinosaur may have evolved if they hadn't been wiped out, and showed an evolved dinosaur wearing a space suit.

I have not seen this programme. Is it on YouTube?

[Trickyvee]

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We did a dinosaurs in primary school in about 1983 so it must have been on the syllabus. At around the same time I had a dinosaur sticker book which I think came from Marks and Spencer's, so pretty mainstream. It had those vinyl stickers that can be peeled off and stuck back on multiple times to create a 'scene' picture. It had different scenes and dinosaurs depending on the period - Jurassic etc.

[staffslad]

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Another programme that I think stoked interest in dinosaurs was the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs and associated series. It strayed beyond the usual suspects of T-Rex, Brontosaurus (or whatever it is called now) etc, to show very early creatures. To me, this was far more interesting than Jurassic Park--no Raquel Welch with fur bikini in Jurassic Park .

Another I remember stirring my interest was an episode of Horizon on what killed the dinosaurs from around 1982. Right at the end it speculated how some species of dinosaur may have evolved if they hadn't been wiped out, and showed an evolved dinosaur wearing a space suit.

[Mulletino]

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I remember being fascinated by dinosaurs as a kid in the 70s, i had rubber dinosaurs and dinosaur model kits. My mate was way more into them than me and had heaps.

This was one of them, also had the Dimetrodon:



Possibly fuelled by popular films pre-dating my birth that were on TV sometimes: Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Land that Time Forgot etc?

My Toddler now likes dinosaurs too, well he went through a stage, not as keen now but he does have some toys and tshirts.

[George 1978]

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Dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago, so not quite relevant to the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s. But saying that, they were part of kids' lives during that time - toys etc.

I know that the word "dinosaur" wasn't coined until the 19th century.

[staffslad]

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I'm well aware of the success of Jurassic Park but I'm sure that toy dinosaurs and books about dinosaurs for kids were available in the 1970s. There was the cartoon Denver the Last Dinosaur in the late 1980s which seems to imply that kids must have been familiar with dinosaurs at the time.

Absolutely agree. People were well aware of dinosaurs in the decades prior to the 90s, but I think Jurassic Park rocketed them to superstar status.

I remember that in the early 70s Brooke Bond gave away dinosaur cards in their tea for you to stick in a dedicated book. I think there were 50 to collect.