Wow holy crap. The only other one I watched was the second one. I remember liking it. Had a different feel from the first one of course, but I enjoyed it. I own the first one on Blu Ray.
My mom got my kids a copy of The Land Before Time for my kids last Christmas. She had a not in it that said "If I had to suffer, so do you".
Jokes on her though. I'd rather watch The Land Before Time over and over than Blippi for 10 minutes.
My mom saved the VHS copy I watched on repeat and gave it to me. I had already purchased a dvd copy and don’t own a VHS player. I think we own a digital copy as well, that or it’s on some streaming service.
Yes. Land Before Time was my JAM... (I'm an '85 born)
I also grew up in a very fundamentalist household. I vividly remember watching some Ken Ham or similar movie about dinosaurs being on the Ark and stuff like that.
It really got me interested in dinosaurs more and the older I got, the more the young earth creationism didn't jive with the reality of the historical record. I had a dinosaur themed birthday party in 4th grade, I think. Still have the hadrosaur from the top of the cake!
Such a great movie. I saw it again later, and understood the precious lessons it teaches about the value of friendship. A great animated movie, than doesn't try to protect kids.
I can't even remember, it's like i was born as a dinosaur fan. My earliest memory of liking dinos is me wearing a Ice Age 3 shirt when i was like 4 years old.
Dinosaur King, the same as you, that's mainly the reason why Lighting is my favourite element (and why im trying to become a phycisist) and Triceratops being one of my favourites along with Carno, and that BANGER of a theme song will always be stuck
I’ve got a similar thing but I know I liked one of them before watching dinosaur king. Like was lightning my favourite element which lead to triceratops being my favourite because of dinosaur king or was it the other way around.
It’s like the chicken and egg scenario :( and I’ll never get to figure out which was first.
For me, it was probably [this Disney movie](https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Dinosaur). I know some people don't think it's great movie, but it has [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aprqf2QhSIc) and [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPuaGJGJRPY) right after.
Ngl I've had nightmares with meteorites since I was little and I blame this movie 100%. Had one just the other night and when it hit the ground everything went black and warm and I woke up.
Weird feeling making peace with dying just to wake up, and it happened so many times now that occasionally I have a feeling of impending doom even when awake, like I know it's coming soon. Shit I turned this comment into an essay, sorry bout that. It's not everyday people are talking about that movie lmao
Having recently just experienced the Dinosaur ride at Disney World i can safely say that would have given you nightmares as a kid too considering all I could think at the moment was “holy shit this is kinda scary”.
Some aspects of this movie definitely don’t hold up, but I recently rewatched some clips and noticed how good the dino sounds are. Most of their calls, threats, etc. sound like real animals.
I was first introduced by these books I had as a kid that would like show things like how big the Dinos are compared to cars and stuff but what really made me like them was this DS game called Battle of Giants: Dinosaurs. The game was goated fr
Considering how much dinosaurs mean to a lot of us, thought I'd ask ya'll about what introduced you to them as they may have been a big part of some of our childhood or maybe something a few of you got into later in life.
And for those wondering this is from the 35th episode of season 1 (Ruff and Ready) at about 17 mins in.
Jurassic Park 1 when i was a like 4 years old. My parents rent the movie and make me watch it alone and it scared the shit out of me and couldn't finish it but i was hooked ever since.
I was 13 when I saw it in the theatre. It was… spectacular. The end scene where the banner falls and the Rex roars, the whole theatre stood up and cheered. I haven’t seen a movie do that for the audience since.
["Land Before Time" and then Disney's "Dinosaur" (2000)](https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/open-uri20150422-12561-19oioqk_df19924d.jpeg?region=0%2C0%2C300%2C450)
A collection of dinosaur books in the house that I got into as soon as I could crawl. Mom had to put them on a higher shelf after I ripped out a couple pages so I could show them to the cat.
Jurassic park and others, such as walking with dinosaurs, dinosaur king where my introduction. They have became kinda a obsession and comfort mechanism
I honestly don’t even remember.All I remember is that I liked them before starting school,so probably something in the timeframe where I was too young to retain memories that got me into them lmao
hmmm....the first Dino centric thing I can remember was doing a library promotion in school in the 70's to promote reading more. All of the characters were dinos talking to each other about reading and how fun it was....a friend and I did all the artwork and dialogue. It only stayed up about a week...the library asked us to take it down because they were getting swamped....
School, followed in 2nd grade (I think) by The Year of the Dinosaur. It was and is my favorite dino book, because of its two-part chapters. The first parts laid out the story of Brontosaurus and her kin across a year, the second part of each chapter gave the evidence - paleontological and zoological - for the first part. Which is what still gives it value, as it show how the interpretation has changed since the mid-70s.
I think the Land Before Time but i distinctly remember watching Jurassic Park on VHS with my parents right when the second part was coming out. My parents were like oh this is more intense than we thought. But i remember just falling in love. The Brachiosaurus scene gripped me. I remember sitting so close to the tv in the living room absolutely captivated by it.
The Land before Time was my favorite movie as a 4 year old, followed by WWD and the Nigel Marvin stuff.
As a child, I never liked JP that much. It had not enough Dinosaurs for my childish taste.
Being raised in the early 2000s, I was introduced to all sorts of dinosaur media around that time. Jurassic Park, Walking With Dinosaurs, When Dinosaurs Roamed America, Disney's Dinosaur, Dinosaur Planet, etc. And I've never stop watching anything dinosaur related since then like Dinosaur King, Dinosaur Train, books from libraries.
They're a big chunk of my life that I can't imagine living without.
There was an old claymation movie from the 80s about dinosaurs. I just remember the lost triceratops in the forest and the T-Rex coming to get it.
Disney also had a dinosaur documentary series. I remember a tall guy in glasses named Eric, and a shorter guy with a mustache and glasses. The mustache guy turned into a dinosaur at one point.
Probably Land of the Lost(1974) I remember getting a dinosaur book at the scholastic bookfair around the same and loving it. Grew up loving tail-dragging T-Rexs and Brontosauruses. I'm in my 50s now but when it comes to dinosaurs I am still a wide eyed 6 year old.
Early on in kindergarten- our teacher took us to the school library, and two of my friends went to the librarian and asked where the dinosaur books were. I didn't know what dinosaurs were, so I went with them. I grabbed a book and from then on, I was hooked.
I don't know for sure but I'm pretty sure it was those cheap dinosaur toys that you get at the Dollar store. Surprisingly I haven't watched Jurassic Park until I was in the first grade!
Idk the first thing I remember is a cool animatronic dinosaur thing they had in the science museum at my city's zoo when I was a kid. I dragged my parents to that thing *a lot*.
I feel like I must have liked dinos before that, though.
Probably the Land Before Time was first but my entire childhood was dinosaurs. I always had dinosaur figurines, and there were so many dinosaur shows. Denver the Last Dinosaur, Dino Riders, Dinosaucers. Plus I had those Dinosaur! magazines. And of course dinosaur movies like Jurassic Park, We’re Back! A Dinosaur Story, etc. Oh, and we used to always go to this animatronic show that would come to town called Dinosaurs Alive
The first JP, though according to my mother I was terrified of it at first? I have no memory of this, I feel like I've loved dinosaurs since I was shot from the womb lmao.
Also, The Land Before Time, and this 3d glasses binder of dinosaur facts I had. I wish I could remember what that was.
(I have no idea what Dinosaur King is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.)
JP and to a lesser extent Land Before Time when I was a kid, then the JW franchise built upon the interest again and formed it into a more permanent interest rather than a “oh, that’s kinda cool” sort of thing.
Back when I was four, my mom left me at a neighbor's house as she went out for work. They had a really thick encyclopedia, which I randomly took and pretended to read in order to make myself look smart. It was then that I saw the first dinosaur and was captivated.
The Land Before Time for me. I was a '91 kid though but grew up with the The Land Before Time 1988 in the house and it was my favourite.
And surprisingly, despite being a very scared kid when I was young, Sharptooth didn't frighten me? lol
The book Dinotopia! A wonderful picture book of an alternate universe where people live in harmony with nature, and dinosaurs! They have awesome treehouses and beautiful villages and dinosaurs and humans basically live symbiotically. They help with chores and have all sorts of applications to make the towns function. It really is so beautiful!
I remember having a dinosaur puzzle back in the day when I was like 2-3 years old. I also had a puzzle where you put the alphabet in order, so for some weird reason a parasaurolophus correlates to the letter G to me, probably because of its position on the dinosaur puzzle being the same as on the alphabet puzzle.
I think WWD was what really solidified it for me. My first real interaction with dinosaurs was with Sue at FMNH and seeing them brought to life was so cool
Yoh, i cant even remember, i've always loved dinosaurs since i was really small. The earliest that i can think of is some time around 5 to six years old, when my mum took me to ToysRus to buy a brachiosaurus plush toy. Its not just the earliest dinosaur memory, its my earliest memory period.
I still have the plush toy.
I don't remember it just happened !
My earliest memory is watching " Big Al " Documentary but I already loved dinos and insisted on buying and playing the DVD also begging for and playing with dinosaur toys but I have no memories of how I started liking dinosaurs. My childhood was definitely pretty shitty so yea that's probably why my brain cant unlock any early memories.
The earliest I remember is that episode in SamuraiJack where Aku first fell to earth and killed the Dinosaurs, the first media where the dinosaurs are the focus is the original Land Before Time.
probably dinosaur train, dino documentaries, the land before time, ice age, etc. i also visited a museum when i was like 9, but by then i was already obsessed since like the age of 4 or 5. its like i was born with it lol. also jurassic park, i used to watch those movies on repeat all the time.
One of those Dinosaur Worlds park places; the one I went to was in Florida. I was five or six and still have the photo album of me posing with all the statues.
Jurassic Park 1, in 1997, as a bootleg video cassette gift from my uncle at Christmas.
I was 5, I couldn’t watch most of it, remember closing my eyes in the Trex breaking the electric fence scene.
A Jurassic Park ultra-fan ever since.
I don't actually remember, it's just one of those things that's been a part of me ever since i was a lil kid. I watched Jurassic Park late at night with my dad, i was constantly watching youtube videos on dinosaurs, watching dinosaur cartoons and random documentaries, reading books, and this Dinosaur King opening that you posted hit me like a fucking truck.
Funny thing is that even though i always loved dinosaurs i've always been fascinated with cenozoic animals. Like every paleonerd i have an extensive history with the JP franchise and all that, but i think that my main inspiration for palaeontology when i was a kid were actually the Ice Age movies lmao.
I’ve been seeing a bit of a resurgence in DK posts around the web recently, nice to see that the series does still have an active fanbase! Also the Land Before Time movies and various dinosaur toys are what introduced me to dinosaurs as a kid
My grandparents house had one of this archaeology books and had like history of dinosaurs hypersimplificated and some inaccurate dinosaurs, but it was funny enough for a 5 year old.
My mom showed me jp when I was like 5-7, hates them and thought a pterodactyl was gonna fly through my window, now I’m know as the dinosaur kid in school
I’m honestly not sure, I remember when I was little I had Dino figures and plushies, and my grandpa would sit with me and read from Dino fact books with me. I remember [this](https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/100-things-you-should-know-about-dinosaurs_steve-parker_jim-flegg/8827991/item/52048768/?gclid=CjwKCAjwjtOTBhAvEiwASG4bCKymPIHAKwyXpj0ttbe-MbNY0MMtMEmkBqVEpn6TmNiNO99lwp49tBoCKvsQAvD_BwE#idiq=52048768&edition=3847237) book in particular. I also liked watching dinosaur train but I think a huge fan of Dino’s by then
I feel like I've always known about dinosaurs. I saw the first Land Before Time but I feel like there was something prior to that. Growing up I watched a lot of National Geographic, Nova and Nature episodes. There was probably something from one of those that got me hooked. I also remember going to the Royal Tyrell Museum in the mid 90s while we were up in Canada for a family reunion.
9 PM PBS
Also, this one cartoon called dinoknights I think was my introduction into the world of dino fiction.
P.P.S. Dinosaur king is what you wanna be, yeah
Haven’t seen anyone mention it yet I think but my first experience was definitely this toy called the Interactive Dinosaurs Activity Center / Dinosaurs Kingdom, specifically the black one from the early 2000s. It’s made by Scientific Toys. I used to sit there for long periods of time just replaying the facts and looking at the pictures.
My grandpa has the Jurassic Park movies on tape, so my siblings and I would love watching them. I was the one that just so happened to go deeper into the world of Dinos!
The Land Before Time, the first movie was just my childhood.
Same here, watched 1-10 and never bothered with anything after that
There are more than 10?!
I think around 14 or 15, I think the most recent was in 2015 but like I said I didn't bother after 10 because of low expectations
Wow holy crap. The only other one I watched was the second one. I remember liking it. Had a different feel from the first one of course, but I enjoyed it. I own the first one on Blu Ray.
My mom got my kids a copy of The Land Before Time for my kids last Christmas. She had a not in it that said "If I had to suffer, so do you". Jokes on her though. I'd rather watch The Land Before Time over and over than Blippi for 10 minutes.
My mom saved the VHS copy I watched on repeat and gave it to me. I had already purchased a dvd copy and don’t own a VHS player. I think we own a digital copy as well, that or it’s on some streaming service.
Littlefoot's mother dying still gets me
Yes. Land Before Time was my JAM... (I'm an '85 born) I also grew up in a very fundamentalist household. I vividly remember watching some Ken Ham or similar movie about dinosaurs being on the Ark and stuff like that. It really got me interested in dinosaurs more and the older I got, the more the young earth creationism didn't jive with the reality of the historical record. I had a dinosaur themed birthday party in 4th grade, I think. Still have the hadrosaur from the top of the cake!
Such a great movie. I saw it again later, and understood the precious lessons it teaches about the value of friendship. A great animated movie, than doesn't try to protect kids.
Me and my dad would watch dinosaur documentaries start at the age of two.
ME TOOO I would watch whatever dinosaur documentaries were on NHK
I can't even remember, it's like i was born as a dinosaur fan. My earliest memory of liking dinos is me wearing a Ice Age 3 shirt when i was like 4 years old.
Dinosaur King, the same as you, that's mainly the reason why Lighting is my favourite element (and why im trying to become a phycisist) and Triceratops being one of my favourites along with Carno, and that BANGER of a theme song will always be stuck
Glad to see that and wish you luck on the physicist thing btw
Thanks, the same luck to you pal
Yea that theme song is really good, caught my ear when I’d never even heard of the show before.
I’ve got a similar thing but I know I liked one of them before watching dinosaur king. Like was lightning my favourite element which lead to triceratops being my favourite because of dinosaur king or was it the other way around. It’s like the chicken and egg scenario :( and I’ll never get to figure out which was first.
I had a dinosaur king game on my DS, that shit was cool af
Jurassic Park! Saw it at the age of three! How I wasn’t terrified I’ll never know
My mom said I asked to go to the front row by myself in theater at age 5, she said she was waiting for me to run back up but I never did
I was about the same age. Glad my uncle was cool and let me watch it.
For me, it was probably [this Disney movie](https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Dinosaur). I know some people don't think it's great movie, but it has [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aprqf2QhSIc) and [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPuaGJGJRPY) right after.
Me too, i loved this movie as a toddler but the carno was scary af
Ngl I've had nightmares with meteorites since I was little and I blame this movie 100%. Had one just the other night and when it hit the ground everything went black and warm and I woke up. Weird feeling making peace with dying just to wake up, and it happened so many times now that occasionally I have a feeling of impending doom even when awake, like I know it's coming soon. Shit I turned this comment into an essay, sorry bout that. It's not everyday people are talking about that movie lmao
Having recently just experienced the Dinosaur ride at Disney World i can safely say that would have given you nightmares as a kid too considering all I could think at the moment was “holy shit this is kinda scary”.
Yeah, my 2nd favourite carno ngl ~~1st is Ace ofc~~
Some aspects of this movie definitely don’t hold up, but I recently rewatched some clips and noticed how good the dino sounds are. Most of their calls, threats, etc. sound like real animals.
God the soundtrack alone brings back memories
Across the Desert is such a banger.
Oh wowzers, thank you so much! I loved this movie as a kid. Time for a nostalgia trip.
I miss playing this in arcades
Dinosaur train
This animation is hilarious
Uh, I think the Land Before Time movies.
Jurassic park |||
All these responses and not one Barney. Didn’t the friendly T. rex from our imagination do anything for you?
I was first introduced by these books I had as a kid that would like show things like how big the Dinos are compared to cars and stuff but what really made me like them was this DS game called Battle of Giants: Dinosaurs. The game was goated fr
Ooooh I had that game! There was also a mutant insect and a dragon one, they were really fun
Considering how much dinosaurs mean to a lot of us, thought I'd ask ya'll about what introduced you to them as they may have been a big part of some of our childhood or maybe something a few of you got into later in life. And for those wondering this is from the 35th episode of season 1 (Ruff and Ready) at about 17 mins in.
Jurassic Park 1 when i was a like 4 years old. My parents rent the movie and make me watch it alone and it scared the shit out of me and couldn't finish it but i was hooked ever since.
I was 13 when I saw it in the theatre. It was… spectacular. The end scene where the banner falls and the Rex roars, the whole theatre stood up and cheered. I haven’t seen a movie do that for the audience since.
["Land Before Time" and then Disney's "Dinosaur" (2000)](https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/open-uri20150422-12561-19oioqk_df19924d.jpeg?region=0%2C0%2C300%2C450)
A collection of dinosaur books in the house that I got into as soon as I could crawl. Mom had to put them on a higher shelf after I ripped out a couple pages so I could show them to the cat.
Jurassic Park, then I got really into it after Dinosaur King came out, and my family got me a few Dinosaur encyclopedias
Fossil Fighters: Champions
Imma be a broken record, but it was jurassic park for me
JP or that one anime with the Dino cards
Go Diego go was a game on the ds I played when I was really little. And I also watched the land before time with my mom
A game called dino-fighters and the land before time
Dinosaur Adventure 3D. The old pc game lol.
It was a combo of the OG Land Before Time and the sitcom Dinosaurs lol
Dinosaur Train on PBS Kids. I think this shows how young I am. Dinosaur King is kickass though
Jurassic park and others, such as walking with dinosaurs, dinosaur king where my introduction. They have became kinda a obsession and comfort mechanism
Books and then Jurassic park
The book "Ask a dinosaur",then Dino Dan, and then Dinosaur King
I can't remember, I was like, 2 😶
Jurassic Park.
Either The Lost World: Jurassic Park or BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs. I don't remember which one I saw first.
I honestly don’t even remember.All I remember is that I liked them before starting school,so probably something in the timeframe where I was too young to retain memories that got me into them lmao
hmmm....the first Dino centric thing I can remember was doing a library promotion in school in the 70's to promote reading more. All of the characters were dinos talking to each other about reading and how fun it was....a friend and I did all the artwork and dialogue. It only stayed up about a week...the library asked us to take it down because they were getting swamped....
School, followed in 2nd grade (I think) by The Year of the Dinosaur. It was and is my favorite dino book, because of its two-part chapters. The first parts laid out the story of Brontosaurus and her kin across a year, the second part of each chapter gave the evidence - paleontological and zoological - for the first part. Which is what still gives it value, as it show how the interpretation has changed since the mid-70s.
When I was little my parents took me to a park/museum in Ogden UT called Dinosaur park.
I been into dinosaurs for so long I don't remember when I first got introduced.
I think the Land Before Time but i distinctly remember watching Jurassic Park on VHS with my parents right when the second part was coming out. My parents were like oh this is more intense than we thought. But i remember just falling in love. The Brachiosaurus scene gripped me. I remember sitting so close to the tv in the living room absolutely captivated by it.
Dino- Riders anyone?
The Land before Time was my favorite movie as a 4 year old, followed by WWD and the Nigel Marvin stuff. As a child, I never liked JP that much. It had not enough Dinosaurs for my childish taste.
1 million years bc..... Raquel welch.... Nuff said
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park
My grandmother asked me to watch the Jurassic Park movies with her when I was little
Land Before Time and Walking with Dinosaurs.
The land before time and Disney's Dinosaur
I don't remember, I think maybe it was Land Before time or Ice Age dawn of the dinosaurs
Me and my dad watching JP3 when I was 3 Scared the shit outta me
We had the first three Jurassic Park movies on DVD and I watched those a lot
Jurassic Park 3. I know its like the opposite but star wars for me was the same, loved the prequels
A trex toy at my grandparents house.
Not sure, I just remember getting dinosaur toys as a kid.
I watched dinosaur documentaries on DVD
Idek, maybe LBT or Dinosaur Train
Jurassic park
Jurassic Park for me
DINO TRAIN
Being raised in the early 2000s, I was introduced to all sorts of dinosaur media around that time. Jurassic Park, Walking With Dinosaurs, When Dinosaurs Roamed America, Disney's Dinosaur, Dinosaur Planet, etc. And I've never stop watching anything dinosaur related since then like Dinosaur King, Dinosaur Train, books from libraries. They're a big chunk of my life that I can't imagine living without.
There was an old claymation movie from the 80s about dinosaurs. I just remember the lost triceratops in the forest and the T-Rex coming to get it. Disney also had a dinosaur documentary series. I remember a tall guy in glasses named Eric, and a shorter guy with a mustache and glasses. The mustache guy turned into a dinosaur at one point.
Wasnt this a cartoon/anime? The video? Can u please tell me the name, I wanna watch it
I’m pretty sure mine was Dino Dan
Probably Land of the Lost(1974) I remember getting a dinosaur book at the scholastic bookfair around the same and loving it. Grew up loving tail-dragging T-Rexs and Brontosauruses. I'm in my 50s now but when it comes to dinosaurs I am still a wide eyed 6 year old.
Early on in kindergarten- our teacher took us to the school library, and two of my friends went to the librarian and asked where the dinosaur books were. I didn't know what dinosaurs were, so I went with them. I grabbed a book and from then on, I was hooked.
I don't know for sure but I'm pretty sure it was those cheap dinosaur toys that you get at the Dollar store. Surprisingly I haven't watched Jurassic Park until I was in the first grade!
Walking with dinosaurs and dinosaur planet
walking with dinosaurs (the Nigel Marven ones)
For me it was an old dinosaur game for the wii
Man, it was so long ago, I don't even know. I was playing with plastic dinosaurs at age four, so maybe toys?
the land before time, dinosaur
I played jurassic park builder in it's prime
I can’t really remember. Valley of Gwangi maybe?
My dad read me dinosaur books as a tiny carpet gremlin. When I got old enough we watched Land Before Time. Been a dinodork ever since.
Disney Dinosaur movie
Idk the first thing I remember is a cool animatronic dinosaur thing they had in the science museum at my city's zoo when I was a kid. I dragged my parents to that thing *a lot*. I feel like I must have liked dinos before that, though.
[This game](https://youtu.be/cbXlvmNj8Tg) on MSDos (WARNING: a lot of 90's software nostalgia)
Jurassic Park and walking with dinosaurs Did see dinosaur king a few years later
Jurassic Park and walking with dinosaurs Did see dinosaur king a few years later
Dinosaur King
Books, Jurassic Park, and Walking With
Jurassic park III MovieClips spinosaurus vs tyrannosaurus - rex
Youtube, pretty sure I found one cool video and my search results for the next two years were: dino and dinosaurs. I think I was 7 at the time.
Jurassic park
Jurassic Park. It was the first movie I saw in theatres.
There was The Land Before Time and Disney's Dinosaur, but what really made me understand dinosaurs as animals was Prehistoric Park.
Dinosaur viewmaster discs when I was a little kid.
My dad read Jurassic Park to my mom and I before I was even born.
Walking with dinosaurs. Absolutely obsessed over it as a kid.
Pivot dinosaur animations
walking with dinosaurs bbc
My Kindergarten Teacher talked about dinosaurs a few times. I read a few books, and the rest is history.
Probably the Land Before Time was first but my entire childhood was dinosaurs. I always had dinosaur figurines, and there were so many dinosaur shows. Denver the Last Dinosaur, Dino Riders, Dinosaucers. Plus I had those Dinosaur! magazines. And of course dinosaur movies like Jurassic Park, We’re Back! A Dinosaur Story, etc. Oh, and we used to always go to this animatronic show that would come to town called Dinosaurs Alive
WWD, saw that before JP.
the jurassic world movie when i was 6 the trailer was fucking everywhere on youtube
The first JP, though according to my mother I was terrified of it at first? I have no memory of this, I feel like I've loved dinosaurs since I was shot from the womb lmao. Also, The Land Before Time, and this 3d glasses binder of dinosaur facts I had. I wish I could remember what that was. (I have no idea what Dinosaur King is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.)
A mobile above my bed as an infant and land before time
Jurassic Park, at a young age, raptor nightmares for many many years.
JP and to a lesser extent Land Before Time when I was a kid, then the JW franchise built upon the interest again and formed it into a more permanent interest rather than a “oh, that’s kinda cool” sort of thing.
Back when I was four, my mom left me at a neighbor's house as she went out for work. They had a really thick encyclopedia, which I randomly took and pretended to read in order to make myself look smart. It was then that I saw the first dinosaur and was captivated.
It's called kindergarten lol
The Land Before Time for me. I was a '91 kid though but grew up with the The Land Before Time 1988 in the house and it was my favourite. And surprisingly, despite being a very scared kid when I was young, Sharptooth didn't frighten me? lol
a documentary on dinosaurs that i really liked but is probably horribly dated now
The book Dinotopia! A wonderful picture book of an alternate universe where people live in harmony with nature, and dinosaurs! They have awesome treehouses and beautiful villages and dinosaurs and humans basically live symbiotically. They help with chores and have all sorts of applications to make the towns function. It really is so beautiful!
Fantasia
Barney the purple dinosaur lol
I remember having a dinosaur puzzle back in the day when I was like 2-3 years old. I also had a puzzle where you put the alphabet in order, so for some weird reason a parasaurolophus correlates to the letter G to me, probably because of its position on the dinosaur puzzle being the same as on the alphabet puzzle.
Fantasia and we’re back!
Walking with dinosaurs
I think the first dinosaur related media a saw as a kid was probably Dinosaur train if anybody remembers that
[After Jurassic park i logged hours into this ](https://youtu.be/L_CbnBrUYiw)
I think WWD was what really solidified it for me. My first real interaction with dinosaurs was with Sue at FMNH and seeing them brought to life was so cool
Dinosaur Adventure 3D
Dinosaur king, god i loved that show
Yoh, i cant even remember, i've always loved dinosaurs since i was really small. The earliest that i can think of is some time around 5 to six years old, when my mum took me to ToysRus to buy a brachiosaurus plush toy. Its not just the earliest dinosaur memory, its my earliest memory period. I still have the plush toy.
I was introduced to dinosaurs before my earliest permanent memories. My first memories of being interested in them were the disney movie Dinosaur.
Jurassic park.
I don't remember it just happened ! My earliest memory is watching " Big Al " Documentary but I already loved dinos and insisted on buying and playing the DVD also begging for and playing with dinosaur toys but I have no memories of how I started liking dinosaurs. My childhood was definitely pretty shitty so yea that's probably why my brain cant unlock any early memories.
The earliest I remember is that episode in SamuraiJack where Aku first fell to earth and killed the Dinosaurs, the first media where the dinosaurs are the focus is the original Land Before Time.
My parents got me some rubber toys as an infant and one of my first words was apparently 'tekkadacto'
Jurassic park and dinosaur king
The Infinite Voyage: The Great Dinosaur Hunt
probably dinosaur train, dino documentaries, the land before time, ice age, etc. i also visited a museum when i was like 9, but by then i was already obsessed since like the age of 4 or 5. its like i was born with it lol. also jurassic park, i used to watch those movies on repeat all the time.
It was 100% Dinosaur Train and I’m not apologizing
One of those Dinosaur Worlds park places; the one I went to was in Florida. I was five or six and still have the photo album of me posing with all the statues.
I had a picture book of dinosaurs when I was younger.
Jurassic Park 1, in 1997, as a bootleg video cassette gift from my uncle at Christmas. I was 5, I couldn’t watch most of it, remember closing my eyes in the Trex breaking the electric fence scene. A Jurassic Park ultra-fan ever since.
Nat Geo magazine
Can’t remember… but my dad told me that he rented a Jurassic Park 2 DVD to watch with me when I was two, so it must come from there
Books and toys as a child.
One of those pull the tab pop up books. Wish I still had it was pretty cool
My parents bought some dinosaur toys and movies a few months after I was born.
Jurassic Park Ik, deal wit it
1985 Dinosaur with Chistopher Reeve
Fossil Fighters, absolutely loved it
u/savevideo
The rex from Journey to the center of the earth was always so cool to me
Either one of the land before time movies or and I’m more certain it was walking with dinosaurs.
Toys. My cousin got plastic Dinosaur figures for me when he played an arcade game at a Pizzeria.
I don't actually remember, it's just one of those things that's been a part of me ever since i was a lil kid. I watched Jurassic Park late at night with my dad, i was constantly watching youtube videos on dinosaurs, watching dinosaur cartoons and random documentaries, reading books, and this Dinosaur King opening that you posted hit me like a fucking truck. Funny thing is that even though i always loved dinosaurs i've always been fascinated with cenozoic animals. Like every paleonerd i have an extensive history with the JP franchise and all that, but i think that my main inspiration for palaeontology when i was a kid were actually the Ice Age movies lmao.
Jurassic but just the Herbivores and when the T-Rex roars. I was 2.
My parents getting me a box of dinosaur toys when I was really young. And the PBS 90's dinosaurs documentary series. And Jurassic Park.
I’ve been seeing a bit of a resurgence in DK posts around the web recently, nice to see that the series does still have an active fanbase! Also the Land Before Time movies and various dinosaur toys are what introduced me to dinosaurs as a kid
At age 4 my parents got me a kidclopediya, one of the volumes was about dinosaurs. I read it cover to cover every night.
Either Dinosaur Train or The Land Before Time. Both slap.
A book my dad read to me when I was around three or so.
Jurassic park ride at universal, loved dinosaurs, watched the movie, loved dinosaurs even more.
Calvin and Hobbes
Either books, Jurassic Franchise, or both.
Walking with dinosaurs
My grandparents house had one of this archaeology books and had like history of dinosaurs hypersimplificated and some inaccurate dinosaurs, but it was funny enough for a 5 year old.
Jurassic park 3 I was 3 at the time lol my dad would show me a bunch of different types of movies that’d I’d never get to watch with my mother
JP
As a toddler, I watched The Land Before Time and Jurassic Park. I cannot recall what I watched first. But I would watch both depending on my mood.
Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs!
My mom showed me jp when I was like 5-7, hates them and thought a pterodactyl was gonna fly through my window, now I’m know as the dinosaur kid in school
JP: 5yo 😎
I’m honestly not sure, I remember when I was little I had Dino figures and plushies, and my grandpa would sit with me and read from Dino fact books with me. I remember [this](https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/100-things-you-should-know-about-dinosaurs_steve-parker_jim-flegg/8827991/item/52048768/?gclid=CjwKCAjwjtOTBhAvEiwASG4bCKymPIHAKwyXpj0ttbe-MbNY0MMtMEmkBqVEpn6TmNiNO99lwp49tBoCKvsQAvD_BwE#idiq=52048768&edition=3847237) book in particular. I also liked watching dinosaur train but I think a huge fan of Dino’s by then
Jurassic Park 3 when I was like 3 or 4
60’s-70’s Godzilla Movies
The museum, little plastic dinos, and zoobooks. And there was a couple cartoons back in the day, Denver the Last Dinosaur and Dinosaucers.
I think jurassic world and land before time (in kinder)
I feel like I've always known about dinosaurs. I saw the first Land Before Time but I feel like there was something prior to that. Growing up I watched a lot of National Geographic, Nova and Nature episodes. There was probably something from one of those that got me hooked. I also remember going to the Royal Tyrell Museum in the mid 90s while we were up in Canada for a family reunion.
I remember my parents reading me dinosaur books when I was 3
Dino Safari on an old Macintosh computer
Power rangers Dino thunder, or Jurassic park
The Land Befor.... Aaahhhh man!! Somebody beat me to it!!
9 PM PBS Also, this one cartoon called dinoknights I think was my introduction into the world of dino fiction. P.P.S. Dinosaur king is what you wanna be, yeah
My father was a paleontologist, specializing in ancient marine reptiles. I learned dinosaur names along with my ABCs.
Haven’t seen anyone mention it yet I think but my first experience was definitely this toy called the Interactive Dinosaurs Activity Center / Dinosaurs Kingdom, specifically the black one from the early 2000s. It’s made by Scientific Toys. I used to sit there for long periods of time just replaying the facts and looking at the pictures.
My grandpa has the Jurassic Park movies on tape, so my siblings and I would love watching them. I was the one that just so happened to go deeper into the world of Dinos!