General Discussion

@HarveyHalszka @PrehistoryMaker

haha... i still actively collect the arcade cards, theyre super high quality and theres a lot of dinos that were in the arcade that never made it into any other rendition of the franchise :(. at least altirhinus got an episode in the anime too, i think it was like ep 30 or something?

@MegaAerodactyl There was a trading card game at one point. I never saw any booster packs for it, but my brother and I had the starter deck. Could they have packaged the arcade cards and sold them as trading cards?

@PrehistoryMaker

nope! the tcg and the arcade game were entirely seperate, but the tcg used a lot of the arcade artwork for the first 2 sets. i think they shifted more towards original artwork for the last set? i had a few of em as a kid, they weren't as thick and the printing wasn't as nice :(

GIANT. SAUROPODS.

The bigger, the better! If I cannot curl up on top of the body of at least some of the vertebrae, if none of the long bones are longer than I am tall, if it doesn't take heavy machinery to lift the excavated rock out of the field and back to the lab...it's not big enough. Put it back.
(I got sick of microfossils and tiny mammal teeth in college, can you tell.)

I also like the 'prosauropods' because they just can't decide what they want to do. And thyreophorans, they're so hardcore. And early Triassic dinosaurs that were just figuring out how to dinosaur.

I love a lot of dinosaurs, so this was hard to choose! I've always really liked dilophosaurus, and I know it's not technically a dinosaur, but I really love synapsids like dimetrodon too :) Dilophosaurus: [img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/82/e8/03/82e80348af7d9dd67e51c64713ae0cff.jpg[/img] Dimetrodon: [img]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aK5IgMJxcAk/maxresdefault.jpg[/img] Carnotaurus, psittacosaurus, compsognathus, tsintaosaurus, dracorex, iguanadon, ankylosaurus, and pachycephalosaurus are some close pics too! :'D I love too many haha Carnotaurus: [img]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9rLtJvDKwDk/maxresdefault.jpg[/img] Psittacosaurus: [img]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EOMWhxk5RzQ/hqdefault.jpg[/img] [img]http://paleocreations.com/images/657.jpg[/img] Tsintaosaurus: [img]https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSdMK_Vkc8w0RSxpaDg4yL7kQAZ56HW1-X5bZH5FoMF8SDj-vNk&s[/img] Dracorex: [img]https://theroaringearth-gazermedia.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/dracorex-hogwartsia-head.jpg[/img] [img]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K-WXxmMg0JM/W0UV9W8aQJI/AAAAAAAAHoc/C6bYnBJUIcsfjzHYHDBLedcm48On85LoQCEwYBhgL/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/Dracorex%2B%2528wm%2529.jpg[/img] Invertebrates and fish are my real favorites though [emoji=ridgeback love size=2] Both extinct and extant haha

My favorite dinosaur used to be Therizinosaurus but now it's currently Dilophosaurus. Does anyone play Dinosaur Simulator on Roblox cuz that's what started me down the trail of loving dinosaurs lol.

A quarter of these technically aren't even dinosaurs but I guess it's the thought that counts

My favourites have to be the dromaeosaurids and therizino :)

Yeah, I'll have to throw my hat into the 'not actually a dinosaure but people sure didn't know the difference at one point of time' pile. Gorgonopsid! Just.... perfection. [img]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-P_YstNHzsNc/WuJnpRP-T1I/AAAAAAAAA5Y/r6BmW3q2Rm4PS-jD6i4JZ8ezE3GPKF3KwCEwYBhgL/s1600/Gorgonopsidjonathankuo.jpg[/img]

How do I choose just one?

Velociraptors, archaeopteryx and spinosaurus are a few of my all-time favorites!