Dino-Riders (90's babies need not apply)

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Apr 25, 2002
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Anyone else remember these?

We had Triceratops, Deinonychus, Pteranodon, Monoclonius, Peterodactyl, Quetzaloctlus, Anklyosaurus, and Styrcosaurus, toys.








http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino-Riders

Dino-Riders is a cartoon television series that aired in the late 1980s, primarily as a promotion to launch a new Tyco toy line. Only fourteen episodes were produced, thirteen of which were aired as part of the Marvel Action Universe. Episodes were also released as a collection of Dino-Riders VHS tapes, which are sometimes sought after as collectors' items.

The series told the story of the Valorians, a peaceful race of telepathic humans whose home planet was conquered by the Rulon Empire. 400 survivors escaped on a space ship and time traveled to prehistoric Earth using the experimental Space-Time Energy Projector (also known as the S.T.E.P). But Emperor Krulos and his lead commanders accidentally followed them into the past when a tractor beam locked onto the Valorians' ship during the time jump. Stranded in the past, the two groups recruited the planet's dinosaur population into their struggle. The Valorians used their telepathy for taming dinosaurs to ride and for domestic use. The Rulons captured dinosaurs with 'brain boxes'. These were large metal helmets which fit onto dinosaur's heads and control their brains. Both Valorians and Rulons would often fit dinosaurs with huge arrays of laser and weapon platforms, upon which people could ride, and attack one another. Battles were mostly motivated by the Rulons' desire to steal the S.T.E.P. from the Valorians, and almost always inconclusive, seldom accomplishing more for either side than restoring the status quo from the beginning of the episode. One of the recurring trends throughout the series was the Tyrannosaurus Rex getting de-brain boxed by the Dino-Riders.





 
Jan 28, 2005
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OT: I was born in '87, and its not like I didn't grow up with re-runs of the shit y'all watched when you were kids. I used to watch plenty of old shows.

Shit, one of the first intelligent thoughts I had was "Okay, now I'm here. What in the fuck was happenin' before I got here?" and proceeded to familiarize myself with history.

So you can hate on the 90s babies, but hate on them cuz they're complete fucking idiots with no ambition or intelligence among them. Not cuz they don't know about the culture before theirs.

I compare myself to my younger siblings and my friends younger siblings... and at the end of the day, we had ambition. These fools are straight fuckin' hopeless altogether.

At least we remember the days when there was an actual prosperity of currency and good hip hop on the radio. I'm thankful for that.
 
Jan 18, 2006
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I got owned by my cable company, cocksuckers didnt have USA network available till 92 or you had to pay extra or some shit. Same with Espn, MTV, and i think Nickelodeon. Needless to say i caught reruns of this but dont remember to well.