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@dudotolivier6363

Жыл бұрын

Yep ! There wasn't any real kids magazine like that outside this series. In the 90's dinosaurs became highly popular (and the popularity level have remain the exact same since) and these magazines, even if by today standards almost everything inside is outdated, was one of the main true educationals books (easily findable and accessible for everyone due to the low, almost cheap prize of 50c) that allowed youngs people and many kids to learn about dinosaurs and their life. And every kid was able to know new things about his favorite specie, among many others lesser know and popular at time too ! Truly, because of his importance, because this magazine series manage to become cult overtime and to remain in the deep but strong memories of so many people even when adult today, the books magazines series "Dinosaurs ! Discover the giants of the past" or simply"Dinosaurs !" deserved to be remembered to the end of time !

@dudotolivier6363

Жыл бұрын

In one of the issues of this magazines series, the number 66, there a section that show Dougal Dixon's drawns of his book "The New Dinosaurs", the second book of his "After Man" trilogy ! It's was a very good idea to put this section about speculative evolution domain ! Because kids were able to discovers new ways to imagine dinosaurs, in addition to learn a new and recently created modern form of a scientific domain that will become in almost two decades later highly popular overtime. Genius ! Just genius !

@MaryAnnNytowl

Жыл бұрын

I'd consider it, but I'm poor as dirt. 🤷‍♀️ Best I can offer is a like and comment for the Almighty Algorithm.

@madamphantom7405

Жыл бұрын

can we please get ceratosaurus it's one of my all time favorites

@KingOfGamesss

Жыл бұрын

I still have all of these books too, no glasses or skeleton though

I'm still so mad about oviraptor. One poor dinosaur dies protecting its eggs, and then the whole genus is named "egg thief" because the people who dug it up went "well those can't be ITS eggs, it must have been stealing them to eat" like that's just so rude.

@snakewithapen5489

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, it still did eat other dinosaurs' eggs lol. But yeah, reminds me of how the depiction of Neanderthals as hunch-backed is mostly because of "The old man of La Chapelle'' which was the first mostly complete neanderthal skeleton ever found, and he was very old and had severe osteoarthritis. They actually had a similar lower lumbar curve to us, though they were shorter.

@luistheteleporter951

Жыл бұрын

@@snakewithapen5489 well what you say in the first part, many dinosaurs would eat eggs so that wouldn't be a good argument

@f.u.m.o.5669

Жыл бұрын

@@snakewithapen5489 We don't have proof they ate eggs. As far as we know, they could be Herbivores.

@mountainhun

Жыл бұрын

It's kind of like medieval names. You forge horseshoes, you're called Smith. Your father made tunics, you're a tailor. But if you accidentally fall into ONE cowpie, suddenly you and all your descendants are named Poopsnorter. :P

@risel56

Жыл бұрын

I remember someone on the internet somewhere suggesting that we change the genus name to "Ovipater" (egg father). Sounds similar enough, and fits the updated narrative.

"The artist struggled mightily..." is now my favorite Phrase about art. Period.

@meajur

Жыл бұрын

I'm an artist and I approve this message.

I remember when we thought spinosaurus was a dimetrodon on 2 legs

@jeffreygao3956

Жыл бұрын

I think I prefer my Dimetrodon licking itself and playing with yarn.

@eispfotchen3202

Жыл бұрын

I remember when we had that old playing card where Spinosaurus was just a big Dimetrodon

Imagine not being subscribed to Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong

@jacobcox4565

Жыл бұрын

I know, right! Those who aren't subbed are missing out.

@nachtaktiv_hd_7637

Жыл бұрын

I dont have to imagen that!

@Rinocapz

Жыл бұрын

I would like to subscribe more than once

@jacobcox4565

Жыл бұрын

@@Rinocapz You can if you make more than one account

@NathanTAK

Жыл бұрын

I didn't think that was allowed?

A majority of the art was original and commissioned, although there was also plenty of licenced stuff (mostly from John Sibbick and Bernard Robinson). Artists who produced original material include Neil Lloyd, John Francis, Graham Rosewarne and Steve White. The works of Rosewarne and White especially hold up quite well today (e.g. the "Syntarsus" by Rosewarne you flagged up). You can see some of them get better as time goes on. Neil Lloyd's fighting dinosaurs on the cover of issue 18 is miles ahead of, say, his Tyrannosaurus on the first issue. From what I know of people who worked on the magazine I get the feeling the whole thing was run a bit scattershot and last minute, but you wouldn't know from looking at it.

@nathanMangion_Elyden

Жыл бұрын

I loved the Rosewarne and White art, and spent many a weekend coping their style ♥️

@vermis8344

Жыл бұрын

I can't remember Steve White's art. Unless it was those pieces that had fine brown outlines? I'll have to look it up.

@jl.7739

Жыл бұрын

Who did the 3D illustrations in the later issues? I remember being blown away by these artworks. They looked most modern to me and also usually depicted a cool action scene from the life of dinosaurs 😄 Ps: the artist must have been inspired by Gregory s. Paul

Like many people I was a passionate dinosaur fan as a child, but at some point in time it just went away as life happened and different interests came. As an adult my interest returned and I found this channel years ago. I just want to say thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge with us all, and for me personally for rekindling those fond childhood memories of wonder and discovery.

I remember absolutely _begging_ my mom to let me get a subscription to these when I was a kid, but we couldn't afford them. I think we had the first 3 issues of it, and I would read them _constantly,_ and then like 3 years later my parents found one of those binders with the first 11(?) issues in it at a yard sale and buying it for me. I was even nerdy enough to have read all the super wordy bits! Man I loved those magazines.

I had these as a child too! I'd completely forgotten about them, but that cover art is a HUGE hit of nostalgia.

@jamiebirley

Жыл бұрын

Me too, the text treatment for DINOSAURS! brought it all back. Was this the same series that came with parts for a glow in the dark t-rex skeleton, or am i confusing it for another childhood dino magazine. Edit ok it is exactly the same thing i had as a kid in England, such a nostalgia rush!

@philvanderlaan5942

Жыл бұрын

They looks great ! But when these were published I was reading stuff like ‘ Proceedings ‘ ‘ Jane’s defense weekly’ stuff like that about 15 years older than the target audience for these mags.

@NichtNameee

Жыл бұрын

Mee too

@dumerili

Жыл бұрын

Me too, in German, because I live in Germany.

@cameronmcewen9666

Жыл бұрын

My cousin collected these, and then 20 years ago, he gave them to me.

Oh, I *KNOW* my dinosaur book was wrong. It started with a Brontosaurus standing in the middle of a pond that was barely bigger than it... and ended with explaining that dinosaurs went extinct because they couldn't adapt to _flowers_ . *FLOWERS!*

@kinghoodofmousekind2906

Жыл бұрын

The apex predator which roamed in a stationary way this world! The flowers! Why, on all gravesites we find lots of them: coincidence? I don't think so!

@clobertina8176

Жыл бұрын

*wheeze* That's halarious

@SaimonBhattarai2

2 ай бұрын

THE FLOWERS ARE TOO POWERFUL!

I had a bound book copy of Dinosaurs! when I was a kid, I wasn't aware that it was originally a magazine. This book was probably the main catalyst for me wanting to go into palaeontology as a serious career when I was younger, beforehand I just liked dinosaurs because I thought they were cool, but this book helped me see them in a more scientific light and realize that people could actually have a job where they learn about dinosaurs, especially that art of the palaeontologists on a dig site.

This magazine was also a great success here in Argentina, it came out during the Jurassic Park frenzy and there were reissues up to 10 years later, before it became out of date, I remember that I compiled this until I finished the skeleton, but I didn't complete the skin. Since you are starting to analyze graphic media, maibe it will be interesting to review C. M. Kosemen's book All Yesterdays (is not that kid friendly but can skip the unconfortable parts)

@Gaby-wi4bx

Жыл бұрын

Jajaja si, yo también la tenía. Aunque nunca pude terminar el esqueleto, no llegaban muchos ejemplares de la revista al noroeste así que más que nada las conseguía cuando mi papá viajaba a Buenos Aires

when i was a kid, my local miniature golf place had a dinosaur statue called "oviraptor" but it looked like a gallimimus

when they first came out I had just finished my last cancer treatment, my perants didnt have much but they made sure each week I could get the magazine. Its one of my favorite memories.

@vermis8344

Жыл бұрын

I can relate. I think when these came out I was just starting my cancer treatments.

@nathanielgrey4091

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you two made it

Yep ! There wasn't any real kids magazine like that outside this series. In the 90's dinosaurs became highly popular (and the popularity level have remain the exact same since) and these magazines, even if by today standards almost everything inside is outdated, was one of the main true educationals books (easily findable and accessible for everyone due to the low, almost cheap prize of 50c) that allowed youngs people and many kids to learn about dinosaurs and their life. And every kid was able to know new things about his favorite specie, among many others lesser know and popular at time too ! Truly, because of his importance, because this magazine series manage to become cult overtime and to remain in the deep but strong memories of so many people even when adult today, the books magazines series "Dinosaurs ! Discover the giants of the past" or simply"Dinosaurs !" deserved to be remembered to the end of time !

This magazine was also translated into Swedish, and I collected it as a dino-crazy kid. Super strong nostalgia watching this, I immediately knew it by the look on the T-rex on the logo and the 3D glasses, but I also remembered stuff like the Iguanodon comic. Thanks for this episode, it was a blast! :)

Oh how I loved these magazines as a kid back in the early 90's! I think the german magazine name was simply translated into "Dinosaurier", but I am not sure anymore... me and my brother were fascinated with it and had so much fun to build the glow in the dark T-Rex with all the pieces every single issue had~ good old times haha

@NichtNameee

Жыл бұрын

Jup. Faszinierend

@NichtNameee

Жыл бұрын

Ich habe sie erst 95 auf dem Flohmarkt entdeckt und wollte sie von da an alle haben, (war richtig Süchtig als Kind) aber mir fehlten am Ende immer noch ein paar.

@neonity4294

Жыл бұрын

Bis zu dem Video wusste ich nicht einmal, das diese Heftreihe aus den USA stammte. Nach dem zusammenbaubaren T-Rex ging es mit Sammelkarten weiter, aber der Hype war bis dahin dann schon abgeflacht. Auch diese schicken Sammelorder gab es hierzulande nicht.

Oh my, what a ride down the memory lane! We even had these in my small town in Central Europe, they were really widespread apparently. I just can't forget how I lost one of the issues - my not-so-older-than-me aunt borrowed it for school (fossil related geography lesson) and never returned it. As I've later found out, her mother used it as a kindling to fire up the heating stove, like any other run of the mill newspaper. To make it worse, it was the first one, with the T-rex! Now put yourself in my parents' shoes and explain to the 5 year old, that his grandma destroyed his favourite possession.

This reminds me so much of the books I read growing up! I had a big A-Z encyclopaedia of dinosaurs that I used to read all the time. There was a diagram of deep time in the front that I always looked over.

I'm from Argentina, and this magazines and JP were how i fell in love with dinosaurs as a child. I remember loving this magazines. Reading all the issues and lovint most of the art, specially the two page pieces. Oh man the nostalgia.

Gotta love how slowly he turns pages. His eyes exploring all every inch lol. This dude is truly loving this and Im completely on board with this :) I use to get these Dino books at Wendys during early to mid 90s. I use to get mad because I grew up a Christian and thought.... This couldn't have been how it was. God makes better crap than shades of brown on EVERYTHING lol all the Dinos and plants and rocks and skies were all kinds of browns. Anywho good video

@Name-ps9fx

Ай бұрын

Best part of this is the excitement we get from his reminiscing about each and every magazine! I never had a subscription when I was a kid, but my parents had bought a set of World Book encyclopedias and I started by looking at the pictures, but then I noticed there were questions at the end of major entries, as well as "you should also read..." referencing other (related) entries as well as books! I still have this habit as an adult, much more satisfying than watching TV all the time (which I also remember doing until my late teens/early 20s)....

In one of the issues of this magazines series, the number 66, there a section that show Dougal Dixon's drawns of his book "The New Dinosaurs", the second book of his "After Man" trilogy ! It's was a very good idea to put this section about speculative evolution domain ! Because kids were able to discovers new ways to imagine dinosaurs, in addition to learn a new and recently created modern form of a scientific domain that will become in almost two decades later highly popular overtime. Genius ! Just genius !

I had the first issue of this magazine when I was a child, all the way down here in New Zealand and seeing it here for the first time in decades was a truly nostalgic experience, thank you Steven for this utterly delightful exercise. I don't think I have it anymore, though I certainly do have many of the Dinosaur books I had growing up and this has inspired me to flick through them to take the trip down memory lane :)

@crazycakemanflies

Жыл бұрын

I had these as a kid in Australia too!! This is such a throw back, wish we had kept them like he has.

I remember that Syntarsus artwork so vividly! The colors they chose made it beautifully striking.

My parents decided that they should end my subscription at issue 100. A sad day. What was sadder was that years later I learnt that the series ended at issue 102! Still have them all, though many have been replaced with better condition ones I’ve come across at secondhand shops. My kids now absolutely love them: they’ll sit next to me and ask me what all the dinosaurs’s names are.

@ReubenAotearoa_

Жыл бұрын

It’s worth noting the the early issues, especially the first, had some of the worst and less accurate art - even for the time. They do get much better quite quickly. Oh: and I have a tattoo of the Deinonychus in issue 8. Hard choice between nostalgia and accuracy, but nostalgia won. :)

I remember these from when I was a kid! Never owned them myself, I was a little too young to read them when they first came out, but my local library had a stack of them and I rented them all the time!

These old dinosaur depictions are weirdly nostalgic, even for someone who grew up at the time when our understanding of dinosaurs was not far off from today.

@Ditidos

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, old paleoart have kind of a fog of time or myth that dissapears as time advances. I have found some artist that do have this effect but they are much much rarer. It's kinda alien and forgotten, like a lost world. But if you ask me it is due to the art itself and not the dinosaur depictions, like Jurassic Park-inspired depictions from the 90s don't have this effect either despite being relatively old and outdated by now and some animals, specially dromeosaurs, not being that diferent from older paleoart.

@kaiju3646

Жыл бұрын

same, its astonishing that my favorite dinosaur wasn't even really known of at this point. Considering i was born not long before deinocheirus had its body discovered. Considering how young i am compared to most dinosaur fans i genuinely wonder if it was better growing up as a dinosaur fan back then or now. Having information trickle in instead of all at my finger tips was probably less intimidating to learn compared to what it is now.

@christosdoesthings

2 ай бұрын

​@@kaiju3646growing up with more and more feather discoveries was mind blowing.

Man, that one at 12:58 really brings back memories. That instantly sold me for good on Iguanodon's badassery!

I HAD THE SAME MAGAZINES

Seeing those first two covers was like a flash from the past. i remember having those and the glow in the dark T-rex skeleton. I have no idea where any of those things went though. Cool to see them again as proof I didn't just imagine them.

you wondering why the silhouette was offering a flower is just so sweet

I'm slightly too young to have gotten these in subscription, but my mother's friend found a partial set for me while op-shopping nearly 10 years later. Between this and a little A7(?)-size pocket-dinopedia with a companion rectangular-format mini-disc, these were my childhood guides to dinosaurs. The mini-disc was designed to run in a full-fat cd-drive, and allowed you to view a full version of the book on PC, with all illustrations and references that couldn't fit into the pocket guide.

PBS the dinosaurs is still up and its quite great and still contains relevant information. I also had tons of fossil sites to visit plus books and museums

@kurusai

Жыл бұрын

I watched that one a lot as a kid and given how often they talked with Bakker I'm not too surprised to see this magazine following his reconstruction for Deinonychus, it was very much his moment.

@beneficent2557

Жыл бұрын

Is that the Microsoft-produced Show?

@kurusai

Жыл бұрын

@@beneficent2557 Not that I know of; it was a four episode WHYY miniseries that ran in 1992 on PBS; last I checked there's a copy on here somewhere

They compiled these into a book called the Humongous Book of Dinosaurs which my parents bought me as a kid in the 90’s. I ADORED that book, but, yeah, it’s quite out-of-date. I bought a new encyclopedia that was published in like 2018 that I realized used the same art. I was so mad that it just reused 20 year old material, I immediately retuned it.

I was also collecting these magazines (although in a different language in Europe) as a child. They are still in my "dino suitcase", essentially an old suitcase where I stored all my dinosaur books, toys, and other dinosaur paraphilia, that is stored in my parents' house.

I had (still have) the THICK compilation book of all(?) those magazines - all these pages are VERY familiar. I always wondered why they were arranged in sort of "chapters" - I realize now that those corresponded to separate magazine issues. And I still have those 3D glasses somewhere! One of my favorite features were the comic strips that told the story of the paleontologists behind all the biggest discoveries (the Bone Wars "arc" and Mary Anning's stories were most memorable to me). Hats off to Dr. Norman for bringing all these stories and images to thousands of kids' bedrooms all over the world (including the Philippines)!

I'm 40 now, and this was my childhood

I can confirm that the magazine had a Polish version and was very popular with kids, riding on the Jurassic Park wave. Absolutely loved it back in the day.

Oh, we had a subscription for translated A4 size slips that used bits and pieces of these magazines. Great reminder, my grandma was the one who dealt with the subscription service, and we had two full dinosaur themes albums at her flat that we'd go through from time to time.

The first horned specimen was slightly squishe, so Gregory S. Paul thought the crest shold be Cassowary-like. I think he based it on a different specimen than the crushed one.

I actually have a book that's called The Humongous Book of Dinosaurs that is just all of these magazines crammed together into a massive book (with a few sections like the ask column missing), so I immediately recognized this art in the thumbnail. I was and still am obsessed with dinosaurs, so my grandmother got it for me from a book fair at the school she taught at when I was in maybe middle or high school and I spent a summer reading through it. Even at the time I received it I knew the information was massively incorrect or outdated and I found myself laughing at most of the really bad art (every single depiction they made of Oviraptor haunts me to this day), but I remember this as a fond memory and still look at the book to this day.

This made me want to go to my parents and dig for my copies! It also made me dig out my VHS's (which I had to smell because it's necessary) of The Great Dinosaur Hunt. The Gobi dig in 87 with Dale Russell, and the one done by The Infinite Voyage from 89 that I taped.

These videos are so delightful. Low-energy, high-enthusiasm, completely geek...perfect while recovering from a migraine. This one in particular transported me back to being a little 8 year old girl in rural Oklahoma, poring over my old dinosaur books and magazines on a rainy day, or at the public library while my parents did the grocery shopping a few blocks away. I've still got all my old dinosaur books and toys and posters and things too, and a parasaurolophus family tattooed around my arm. I'd love to send you a pic of the latter so you could tell me how wrong it is. Not even joking; that would make my day.

These were my dinosaur books, too.

26:30 “We are hard at work on our next episode, which is Giganotosaurus” That’s gotta be the most nonchalant way of dropping a total bombshell on us.

Ho. Ly. Shit. I'm Brazilian, from a small city in the southernmost state in Brazil, and I remember buying the Dinosaurs! magazine (translated to Portuguese of course) when I was kid in the mid 90s. Finding your video nearly 30 years later is like opening a time capsule. Each one of these pages and colorful artwork comes packed with a ton of emotions and memories from my childhood.This will certainly be the best video I watch this year.

Growing up in a country town in the 80’s, Dinosaur books were few and far between, but my Dad nearly always bought them for me when we would come across them. I had quite a big collection. A lot of them were written for adults and had really nice artwork. Chapter 1 always had the Crystal Palace Park dinosaurs and when I got to take a trip to London in 2006, I made a pilgrimage out to there to see them…. It was well worth the effort.

Yeah I got this series when I was a kid. I think I may have missed one or two issues but other than that I got them all.

I don't have all the magazines - would very much like to - but the ones I do own have a special place on my bookshelf. It's where my whole fascination with dinosaurs and other ancient life began.

DAMN THAT'S NOSTALGIC, i'm from spain and back then i was the only kid who had these, and I still do have them, it really influenced my love for dinos a lot

My mom collected them for me when I was a child. It was the german version, called "DINOSAURIER!" I spend hour after hour drawing the artworks in spiral bound notpads. Good times.

I had these compiled into a large book called the Humongous Book of Dinosaurs. My 2nd grade teacher gifted it to me from her classroom. She was awesome.

This is where I got my Rex skeleton and I still have those 3-D glasses somewhere !!

Wow what a nostalgic trip! I absolutely adored these magazines when I was a child. I only had about the first 10 issues I think but loved the artwork and looked at them countless times. Thanks for sharing

I know exactly what you mean when you talk about seeing an illustration of a dinosaur as a child and then imagining that as the default version of that dinosaur!

This series of magazines and Commodore Format hold more nostalgia for me that anything else. Thanks for this.

This brought back a bunch of memories for me - I didn't have the individual issues but I did have a book called "The Humongous Book of Dinosaurs" which looks like it was basically a compilation of the full run of this magazine.

As someone with a similar past, be it in a different environment with different paleontological offerings, this was one of the most comfy and relatable videos I've seen in a while! Thank you for spending this moment with us.

The biggest memories of this were - them running out of dinosaurs and movie on to bugs, mammals and other sundry prehistoricisms - not being able to figure out how the clips worked with the binders and magazine - not being able to put the T. rex together properly - after the T. rex was a STEGOSAURUS

These same part works were a formative reference for dinosaurs as a child too. Seeing that first issue, and the glow in the dark skeleton brought back so many memories. My primary source, however, was a big coffee table book my parents owned, David Norman's The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. With some rather influential illustrated reconstructions by John Sibbick, as well as multiple angles of skulls, teeth, claws, etc. it was a visual treasure trove, though many of the reconstructions have not aged gracefully.

got therese as a kid too here in germany and i can't deny it these artworks imprinted themselves in my brain too, even like alsmost 30 years have passed since then. as u were looking at these sites my brain permanently went "hey u remember these too". Thx for sharing that with us

We also had this here in Poland. This was THE thing that got me into dinosaurs when I was a kid :D Jesus, good old 90's, almost 30 years ago, yieks the time files quickly

That was a fun romp through time! Thanks for sharing; I'm starting to feel nostalgic again about my own choices of childhood dino literature now. ...And yes, that cragged-handed plateosaur clutching the globe is boss.

I remember I thought most of the illustrations were trash and inaccurate even as a 9 year old child... Velociraptor was in issue 3 btw. I remember that illustration distinctly because it's what started my interest in raptors.

14:48 For me personally, I picture _Corythosaurus_ being green with a red helmet, because that's how it was depicted in Dorling-Kindersley's _Guide to Dinosaurs_ .

I haven't seen those books in almost 30 years. I remember I had 4 binders of those things and it started featuring mammals after a while. This video was a nice nostalgia trip.

I remember years after they stopped production, reading this in the bathroom while on the toilet. I don't think they (my issues) survived the death of my parents or subsequent moves from one state to another. But I remember getting them in the early 90s and just always going back to them in the mid to late 90s before walking with dinosaurs and the internet became a thing.

You just unlocked a 20 year old memory in me. I had issue 32 with the Ankilosaurus (or was it Pinacosaurus?) cover! I remember the double-spread pages of it just obliterating a poor therapod's knee

As a child I read them too. In Poland in 90' there was also a dino boom. I still had a few magazines somewhere in my room.

I remember being given a binder full of these things by a family friend back when I was a kid. Good times.

My first dinosaur book, aged 5, was "The Evolution and Ecology of the Dinosaurs", by L.B. Halstead. Got it for christmas back in the mid-70's. Still have it, love the illustrations.

Aw this nostalgic spirit of recognizing smth so emotional from your childhood as an adult! Made me think of my "comfy book". Growing up in post-Soviet Kazakhstan of the 90s, I had a bunch of my freshly translated "Western" encyclopaedias on dinosaurs, the favourite one featured what used to look like real dino photos to me, and god did it set standard of realism for years to come... I remember lending this book to some class friend and never getting it returned, which was what a tragedy in my pre-teens! And now think of me as a presumadly all grown-up history undergrad, way many years later walking into a random old books store in Vienna, Austria - just to find exactly the same book but in German! Clearly, it´s in my collection, and being re-read on gloomy days (although I must admit, dino photos are so freaking obsolete now... :) Thanks for these sweet memories, YDAW!

*memories unlocked* I had forgotten about this series of books/magazines entirely! The glow-in-the-dark rex skeleton and the 3d glasses formed a spark and the rest of the images fanned the flames. I had theses as a young 4/5 year old boy. Shortly after we also subscribed to Zoobooks!

You need to make Your Accurate Dino Magazines.

I loved these! They were so varied and thorough for their small size, and they had name pronunciation guides! Great magazine.

Oooooh man....memories man! Love the retro old school art work and i can smell the plastic pages through the screen....i miss being a child. And these kind of dinos will always come to mind for me

So much Memories! Collected these back in the day in Germany. Thank You!

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs by Dr. Peter Welnhofer! That was another one that I loved! One of the most formative aspects of that one I remember was my parents comparing Pterodaustro to a pelican.

We had those magazines back here in Brazil, too. I got them as a child from a family friend after her kid grew out of them. Honestly, they're one of the main reasons i fell in love with paleontolgy (alongside things like Land Before Time, Dinosaur King, etc.) and will always have a special place in my heart. Sadly they're probably lost to time now, but i definitely keep looking for them when i have the time. Specially because how much they reflect the paleontological views of the past 🤔

Yes!!!! YESSSSSSS!!!!

Man, we had these magazines in Brazil back in the 90's. I remember asking my parents to pick some up in school when they had these book fairs or something. The image of an Allosaurus getting impaled by the Iguanodon thumb spikes on the neck was stuck in my head all my life and still is the reason Iguanodon is one of my favorite herbivores! These are awesome! The young boy in me was so disappointed about not having any of the glow-in-the-dark T. rex parts though. I got these after they came out and looked everywhere for that skeleton... Still hope to find it some day 😃 Awesome video my friend!

15:22 "And it turns out it's a oviraptorid" So close!! It's an deinocheirid, ornithomimisaur. I would love to see an episode on Deinocheirus though, it's history is so cool and we know just so much about it now compared to then!

Holy shit, this whole time I’m like “man I was born in 94 I wish I would have been alive to get these” then when you showed the iguanadon I went OH WAIT NO YEAH I HAD THAT ONE. I thought that was the most metal thing ever. Talk dumb get the thumb indeed.

Old dinosaur/ paleontological media has such a grasp on me and many others. And for good reason (yes it's very very outdated and inaccurate), but so interesting and nostalgic! I remember my grandmother giving me the first magazine from the video, mind you it wasn't in the 90s or even early 2000s, rather around 2015. She has dementia but still remembers that I adore dinosaur media.. how lovely is that. And I still have it to this day, it's somewhere in the attic.

Talk about a trip down memory lane. As soon as you opened that first magazine the memory of that bounded into my head. I am pretty sure that I only ever got the first issue (or maybe it was at school), but I remembered every page you turned to.

That retro brachiosaurus/ giraffatitan looks so cool ! And that purple tongue corythosaurus ! The big nose egg-eating oviraptor ! And the fish-eating, web-footed segnosaur !!! How amazed i was by those illustration back then Oh, and btw in France, we had these magazines too ! A bit too young to get them first-handed, but they also published an encyclopedia (full of dramatic dinoaur's depiction !) Nostalgia's striking hard with this video

I had these too - they made it all the way to Austria, in translation. My initial reaction to your video title was "OMG OMG OMG OMG" and I was not disappointed.

In the late 60's to early 70's we had all the plastic dinosaurs from China, the Denver Museum of Natural History, and the tracks up in the Foothills of Colorado to get me interested in dinosaurs.

When I was six years old. My great grandfather had a book called "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaur by Joseph Wallace". He would reiterate the information to me, since it was very text heavy.

I used to have piles of these - I'm so excited to watch, I'm commenting before starting watching.

A couple of those pictures are tickling something way back in the hindbrain so I must have seen them SOMEWHERE, but I was definitely a Zoobooks kid, so maybe there was some cross-pollination amongst educational magazine illustrators. I love going back to old kid memorabilia and realizing how much I imprinted on specific images and sounds (and smells!). I remember the most treasured source of Dinosaur Facts I had was a VHS tape that featured sort of a loose hodgepodge of educational media, from interviews with paleontologists, to questionable monster/action movie clips, to REALLY good original animatics that I've never seen anywhere else. To this *day* I can hear the sound effects they used for the dinosaur vocalizations (which I now realize must have been sampled from a mixture of adult and baby crocodilians); they just live forever in my internal library of Creature Sounds. EDIT: OH MY GOD IT WAS "PBS: THE DINOSAURS" OF COURSE IT'S ALL ON KZread

That sauropod on the cover looked so much like the one on Primal in the episode Plague of Madness, it gave me shivers!

My first book of dinosaurs was "Giant Golden Book of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Reptiles" when I was 5-6 in the 60's. Loved those illustrations. Just seeing the cover with a half submerged sauropod in a swamp watching a tail dragging carnosaur approaching. I can picture Steven having a time discussing the updates needed to make "my dinosaurs (less) wrong"!

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I still love dinosaurs, but somehow they have lost some of their ‘aura’ of mystery since the days of the upright, tail dragging, “man in a suit” depictions have gone extinct.

I had these as a kid! I loved putting together the t-rex skeleton as well. So weird that we used to think Tyrannosaurus stood upright. There was also a second skeleton based on a Stegosaurus, but I don't think I ever got that one.

Still have the Folders full of magazines and also the trading cards! Now my 5 year old daughter is going through them page by page like her dad when He was her age. So cool 😬 Greetings from germany!

Oh yes, Syntarsus. Back in the day it was completely normal to find a book that had all dinosaurs covered solely in scales, but then suddenly, this guy would show up with its mohawk and plumage. Kinda a 90s paleoart meme. It even got stuck into these random dinosaur toy bags you could get back then, set apart by having a feathery crest.

As a kid my Dad would take me with him for our haircuts. The barber always had "Turok son of Stone" comics available. I remember the smell of "Butchwax" (forced crewcut) and those comics. I loved reading about Turok, Andar and the "honkers" I hated the crewcuts.

I had these!! I only just turned 20, so I didn't get them new, but I collected them from secondhand shops all over my area. I even found that big binder to store them in, with most of the magazines still in it! I don't think I ever completed my collection, but I got very close. I ended up giving them away to a younger person who was into dinosaurs.

I had those exact same magazines as a kid here in germany! I didn't know they were sold outside germany too. Loved them so much I learned them by heart basically.

I got so many childhood memories from that! Also most of those artworks are responsible for the colouring of dinosaurs in my head