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a-dinosaur-a-day · 10 months
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Girls don't want more Marvel movies, girls want an updated Dinotopia reboot
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irl-magicalgirl · 4 months
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y'all, not only does James Gurney have an active website, but he's still selling hardcover signed copies of Dinotopia — and for less than $50?!? 😭
He's still selling large art prints too!!
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10 year old me is reeling and I cannot wait to fulfill my lifelong dream of having Dinotopia art in my home 😭🩷🦕
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vickysaurus · 8 months
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roguetelepaths · 5 months
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The children yearn to be shipwrecked on Dinotopia
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ultrabean · 8 months
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breathe deep, seek peace.
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I'm watching Dinotopia 2002.... So far we have a lesbian writing letters in a Victorian gown and kissing the paper... The the brothers prison break and mop, and they crashed a light plane because dad had a nap during a storm with a learner pilot...
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quohotos · 8 months
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Man, I really feel bad for the Dinotopia guys. They built this whole intricate, creative, enrapturing world, and it was going to be the next big thing. It was gonna be the next franchise. They got George Fucking LUCAS to make a screen adaptation of it. Yeah, the starwars guy. Then midway through production he realizes how much he loves making movies and decides to ditch your project and make the prequels instead. They say there's no bad blood but... man it would fucking kill me to go to the theater and see Naboo and think "Fuck, that coulda been waterfall city"
There still was a franchise. They did eventually make spinoff paperback novels and video games and there were even a couple screen adaptations, but they were done by Lifetime and Hallmark. The lifetime one is actually surprisingly good given its budget. It tells a story that mirrors the structure of the original picture book, two brothers get marooned on Dinotopia, one of them rides a pterosaur and then they have to stop a dude named Krab from stealing a crystal that he needs to make an ancient machine get him off the island... but it's not a reboot or anything, it's the same continuity as the books. I guess guys named Krab really do be stealing crystals every generation or so. It's not really that bad of a series but damn it could have been George Lucas!
I dunno, I just find myself thinking about it. It was a uniquely artistic and non-violent series for its time. All of the dinosaurs and people live in harmony. There used to be a steampunk cyber empire of capitalists who tried to replace dinosaurs with the coolest looking robots you could imagine, but then there was a revolution and they all live in communistic harmony with no real currency. Each according to their need, each to their own ability. All that Jazz.
I'm certainly more normal about it than I am say The Underland Chronicles but I still find myself thinking about those gorgeous communist dinosaur picture books. In another reality, Battleborn won over Overwatch, Galidor never got its budget cut and was actually a smash success, Warner bros actually did something with the TUC film rights, and Kids in the 00s grew up with Dinotopia instead of the Starwars prequels.
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asexual--bard · 3 months
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Happy Winter Holidays to all! May you receive a joyous visit from the Boon Sloth!
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candysdoodles · 10 months
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I love dinotopia, it is an important part of my childhood and I think it deserves more love and more fanarts! I have always loved Karl and his baby dinosaur!
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shierastar · 2 years
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art by james gurney
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mooncyclereader · 5 months
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i got bored and i decided to look up books that talk about dinosaurs but in a sci-fi kinda way. Like not in a "This is scientific divulgation" kinda way, like i want stories about dinosaurs
Ok so my list right now is
- Jurassic Park By Michael Crighton, 2 books (Read, good book, could dial back on the computer talk.)
- Dinotopia by James Gurney, 22 books (The dinos are sentient here)
- Footprints of Thunder by James F. Davis, 3 books (Timelines get's mixed up and dinosaurs accidentally end up in our time)
- MEG by Steve Alten, 7 books (Megalodont centric but still prehistoric creatures )
- East of Eden by Harry Harrison, 3 books (History alternative, the dinosaurs evolved here)
- Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill, single book ( Frankestain but with dinosaurs)
not gonna lie, this look like a great summer list
if anyone wants to add on it please do!!
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a-dinosaur-a-day · 10 months
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internettpersonn · 4 days
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this is just an appreciation post for the dinotopia books and their incredible illustrations, all by author james gurney. these books are so meticulous and detail and feel like you've just found the long lost field journal of someone who got stranded on an island co-inhabited by humans and dinosaurs in a hybrid society. i love these books with all my heart.
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vickysaurus · 8 months
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shojoboy · 9 months
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Yeah, I've been organizing a new Leftist sect around the desire to create Dinotopia. We believe Dinosaurs are the essential missing piece in the Anarcho-Communist revolution. Would you like to peruse our literature? It's just Dinotopia, the Communist Manifesto, and my Jurassic Park fanfiction combined into one book. What's that? Oh, no ha ha of course we aren't calling it Dinoism. That's silly. It's called Anarcommisaurism.
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swedebeast · 2 months
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