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Dinosquad; Dirty DiC Dinos
Topic Started: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:23 pm (463 Views)
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I don't think most people realize this, but Dinosaurs are awesome. That's why you always capitalize Dinosaur. One look at their scaly (or feathery if you're a fucking anatomical correctness freak) hides, accented by giant teeth and massive horns, combined with their awe inspiring scale just reeks of bad-assery from every angle. It would seem that Dinosaurs make everything awesome.

So it’s a good thing DiC is around to ruin everything for everyone, because they managed to ruin Dinosaurs in their last moments. In 2007, DiC released DinoSquad, a bizarre mix of Captain Planet, Power Rangers, and X-men that ultimately formed together to make a giant-ass shit pile that makes a mockery of every incarnation of the awesome cartoon Dinosaurs of yesteryear. From the very first seconds of the opening, the show shapes up to be a stupid Disney channel school sitcom starring a group of wacky friends who love sports, music, and friendship that also happen to transform into Dinosaurs. Sadly, I'm not exaggerating in that description.

So the basic gist of the plot is that millions of years ago, a meteor struck and killed every Dinosaur but two velociraptors, who both managed to live for 65 million years, learn telepathy, and gain the ability to transform into people for no good reason. If you don't already find the premise dumb enough, one the velociraptors named "Victor Veloci" wants to return the world to the cretaceous period by devolving the world's animals into dinosaurs.

So pretty much, this show takes its Dinosaur knowledge straight from this gem:
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I'm not kidding, this show butchers the concept of evolution. But that's not where it falls on its ass. Oh no, you still have your high school pals to contend for that honor. The protagonists aren't so much people as they are crayon drawings a 5 year old makes when he thinks of what high school is like. There is a little bit of development, but that's like saying there's humor in CAD. What's worse is that the moral of the episode gets preached by the nark squad throughout the whole episode. It's like those old PSA's that were strapped to the end of cartoons, except they knew no one would actually watch to the end, so they just repeated it over and over. But don't worry, they'll tell you to reduce, reuse, and recycle during the credits anyways. Every time the credits roll.

I would love to berate this pathetic cartoon some more, but all I think needs to be said is that it came out in 2007. You would think that a cartoon company that's been around since 1971 would know how to make a good cartoon by now, but no. This show takes us all back to a much simpler and dim-witted time where cartoons were made just to buy off a popular trend or toy, except there is no product being sold to us, or a social fixation that rakes in the cash. There really was no excuse for a show to be made like this. Guess you can't teach an old DiC new tricks.

To summarize, DinoSquad sucks. It's sad to see the original bad-asses of the world disgraced in this way. It's a joke to animated television, and all in all, is just too ripe for the annotating.
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Did they seriously play the transformation sequence backwards less than half a minute after it was first used?

And I thought GREAT DiC Cartoons couldn't get any GREATer.
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It amuses and disapoints me that DiC is still in exsistence...
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Why does it diappoint you?!
If anything it means fresh fodder, with basically no repercussions.
DiC seem pretty chill about their stuff being on YouTube.
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Avirosb
Aug 23 2012, 09:50 PM
Why does it diappoint you?!
If anything it means fresh fodder, with basically no repercussions.
DiC seem pretty chill about their stuff being on YouTube.

I believe DiC was bought out by Cookie Jar entertainment, which was then bought out by some french cartoon company.

So yeah, there's probably no one to care about it anymore.
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People TRANSFORMING INTO DINOSAURS to SAVE THE DAY?? How FUCKING AWESOME is that??

Unfortunately, it saddens me to know that DiC had to throw this AWESOME CONCEPT to waste with their hack writers and animators.

So, yeah, annotate this shit already.
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I'M IN

I'M IN

IN THE DINO SQUUUUUAD ♫

♫ I'M IN

I'M IN

IN THE SCALY WANK-BANK SQUAAAAAD
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Noheadbites
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"How am I supposed to live constantly changing into a dinosaur?"

What is wrong with you?
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FUCK YEAH
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Hey, I don't know if you guys care, but Jurassic Park 4 is in production, and I think it would be coll to do this show leading up to the premiere since its sordid history means it'll be a perfect break from two seasons of Dino crap or the cherry on top of dino awfulness.

What do you guys think?
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Well, Jurassic Park 4 doesn't come out untill Summer 2015, so there's quite some time before that happens.

But yeah, I'd say we'd do Dino Squad after these upcoming shows.
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Good god, that theme is horrible.
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