Dinosaurs! A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time! With Fred Savage! And clay!

May 30, 2016 5:48 PM

Imagine it's the Fall of 1987 and you recently saw The Princess Bride (trailer). Then you heard that Fred Savage was back, in an oddly familiar setting with another story, this time about dinosaurs. You might be thrilled to see Dinosaurs! A Fun-Filled Trip Back In Time! (full film), even if you've already seen Will Vinton's clayanimation that was used as part of a dream sequence of sorts. Flash forward to the present day and you might do a bit of research on the "prehistoric monsters" featured in the short film and find some of the details less than accurate.

Luckily, we now have Wikipedia with a complete list of dinosaur genera, but if that's daunting and too impersonal, dinosaurs.about.com has a list of Dinosaurs A to Z with some facts and jokes to make it more than another long list.

posted by filthy light thief (6 comments total)

Rex and Herb WOULD RETURN later that year in A Claymation Christmas Celebration, which they really should just keep playing every year.
posted by Huffy Puffy at 6:55 PM on May 30, 2016 [3 favorites]

Oh man I totally remember this. I wonder if my parents still have it on VHS somewhere...

Also thanks a lot FLT for getting that mesozoic mind song stuck in my head. (Or had it never left?)
posted by Wretch729 at 7:02 PM on May 30, 2016

Sorry, but Gary Owens and Eric Boardman's Dinosaurs are not only my favorite mass-media entity about the dinos, but also, considering all the rapidly changing information on the topic, as accurate as any. With Henson's Dinosaurs in a close second (yes, in accuracy too).
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:42 PM on May 30, 2016 [2 favorites]

I think they may play the claymation part at the Milwaukee Public Museum. I'll check the next time I go.
posted by drezdn at 3:41 AM on May 31, 2016

I love Mesozoic Mind, and also the suspiciously "Every Breath You Take" + surf guitar music during the intro. Haven't had any luck tracking the full version down.
posted by scottjlowe at 10:11 PM on June 2, 2016

mesozoicmind.com
posted by riruro at 10:29 PM on June 2, 2016 [1 favorite]