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The pilot episode The Adventure Begins was originally released on VHS in 1987. Like I said, the franchise had everything!

Which makes total sense if you think about it.

So let’s take a deep dive into the world of Dino-Riders and find out just what went wrong with this franchise.Īccording to an article on, the Dino-Riders cartoon was contrived solely for the purpose of selling badass action figures. Check out the eBay snip below: Just a tiny taste of the Dino-Riders madness over on eBay. So what the prehistoric hell happened? Because today, Dino-Riders are barely remembered and the toys are rare and expensive and quite hard to find. The thing about Dino-Riders is this: It had everything kids wanted! It was good and evil space forces riding dinosaurs with frickin’ lasers on their heads! Whaaaaat!? It couldn’t miss!Īnd to be real with you, it totally didn’t miss! The first season of the cartoon did fine and the toys were relatively in-demand. A few of you may remember Gobots, Air Raiders, Starcom, and the main topic of this article: Dino-Riders! If it’s yours, lmk.īut with the toy/cartoon market being so damned fertile in those days, companies were throwing all kinds of weird and bizarre concepts against the wall to see what would stick. Plenty of toys for everyone! No scalpers could turn a profit off this! Taken from Imgur. Joe, Thundercats, M.A.S.K., The Real Ghostbusters, and plenty of others. And I definitely enjoyed He-Man and the Masters of the Universe the most. There were the obvious heavy-hitters, of course. And almost each one had a cartoon to go with it. “When I was a boy” (forgive me a cringey old-man phrase), we had tons and tons and tons of options for action figures and cheap plastic toys. It was fun! And I think most millennials reading this can relate and will likely agree that kids these days don’t have the same options for indoor fun that we did. It was also common to build forts and castles for my figures out of books, VHS tapes, boxes, and whatever else was laying around. But there was something positively blissful about playing inside with action figures and playsets and vehicles.

That, or my cousin was outgrowing his toys.īoomers are fond of pointing out that kids were probably much more likely to go play outside back then.

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Watch some VHS movie we recorded off someone else’s TV.

So my entertainment options consisted of: And being a low-income household meant that we had only a few channels. Sure, I’m probably biased because I was a kid back then, before every house had an NES. It’s my personal belief that action figures–and possibly physical toys in general–peaked in the 1980s. June 24, 2021Jby Steven Long In Uncategorized Leave a comment