The Decline of Dinamation

Dinamation was a once successful company that would create and sell its own dinosaur animatronics to museums. But this once-thriving company would eventually meet its decline shortly after a certain popular title was released into theaters.
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[@DinoDiego16]

Sorry this took me a bit to get out. It was fun to put together! Hope you guys enjoyed! If you have any suggestions for video ideas like this, consider checking out my discord server and let me know there! discord.gg/YZ7PeF7uqQ

[@paleoph6168]

One place where you can find a Dinamation model is in the St. Louis Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri. You can even see it in this popular vine: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/laW9YmhsmZedhdE

[@theblazingredcomet1954]

Chris mays was actually assassinated by universal

[@blind-rk6fl]

Universal trademarked indoraptor as well. I remember that internet guys figured out indoraptor would be the new dinosaur in Fallen Kingdom because they filed for trademark for the word “indoraptor” so if anyone used it or tried to make a knock off toy, they could sue. They are one of the worst when it comes to copyright strikes KZbin as well. They kinda set the precedent to use stills or no more than thirty seconds of audio/video at time that’s not part of a publicly released trailer because their computer algorithms and bots will file a strike on channels that “misuse” these standards

[@kaijuslayer3334]

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because the Dinamation website is now a weird Japanese housewife card loan site.” -Dr. Seuss probably

[@govnopochta69]

I remember being hit by oviraptor`s moving arm as a kid. That was fun.

[@KATOOMY]

Did oviraptor posese any type of feathers?

[@crunchybro123]

@@KATOOMY probably, because it wasnt in jurassic world/park/lost world/3 they wouldnt go for the movie designs and go for the normal look

[@tylerc.1548]

He was never the same...

[@acedspades9457]

very sad

[@PestilentAllosaurus]

Don't worry, Oviraptors are very good parents. It was just trying to give kiddo you a motherly hug.

[@dont-hurt-me2519]

I've actually compiled a (unofficial) list of Prehistoric Creature animatronics made by Dinamation; based on videos & other supplementary material (Disclaimer: this is only the animatronics of the prehistoric creatures. Others such as Giant Insects, Whales, After Man have been excluded): -Pterygotus -Dunkleosteus -Dimetrodon -Placodus -Dilophosaurus -Archaeopteryx -Rhamphorhynchus -Stegosaurus (Adult & Baby) -Allosaurus -Apatosaurus (Adult & Baby) -Utahraptor -Baryonyx -Iguanodon -Deinonychus -Kronosaurus -Thalassomedon -Pteranodon -Tylosaurus -Velociraptor -Protoceratops -Euoplocephalus -Pentaceratops -Parasaurolophus (Adult, Baby & Hatchlings) -Alphadon -Pachycephalosaurus -Ankylosaurus -Triceratops (Adult & Baby) -Torosaurus -Tyrannosaurus (Adult & Baby) -Uintatherium -A Cetacodontamorph (possibly Andrewsarchus?) -Basilosaurus -An Entelodont -Smilodon -Doedicurus -Woolly Rhnoceros/Coelodonta -Megatherium (Adult & Baby) -Woolly Mammoth (Adult & Baby)

[@Kasmodamous]

Isn't Andrewsarchus an entelodon?

[@dont-hurt-me2519]

@@Kasmodamous My mistake, thanks for pointing that out! I should've probably labeled it as a Cetacodontomorph instead of a Mesonychid. I'll go back & change it.

[@dont-hurt-me2519]

@D I think the Amargasaurus you saw was a post-Dinamation animatronic & an edited version of the Apatosaurus. I've also seen post-Dinamation animatronics such as Styracosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Suchomimus, Giganotosaurus, etc. that are just edited version of existing Dinamation animatronics (i.e. Triceratops, Parasaurolophus, Baryonyx, T. Rex, etc.) These are the animatronics that usually get used in nowadays for traveling museum exhibits.

[@tsoliot5913]

They did an After Man exhibit?!? I'd pay for video of that

[@Titanruler]

Didn’t they make a Nothosaurus too?

[@t-r-e-x452]

This past summer I went to the Louisville Zoo and there were a bunch of Dinosaurs and two Pterosaurs. Even though I'm 23 years old, I acted very much like a 12 year old kid and proud of it.

[@AzraelThanatos]

There used to be the allosaurus in the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History...I'm hoping it ends up back on display when they finish their renovations or when they can fit more in due to the large, open areas they have now to spread people out

[@The_PokeSaurus]

And Universal to this day is still acting like they own prehistory. I'm happy to learn of the history of Dinamation.

[@prehistorichero2755]

I remember these animatronics at the Pacific Science Center when I was younger, and this is where I get my first interest in dinosaurs. I thought they were scary at first, but then I love them.

[@jasonpeacock9735]

The Pacific Science Center still has them

[@mobius273]

Oh my god i fucking remember them tooooooo. Last time i went they were in pretty bad shape.

[@raff2392]

I remember the Bronx zoo had a dinosaur walk through exhibit before the pandemic. I went there and it was fun. I hope there will be more of these types of exhibits with more accurate dinosaurs.

[@migsyh2065]

Give it a few months or years and those accurate Dinosaurs will no longer be accurate😄 So if someone were to do it They gotta keep that and the profitability of the operations seriously

[@raff2392]

@@migsyh2065 Can you go tell this to the paleo community so I can see what happens

[@migsyh2065]

@@raff2392 trigger happy peeps are bound to hit on me. Believe me, I did that already.

[@joeygamer5387]

That happened in Brookfield Zoo as well. But recently it was replaced by Ice Age Giants. But there's still a Parasaurolophus (I think?) That's still there

[@khango6138]

The Jurassic Park franchise is often credited as being responsible for reviving enthusiasm about dinosaurs and paleontology, but this case shows one way the franchise and Universal have actually negatively impacted the field. I think Dinamation funding paleontology research was quite amazing, I don't see Universal doing that directly. Corporate greed ruins everything.

[@CrashHeadroom]

Hollywood loves saying it sparked interest back into things, but the reality is if you actually look into what happens, they end up dismantaling everything so only they can use it from then on.

[@Mcrawf21]

Hollywood responds to culture, it doesn't create it. Despite what they constantly pompously exclaim. If anything Crichton's book and new fossil discoveries was the source.

[@ScooterinAB]

I remember there being a dinosaur boom in the late 80s and early 90s. I remember an animatronics show like this (it probably was supplied by Dinamation) some time around 91 and another show about a recent find happening I think before that. Yeah, Jurassic Park was cool, but Universal being shitbags and ignoring actual research and discoveries before then that likely led to Crichton's book is a huge dick movie.

[@Omarsh1692]

it was responsible for reviving enthusiasm OUTSIDE OF THE US. Here in Mexico we've never heard of dinamation, every dinosaur animatronic exhibit that we had was after Jurassic Park fever. So, yeah, Jurassic Park was still responsible

[@Braint-lr6uf]

@@Omarsh1692 Los gringos tienden a pensar que su país es el centro del universo y todo lo que pase ahí es lo único importante , es evidente que no van a siquiera informarse sobre el impacto que tuvo una franquicia en el resto del mundo

[@blackreign673]

Imagine being an airline pilot and you're just like yeah this is boring. I'd rather go make robot lizards.

[@kingofthegrill]

Now imagine that's someone's family's legacy

[@This_birb_is_annoying...]

​@@kingofthegrill. probably being related to a man who inspired Jurassic park, which in turn inspired walking with dinosaurs

[@kingofthegrill]

@@This_birb_is_annoying... imagine what his nephews and nieces must be doing. Probably raising endangered animals.

[@This_birb_is_annoying...]

@@kingofthegrill ?

[@miscpersonalities]

i went to one of these back in the 90sas a kid. Wild to hear you talk about this company, it sure knocked some memories loose.

[@paleoph6168]

10:13 Pretty dated? Bruh the SFX still hold up very well to this day.

[@JerkyD]

I was thinking the same thing, especially compared to the JW movies.

[@MrTroodon_Official]

Eh people overrate how the vfx have aged. Stuff like the Brachiosaurus have aged pretty badly. TLW and JP3 have aged better

[@paleoph6168]

@@MrTroodon_Official how badly did the Brachiosaurus SFX age?

[@MrTroodon_Official]

@@paleoph6168 Brachiosaurus just aged badly on general, the cgi head on the night scene specially, probably out of the 93 dinos it has aged the worst. TLW aged a bit better but Jp3 raptors specially have aged pretty well, mainly on the regard of how well it mixes animatronics and cgi

[@disregardthat]

@@MrTroodon_Official I agree with this. The 93 brachiosaurus in particular hasn't aged well, but the gallimimus stampede isn't top tier anymore either tbh. The T-rex night scene and to a lesser extent the raptor kitchen scene have fared pretty decently, but there's still shots here and there that look a little janky. The visitor centre battle looks okay when the humans aren't onscreen, but when they are, the disconnect with the CG dinos is a bit jarring. Hell, even in TLW, the stegs sometimes look as bad as the 93 brachiosaurus.

[@HobGungan]

Utahraptor was double the size of the JP raptors. JP Raptors were oversized Deinonychus. I miss Dinamation dinos. Used to come to my local zoo every other summer when I was a kid.

[@Freshie207]

Not quite, Utahraptor is very heavy built so it's only marginally longer than the JP Raptors (Their about 4m in length, whereas Utahraptor is up to 6m long) and their both a little taller than a 6 foot human. Deinonychus would've been more the size of a large wolf, not able to look you in the eye but a little heavier and more muscley than a human (Certainly would've been an itimidating creature in life).

[@mrballpython2105]

My elementary school brought us to a museum with a bunch of animatronic dinosaurs in the late 2000's. Shit was so cool, still remember it to this day.

[@davidmeza1296]

I remember going to these exibitions when I was a kid I remember going to dinosaurs alive at the Brookfield zoo back in 2013 and dinos and dragons also at the Brookfield zoo back in 2017, and Jurassic world the exibition at the field museum back in 2015.

[@walter1383]

When I was a teenager volunteering at the Oregon Zoo, there were two separate years that had two small trails lined with these types of animatronics. Each year had a different batch of creatures on display which was pretty cool. But they had to lower the volume of the T. rex roar by a factor of ten because the first time they let it rip it spooked the elephants halfway across the zoo. XD

[@MrTroodon_Official]

Btw on a quick note regarding the JP raptors. Jurassic Park "velociraptors" were originally Deinonychus, infact while a tad oversized, pretty accurate reconstructiosn by the time

[@kevinnorwood8782]

Growing up, I absolutely LOVED the Dinamation Dinosaur robots. I've seen many different Dinosaur robots, but Dinamation's robots were the ones that set the standard for all others to follow.

[@SuperKingGhidorah]

These animatronics I remember seeing these in a game I had as a kid called 3D Dinosaur Adventure. Loved that game but as far as Donation goes I heard of one called Jurassic Quest that goes around the country every year

[@DinoDiego16]

Yeah, thats the one that usually stops in my town from time to time. Their animatronic dinosaurs are pretty cool too

[@nitroweeb41]

Yeah, I was just thinking about 3D dinosaur adventure during this.

[@erindunn6689]

One of these traveling exhibitions came to my college’s on campus museum, and my kindergarten class had gone to see it for a field trip years ago. All I remember about it is that it was really loud and really dark, and that I cried for a good portion of the time I was there. Once I started going to that college years later, I found myself standing in that very same hall, which was now an exotic rug exhibit.

[@invader_guy1171]

I live in Colombia and around ~2013 or so there was an exhibition of animatronic dinosaurs in a tent on mall's parking lot, wonder if those happened to be old dinamation animatronics that somehow made their way down to south america.

[@colk5373]

Dino Diego always introduces me to new stuff I never heard of

[@aebhosor4835]

Yo, I always see you everywhere

[@colk5373]

@@aebhosor4835 you can’t escape me

[@thesalamanderking3475]

I was just at Jurassic Quest in Green Bay Wisconsin. I’m a fully grown man, but I loved every second of it, even if it was geared towards little kids.

[@user-vt8kz1ll7b]

That “Jurassic” word copyright bit got me flashin’ back to the “react” fiasco on KZbin from a few years back... : /

[@gonzaloNMF]

I remember these animatronics would make an appearance from time to time in the Paleoworld documentary series.

[@mesozoicisland22]

Great video! And I could be wrong, but I think some of the surviving animatronics in Texas were used in a film called "Raptor Ranch." I've never seen it beyond clips, but the animatronics here kinda resemble the ones in the film.

[@fedyno4reviews]

I used to work in a theme park food stand as a teenager next to a dinosaur themed ride every couple of hours some "park wardens" would bring out a baby t. rex guy in a suit. was the highlight of my day watching the kids freak out.

[@Randoplants]

It’s a shame that Disney didn’t take them on to do something at their parks. That could have been very cool

[@dont-hurt-me2519]

I recognize some of these animatronics from the various traveling exhibits at the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News and Virginia Aquarium in Virginia Beach. The animatronics were also featured in a few educational TV shows/Specials such as Paleoworld, Boneheads: Detectives of the Paleoworld, Really Wild Animals: Dinos & other Creature Features, Bill Nye the Science Guy: Dinosaurs, etc. The animatronics were also featured in the PC Game: 3D Dinosaur Adventure. But probably the best use of these animatronics (at least in my opinion) were their incorporation into the T-rex Café restaurant (owned by the same company as the Rainforest Café). I'm just disappointed that I only got to see the dinosaur animatronics, I would've loved to see the other animatronics made by the company (i.e. Prehistoric Mammals, Giant Insects, Sea Creatures, Whales, After Man Creatures, etc.)

[@beneficent2557]

Hey I went to the same thing! I have a picture w/ the allosaurus. What year was that?

[@gabrielwebster7902]

You know your wrong when you copyright the name of a geological time frame

[@This_birb_is_annoying...]

Yep

[@jurassictyrantkingYT]

So sad no wonder way animatronic dinosaurs suddenly went a wall when it came to their disappearance from museums. I remember this when I was a kid I always wondered what happened to dinomation

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

I remember that the houston zoo either does or used to occasionally host a animatronic dinosaur exhibit. It was rad

[@robrice7246]

6:35/6:37 If you seen a certain GamingBeaver video, he's also the man behind the Utahraptor project (I assume).

[@mrfloaty7253]

Paleontologist reacts to utahraptor in video games the thumbnail for that is funny

[@jacobcox4565]

I remember going to one of those travelling dinosaur museums. I remember taking a lot of pictures with the animatronics and playing in the interactive exhibits. I also remember watching an episode of Dinosaur Planet there.

[@Numi50]

There was a Dinomation exhibit in my home country of Iceland briefly in 1996! I was 5 years old at the time and already obsessed with dinosaurs. I was a little scared, but I loved it! (I had to do some digging now to find out if they were indeed Dinomation animatronics and they were! 22 of them, in fact. An Icelandic company rented them for this exhibit.) It's kinda amazing that I was able to see it at that age, because there have been no animatronic dinosaurs in Iceland before or since.

[@seanharris37]

I love robotic dinosaurs. My local museum used to exhibit Dinamation dinosaurs for years, but all of a sudden they switched to showcasing Kokaro dinosaur robots, whose quality wasn't as good. I never knew what happened until I just watched this video. Thanks for the upload and bringing clarity to my situation.

[@raphaelmarquez9650]

I remember these animatronics back the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park (now the Safari Park) when they use to have Dino Mountain events. Now that spot has been turned into an Australian exhibit.

[@aircraftcarrierwo-class]

I think I went to one of these in the 90s at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, WA. The animatronics look really familiar.

[@conorhoward5131]

Would love a video on the Universal lawsuits/ broader early marketing for Jurassic Park!

[@torvovenator]

Thanks for this video! I loved dinamation animatronics when I was a kid! There was another company that did similar animatroncis and were on tour in 2012, in my local zoo.

[@Shrekburgers]

I'll be honest, I would love to see more original or accurate dinosaur animatronic or statue designs, most of the time now it's mostly Jurassic World or awesome bro inspired designs which is a shame.

[@Not-Ap]

The walking with dinosaurs traveling show was closet we got to that. Thought they weren't all animatronic they put these things to shame.

[@mattfrank85]

Long before Jurassic Park, THESE animatronics were what made me fall in love with dinosaurs! I saw them at the Witte Museum when I was but a wee lad...

[@mdalsted]

Universal wanting to copyright the word "Jurassic" has the same feel as the people who own Candy Crush wanting to copyright the word "candy". -_-

[@imperiodobrasilball8395]

10:15 No, even today the special effects are fantastic and believable. It's no wonder that it's one of the old movies that to this day remain amazing.

[@brycevo]

The 90s and 2000s shows were so detailed and awesome

[@ThePmbstudios]

I remember seeing some of these animatronic dinosaurs (primarly the Allosaurus) at Roger Williams Zoo all the way back in 2005.

[@chrystalriver570]

I have seen these animatronics back in 2006, 2008 and 2010 at the Kalamazoo valley museum in mi. They had two triceratops, a t rex and a ankylosauras, I’ll try to find my old photo album as I took a picture with the Rex. The museum curator said that the animatronics were provided by Dinamation every time I would ask. I also might have a photo with the ankylo but idk if I still got that one but I remember my trex photo as I was goo goo over the thing.

[@chrystalriver570]

It was their Dino exhibit that happens once every 2 to 3 years, happens on their top floor near the Egyptian exhibit. They have the history of mi and electronic science on the first floor, physics based science stuff on the seccond, with a huge build a car slot track and cool light rooms, but I’ll never forget the 3ard floor, they changed the back room exhibit every 3 months to keep it fresh. I remember naming the ankylo Benny. Again I’ll try to post any pics I can find and If lucky I’ll have my sd cards from back then still abd I’ll have video of them in action

[@williamreed3739]

I can confirm that the science museum in St Louis Missouri still has a Dinamation T. rex to this day. As well as a dying triceratops displayed with the rex. That was freaked me out back in the day tbh 😂

[@mdalsted]

I remember first encountering Dinamation when their animatronics made their way to the Minnesota Zoo, as part of a temporary exhibit called Dinopolis. I have such fond memories of it, but I fear I may have lost the tape that my family's visit was saved onto... I also recall some of these animatronics appearing on an episode of Really Wild Animals. Anyone remember that show?

[@joe95883]

To me the first time I ever witnessed any Robot dinosaur from Dinamation was from the 1993 documentary called Dinosaurs: Myths & Reality, I use to Own the VHS when I was young, and it brings back some good memories.

[@TheConGaminator]

10:27 *ONE GUY MADE THAT!!* One guy made the Dilophosaurus! There was a video about a year ago by the group of people who worked alongside Stan Winston (if you know Jurassic Park, you probably know who that is) and they did a reunion video on their channel and brought up the Dilophosaurus. Turns out, it was made by one man, a rookie, I think his name was Shane Mahan. The Dilo is still the most convincing puppet from JP, imo, and it just blows my mind that one rookie managed to make a dinosaur more realistic than a whole team. And you might be thinking, well, they're different sizes. It's easy to make a small one. And you would be _wrong_. As the team recounted, putting all the hydraulics and electronics and squeezing it into one small puppet was the biggest challenge ever! This was the first time they had worked with hydraulic puppeteering this small. Don't take this from me, look up Stan Winston School on KZbin, find the reuninion video on all the JP movies, and hear for yourself how this amazing team pulled off wonders.

[@Kalhiki]

Really cool to learn about this company. The St. Louis Science Center has a couple of their animatronics. As a matter of fact, the ones featured at 3:07 are those models.

[@Slimeosaurus]

In Seattle there was a part of a exhibit from the Seattle pacific Science Center there was dinosaurs and in the dino exhibit some of the animatronics dinosaurs that you talked about.

[@velociraptor4you3291]

I remember seeing Dinamation’s dinosaurs at the Dinosaur Journey Museum in Fruita, Colorado! Ah, memories (😊). And they’re still there to this day last I heard.

[@ErinMott09]

Oh man, the Miami natural science museum as it was called in the 90's, was my fav place to visit as a kid and their animatronic Dino's terrified but also intrigued me as a kid. I even went there for my bday one year cause I loved it so much! I sure do miss that place. I still think the original JP practical effects look way better and much more realistic than the lame CGI that JWorld uses today!

[@Adagamante]

Saw pictures of these dinosaurs very often on Brazilian magazines and dino-related material... Even had my parents order a custom made Alosaurus t-shirt. Kinda sad to see what happened to the company, I appreciate their effort in making their creatures more accurate and aiding actual paleontological research.

[@ramsayobryant5613]

These dinosaurs were in a huge outdoor exhibit in 2002, Beijing. I guess maybe it was this show that inspired those Chinese companies, which made animatronic dinosaurs that travels around in recent years. Ironically when this exhibit was promoted in Chinese media it was called the "Jurassic park animatronics". I visited the exhibit so many years ago and wondering until now where these animatronics come from, and thanks to your awesome video one of my childhood mystery are solved!

[@spacesharkwriter6554]

I remember seeing one of those shows, not dinomation though, it was in a parking lot. I’m a pretty big dinosaur nerd so I pointed out the inaccuracies, I called it Triassic parking lot

[@ringsfitness5340]

I remember I was like 5 or 6 years old and at the entrance of the Zoo there was one of these exhibits. When i hear a Dino roar i told my parents to not to get close to that tent because "it's dangeorus" there :D

[@brianzulauf2974]

Watching paleontologists debate copyright lawyers about scientific terms would be an entertaining court tv saga.

[@callmedavid9696]

Love the video. Love the channel

[@danielmalinen6337]

Nowadays, when you look at the companies that make the current animatronic dinosaurs, it’s hard to find a company that makes scientifically accurate dinos. For example, the animatronic Dilophosaurus often has a frill but do museums really want a frilled dilophosaurus?

[@dinoparkmedia]

A great video, Diego!

[@sricharan1114]

That Dino from the thumbnail made me nostalgic. It's also on the cover page of the Book called Usborne Spotter's Guide: Dinosaurs Book.

[@roguetheoutlander8800]

When i was kid, giant animatronic Diplodocus punch me with his tail into head

[@twopencilartacademy]

Beautiful Very nice video . I watched the full video

[@definitivamenteno-malo7919]

"Dino Diego" You can't fool me, you're a Jojonerd

[@basementdustproductions1069]

Damn, I remember going to these events when I was little. Quite nostalgic

[@gtoykeeper]

Universal pulled a “the Fine Bros”

[@nacktheslayer9882]

Not sure if it was this but there was an animatronic dinosaur exhibit at a museum the next town over when I was in first grade. I went there at least twice, once as a field trip and again with family and friends. I loved it, as I was already super into dinosaurs by that time.

[@robertlaurine7303]

You know, some of these dinosaur models were definitely featured in the Paleoworld documentary series.

[@simonkrummel5407]

I saw this exhibition in Sweden when I was a little boy :) It was truly amazing

[@rattis]

Kommer du ihåg vart utställningen låg eller vilket år det var? Jag har bott hela mitt liv i Örebro och var på en sådan dinosaurieutställning någon gång kring 1993, och jag utgår från att det var inom Örebrotrakten. Jag misstänker att det måste vara Dinomations dinosaurier som även jag tittade på. Jag kommer även ihåg hur naturhistoriska museet i Stockholm hade en utställning med stora animatroniska insekter runt samma tid, som jag nu också förstår lär vara av samma företag.

[@simonkrummel5407]

@@rattis Hej 👋 Just ja! Har också ett minne, (dock vagt) om stora insekter! Ska höra med mina föräldrar om de minns vart i Sverige utställningen var 🙂

[@simonkrummel5407]

@@rattis Har tittat i gamla fotoalbum nu och tydligen så var vi på utställningen 1991. Det verkar även som att vi var där två gånger 👍 Tyvärr minns inte mina föräldrar vart själva utställningen var

[@ryanjardee9235]

I remember seeing some of these as kid at Dinosaur Journey in Fruita, Colorado!

[@JPGH_Extras]

To me this honestly sounds like something really petty. Like, instead of being happy for others in the industry, they went out of their way to have a guy name a new raptor after their now dead, shitty company instead of the Game-Changing, Highest Grossing Movie. It's like if someone went ahaead and said: "OH! You can't name this new food you invented after a big restaurant that's inspired you, name it after me and my poor little kitchen! I'm a shitty ass cook but I deserve it better than the ones that did nothing wrong and just did their thing without targeting us." And then as soon as they named their food after the shitty restaurant, it went out of buisness.

[@joojidoes]

Really nice video! would you be interested on making a short or even a whole video talking about the negative impact of universal and jurassic park? and how they were trademarking dinosaurs and anything with jurassic on its name? they had shut down a LOT of dinosaur projects Universal was always a bs company.

[@PestilentAllosaurus]

Wait seriously? I didn't know about that...

[@joojidoes]

@@PestilentAllosaurus Yeah, they had shut down a lot of projects with "jurassic" on its name in 93-97, books, movies, and even stuff that was published before jurassic park was released, and even stuff that didnt had jurassic on the name.,

[@Manda1771]

While I never seen these in person. I so remember seeing videos & pictures of them.

[@redtycooner1038]

Late reply, but the St.Louis Science Center still has their old Dinamation Tyrannosaurus and injured Triceratops. Tbh I wish they would update the exhibit but nostalgia I guess lol

[@affirmingtoe15]

There are several of these animatronics at the Dinosaur Journey Museum in Fruita Colorado.

[@giirator]

The majority of the models that are still visible, are housed at the Fruita museum.

[@HoboBrute]

Shout out to the animatronics at the STL science center, never knew whi the company behind them were, but that T-rex and Triceratops are burned into my memory

[@drscottgamingfx211]

I never, NEVER thought in 65 million years that Jurassic Park's Dinomania would hurt Dinamation's business revenue. I assumed this era of dino-craze would give Dinamation a shot in the arm. I also assumed they went out of business because the dinomania ended in the late 90s/ early 2000s around the time they went under. The irony is that despite their flaws, Dinamation's animatronic quality is far superior to the current animatronic dinosaurs from Jurassic Quest. Dinamation's father company Kokoro is still alive and kicking. I can only imagine if Dinamation survived along with them.

[@Sara3346]

I remember getting an advertisement from one of these this week, I can't wait to learn more about the business! Edit: oh so not every case of animated dinosaur animatronics can be called dinamation my fault for thinking that

[@CommanderCourage]

Pretty sure the TV show PaleoWorld from the late 90s used a lot of these animatronics. The ones featured on the show looks exactly like many of these.

[@biggs8126]

I’d never heard of dinamation before this but I found this video really interesting, weird how much information was just lost between then and now

[@RabbiKolakowski]

I remember these at Sands Point Preserve on Long Island when I was a kid.

[@dotdenier]

I feel like this could be a really nice biopic starring Tom Hanks as Chris Mays

[@veryunusual126]

dude thank you for this video very interesting and informative 👍👍👍👍👍

[@RabbiKolakowski]

the 1993 effects look better than a lot today, actually.

[@jamiethedinosaur869]

Don’t forget the use of these animatronics in that one terrible “Lost in Dinosaur World” movie.

[@mrgodzillaraptors8632]

as a kid, I remember seeing the walking with dinosaurs arena spectacular. I have so many fond memories of that. Then their was another event that happened at the same area every year were life sized and semi accurate dinosaur animatronics that would move in place and make noises. They still do that to this day.

[@bubbles46853-ep9if]

I saw some of them in 3D Dinosaur Adventure on the computer. Good times.

[@DraptorRonin]

Now, see, if I had deep pockets like a certain bald guy who should've died in his rocket ship, I'd buy a number of these electronic dinosaurs and put them in my front garden.

[@DinoDiego16]

I think any sane person would

[@Dracovenatrix]

Would have been so cool if utah raptor was called spielbergi

[@Leonx3]

I saw these dinosaurs at the wild animal park, in California. They had an exhibit called Dino mountain.

[@cylesmith8291]

Marine World Africa USA in Vallejo, CA used to have these back in 92-93. Went and saw it when I was a kid and absolutely lost my shit. It was the best of times.

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

I was just in Abilene lol. Stopped at a motel there during a long trip. Left like an hour ago

[@PeiceofNick]

I really hope some of the After Man animatronics are still out there somewhere. If anyone knows the current whereabouts if any if them Id love to know.

[@dumbman27]

I remember going to a Jurassic World exhibition. My brother was terrified of the T. Rex.

[@coreyrex]

Man I remember going to the Los Angeles Zoo and seeing all of these dinosaurs

[@DeanGilberryCrunch]

These would come to the LA county fair when I was a kid.