A question for Doctor Who fans! Were you really into dinosaurs when you were little - say age 2 to 6? Toys and stickers and the like. Did you know lots of their names? 🦕 🦖
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I was though I didn’t really get into Doctor Who till I was a teenager. But other films and TV served as lightweight substitute for its strange matter. I shocked my teacher by being able to spell Pterodactyl correctly as a 7-year-old!
Absolutely - although I'm the brontosaurus generation. Diplodocus didn't catch on until later. I had those really detailed hard-plastic toys that I think I only ever saw in Liverpool museum.
Definitely. I remember getting a number of Airfix style model kits as Birthday/Xmas presents over the course of a few years, including a Stegosaurus, Diplodocus and Dimetrodon. The Brooke Bond tea cards of Prehistoric Animals played an important role too😊
Oh yes! I had the amazing poster from Robinson's Squash with all the popular dinosaurs on my wall for a large section of my childhood. Had plastic dinosaurs and Fuzzy Felt Dinosaurs.
Absolutely. I had a set of interconnecting postcards my dad brought from the Commonwealth Institute showing various dinosaurs and i was hooked. Everyone at infants school was jealous
Oh god, yes. Absolutely besotted. Had a T-Shirt with a Stegosaurus and a Triceratops on it. and I could tell you (at great length) which ones were the meat-eaters, which were the herbivores, all of that stuff. It's all still in there, somewhere.
No, but I knew several boys of the same age who were. The Doctor Who Dinosaur Book and the comparable volume in the Discovers... series were canny investments.
Definitely, I treasured that Ladybird Book of Dinosaurs, begged my parents to take me to the Natural History Museum and had the 4th Doctor book of Dinosaurs. I still recall a lovely illustration of Tom looking glum after the dinosaurs became extinct.
I wasn't into them over animals in general, but I knew the big ones and was fond of them because they were cute! We had this big old dino encyclopedia and I used to read it over and over.
I was six when Jurassic Park was out so everyone was a bit into dinosaurs.
I remember there was a trend of flipping through dinosaur books at school and saying 'plaster plaster plaster' to heal the ones being ripped apart by T- Rexes. Kids are weird.
Oh yes. And my older son too. When he was four, all his questions were about either Doctor Who (I used to bring him stacks of Doctor Who Adventures from work) or a series books I used to read to him at bedtime called Dinosaur Cove.
God, yes! I remember a big hardback book with the most wonderful paintings - long lost, sadly - of dinosaurs eating and fighting. Loads of plastic toys - also fighting! And of course Dr Who Discovers Prehistoric Monsters and the Dinosaur Book - obsessed with them.
Yes. I recall there were Doctor Who repeats on weekday nights, presumably to mark some anniversary (20 years in 1983? I would've been 9), including one story that might have been called 'Carnival of Monsters', and I nearly lost my mind.
Yeah, and I knew what lots of their Latin names meant in English too, and if they were Triassic/Juarassic/Cretateous etc. Wish I could remember more of it now! But I had lots of toy dinos, rulers, my favourite show was Moschops (who technically wasn't a dinosaur but it was the same ballpark).
You've just triggered an old memory of a Saturday morning show, that was hosted by 2 talking computer banks, and there was a segment in it featuring dinosaurs that I loved. I think it was called something like Space, but I can't find it on Google so I might just be going mad.
Yes. Knew their names, had loads of books on them and a quite tall airfix type model of a Tyrannosaurus rex, which was red plastic with glow in the dark teeth and talons.
Absolutely: my favourite was - and still is - the ankylosaurus, but I called it the anklyosaurus for years and years. That one is a major-ish character in Jurassic Park Camp Cretaceous pleased me no end.
Yes. Had the yellow Panini sticker book and my mum wrote off to get the last few stickers I needed when they stopped selling them in the shops. Also had loads of other books, and knew quite a few names, although not too many. Trips to NHM and Crystal Palace. Later collected Zoids & watched Moschops.
Yes! I was dinosaur-mad. Knew all their names. My first visit to the Natural History Museum in 1973 was the most exciting day of my life. 1974 was a dinosaur annus mirabilis for British kids. Shredded Wheat stickers! The Land That Time Forgot! Invasion of the Dinosaurs! I was 6, and in dino-heaven.
Yes! I had half a dozen toys which I loved, and ladybird books. Although looking back now, they were about 20 years behind the latest scientific thinking.
I think every young child goes through a dinosaur phase and I was no different as I was completely obsessed with the Ladybird audio tape and book of ‘The Lost World’ and the Waddington’s board game ‘Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs’
Yes, though it was from about 6 that I was able to recognise Gwangi as an Allosaurus and One Million Years BC as, well, what it was. Plastic miniatures, books (one a school prize), these souvenir postcards on holiday in Scarborough of some quite impressive model scenes, etc. Loved them.
Yes - very much so. I invested a great deal of thought into trying to work out which one of those plastic models you got in birthday party going home bags could 'win' the others.
Absolutely, pachycephalosaurus! Trips to the Natural History museum, dinosaur books for Christmas and many Pyro model kits.
Saw my first glimpse of The Lost World (1925) under the stairs at the museum, so was less impressed by the effects in Invasion of the Dinosaurs later on.
Age about five onwards yes (first discovered dinosaurs after seeing giant fibreglass ones at Blackgang Chine on the Isle of Wight), but I didn’t get into Doctor Who until I was nine so might not have been much overlap.
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I remember there was a trend of flipping through dinosaur books at school and saying 'plaster plaster plaster' to heal the ones being ripped apart by T- Rexes. Kids are weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkD20pbPuh0
Saw my first glimpse of The Lost World (1925) under the stairs at the museum, so was less impressed by the effects in Invasion of the Dinosaurs later on.