History Fridge / DinosaurTrain

** Maps of the train line - at least the ones showing it as a single line, rather than a network - indicate that it follows a path through time as well as space (one end in the Triassic, one in the Cretaceous), therefore it seems logical that the tunnel beyond the end of the line runs further into the past.

** Most fossil fuels are older than dinosaurs.

* The Dinosaur Train appears to run on coal... meaning that it runs on dead, fossilized dinosaurs. [[SoylentGreen THE FUEL IS PEOPLE!]]

** ''It suggests that the Time Tunnels were not made by the Dinosaurs''. While this would make sense, it begs the question; if the ''Troodons'' didn't make them, ''who did?'' And what happened to them?

*** in one of the later episodes they meet a Sarchosuchus that is explicitly stated to eat Pteranodons.

** ''Nobody knows where they go.'' The Conductor ''correctly guessed'' that the one he came across would lead to the Permian period, but that was just it -- a ''guess''. Note his liberal use of the word "probably". Who's to say that there aren't any leading [[BeautifulVoid backwards to the Precambrian]], or worse, [[JustBeforeTheEnd forward to 65,000,000 BC/E]]? [[BackFromTheDead Or 65,000,000 years AFTER that]]...

*** In addition to fish-eating while at ''Pteranodon'' Terrace, Buddy's shown being fed carrion when eating on the Dinosaur Train, so there's that.

** ''Nobody knows where they go.'' The Conductor ''correctly guessed'' that the one he came across would lead to the Permian period, but that was just it -- a ''guess''. Note his liberal use of the word "probably". Who's to say that there aren't any leading to [[GhostPlanet two billion years back or more]], or worse, [[JustBeforeTheEnd forward to 65,000,000 BC/E]]?

** ''Nobody knows who has been through them''. When the gang actually got to the Permian, the Synapsid they met had ''already heard of the Mesozoic and the Dinosaurs'' -- he just thought they were [[AMythologyIsTrue mythical creatures in a fairy tale world]]. There had to have been some kind of ''basis'' for him to have heard those stories, though, which means that at least one dinosaur has definitely slipped under the radar into time periods where they don't belong before.

*** In addition to fish-eating while at ''Pteranodon'' Terrace, Buddy's shown being fed carrion when eating on the Dinosaur Train, so there's that.

*** In addition to fish-eating while at Pteranodon Terrace, Buddy's shown being fed carrion when eating on the Dinosaur Train, so there's that.

*** That's actually what he does in the show. However, in one episode Buddy does remark that he thinks fish don't taste very good and that he would prefer to eat something else...

*** That's actually what he does in the does in the show. However, in one episode Buddy does remark that he thinks fish don't taste very good and that he would prefer to eat something else...

** ''Pteranodon'' is a carnivore who eats fish. Buddy could very likely have survived on a diet of [[NoCartoonFish non-cartoony fish]].

** ''Pteranodon'' is a carnivore who eats fish. Buddy could very likely survived on a diet of [[NoCartoonFish non-cartoony fish]].

** Buddy is a ''Tyrannosaurus'' being raised by a ''Pteranodon'' family. Despite these ''Pteranodons'' having ''T. rex'' friends, what are the chances of them being eaten by Buddy one day?

** Buddy is a Tyrannosaurus being raised by a family of Pteranodons. Despite these Pteranodons having T-Rex friends, what are the chances of them being eaten by Buddy one day?

* Why don't the dinosaurs know about the asteroid? Wouldn't some of them, at least those in late Cretaceous, attempt to evacuate into the future? or why not further into the past?

** [[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eshanosaurus That might have happened already.]]

** For that matter, what if Tank's secretly an omnivore but is too afraid of being judged by his fellow juvenile ''Triceratops'' about it?

* How do the dinosaurs cope with the predators having to kill to eat? It's especially jarring seeing as there are herbivores that are friends with members of a carnivorous species.

*** I love this theory so much...

** Something happens to the Doc's train after the events of Back to the Future 3. and the Doc and his family are probably eaten.

** Why isn't dinosaur society in ruins? They can all see into their own future and know that they'll soon be extinct or evolve into something different. They also don't have a centralised government. It should be INTELLIGENT, TIME-TRAVELLING DINOSAUR WARS. Which would get this show so much more ratings.

** In one episode, the characters are comparing their collections and one of them had a collection of fossils. In other words, they had a collection of the fossilized remains of dinosaurs they met earlier.

!FridgeHorror
* Hell if we're going this far. "Hey, Mr. Conductor, how come you've never taken us past the late Cretaceous?"
** In one episode, the characters are comparing their collections and one of them had a collection of fossils. In other words, they had a collection of the fossilized remains of dinosaurs they met earlier.

** Remember, the show is for children who are just learning to identify different animals by name. But the producers did kind of acknowledge this idea. There is an episode where Tiny accidentally leaves [[CompanionCube her favorite toy]] in a friend's nest before boarding the train (it is rescued by another pterosaur) and that's more than enough drama for the target audience.

* FridgeLogic: Okay so... TimeTravel is a reality in the dinosaur society. It's so commonly used that the various dinosaurs react to time travelers in pretty much the same way as they would with tourists. Than again, it's basically the writer's way to avoid Temporally MisplacedWildlife, which is fine.
** PlotBunny: Suppose a few dinosaurs miss the train, and the local train station only gets a train at very rare random intervals. They decide to start a new family in their new time and end up creating a new occurrence of their species either before their actual appearance, or after their extinction. Time paradox at its purest.
*** Remember, the show is for children who are just learning to identify different animals by name. But the producers did kind of acknowledge this idea. There is an episode where Tiny accidentally leaves [[CompanionCube her favorite toy]] in a friend's nest before boarding the train (it is rescued by another pterosaur) and that's more than enough drama for the target audience.
** FridgeHorror: Hell if we're going this far. "Hey, Mr. Conductor, how come you've never taken us past the late Cretaceous?"
*** In one episode, the characters are comparing their collections and one of them had a collection of fossils. In other words, they had a collection of the fossilized remains of dinosaurs they met earlier.