Line #29 Trivia/Dinosaur


1	* CelebrityVoiceActor:
2	** The Japanese dub features film and TV actor Yoshihiko Hakamada as Aladar and actress Makiko Esumi as Neera.
3	** The Brazilian dub has soap opera stars Fábio Assunção and Malu Mader as Aladar and Neera, veteran actress and comedian Nair Bello as Baylene and talk show host Hebe Camargo as Eema.
4	* CreatorBacklash: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiV9bRkIReI&lc=UgxCkDU6Wx9lnxe8yjZ4AaABAg Robert Beech]], who worked in visual effects, said he and his team knew the story was ripping off Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime''.
5	* CreatorKiller: Not to Disney itself, but despite being a box office success, The Secret Lab (the special effects company that Disney made to produce this film and formed from the remains of Creator/DreamQuestImages after their buyout by Disney) was shut down, with the only other project they made being ''Wild Life'' (specifically, they were animating it). This was [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Wild_Life cancelled]]. More on The Secret Lab's history can be found on a Jim Hill [[http://jimhillmedia.com/columnists1/b/floyd_norman/archive/2006/02/21/1435.aspx article]].
6	* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: The Latin American Spanish release was dubbed in Mexico and Venezuela. Unlike similar examples, however, the reason for using Venezuelan voice actors were more petty: It turns out Disney refused to reach a deal with the Mexican voice actors in order to receive a better pay, so Disney dubbed the rest of the film with Venezuelan voice actors. It also remains the only mainstream Disney film dubbed, through partially, in that country.
7	* DirectedByCastMember: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Raúl Aldana is Zini's voice actor, as well as one of the ADR directors and [[WrittenByCastMember translators]].
8	* FatalMethodActing: A crew member was killed and another seriously wounded when a camera boom struck a cross-country power line.
9	* KidsMealToy:
10	** UsefulNotes/McDonalds sold hand puppets of Aladar, Neera, Kron, and Carnotaur as well as talking toys of Baylene, Eema, Bruton, and the Lemurs in their Happy Meals.
11	** In the 2000 holiday season, [=McDonald's=] released toys of Aladar, Baylene, and Eema as part of their "Disney Stars" Happy Meal, which also included toys based on ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePoohSeasonsOfGiving'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'', and ''WesternAnimation/MickeysOnceUponAChristmas''.
12	* TheOtherDarrin: In the [=PlayStation=] video game and ''Dinosaur Activity Center'', Creator/TressMacNeille replaces Joan Plowright as Baylene while Creator/BillyWest replaces Della Reese as Eema.
13	* PlayingAgainstType: Whoever knew Creator/SamuelEWright, the voice of the soft-shell JerkWithAHeartOfGold Sebastian from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' could play a callous, demanding JerkAss, with almost nothing redeeming about him?
14	* ScienceMarchesOn:
15	** The ''Velociraptor'', ''Oviraptor'', and ''Struthiomimus'' depicted were very accurate for the time, but nowadays it's known all of them would've been covered in feathers (notably, feathers were considered for some of the dinosaurs in the concept art stages, but even then only thin fuzz, whereas they should have thick coats and wings).
16	** ''Velociraptor'' is portrayed with two small crests in front of its eyes, but it's now known that these were frontal bones that shifted out of place during fossilization and it would not have actually had these in real life.
17	** The unidentified gliding lizard in the prologue is clearly meant to be ''Longisquama''. At the time, its strange, frond-like projections were theorized to have been paired and used for gliding, but later research generally considers them to have been a single row and possibly having a display purpose instead.
18	** ''Oviraptor'' was assumed to be a nest raider when it was first discovered, and named appropriately. Then it turned out, thanks to new technology, that the eggs they are usually found with contain baby ''Oviraptor''. This discovery was made several years ''before'' the movie. However, this discovery does not completely rule out the inclusion of eggs in an ''Oviraptor'''s diet. The ''Oviraptor'' in the film should also probably be considered ''Rinchenia'', which was considered synonymous with ''Oviraptor'' for a long time and contributed to its tall-crested appearance (the actual crest of ''Oviraptor'' remains unknown).
19	** The ''Pteranodon'', despite being accurate for its time, is shown dip-feeding (snatching food from the water with its beak) and rearing its young like birds. It's been proven that ''Pteranodon'' would be more likely to catch food by swimming (its prey was noted to be rather small, so dip-feeding would have been impractical). The ''Pteranodon'' species featured in the film is also usually called ''Geosternbergia'' nowadays.
20	** One of the background dinosaur species among the herd is ''Stygimoloch''. These are largely considered to be the adolescent form of the larger ''Pachycephalosaurus'' nowadays (or more semantically, they appear to represent the adolescent form of a yet undiscovered ''Pachycephalosaurus'' species). Although there are other juvenile dinosaurs in the herd so you could interpret them as also being juveniles.
21	** A minor visual error; the spines on the ''Carnotaurus''' backs are arranged in rows like the scutes of crocodilians, but a more extensive study of the skin published in 2021 suggests they were distributed randomly rather than in any set patterns.
22	** The existence of primate ancestors in the Cretaceous Period, as depicted by the lemurs in the film, is very hotly debated. While mammalian ancestors dated back to the period, ''Purgatorius'', widely identified as the earliest primate ancestor, only had a fossil record going back to the early Paleocene Epoch, though scientists at the time suspected it could be much older. In 2021, the announced discovery of another species of ''Purgatorius'' suggested a species diversity that would have placed other members of the species as existing in the Cretaceous period... walking alongside dinosaurs. They still don't resemble lemurs or monkeys as the film shows, all of which began to emerge in the Paleocene.
23	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Enough examples it needed its [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Dinosaur}} own page]].

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