- Awesome Art: The animation is vivid and colorful, and it only gets better with each passing season.
- Awesome Music: The theme song is cheesy but incredibly catchy. Even people who don't care for the show will tell you that they like the theme song.
- Crosses the Line Twice: The Black Comedy line about asteroids hitting the Earth is unexpected in a show aimed at young audiences, but still hilarious.
- Foe Yay Shipping: There are many fans who ship Mr. Conductor with his rival, Thurston.
- Friendly Fandoms:
- Back when Dino Dan was on the air, there was plenty of fandom overlap between it and Dinosaur Train, because of their focus on paleontology.
- With Hey Arnold! and Ready Jet Go!, because they all have the same creator.
- Genius Bonus:
- Dennis Deinocheirus, the autistic dinosaur introduced in "Junior Conductors Academy", has huge hands that are bent in front of him. This evokes "raptor hands", which some autistic people actually do. Of course, Dennis isn't a raptor, as there are already velociraptors in the series, but the Deinocheirus is known for its prominent hands.
- While the name of Peng Protopteryx might look like a regular Alliterative Name honoring the fact that Protopteryx fossils were found in China, it also bares some resemblance to Pengornis, a close relative of Protopteryx.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Extremely famous in Russia, where it gets exclusive licensing deals and millions of views on YouTube, rivaling that of English-language uploads.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- This series started in 2009, and has a Spinosaurus character named The Old Spinosaurus. It was a fairly accurate reconstruction of the animal based on the science known at that time, but science marched on so hard for Spinosaurus in 2014 with the discovery of a more complete specimen which gives the name Old Spinosaurus a whole different meaning than originally intended.
- Laura the Giganotosaurus has spines along the back, an almost triangular-shaped head, and a greenish tint on the scales, all of which is a striking resemblance to the specimen from Jurassic World Dominion released 13 years later. The prologue of the latter even shows one during the time of the dinosaurs roaming the Earth, which is when this series takes place.
- Periphery Demographic: Among older paleogeeks, as well as fans of Craig Bartlett's work.
- Memetic Mutation: The asteroid episode is well remembered for this very dark line:Buddy: Asteroids hardly ever hit the Earth. I mean, what are the odds an asteroid would hit us?
- Suspiciously Similar Song: The beginning of the "Dinosaur Train Zeppelin" song sounds, appropriately enough, like "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin.
- Sweet Dreams Fuel: For dino-fans looking for an aversion for Artistic License – Paleontology, it is also quite entertaining and wholesome, with its entirely friendly, colorful cast and heartwarming family moments.
- Toy Ship: The most common ones are Shiny/Gilbert, Buddy/Annie, Tiny/Petey, and Don/Lily.
- Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The designs of the main kids have this effect on some, especially the Empty Eyes of Buddy and Don.
