Line #14 Trivia/DinosaurTrain


1	!!Media with their own pages:
2	* ''Trivia/DinosaurTrainAdventureIsland''
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4	* ActingForTwo:
5	** Claire Corlett voices Tiny and Polly.
6	** Erika Shaye-Gair voices Shiny, Annie, and Cory.
7	** Ian James Corlett voices Mr. Conductor, Morris Stegosaurus, and many others.
8	** Ashleigh Ball voices many characters, but most notably Gilbert, Oren, and Crystal.
9	* AdoredByTheNetwork: Because the show was a huge hit, PBS promoted it a lot back in 2009-2012 along with ''WesternAnimation/SidTheScienceKid'', ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'', ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'', and ''WesternAnimation/CuriousGeorge''. It also got back-to-back episodes (entitled "Double Your Fun") in Summer 2014 alongside the aforementioned ''George'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'', and ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts''. It's loved enough that they still air the show over a decade later.
10	* TheCastShowoff: Creator/AshleighBall is a singer in real life, so obviously she gets to show off her singing talent when voicing music idol Crystal.
11	* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Buddy and Don are always played by children. Tiny and Shiny were also voiced by child actresses since the start, but they never grew out of their roles and still voice them a decade later, unlike the many voice actors Buddy and Don have had.
12	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
13	** In South Korea, the series is titled ''Agi Gonglyong Beodi'' (Baby Dinosaur Buddy).[[note]]아기 공룡 버디[[/note]]
14	** Retitled ''T-Rex Express'' in Hungary.
15	* CrossdressingVoices: Ashleigh Ball as Gilbert, for example.
16	* TheDanza: Creator/MichelleCreber as Michelle ''Maisaura''.
17	* DawsonCasting: Although Erika Shaye-Gair and Claire Corlett started out as kids when voicing Shiny and Tiny, they still voice them to this day despite [[NotAllowedToGrowUp neither character aging]], thus qualifying for this trope.
18	* DuelingDubs:
19	** There are two Latin American Spanish dubs: one that aired on Discovery Kids, and one that aired on PBS via SAP. The Discovery Kids dub was first recorded in Chile before moving to Mexico, and only dubbed the first four seasons. The PBS Kids dub was recorded in Colombia and covers the whole series.
20	** There are two Israeli dubs. The first one aired on the channel Hop! and the second one aired on Israeli Educational Television.
21	* EditedForSyndication: The Dr. Scott segments seen in-between the episodes are not seen in international exports.
22	* FakeNationality: Utilized a lot with the ethnic dinosaurs. For example, Laura ''Giganotosaurus'' is Hispanic but Creator/KathleenBarr is not.
23	* FandomLifeCycle: Was at Stage 5 in the early 2010s, with a strong PeripheryDemographic, Mr. Conductor and Buddy being featured as balloons at the 6abc Thanksgiving Day Parade, and a ''Robot Chicken'' parody. However, it is now at Stage 6a. It's not as big as it used to be, but the fandom still exists, and it's been long enough that the show is fondly remembered as a nostalgia classic.
24	* HeAlsoDid: Creator/CraigBartlett is also the creator of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' and ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo''.
25	* InspirationForTheWork: Craig Bartlett got the idea to make this show after seeing his son put a toy dinosaur on a toy train.
26	* LiveOnStage: It got a live show called ''Buddy's Big Adventure''.
27	* TheMerch: It exists, but a lot of it is poorly reviewed and said to be shoddily made.
28	* OnlySoManyCanadianActors: One of the only two Jim Henson-related works to fall under this trope, the other being ''WesternAnimation/UnstableFables'', as most of the voice cast is Canadian.
29	* TheOtherDarrin:
30	** Buddy has had four voice actors (Phillip Corlett for seasons 1 and 2, Sean Thomas in season 3, Dayton Wall in season 4, and Chance Hurstfield in season 5).
31	** In Season 3 and onward, Laura Marr replaces Alexander Matthew Marr as Don.
32	* PlayingAgainstType: Mark Archeson, known for voicing the villainous [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Lord Tirek]] voices a friendly Moasasaurus.
33	* ProductionPosse: Craig Bartlett brought a lot of his ''Hey Arnold!'' associates over to this show, such as Jim Lang, Joe Purdy, Christie Insley, Rachel Lipman, and Joe Ansolabehere. Meanwhile from ''Sid'', we have Bradley Zweig, Corey Powell, Elise Allen, and Mark Drop.
34	* RealLifeRelative: Claire and Phillip Corlett are related, just like Tiny and Buddy.
35	* ReferencedBy:
36	** ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' did a parody sketch of the show.
37	** In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Mindy's Weather Report", an image for ''Dinosaur Train'' can be seen when Sunspot flips over the channels on Face, and also, a second of the theme song can be heard.
38	* ScheduleSlip: PBS ordering ''forty episodes'' for the show's first season, coupled with long hiatuses, caused the season to air for 2 years.
39	* ScienceMarchesOn: The show does its best to stay on top of current discoveries, but sometimes it finds itself the victim of this.
40	** For starters, in 2017 a study determined that ''Troodon'' [[https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/78296/1/cjes-2017-0031.pdf was a dubious genus]] as such members of the genus have been reassigned to ''Stenonychosaurus''
41	** ''Eoraptor'' might not be a theropod, but ''[[http://news.discovery.com/animals/running-dinosaur-ancestor-carnivores-110113.html a sauropod ancestor]].''
42	** ''Stygimoloch'' may not represent a distinct creature after all, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYbMXzBwpIo the subadult form]] of ''Pachycephalosaurus''. Whether or not it is different, young pachycephalosaurs [[http://scienceblogs.com/laelaps/pachysmanyone.gif probably had flat (if somewhat knobbly) heads, growing domes as they aged]].
43	** ''Brachiosaurus'' never lived in Africa. That was ''Giraffatitan''.
44	** Many of the enantiornithines are depicted with a pair of ribbon-shaped tail feathers instead of a modern-style tail fan. However fossil discoveries have found that there was a much greater diversity of tail structures than previously thought. With some having elaborate tail feathers and some basal members possessing full tail fans akin to modern birds.
45	** The ''Hesperornis'' has lobed instead of webbed feet.
46	** The discoveries of ''Kulindadromeus'' and ''Psittacosaurus'' suggest ceratopsians might have had quills on their backs.
47	** The character design of Sunny ''Sauroposeidon'' is clearly based on brachiosaurids – a group that the taxon probably doesn't belong to after all, instead being more related to titanosaurs. Granted, the largest macronarians would have had a brachiosaur-like appearance.
48	** Adult ornithomimosaurs are now known to likely have had wings of some sort.
49	** The limb proportions of ''Spinosaurus'' were far more unusual than depicted in the show. In 2020 it was discovered that their tails had [[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2190-3 tall neural spines]] that would have formed a newt like tail structure.
50	** The discovery that ''Dimetrodon'' may have been nocturnal casts doubt on the idea that its sail was primarily used for thermoregulation.
51	** The giant ''Shonisaurus'' material has been reassigned to ''Shastasaurus''.
52	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: ''Dinosaur Train'' used to only air on the UK Nick Jr. on weekends, but got replaced by more reruns of ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' when it was pushed into the dead hours of the morning.
53	* UnCanceled: The show initially got cancelled after the season 4 finale movie, ''What's At the Center of the Earth?''. Craig Bartlett revealed [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8935z1/this_is_craig_bartlett_animation_creator_of_ready/ in a Reddit AMA]], that PBS revived the show for 11 more episodes, bringing the total episode count to 100. This was [[http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/jim-hensons-dinosaur-train-roars-to-100th-episode-with-s5-order/ officially announced]] on October 2, 2018.
54	* WriteWhoYouKnow: Tiny and Shiny are based on Bartlett's sisters.

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