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D-stroy will try to win Skrap it's trust.
He will seize D-structs poor treatment as an opportunity to win over Skrap it because even if he's not the smartest tool, he's very useful like when he made D-structs claw tail.
  • Jossed: D-Stroy more or less treats Skrap-It the same as D-Structs would and doesn't really seem to do anything special to earn his favor. Although being Skrap-It, he starts to crave D-Stroy's attention too anyway.

D-stroy is secretly plotting to take the crater and everything else D structs has for revenge.
After what happened with the avalanche, D-stroy harboured a great hatred for his younger brother and is only helping him take the crater is so that he could take it and anything else to make D-structs pay
  • Jossed: D-Stroy never makes a move against D-Structs, D-Structs makes a move against D-Stroy.

D-structs will team up with the Trux to take down his brother in the final season.
  • Somewhat confirmed depending on how you want to define it. D-Structs never explicitly fights side by side with the Trux to take down D-Stroy, but he does allow the Trux to take D-Stroy down for him.

The show takes place in the prehistory of the Cars universe
The "car dinosaurs" seen in Cars on the Road look pretty similar to the DinoTrux characters. Presumably over millions of years, these Mechanical Life Forms "evolved" into the vehicles of the Cars world.
  • Jossed: Dinotrux and Cars are two different universes. Not to mention, Disney and DreamWorks have never co-produced anything together. Just because the shows both have or had dinosaur cars that look similar, it doesn't mean that they're the same. The Cars prehistory is not canon to Dinotrux's and vice versa.

Alternatively, Dinotrux is the prehistory of...
Hot Rod Dogs and Cool Car Cats.
  • Jossed: Dog-cars and cat-cars have more cartoonier designs than creatures seen in the show, with some of them (like Shockarachnids and Drillipedes) looking so realistic that they become Non Standard Character Designs.

Dinotrux are related to Cybertronians
While Dinotrux don't transform, they are similar mechanical lifeforms.

Ty was adopted.
Twitter user bioniclegoodguy posted the headcanon that Ty was raised in Maiasaura herd to explain why he's different than the other Ty Truxes. Since that theory was about AU where characters from the show are their real life counterparts, in the show 'verse Ty was raised by Deliveradons from the original Chris Gall books (who in the show are half-Maiasaura, half-delivery van type of Trux).

If the show got more seasons, more species of Dinotrux and similar looking creatures could have appeared.
These would include:
     Species from original books: 
  • Diggersaurus - half-Styracosaurus, half-front-loader.
  • Deliveradon - half-Maiasaura, half-delivery van.
  • Towadon - half-Edmontosaurus, half-tow truck.
  • Semisaurus - half-Seismosaurus, half-semi truck. In terms of size they're longer and bigger than Craneosaurus, but smaller than Dreadtrux. They're often migrating in search of ore and/or breeding grounds. A characteristic feature of the species is that Semisaurs speak in trucker lingo.
  • Firesaurus - due to fire truck based Dinotrux role already being held by Hydrodon, Firesaurus in the show is half-Cryolophosaurus and half-flamethrower. They are distant relatives of the Gluphosaurs.
  • Septisaurus - half-Barapasaurus, half-septic truck. They are distant relatives of the Tankersaurus.
  • Tankersaurus - half-Amargasaurus, half-tanker truck. They are distant relatives of the Septisaurus.
  • Scoopasaurus - half-Protoceratops, half-mini excavator/bulldozer. They are distant relatives of the Dozeratops.
     Original species: 
  • Allocruiser - half-Allosaurus, half-police cruiser. Their police sirens look similar to Allosaurus brow horns, they have grappling hooks at end of their tails and their "legs" resemble those of Ankylodump and Poundersaurolophus. Their main goal in life is to keep order and protect other Trux and Tools from scrap collectors or Trux like D-Structs or D-Stroy.
  • Sarcocruiser - half-Sarcosuchus, half-amphibia. They're semi-aquatic species of Dinotrux. They have Aquadon-like excavator jaws, and their treads look similar to Sawmetrodon treads.
  • Motorlania - half-Megalania, half-motor/car engine. They are very dangerous species of Trux, with their venomous bite making other Trux rust to death. They have spines along their backs like an iguana.
  • Lumberosaurus - half Lambeosaurus, half claw-bucket excavator with a chainsaw blade for a crest. They cut down trees like Sawmetrodon, but aren't as aggressive and speak with Canadian accents.
  • Spinosawrus - half Spinosaurus, half excavator-mounted construction saw. The saw takes the place of the sail and they use it for cutting bedrock to mind ore, with Aquadon-like excavator jaws for gathering it.
  • Ambulancsaura - half Maiasaura, half ambulance. Keeping with the trend of hadrosaur-based Trux being very dangerous, they're cunning scavengers who find injured Dinotrux and cart them off toward Scraptor dens, in exchange for the Scraptors leaving the species alone in a sort of agreement.
  • Smeltersaurus - half Kentrosaurus, half furnace/smelter. They feed on rocks and scrap instead of ore, smelting it into molten metal or lava that can be used for forging. The spikes along the back are vents for all the smoke.
  • Grabbyonyx - half Baryonyx and half claw excavator. They live near water sources and use their claw-arms to fish out water ore. They are distant relatives of Shredadons, but unlike their cousins, they're more peaceful towards other Trux and are less territorial.

The series takes place on an alien planet.
And the Dinotrux were all drones created by humans to prepare for colonisation, but for whatever reason they never arrived, and without them they developed on their own, eventually developing sapience.

Shredadons shredding mechanism makes them unable to speak.
They're shown to have white scleras and black pupils like other sapient creatures in the show, but the only sounds they are capable of making are roars and screeches. Maybe their characteristic shredding mechanism takes up space where the mechanism that would allow Dinotrux to speak would normally be.

Skrugg is a Scraptool-Slamtool hybrid
Hence why all of his tool-attachments are just hammers, and why he can't speak English (well, the common language shared by most Trux and Tools that the audience handily hears as English).

D-Structs and D-Stroy have a third brother whose name is D-Semble.
And he's voiced by Michael Dobson.

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