WMG / Dinosaur

Disney's Dinosaur is a prequel to The Flintstones.

Dinosaur features Plateosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus, Styracosaurus, Carnotaurus, Velociraptor, and lemurs all living together. However, Plateosaurus went extinct at the end of the Triassic period, Brachiosaurus during the Jurassic, and lemurs did not evolve until well after the end of the Cretaceous. The Flintstones takes place in a world in which all these animals exist, as well as dodos, pelicans, kangaroos, and humans. Obviously, the monkeys in the movie evolved in the people of Bedrock.

• Sorry, but there wasn't any Plateosaurus in the movie.... and the ceratopsians were not Triceratops.
  • And those "monkeys" are actually lemurs.

This is the review of the REAL version of the movie

We're currently stuck with the sanitised version because the original one was way too mature, and nobody remembers the original movie because the UN decided to erase the memories of all people who saw it.

• That's just shitty creepypasta.

The review linked in the above was spawned by Eldritch forces.

Let's look over the list, shall we?

Alien beyond comprehenshion? Check

Originates from a place beyond my ken? Check.

Affront to sanity and reason? Check

Literally cannot see how what we saw could be connected to this? Check.

Induces (or was spawned by) Madness? Check.

How do you deal with Eldritch texts when they're on the internet?

Disney wanted to make a live action version of The Land Before Time.

But they couldn't secure the rights, so they made this instead. While elements of the original idea remain, there are more than enough differences that this movie stands alone in its own right and should not be considered a rip-off.

• And the presents of modern-day lemurs are just there to poke fun at the fact that none of those dinosaurs actually lived at the same time.

The carnivores speak a different language than the herbivores.

Although the predatory dinosaurs don't speak they do make sounds, so they could be speaking a language that is distinct to carnivorous dinosaurs. This would have an evolutionary advantage too: you don't want lunch to be able to understand what you're saying. It sounds like just noises to the viewer because the movie is told from a herbivore perspective.

Url is newly-hatched.

One thing that bothered many movie-goers is that all the adult herbivores in the movie "speak" English and are sapient, yet Url only makes animalistic grunts and acts like a dog. However, seeing as the younger Iguanadons don't speak either, it is implied that the dinosaurs only "speak" as they grow older. Also, note that Url is considerably smaller than his companions, even though an adult Ankylosaurus should be larger. It's most likely that Url's inability to "speak" and more animal-like behaviors are simply due to being newly hatched from an egg (think Spike), rather than due to any Unfortunate Implications that one might infer.

Dinosaur takes place in the future

Dinosaur doesn't take place in the past, it's the distant future. Humanity has died out and the creatures from Jurassic Park have migrated on to the continents. This explains how Dinosaurs co-exits with simians, and other anachronisms such as grass. The herbivores were exceptionally cute and the predators near demonic looking and much larger than fossils suggest because InGen deliberately engineered them to play up to expectations of theme park goers. Not to mention they may have already started to develop forms of language in Jurassic Park III

• Aside from Brachiosaurus and Velociraptor (which looks NOTHING like the ones from Jurassic Park), none of the dinosaurs shown appeared in Jurassic Park
• Billy: 'I don't remember that on InGen's list.' Dr. Grant: 'That's because it wasn't on their list, and it makes you wonder what else they were up to.
• Carnotaurus appeared later on in the franchise, as did Ankylosaurus and Stygimoloch.
• Considering what's happened by the time of Jurassic World Dominion, this WMG may well be more plausible than we could've ever known. This might even explain Dinosaur's rather odd decision to make Carnotaurus into a T. Rexpy. Rexy is explicitly the Last of Her Kind, and after her inevitable death from old age the mainland's carnotaur population evolved to take up the apex predator niche she left behind: becoming bigger, bulkier, and more of a threat to the biggest herbivores. Also, clearly somewhere down the line a rogue geneticist (perhaps whoever was behind the Atrociraptors and Pyroraptor) decided to clone a Velociraptor variant that was more accurate to the fossil record, albeit retaining the null gene that keeps it from growing feathers.

Url is a fully sentient, adult Ankylosaurus.

Eema and Url are merely in a master-slave, pet-role-playing relationship for which they should not be shamed as consenting adults.

Kron is only Neera's adoptive brother.

Given Kron and Bruton's prominent bony nasal crests, it's possible they aren't even the same species, with them being Muttaburrasaurus, a close relative of Iguanodon but still a distinct genus, with Aladar and Neera being actual Iguanodon.

If Disney will make any continuation to the movie, it will have Aladar and Neera children befriending the offsprings of the Carnotaurus pair.

This will not only be the opportunity to portray carnivorous dinosaurs in more positive light, but also show The Herd that predators aren't just "evil, bloodthirsty monsters" and make them realise that they and Carnotaurus that stalked them weren't so different - both groups just wanted to survive in a changed world.

Baylene isn't only Brachiosaurus left.

I always interpreted Eema's line about Baylene in this way that Eema only refers to the Baylene's herd and not her entire species in general. Evidence to confirm this theory may be the fact that Herd has rather limited world view (considering that they only know the areas through which they migrate) and the fact that world is a very big place. Going by this, who's to say that those other places are inhabited by surviving herds of brachiosaurs? The fact that in the end it's revealed that the Nesting Grounds have their own population of lemurs while Yar, Plio, Zini and Suri spended the entire film thinking they were Last of Their Kind only adds fuel to this theory.

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