Dinosaucers
Dinosaucers is a 1987 animated television series co-produced in the United States and Canada; developed and produced by DIC Animation City in association with Lightyear Entertainment and Coca-Cola Telecommunications. The show was created by producer Michael E. Uslan, who considered it a "harebrained idea". A total of 65 episodes were made for the show's first-run syndication, but it only lasted one season.
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Genre | Action Animation |
Created by | Michael E. Uslan |
Written by | Diane Duane Brynne Stephens Lydia C. Marano |
Directed by | Stephan Martinière |
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Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 65 |
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Executive producers | Andy Heyward Benjamin Melniker Michael E. Uslan |
Producer | Michael Maliani |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production companies | DIC Animation City Lightyear Entertainment Coca-Cola Telecommunications |
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Network | Syndication |
Release | September 14 – December 11, 1987 |
There were originally plans by Galoob to release a Dinosaucers toyline, and prototype figures were produced. The toyline were to include the characters Stego, Bronto-Thunder, Allo, Bonehead, Plesio, Quackpot, Ankylo, and Genghis Rex. However, the line was scrapped when the show was canceled after airing its initial 65 episode run due to low viewership and poor reception. As a result, some markets began pulling the series from their cartoon line-ups instead of re-running the show's episodes for the remainder of the full 1987-1988 television season.
In 1989, after Dinosaucers premiered in Brazil, a company named Glasslite contacted Galoob and purchased the molds. As such, Glasslite produced 5 of the 8 unproduced Galoob molds of the 8" figures although they can be extremely hard to find.
In 2018, Uslan joined with publisher Lion Forge Comics to revive Dinosaucers as a comic book. The 5-part mini-series however was left on a cliff hanger when the comic book was discontinued after a trade paperback was published in January 2019.