@Pain is Living yeah, in my opinion if they really wanted to go for the national geographic look. They should have went all the way. Make it so the animals don't talk. Sure they might need a narrator to explain whats going on. Maybe have James Earl Jones do it. Im not saying it would have been good, just at the very least it would be trying something a little different. Come to think of it, it's kind of why people didn't like the Walking with Dinosaurs movie. In the movie they made the Dinosaurs talk. Made it seem like a lame modern day emake of The Land Before Time. In the show the Dinosaurs didn't talk, it was Narrated. And of course I remember the show being a lot more interesting. Well I think it was a show. Maybe it was just a TV special.
What a noble concept. By some miracle not all the dinosaurs perished from the asteroid. The willingness to share their world with upstart humans is something we as a species would be very loathe to do, even now. This is good fantasy. Right on Zippo!
There are two kinds of fans of Dinotopia - the fans who read and collected all of the books only to be disappointed that they butchered the source material with the movie adaption and the fans who discovered it on their own and knew nothing about the books, just the movie adaptation. There is no wrong or right way to enjoy Dinotopia!
Yeah. I discovered Dinotopia thanks to the animated movie i really loved back then. I still like it but yeah, there is no "normal" way to be a fan of Dinotopia or anything. I am looking at Star Wars toxic fans who treats the others like "fake fans" or "heretics" because they like something they don't Everyone has different tastes, no need to impose yours to the others
I grew up with this as a kid growing up. My dad introduced me to this. He knew I loved dinosaurs and so did he. I remember dreaming about this series but I doubt anyone would be interested in hearing it.
@@tyrotorathetiger7674 I remember seeing myself as a young thirteen year old boy who was tall for his age, slender in the body, blue eyes, straight, long brown hair that was shoulder length but very thick, full and voluminous. I worn what looked like a black T-shirt and jeans with black leather steel toed boots. I stowed away on a boat as I was running from someone dangerous and while out at sea. A storm comes and during the chaos on the boat. I fell off the boat, into a lifeboat but washed ashore to Dinotopia. I'm found by Marion Waldo and Karl Scott. They take me with them as they knew I was shipwrecked. But I don't speak a word to them but I would speak sign language to them which Marion had learned to speak and translate fluently. As they take me with them. I am surprised that there are dinosaurs still alive on that island. Even if they were extinct everywhere else. But we see a Triceratops looking like it was in pain as it was grunting in pain from something. I'd go to it without thinking and I'd speak out loud for the first time as I managed to calm the Triceratops and it shows me what's bothering it by opening up its mouth and I pulled out a tooth as the dinosaur feels on pain and I hug the dinosaur and just let everyone know "It only had a toothache" Karl and Marion see that I don't seem to talk to people out loud but I talk to the dinosaurs out loud. They begin to think or suspect I'm not trusting of people yet to talk verbally to them. I meet Karl, Scott and their dad Frank while they notice that I don't talk out loud to them but when Zippo would speak to me. I'd talk to him verbally. They were concerned that I had something bothering me to why I spoke to the dinosaurs but not the people. I'd show that I'm very intelligent, powerfully strong, much faster than any human should be, helpful towards people of both humans and dinosaurs, and I had this strange ability to heal people of anything with a single touch of my hand. Whenever they ask me what just happened. I'd stoically tell them "I helped it. I took it back" which they oddly understood what it meant. They begin to wonder how my abilities came to be but they knew I was good. Yet when a fully grown adult human male arrives in Dinotopia in a scientist uniform. This man is armed, dangerous and wants me to come back to him but I do not want to go with him. This man starts to go around the island, causing chaos and fear in others but when he finds me. He tries to get me but Frank, Karl, Scott and a lot of people stand by me and warn him to leave me alone as Frank tells him "You are not laying a hand on my third son" which something about that had a huge amount of confidence rise within me. This scientist fires off a round at them but I get in front of them and conjure up a bullet proof force field. Me and this scientist have a battle between each other but in the end. I had no choice but to grab the last weapon he had on him. A machete and I warn everyone "Close your eyes" and when they do. They hear a loud scream but the scream was silenced. After I give them the all clear. They saw that the scientist was laying on the ground with a white sheet over him, it was stained with blood but when any of them got close to the body. I'd tell them "Don't look at it" which of course they saw that I had to do the one thing I didn't want to do in order to keep them all safe. His weapons are dismantled and after a year goes by. I begin to talk to both humans and dinosaurs verbally as they all hailed me as a hero. I end up with a Sauro-partner which ends up being a Triceratops whom I named Sakura. But than as Karl, Scott, Frank, Zippo, even 26, and others ask me about why the scientist was chasing after me. I figured it would be best to tell them. I'd explain to them that the scientist found me in a space pod that crash landed on earth and that the scientist started to hire a nanny to look after me as he does his experiments but once when I was five or six and I shown signs of having the ability to heal others with a single touch and that I had the ability to read minds, predict the future. The scientist wanted to experiment on me by trying to transfer my healing power to himself and others but his attempts failed, and his experiments caused me to mutate into a superhuman. Which would explain the majority of my powers and abilities. I told them I escaped and originally wanted to head for Australia but I ended up in Dinotopia which I told them I'd rather be in Dinotopia as I found the family that I've been wanting my whole life. We all hugged each other and they were surprised that I turned out to be an alien from outer space who got experimented on and had mutations as a result which I looked like any normal human by appearance. But they knew I was a good kid and they welcomed me into the family. I know that's a lot of detail but how did it sound?
0:29 That's just such a strange question to ask out of the blue, your talking to a dinosaur that can talk back, you can ask him anything about these new lands you find yourself in, and immediately you go "so umm... that human p***** you into that?"
While I love Zippo as a fan of the books as a kid this part bugged me. In the books Sylvia became a Skybax rider like Will, so her Saurian life partner should have been a Skybax. She worked in the hatchery as a teenager but chose a different path when she became independent.
I remember watching this when I was a kid I just couldn't remember what it was called. Also the dated cgi makes this look like a star wars prequel. Just something about it reminds me of Phantom Menace.
Fun fact: Before the prequels, Lucasfilm was involved in an early attempt to make a movie version of dinotopia. I'm pretty sure there are rumors that the planet Naboo in the phantom menace was partially made using recycled assets from the scrapped project
@@pbh9195 I mean the original book is basically a diary of his travels around the island after arriving. That can be hard to translate to TV sometimes so I don't really see that happening. They are also more likely to do modern characters if they do as well because it creates a more "fish out of water" story. Sure the dinosaurs already create that, but the lack of technology and strangeness is less noticeable when they are also from a time with only rudimentary technology
@@lunak1391 Thanks. Plus, I have one of those 4 Issues in my Collection. The Hardcover Books that is. 0:39 David Scott: God. 0:40 Zippo: Huh? Me: I prefer Hardcover & Library Binding Books better.
0:07 I love how obvious it's just a green screen of him running and he doesn't react to any of the lighting around him so it just looks like a low budget kids RUclips video
A green screen of him running doesn't make sense. And you can see him react to the lighting, for example the head of this one guy throws a shadow on him
@@artofdesign1351 the green screen is literally how all these films are done, they animate the 3D model, export it as a green screen and then import it into video editing software and chroma key the green screen. To this day that's how films that mix CG and live action do it, even end game did that. Also that's literally only his head, he doesn't cast a shadow, the lighting on his body isn't moving with the scene and you can see him just not crash into objects when he should
@@dasdaza Why would you export a 3D model as a green screen that just doesn't make any sense to me? You can export the full textured and animated object into the video editing software and mask out everything what's supposed to be in front of the object in the final Footage. Why would you "green screen" a 3D object? What would you put there after keying the green?
@@artofdesign1351 you would put the live action footage behind it, obviously you don't export a model as an MP4, you animated the model in Maya or whatever you are using and then export that animation as a green screen that you throw over the footage Mocap would still require to be done in animation software and exported as a green screen
I think they meant Sauro-partner. An honor that the inhabitants earn where they adopt a dinosaur when they're an egg and they immediately feel a bond between them as they are each other's Sauro-partners for life. It's not a marriage thing. More like adopt a child thing. Since some dinosaurs are raised by dinosaurs, those who ether got lost from their nest forever or something happened to their parents, they're taken to a hatchery so they can one day get adopted by a human and the human who adopts them become their Sauro-partner for life, they form a bond that only they can sense and it's a bond that can't be broken. So again, it's more like adopt a child thing if a dinosaur is unable to be raised by a dinosaur. The human is like a substitute parent for them.
Jesus is King. He died for u and me simply bc he love us all. and he rose from the dead, meaning he defeated death. Believe onto the Lord Jesus Christ and u will be saved. bye Jesus is returning, u would want to be saved.
"No, I'll never meet another like her...'babe'."
I don't know why but that last little "babe" was so cute
Guess because he had no idea what the word meant
I saw this as a kid and wrote zippo a letter about how much I loved him
Wholesome. :)
🥺🥹🥺🥹
I love this
beautiful
American kids are funny. Believing TV shows were real.
Honestly the CGI is incredibly impressive for a 2004 television film
2002
@@dariuszsobotka 05/12/2002
strange how a series from 2004 could put more emotion into a cgi dinosaur than the lion king remake did in 2020
It even was 2002
There was a cgi dinosaur in The Lion King?
@Pain is Living yeah, in my opinion if they really wanted to go for the national geographic look. They should have went all the way. Make it so the animals don't talk. Sure they might need a narrator to explain whats going on. Maybe have James Earl Jones do it. Im not saying it would have been good, just at the very least it would be trying something a little different.
Come to think of it, it's kind of why people didn't like the Walking with Dinosaurs movie. In the movie they made the Dinosaurs talk. Made it seem like a lame modern day emake of The Land Before Time. In the show the Dinosaurs didn't talk, it was Narrated. And of course I remember the show being a lot more interesting. Well I think it was a show. Maybe it was just a TV special.
The miniseries was back in 2002.
And yet it still made over 1 billion. Young Idiots will always go and see this crap no matter how bad it is!
The CGI aged surprisingly well! Good job guys
What a noble concept. By some miracle not all the dinosaurs perished from the asteroid. The willingness to share their world with upstart humans is something we as a species would be very loathe to do, even now. This is good fantasy. Right on Zippo!
There are two kinds of fans of Dinotopia - the fans who read and collected all of the books only to be disappointed that they butchered the source material with the movie adaption and the fans who discovered it on their own and knew nothing about the books, just the movie adaptation. There is no wrong or right way to enjoy Dinotopia!
Yeah. I discovered Dinotopia thanks to the animated movie i really loved back then. I still like it but yeah, there is no "normal" way to be a fan of Dinotopia or anything.
I am looking at Star Wars toxic fans who treats the others like "fake fans" or "heretics" because they like something they don't
Everyone has different tastes, no need to impose yours to the others
I grew up with this as a kid growing up. My dad introduced me to this. He knew I loved dinosaurs and so did he. I remember dreaming about this series but I doubt anyone would be interested in hearing it.
Ok i'll bite. What happend in your dreams?
@@tyrotorathetiger7674 I remember seeing myself as a young thirteen year old boy who was tall for his age, slender in the body, blue eyes, straight, long brown hair that was shoulder length but very thick, full and voluminous. I worn what looked like a black T-shirt and jeans with black leather steel toed boots.
I stowed away on a boat as I was running from someone dangerous and while out at sea. A storm comes and during the chaos on the boat. I fell off the boat, into a lifeboat but washed ashore to Dinotopia.
I'm found by Marion Waldo and Karl Scott. They take me with them as they knew I was shipwrecked. But I don't speak a word to them but I would speak sign language to them which Marion had learned to speak and translate fluently.
As they take me with them. I am surprised that there are dinosaurs still alive on that island. Even if they were extinct everywhere else. But we see a Triceratops looking like it was in pain as it was grunting in pain from something. I'd go to it without thinking and I'd speak out loud for the first time as I managed to calm the Triceratops and it shows me what's bothering it by opening up its mouth and I pulled out a tooth as the dinosaur feels on pain and I hug the dinosaur and just let everyone know "It only had a toothache" Karl and Marion see that I don't seem to talk to people out loud but I talk to the dinosaurs out loud.
They begin to think or suspect I'm not trusting of people yet to talk verbally to them. I meet Karl, Scott and their dad Frank while they notice that I don't talk out loud to them but when Zippo would speak to me. I'd talk to him verbally. They were concerned that I had something bothering me to why I spoke to the dinosaurs but not the people.
I'd show that I'm very intelligent, powerfully strong, much faster than any human should be, helpful towards people of both humans and dinosaurs, and I had this strange ability to heal people of anything with a single touch of my hand. Whenever they ask me what just happened. I'd stoically tell them "I helped it. I took it back" which they oddly understood what it meant.
They begin to wonder how my abilities came to be but they knew I was good. Yet when a fully grown adult human male arrives in Dinotopia in a scientist uniform. This man is armed, dangerous and wants me to come back to him but I do not want to go with him. This man starts to go around the island, causing chaos and fear in others but when he finds me. He tries to get me but Frank, Karl, Scott and a lot of people stand by me and warn him to leave me alone as Frank tells him "You are not laying a hand on my third son" which something about that had a huge amount of confidence rise within me.
This scientist fires off a round at them but I get in front of them and conjure up a bullet proof force field. Me and this scientist have a battle between each other but in the end. I had no choice but to grab the last weapon he had on him. A machete and I warn everyone "Close your eyes" and when they do. They hear a loud scream but the scream was silenced.
After I give them the all clear. They saw that the scientist was laying on the ground with a white sheet over him, it was stained with blood but when any of them got close to the body. I'd tell them "Don't look at it" which of course they saw that I had to do the one thing I didn't want to do in order to keep them all safe. His weapons are dismantled and after a year goes by. I begin to talk to both humans and dinosaurs verbally as they all hailed me as a hero.
I end up with a Sauro-partner which ends up being a Triceratops whom I named Sakura. But than as Karl, Scott, Frank, Zippo, even 26, and others ask me about why the scientist was chasing after me. I figured it would be best to tell them.
I'd explain to them that the scientist found me in a space pod that crash landed on earth and that the scientist started to hire a nanny to look after me as he does his experiments but once when I was five or six and I shown signs of having the ability to heal others with a single touch and that I had the ability to read minds, predict the future. The scientist wanted to experiment on me by trying to transfer my healing power to himself and others but his attempts failed, and his experiments caused me to mutate into a superhuman. Which would explain the majority of my powers and abilities. I told them I escaped and originally wanted to head for Australia but I ended up in Dinotopia which I told them I'd rather be in Dinotopia as I found the family that I've been wanting my whole life.
We all hugged each other and they were surprised that I turned out to be an alien from outer space who got experimented on and had mutations as a result which I looked like any normal human by appearance. But they knew I was a good kid and they welcomed me into the family.
I know that's a lot of detail but how did it sound?
@@brocksampson3405 wow very nice dream sounds like a movie
@@alienmapping3536 Thanks for telling me that and thanks for giving it a look.
@@brocksampson3405 dude you were quoting the book almost word for word. Detailed fucking dream
0:29 That's just such a strange question to ask out of the blue, your talking to a dinosaur that can talk back, you can ask him anything about these new lands you find yourself in, and immediately you go "so umm... that human p***** you into that?"
He’s a teen. Honestly wouldn’t expect much else
Zippo is such a little twink i love him
I remember this scene very well.
Holy shit I didn't expect the CGI in this to age quite well
You can tell that Zippo truly misses Sylvia. (Sorry if I spelt Sylvia wrong)
No. You got it right.
If you look down at the frame below her picture, you can see how her name is spelt.
@@jaredruff9823 thanks 😊 I just wanted to make sure 😊
While I love Zippo as a fan of the books as a kid this part bugged me. In the books Sylvia became a Skybax rider like Will, so her Saurian life partner should have been a Skybax. She worked in the hatchery as a teenager but chose a different path when she became independent.
Ah. I take it Zippo wasn't in the books, then?
@@Fizzleypopbubble nope he was made for the movie
Poor Zippo… I’d love to be his partner!
such a great tv film, loved it as a child
I remember watching this when I was a kid I just couldn't remember what it was called. Also the dated cgi makes this look like a star wars prequel. Just something about it reminds me of Phantom Menace.
Me too...I could recall the name of this TV series for years.
Fun fact: Before the prequels, Lucasfilm was involved in an early attempt to make a movie version of dinotopia. I'm pretty sure there are rumors that the planet Naboo in the phantom menace was partially made using recycled assets from the scrapped project
@@OcelotsFilmsthat’s why I loved seeing Naboo!
Zippo sure does like his Dinotopia memorabilia.
Don't think I didn't notice the parade scene hung up on his wall.
I can't believe with all the remakes currently on various streaming services that no one is attempting a new Dinotopia
Metoo, the really need to do a reboot that's closer to the books this time
@@pbh9195 I mean the original book is basically a diary of his travels around the island after arriving. That can be hard to translate to TV sometimes so I don't really see that happening. They are also more likely to do modern characters if they do as well because it creates a more "fish out of water" story. Sure the dinosaurs already create that, but the lack of technology and strangeness is less noticeable when they are also from a time with only rudimentary technology
@@bobarcher5837 I just hope that, IF a new series is to be made, they stick with the original look of the dinosaurs. Though that's very unlikely.
Zippo voiced by Lee Evans
0:07 I spy with my little eye… A portrait of the Parade by James Gurney who started DINOTOPIA.
Good spot!
@@lunak1391 Thanks. Plus, I have one of those 4 Issues in my Collection. The Hardcover Books that is.
0:39 David Scott: God.
0:40 Zippo: Huh?
Me: I prefer Hardcover & Library Binding Books better.
In this film mayor Waldo is played by Jim Carter you might recognize him for his role in Black beauty
Zippo is the true g
Living with dinosaurs.
0:07 I love how obvious it's just a green screen of him running and he doesn't react to any of the lighting around him so it just looks like a low budget kids RUclips video
A green screen of him running doesn't make sense. And you can see him react to the lighting, for example the head of this one guy throws a shadow on him
@@artofdesign1351 the green screen is literally how all these films are done, they animate the 3D model, export it as a green screen and then import it into video editing software and chroma key the green screen. To this day that's how films that mix CG and live action do it, even end game did that.
Also that's literally only his head, he doesn't cast a shadow, the lighting on his body isn't moving with the scene and you can see him just not crash into objects when he should
@@dasdaza Why would you export a 3D model as a green screen that just doesn't make any sense to me? You can export the full textured and animated object into the video editing software and mask out everything what's supposed to be in front of the object in the final Footage. Why would you "green screen" a 3D object? What would you put there after keying the green?
And if you let an actor use a mocap suit it's even easier to import the 3d model, I don't get where you would use a green screen for that
@@artofdesign1351 you would put the live action footage behind it, obviously you don't export a model as an MP4, you animated the model in Maya or whatever you are using and then export that animation as a green screen that you throw over the footage
Mocap would still require to be done in animation software and exported as a green screen
I always thought it would be cool to see Aladar in this series
Could you upload the clips of him playing ping-pong please??
Can you post the part where freefall chooses David
I want this remade with today's CGI
Do you also want it done with scientific accuracy to boot?
@@GipsyDangerfan I could take or leave it. In other words... "Meh"
@@RoboticNerd I, personally, don't think everything, especially dinosaurs, have to be done scientifically accurately.
@@GipsyDangerfan Same
💗💗💗 Babe!
I totaly would date My dino partner
Mayor Waldo he is played by Jim Carter Yep you recognize him first was John manly From black beauty
Funnily enough that's the first film I remember him from
@@lunak1391 The TV show Dino Topia which is based on this film with none of the original cast he’s played by Jonathan Hyde
@@lunak1391 Did you know that him and Both him and the lady who played Rosemary would also star in the little vampire
@@jamessparkman6604 interesting :)
I remember! And now he’s more noticed with Downton Abbey and Wonka!
Dinotopia
Was this a move or a series?? Remember this being a long ass movie
A three part miniseries that was often played all at once
@@Mavakor lost the second disc 😭
So they got married
I think they meant Sauro-partner. An honor that the inhabitants earn where they adopt a dinosaur when they're an egg and they immediately feel a bond between them as they are each other's Sauro-partners for life. It's not a marriage thing. More like adopt a child thing. Since some dinosaurs are raised by dinosaurs, those who ether got lost from their nest forever or something happened to their parents, they're taken to a hatchery so they can one day get adopted by a human and the human who adopts them become their Sauro-partner for life, they form a bond that only they can sense and it's a bond that can't be broken. So again, it's more like adopt a child thing if a dinosaur is unable to be raised by a dinosaur. The human is like a substitute parent for them.
Smash
Zippo: Dinotopias Jar Jar Binks
I kinda thought of him as Dinotopia's C-3PO.
Nope. He’s more like 3PO!
Is that Channing?
Nah different actor
Somehow.... Strange....
What are they eating 1:18?
Don't got the joke
@@bergwalker3404 I’m serious I wanna know what they are eating
Oh do you mean 0:18 ?
Crinoids, they're related to starfish.
Squid, the hulls of, i think, a kind of a south American fruit, a lechi? and green dyed rice.
Jesus is King. He died for u and me simply bc he love us all. and he rose from the dead, meaning he defeated death.
Believe onto the Lord Jesus Christ and u will be saved.
bye Jesus is returning, u would want to be saved.