Toy Dinosaur Film & TV Cameos

[Invicta Hunter]

I don't know if anyone really cares about this but i was watching last nights Defiance episode and i noticed something at the end of the show. There's a Carnegie dinosaur mountain in the surgery, it's kind of a weird thing to have in a sci-fi show.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

You noticed that too eh ? lol   I think it's the Monterey Bay or sealife version.

Not so weird, much of the stuff in the show is scavenged and re-purposed..I'm not sure what is displayed on it though.

[Invicta Hunter]

I think it has plants growing on it but im not too sure.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

There are a lot of plants there, I assume the character really likes them having no knowledge of the universe other than the show.  Looks like it has a label in front as well.

[Invicta Hunter]

I tried finding a good shot of the front so i could read it but there's no good angles in that episode, maybe in a future one.

[Roselaar]

Funny, in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation there's a custom made mountain display filled with Carnegiesaurs and Invictas, and here we have a Carnegie mountain set without dinosaurs, kinda the exact opposite.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Interesting..pic ?

Maybe an HD shot would help read it ? Unless it's an alien language. lol

[Invicta Hunter]

Funny, in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation there's a custom made mountain display filled with Carnegiesaurs and Invictas, and here we have a Carnegie mountain set without dinosaurs, kinda the exact opposite.

Do you know which episode of Star Trek the Carnegie and Invicta figures are in because i've seen all the episodes but i can't remember seeing them.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Maybe an episode featuring the school ? There were a few of those though.

[Roselaar]

Funny, in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation there's a custom made mountain display filled with Carnegiesaurs and Invictas, and here we have a Carnegie mountain set without dinosaurs, kinda the exact opposite.

Do you know which episode of Star Trek the Carnegie and Invicta figures are in because i've seen all the episodes but i can't remember seeing them.

Brothers, Season 4. It's in Dr. Soong's work space, together with a T-Rex skull. Apparently the good doctor spend his off hours playing with dinosaurs instead of working on positronic neural nets.

In the picture below the old man can be spied putting an unfortunate Carnegiesaur (ironically the T-Rex it seems) between the Rex's jaws:



And here his "son" catches his dad in the act of playing with his toys:

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

 heh heh cool.. I didn't recall that at all..might have to start watching NG again on Netflix.

[Jetoar]

Very cool that we see figures in movies  .

[Invicta Hunter]

That's great, if this show was real that would make those Invicta and Carnegie figures a couple of hundred years old, real collectors items lol

[tyrantqueen]

That's great, if this show was real that would make those Invicta and Carnegie figures a couple of hundred years old, real collectors items lol

I recall a TNG ep where a kid was playing with a chinasaur...LOL

I laughed a bit when, in TOS, Spock referred to something as a "dinosaur" in reference to it being obsolete. I think it was the episode with the M5 computer, but I can't remember all that well.

[Roselaar]

Then of course there is a JPS1 Red Rex in Stallone's Daylight, a Carnegie Diplodocus in Jurassic Park, and I recently spotted this in the Dutch kid's movie Dolfje Weerwolfje:



Anybody has more examples? I'd love to see a thread about dinosaur figure appearances in movies and TV shows.

[KeU]

There was a Carnegie Tyrannosaurus near the ending of Inception,

[Roselaar]

There was a Carnegie Tyrannosaurus near the ending of Inception,

How could I forget! Next to it there is a generic Sauropod Chinasaur if I'm not mistaken:



Then there's the Pteranodon in the first Toy Story that bears more than a little resemblance to the JPS1 Pteranodon figure:



And of course Rex from Toy Story is clearly inspired by the classic Dino Riders T-Rex.

[Brontozaurus]

At some point in Firefly (or maybe it was Serenity) there's a JPIII Spinosaurus among Wash's dinosaur collection. All the others are chinasaurs.

[Roselaar]

At some point in Firefly (or maybe it was Serenity) there's a JPIII Spinosaurus among Wash's dinosaur collection. All the others are chinasaurs.

It was both the TV-show and the movie that showcased Wash's love for dinosaurs. Chinasaurs or not, those are some real Earth-that-was collector's items.
I think the nature of the displayed dinosaurs also varied from episode to episode. Sometimes they were all Chinasaurs, other times quality figures were thrown in, including Safari products.







That's not a Battat Edmontonia, is it...?

Funny thing is, when looking for pictures I stumbled upon entire threads on Firefly forums about these dinosaurs.


And let us not forget Charlie from Jurassic Park III, who also played with some good dinosaur toys:

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

" Charlie, those are herbivores and they don't really fight..but these are carnivores and the REALLY like to fight ! "


Wash's workspace looks so much many of ours I'd warrant..
I believe that's the Battat knockoff..the sauropod there is from the same set if I recall.