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[Soupie]

Whilst looking for info on a Topps dinosaur toy line, I came across a Topps card set called Dinosaur Attacks. Have you ever heard the "saying" that PG in the 80's is not PG in the 90's?

Well this card series kind of hammers that idea home. How the hell did anyone ever think these were appropriate for children!?

Dinosaurs Attack @ Headinjurytheatre.com

[Strontium Dog]

Ha, you know I actually picked up an unopened box of these cards in a mixed Topps auction a few months back. I bought it for the 5 Cheap Toys in the lot, but got half a box of X-Files cards, a box of Toxic High School cards and Dinosaurs Attack.

It came with this rather cool poster that I'm now considering having framed

 DinosAttack.JPG   179.96K   59 downloads

I particularly like the rollercoaster that's heading straight down a T Rex's gullet

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

I used to get these all the time. That Supreme Evil card used to freak the devil out of me when I was a kid.

Tortle did a card tribute recently on these.

http://www.dorkdimen...-fast-food.html

Here is a site with all the cards in the series scanned.

http://www.bobheffne...inosaursattack/

[pooyabee]

I had tons of these cards when they first came out and put together a couple sets. These were by FAR my favorite cards next to GPK. I just sold them however about a year ago. These cards were gnarly awesome!! Guys getting there arms and legs ripped off and people getting torn in half. Almost every card has a serious amount of gore going on.

[SmokinGun]

I also collected these cards too long ago. I had a very few of them. You can get a complete set on ebay rather cheap.

[dankingery]

they are awesome, but i still prefer my fright flicks collection over these.

[SmokinGun]

I know im going off topic here. This was before my time, but does anyone here collected Topps Ugly Stickers back in the days.
http://www.bubblegum...y_Stickers.html

BTW: This was in the same website. Wasnt there a member here who collected these? Topps RUBBER UGLIES.
http://www.bubblegum.....r Uglies.html

[Wrath1104]

I have this card collection ... My favorite dinosaur was based on what I saw in one of those cards. It was 'Trilobite Terror', it was also redone into a GPK with a GPK getting eaten by leeches. It was awesome! I don't remember any toys for this line though ... Would be real interested to find out though.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

I know im going off topic here. This was before my time, but does anyone here collected Topps Ugly Stickers back in the days.
http://www.bubblegum...y_Stickers.html

BTW: This was in the same website. Wasnt there a member here who collected these? Topps RUBBER UGLIES.
http://www.bubblegum.....r Uglies.html

These guys have been brought up recently... and I felt like I had seen some of the art before though. But I know I didn't have any cards. Then I thought, is it possible I remember some of them cause some of the images may have been scalped for Pogs? I had hundreds of pogs back in the 90's, so it could be possible...as there were tons of off brand pog sets and distributors at the time.

[THEGODBEAST]

I know im going off topic here. This was before my time, but does anyone here collected Topps Ugly Stickers back in the days.
http://www.bubblegum...y_Stickers.html

BTW: This was in the same website. Wasnt there a member here who collected these? Topps RUBBER UGLIES.
http://www.bubblegum.....r Uglies.html

I remember these and have had some cards and figures. I actually know a hole in the wall toy store in a town I frequent that has some of the figures still. Maybe I will pick them up next time I stop in. They are kewl and creepy at the same time.

TGB

[righteousman]

I have this card collection ... My favorite dinosaur was based on what I saw in one of those cards. It was 'Trilobite Terror', it was also redone into a GPK with a GPK getting eaten by leeches. It was awesome! I don't remember any toys for this line though ... Would be real interested to find out though.

That was my favourite card too! No idea how these cards were approved for sale to children -- considering I seem to remember one with a dog being bitten in two.

[Wrath1104]

I have this card collection ... My favorite dinosaur was based on what I saw in one of those cards. It was 'Trilobite Terror', it was also redone into a GPK with a GPK getting eaten by leeches. It was awesome! I don't remember any toys for this line though ... Would be real interested to find out though.

That was my favourite card too! No idea how these cards were approved for sale to children -- considering I seem to remember one with a dog being bitten in two.

Yeah ... I remember that card too! They had some awesome cards. Like Fast Food Horror (Something like that) and they had a dino ripping open the top of the fast food place and picking people out of it and eating them, LOL! God I Love the 80's!

[scythemantis]

That was my favourite card too! No idea how these cards were approved for sale to children -- considering I seem to remember one with a dog being bitten in two.

It's no big mystery. The big censorship crackdown we have to day was a RESULT of stuff like this running rampant at one time. Kid's comics a few years earlier were even more grotesque

[GoreVidalMeaty]

I know im going off topic here. This was before my time, but does anyone here collected Topps Ugly Stickers back in the days.
http://www.bubblegum...y_Stickers.html

BTW: This was in the same website. Wasnt there a member here who collected these? Topps RUBBER UGLIES.
http://www.bubblegum.....r Uglies.html

OMG!!!!!! You guys are killing me lately! ;-) I personally do not own these, but they were my older brothers's. They had all these guys. Amazing what you can find on this site. Alas, I have no idea if they survived the Garage Culling of 1988.

Time for a trip to Mummy and Daddy's home soon...

For more Treasure Hunting.

[Donkeykid77]

You know as someone who knows which dinosaurs were herbivores, and which weren't...
This cardset really sucks imo... sorry, but Parasaurolophus eating a baby alive or cracking a school bus open to eat the kids like they were peanuts??? And an Ankylosaurus happily devouring people alive??? Plus I don't like blood and gore. I just hate turning all Dinosaurs into mindless Monsters.

I personally wouldn't approve these cards for young children either, not only are they miss-representing dinosaurs, but they're just too violent as well.

My 2 cents.
DK77.

[Nyarlathotep]

You know as someone who knows which dinosaurs were herbivores, and which weren't...
This cardset really sucks imo... sorry, but Parasaurolophus eating a baby alive or cracking a school bus open to eat the kids like they were peanuts??? And an Ankylosaurus happily devouring people alive??? Plus I don't like blood and gore. I just hate turning all Dinosaurs into mindless Monsters.

I personally wouldn't approve these cards for young children either, not only are they miss-representing dinosaurs, but they're just too violent as well.

Check the HeadInjuryTheater article and it's revealed it was just a soy-baby

But yeah, I'd agree with you here.

[Strontium Dog]

You know as someone who knows which dinosaurs were herbivores, and which weren't...
This cardset really sucks imo... sorry, but Parasaurolophus eating a baby alive or cracking a school bus open to eat the kids like they were peanuts??? And an Ankylosaurus happily devouring people alive???

Since these are cards which show dinosaurs and humans co-existing in the present day, I don't think realism was high on their agenda.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

I agree with DK on the "Not for Kids" thing for sure. These things had a big impression on me as a kid. Even then I was shocked at the degree of violence portrayed in the cards. Made me happy Dinosaurs were extinct. But none the less me and my bro ending up getting our folks to buy us some every time we went grocery shopping.....at least I think we bought them. For all I know I just snagged em up opened them, chewed on the gum, and my parents were none the wiser.

I think parents then, and even now are too naive about things marketed to their children. Many often assume that if it's sold to kids, it's meant for kids. But my years of experience, and the things I saw when I was a kid, will have me investigating every thing before I just buy something for my chitlens....when I get some.

Hmm... just thinking about it, I'm curious as to where these cards disappeared to. I all of a sudden think my parents threw them away every time they found them lying around.

[Scumdogg]

I have a set of these that, much as i try to dispose of all my trading card clutter, i cannot part with under any circumstances. By far some of my favorite trading card art of the era...there are a couple i've considered turning into tattoos.

[Wrath1104]

Hmm... just thinking about it, I'm curious as to where these cards disappeared to. I all of a sudden think my parents threw them away every time they found them lying around.

This is funny to me ... That is exactly what my mom did when she 'cleaned house' ... She used to take the trash can at the edge of mine and my brother's dresser, and just wipe all of our stuff right off into the trash. This included all of my toys as a child, and all my cards. I remember being very fond of Topps, I had all GPK up to series 15, and Dinosaurs attacks, some Wacky Packages too. And they were all thrown away. <-- That is the primary reason I got into collecting. To regain my childhood. But now I am too fond of toys, and can't stop, LOL!

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

This is funny to me ... That is exactly what my mom did when she 'cleaned house' ... She used to take the trash can at the edge of mine and my brother's dresser, and just wipe all of our stuff right off into the trash. This included all of my toys as a child, and all my cards. I remember being very fond of Topps, I had all GPK up to series 15, and Dinosaurs attacks, some Wacky Packages too. And they were all thrown away. <-- That is the primary reason I got into collecting. To regain my childhood. But now I am too fond of toys, and can't stop, LOL!

Wow! It's funny how many stories like this come up. Folks throwing away toys, burning them, selling them, giving them to other kids when they think your too old to play with em anymore! My folks let me and my brother hoard our toys as kids, but they did talk us into selling them sometimes. But I can't recall too many instances, that I was aware of, where they threw away stuff. I made a point to personally purge my hoarding, and I actually threw away, gave away, and traded tons of old toys, comics, and cards I had in storage. Only keeping the most important pieces. I probably still have some stuff I could let go.

I actually thought I kept all my trading cards as a kid, so my folks tossing them is the only explanation I can give for the strange absence of my collection of these things. Either that or they got destroyed by weather in storage. In which case I wouldn't have found them, cause they would have probably dissolved in a puddle of water.

My best friend has a 3 year old, and he is always throwing her toys in the trash when she won't pick them up, and they stay on the floor too long.

[THEGODBEAST]

XNO

[Nyarlathotep]

Just happened to stumble upon it, WarehouseFinds.com looks like it has entire sets of these for $8 USD each.

[1313]

Ha, you know I actually picked up an unopened box of these cards in a mixed Topps auction a few months back. I bought it for the 5 Cheap Toys in the lot, but got half a box of X-Files cards, a box of Toxic High School cards and Dinosaurs Attack.

It came with this rather cool poster that I'm now considering having framed

 DinosAttack.JPG   179.96K   59 downloads

I particularly like the rollercoaster that's heading straight down a T Rex's gullet

Dude, you bought those of me! Those were dark days when i needed the money & space. I still regret putting those cheap toys in with that lot, lol! Now i'm collecting them again.
The Dinosaurs Attack cards are wicked aren't they? I've almost got a full set.
The Toxic High cards would have been lengendary if they'd have been a little bigger. With how small they are it's hard to appreciate all the detail that's gone into them.

[Wrath1104]

Dude, you bought those of me! Those were dark days when i needed the money & space. I still regret putting those cheap toys in with that lot, lol! Now i'm collecting them again.
The Dinosaurs Attack cards are wicked aren't they? I've almost got a full set.
The Toxic High cards would have been lengendary if they'd have been a little bigger. With how small they are it's hard to appreciate all the detail that's gone into them.

That's funny that you mention 'Toxic High', when I was in grade school I was at a flea market with my Dad. He bought me an unopened box of those cards. I got two complete sets and a near third with that, I still have one set. I don't know why, but I remember some of the cards after years and years of having them ... Two of my faves are of the kids who died in the school year:

Arno Fleck -- Who got sat by an elephant at the circus.
Cleon Jarvis -- Who jumped out of an airplane without a parachute.