Tiny's color is Green like Don and her parents. Tiny (voiced by Claire Corlett) – A Pteranodon who likes rhymes and approaches dinosaurs with the confidence of a news reporter.Since Buddy is incapable of flight, as all T-Rex dinosaurs were, he is the spotter for the Pteranodon family, which means it is his job to spot fish for the Pteranodons to catch. Some episodes name him "Buddy Tyrannosaurus" while others name him "Buddy Pterandon". He was adopted by the Pteranodon family after being discovered as an egg. Buddy (voiced by Phillip Corlett) – A curious and intelligent T-Rex who likes to ask questions and form hypotheses.Disclaimer” (played by Dinosaur Train Story Editor Joe Purdy), who points out details like “Dinosaurs did not actually perform musical concerts,” or “Dinosaurs did not actually play Dinoball.” Sampson, who appears onscreen to explain the show’s dinosaur curriculum in greater detail, sometimes assisted by a character known as “Mr. Each episode is followed by a live-action segment featuring Dinosaur Train educational consultant and world-renowned paleontologist Dr. 40 half-hour episodes have been ordered by PBS Kids so far.
It premiered on Labor Day 2009 and airs daily on PBS Kids, and in various countries around the world. As an adopted kid in a mixed-species family, Buddy is especially curious about the differences between species and vows to learn about all the dinosaurs he can by riding the Dinosaur Train.ĭinosaur Train is co-produced and animated by Sparky Animation Studios in Singapore, with casting by Vidaspark and voice-overs recorded at Kozmic Sound in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. By traveling in the Dinosaur Train around the Mesozoic, assisted with all dinosaur facts by the train’s Troodon Conductor, Buddy quickly learns that he is a Tyrannosaurus. Pteranodon and brought to their nest to hatch at the same time as his siblings Tiny, Shiny, and Don. In the show’s main title song, we learn that Buddy was adopted by Mr. The world of Dinosaur Train is seen through the eyes of Buddy, the preschool-age Tyrannosaurus. It also has the ability to visit the entire Mesozoic Era, the “Age of Dinosaurs,” passing through magical Time Tunnels to meet the dinosaurs in the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous time periods.
The Dinosaur Train circles the whole world-it even crosses the oceans and inland seas, with stops to visit undersea prehistoric animals. The train itself is run by Troodons (who get to run it because they’re the smartest dinosaurs, as they often explain, and have nimble toe claws to punch the tickets).
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This steam-engine train is customized for dinosaurs of all kinds: windows accommodate the long-necked sauropods, there’s plenty of headroom in the Observation Car for the larger theropods, and the Aquacar is an aquarium for sea-going passengers. The show is set in a whimsical prehistoric world of jungles, swamps, active volcanoes and oceans, all teeming with dinosaur and other animal life, and connected by a train line known as the Dinosaur Train. Ĭreated by Craig Bartlett, Dinosaur Train follows the adventures of a young Tyrannosaurus rex and his adoptive family of Pteranodons.
The computer-animated series, with animation outsourced to Singapore, consists of forty episodes. Dinosaur Train is designed to help encourage basic scientific thinking and skills as the audience learns about natural science, natural history and paleontology.
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Jim Henson's Dinosaur Train is a preschool television series produced by The Jim Henson Company for PBS Kids.