{"id":39046,"date":"2003-12-12T15:32:45","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T20:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=39046"},"modified":"2023-02-25T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:25:00","slug":"soon-forget-dinosaucers-genghis-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2003\/12\/soon-forget-dinosaucers-genghis-rex\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Dinosaucers Genghis Rex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Galoob's <i>Dinosaucers<\/i> Genghis Rex.<\/p>\n<p>Like comicbooks in the '90s, the '80s were a boom time for cartoons, with nearly anything being greenlit. In 1987, DiC Entertainment and Coca-Cola partnered to create <i>Dinosaucers<\/i>, a show about alien dinosaurs from the planet Reptilon who come to Earth for reasons. Toys were planned, including the leader of the villainous Tyrannos, Genghis Rex.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/12\/ds_t_gr.jpg\" title=\"Dinosaucers Genghis Rex\" width=\"445\" height=\"555\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Each of the figures would have come with a lenticular card showing the character and their dinosaur equivalent.<\/p>\n<p>The cartoon got poor ratings, with some stations opting to pull it from rotation rather than showing reruns of its 65 episodes. Galoob showed prototype figures at Toy Fair 1988, but by then the show was on its way to cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Although the toys never came out in the US, Brazilian company Glasslite bought the molds from Galoob and released a few in limited numbers, including Genghis Rex.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Your move, Mattel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/your-move-mattel\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Your move, Mattel<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Tag yourself - I'm \"Jayko Cards Circus\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/tag-yourself-im-jayko-cards-circus\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tag yourself - I'm \"Jayko Cards Circus\"<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Periodic table of Transformers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/periodic-table-of-transformers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Periodic table of Transformers<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A boy and his dinosaur\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-boy-and-his-dinosaur\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A boy and his dinosaur<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Defenders of Eden: Armies of Ashmore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/defenders-of-eden-armies-of-ashmore\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Defenders of Eden: Armies of Ashmore<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Galoob's Dinosaucers Genghis Rex. Like comicbooks in the '90s, the '80s were a boom time for cartoons, with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2003\/12\/soon-forget-dinosaucers-genghis-rex\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,418],"tags":[419,302],"class_list":["post-39046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-galoob","tag-dinosaucers","tag-dinosaurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39085,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39046\/revisions\/39085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}