{"id":39060,"date":"2004-02-25T15:58:33","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T20:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=39060"},"modified":"2023-02-25T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:04:17","slug":"soon-forget-dinosaucers-ankylo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/soon-forget-dinosaucers-ankylo\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Dinosaucers Ankylo"},"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> Ankylo.<\/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 sycophantic second-in-command of the villainous Tyrannos, Ankylo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/ds_t_an.jpg\" title=\"Dinosaucers Ankylo\" 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<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=\"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=\"Soon Forget: Dinosaucers Bonehead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/soon-forget-dinosaucers-bonehead\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Dinosaucers Bonehead<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Dinosaucers Allo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2003\/11\/soon-forget-dinosaucers-allo\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Dinosaucers Allo<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Mammoths go (Creative) Beast mode\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/mammoths-go-creative-beast-mode\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mammoths go (Creative) Beast mode<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Safari Ltd. Feathered Tyrannosaurus Rex addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/safari-ltd-feathered-tyrannosaurus-rex-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Safari Ltd. Feathered Tyrannosaurus Rex addendum<\/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 Ankylo. Like comicbooks in the '90s, the '80s were a boom time for cartoons, with nearly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/soon-forget-dinosaucers-ankylo\/\">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-39060","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\/39060","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=39060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39064,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39060\/revisions\/39064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}