{"id":39070,"date":"2004-04-07T16:08:37","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T20:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=39070"},"modified":"2023-02-25T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:13:45","slug":"soon-forget-dinosaucers-quackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2004\/04\/soon-forget-dinosaucers-quackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Dinosaucers Quackpot"},"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> Quackpot.<\/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 jokester of the villainous Tyrannos, Quackpot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/04\/ds_t_qu.jpg\" title=\"Quackpot\" 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 Quackpot.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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=\"March of the Spinosauruses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/march-of-the-spinosauruses\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">March of the Spinosauruses<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Well that's an unexpected combination!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/well-thats-an-unexpected-combination\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Well that's an unexpected combination!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Dinosaucers ships\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/soon-forget-dinosaucers-ships\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Dinosaucers ships<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Cute Dinobots\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/cute-dinobots\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cute Dinobots<\/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 Quackpot. Like comicbooks in the '90s, the '80s were a boom time for cartoons, with nearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2004\/04\/soon-forget-dinosaucers-quackpot\/\">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-39070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-galoob","tag-dinosaucers","tag-dinosaurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39074,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39070\/revisions\/39074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}