{"id":39080,"date":"2004-06-06T16:19:52","date_gmt":"2004-06-06T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=39080"},"modified":"2024-08-15T21:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T01:10:05","slug":"soon-forget-dinosaucers-plesio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/soon-forget-dinosaucers-plesio\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Dinosaucers Plesio"},"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> Plesio.<\/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 villainous Tyrannos' cunning scientist, Plesio.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/06\/ds_t_pl.jpg\" title=\"Dinosaucers Plesio\" 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=\"Some things never change\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/some-things-never-change\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some things never change<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Jurassic Park Styracosaurus\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/soon-forget-jurassic-park-styracosaurus\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Jurassic Park Styracosaurus<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #242 - Shanna the She-Devil &#038; Savage Land Reaper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/minimate-mini-review-242-shanna-the-she-devil-savage-land-reaper\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #242 - Shanna the She-Devil &#038; Savage Land Reaper<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Spared no expense\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/spared-no-expense\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Spared no expense<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Cyberzoic comes to Kickstarter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/10\/cyberzoic-comes-to-kickstarter\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cyberzoic comes to Kickstarter<\/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 Plesio. Like comicbooks in the '90s, the '80s were a boom time for cartoons, with nearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/soon-forget-dinosaucers-plesio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-39080","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\/39080","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42708,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39080\/revisions\/42708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}