![]() ![]() It was a bit rubbish.Įnter Steve White – the action man! Outfits, vehicles and pens sold separately. The second, simply titled ‘3-D Gallery’, was a red-and-green 3D scene that initially featured a range of photographs of very dated-looking models, which after a while gave way to commonly available dinosaur toys. ![]() The first of these, ‘Giants of the Past’, featured whichever animal had been profiled at the front of the issue in a richly-illustrated action scene. The centre of each issue featured two double-page spreads that formed an ‘artwork showcase’ of sorts, which was especially exciting to me as a child. Mostly thanks to its sheer length – 103 issues (plus the index, for 104) – its content went far, far beyond any kids’ dinosaur book at the time, with illustrations of a mind-boggling number of different species (dinosaurs and otherprehistoricanimals alike). My parents placed a subscription with our (now long-defunct) local newsagent, so I had every copy delivered to my door. I’ve looked at the series on a number of occasions previously, mostly because it’s a treasure trove of 1990s palaeoart (of widely varying quality), but also because it’s hugely nostalgic for me personally, easily as much as Jurassic Park. ![]() Any dinosaur-loving child in the UK in the early 1990s simply had to have a Dinosaurs! magazine collection. ![]()
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