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Dinoland Dan

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Certified fossil. Theme parks, Route 66, tiki, and classic Americana.

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · Apr 22

To commemorate Animal Kingdom’s Birthday, I’m going to repost my very silly Twitter thread reading the also very silly (& somehow officially licensed ???) Countdown to Extinction book — all 42 pages of it.

🚨 Featuring Grant Seeker lore! 🚨

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Book on wooden desk. Book cover features a Carnotaurus standing aggressively, with the title COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION in blood-red Chiller font across its chest. The side margin says DISNEY CHAPTERS.

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 21h

Special shout-out to when you could still buy toy pistols at Magic Kingdom and wear a real holster for Mickey’s Not-So Scary

A much younger me, wearing a homemade skipper costume, brandishing a particularly blue metal popgun

Safari me, talking into a microphone, while in the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 21h

Repost with your favorite Halloween costume.

My 2020 hair meant I could do a “wolfman drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic’s” costume

A guy (me??) in a Wolfman costume (consisting of a sport coat, hairy hands and ears, and too much home grown hair), drinking a piña colada. In the background is a panic-inducing amount of tchotchkes and keepsakes.

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 1d

I know this is a ton of work, but I *thoroughly* enjoy these threads.

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 2d

In the throes of 2020, I almost wrote Lynch a letter asking what theme park experience he would make. Would love to see how some Disney project manager would approach that.

Reposted by Dinoland Dan

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 2d

If there is one thing Disney is doing right it’s that they are keeping the WHAT ABOUT BOB? (1991) hand puppets preserved in their archives.

Hand puppets used by Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss) and his family in the movie WHAT ABOUT BOB? (1991)

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t wait!

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 4d

I see @sonderquest.bsky.social has branched out to 3D work

A little Japanese package of construction vehicle stakes for like, appetizers or crudity or tiny vampires idk, with smiling faces reminiscent of the work of beloved theme park artist Sonder Quest (in the style of artist Scott C.)

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 4d

You know it!

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

This coming on the heels of this week’s bizarre chicken tender media blitz doesn’t bode well.

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, Jim!! 🥳

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

Muchas gracias ☺️

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks a bunch Krista!!

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Belle!!

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks bud! 🥳

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

I’m hoping to make a tribute to Dinoland video featuring the Owens and Boardman specials if/when my motivation exceeds my capacity for laziness (impossible)

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

I think they’re by Applause!

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

I had a couple of these guys growing up, and seeing them in Jurassic Park may have contributed to my believing the movie was real for multiple years.

That and the fact I wasn’t even in kindergarten.

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

A few other sides of my personality.

Assorted gifts, including a mug of Don the Beachcomber, a Moai mug, a Moai bottle of Chilean Pisco, a Snowbird watch, Criterion copy of Eraserhead, a Waffle House mug, and a Sonic gift card

Closeup of the Snowbird watch, my local NBC affiliate WSMV’s puppet mascot who announced school closings every snow day. Extremely potent nostalgic aura.

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

I keep getting older, but my birthday gifts stay the same age

Especially excited for the Eric Boardman and Gary Owens Dinosaurs Forever special — their videos encapsulate the very specific moment in time that Dinoland, USA celebrates.

Dinosaur ephemera: dinosaur cartoon letterhead for the DINOSAUR HUNTERS CLUB and a VHS copy of SON OF DINOSAURS

Blu-ray copy of Eric Boardman and Gary Owens’ DINOSAURS FOREVER

Those super ‘90s Jurassic Park plushes in garish neon colors: acid green and orange hadrosaur, also acid green and indigo rhino guy and purple bronto boy

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t believe it doesn’t have unnecessary text!

I also kinda like the idea of removing the Figment label and just wearing a context-free photorealistic purple dragon everywhere