Dinosaur Train
| Jim Henson's Dinosaur Train | |
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| Also known as | Jim Henson's Dinosaur Train |
| Genre |
Children's CGI animated cartoon |
| Created by | Craig Bartlett |
| Directed by |
Craig Bartlett Terry Izumi |
| Voices of | Phillip Corlett Claire Corlett Erika-Shaye Gair Alexander Matthew Marr Ian James Corlett Natasha Calis Colin Murdock Ellen Kennedy Sean Thomas Laura Marr |
| Opening theme | "Dinosaur Train" |
| Ending theme | "Dinosaur Train" |
| Composer(s) |
Jim Lang Mike Himelstein Michael Silversher |
| Country of origin | United States Canada Singapore |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 89 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Craig Bartlett Brian Henson Lisa Henson Halle Stanford |
| Producer(s) | Sue Bea Montgomery |
| Running time | 28:46 |
| Production company(s) |
Media Development Authority Sparky Animation The Jim Henson Company FableVision Snee-Oosh, Inc. (uncredited) |
| Distributor |
The Jim Henson Company PBS |
| Release | |
| Original network | PBS |
| Picture format | ATSC |
| Audio format | Dolby Home Theater |
| Original release | September 7, 2009 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Sid the Science Kid |
| Followed by | Splash and Bubbles |
| Related shows | Ready Jet Go! |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Dinosaur Train is an American/Canadian/Singaporean animated series created by Craig Bartlett, who also created Hey Arnold!. The series features a curious young Tyrannosaurus rex named Buddy who, together with his adopted Pteranodon family, takes the Dinosaur Train to explore his time period, and have adventures with all kinds of dinosaurs. It is produced by The Jim Henson Company in association with Media Development Authority, Sparky Animation, FableVision, and Snee-Oosh, Inc.
It is the second show by The Jim Henson Company to use CGI animation (the first of which was Sid the Science Kid).
The show is set in a whimsical prehistoric world of jungles, swamps, active volcanoes and oceans, all teeming with dinosaur and other animal life, and connected by a train line known as the Dinosaur Train. This steam-engine train can be customized for dinosaurs of all kinds: windows accommodate the long-necked sauropods, there's plenty of headroom in the Observation Car for the larger theropods, and the Aquacar is an aquarium for sea-going passengers. The train itself is run by Troodons, as the smartest dinosaurs in this fictional universe. The Dinosaur Train circles the whole world—it even crosses the oceans and inland seas, with stops to visit undersea prehistoric animals. It can travel through the entire Mesozoic Era, the "Age of Dinosaurs", passing through magical Time Tunnels to the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous time periods.
The world of Dinosaur Train is seen through the eyes of Buddy the Tyrannosaurus. In the show's main title song, we learn that Buddy was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Pteranodon. He hatched at the same time as his pteranodon siblings Tiny, Shiny, and Don. By traveling in the Dinosaur Train around the Mesozoic, supplied with all dinosaur facts by the train's Troodon Conductor, Buddy learns that he is a Tyrannosaurus. As an adopted kid in a mixed-species family, Buddy is curious about the differences between species and vows to learn about all the dinosaurs he can by riding the Dinosaur Train. The dinosaur species featured in the show are actual dinosaurs discovered by paleontologists.
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