Dinosaur Card Collection

[ikessauro]

I am wondering if any of you guys ever collected dinosaur cards, dinosaur sticker albuns and other related stuff, like phone cards etc.

Here in Brazil a collection of cards was released in 1993 and it is pretty much what made me a dino aficionado. The cards were made of hard cardboard, and each came with a chocolate bar.

The chocolate was made by Nestle and the art in the cards was done by two brazilian artists (Brasilio Matsumoto and Rodrigo Leão). There were 30 cards and if you sent a letter to Nestle with a couple of chocolate wrapping on it you would receive a free album to collect the cards. The cards had info on their back about the species featured and other paleo curiosities.

The album was very nice, but the art on the cars is very impressive, all done whithout computer, just traditional techniques. Despite some innacuracies, lack of feathers and some other small details, the anatomy of the dinos is pretty good on the cards. A while ago I scanned the album and decided to post the cards in here for you to see and maybe comment on it, show other card collections you have.

Enough talking, let's go see what is really interesting.

Nº 1 - Cynognathus

Nº 2 - Staurikosaurus (Love the color pattern)

Nº 3 - Shonisaurus

Nº 4 - Heterodontosaurus

Nº 5 - Dilophosaurus (this card made Dilopho my favorite dino ever).

Nº 6 - Elasmosaurus

Nº 7 - Stegosaurus

Nº 8 - Apatosaurus

Nº 9 - Archaeopteryx

Nº 10 - Allosaurus (I like a lot the work on the carcass)

Nº 11 - Brachiosaurus (Just love the way they did the Brachio and the sky on this one)

Nº 12 - Othnielia

Nº 13 - Hypsilophodon

Nº 14 - Compsognathus

Nº 15 - Baryonyx

Nº 16 - Deinonychus

N º 17 - Oviraptor

Nº 18 - Iguanodon

Nº 19 - Tyrannosaurus

Nº 20 - Styracosaurus

N º 21 - Parasaurolophus (One of my favorites too)

Nº 22 - Ornithomimus

Nº 23 - Pachycephalosaurus

Nº 24 - Triceratops

Nº 25 - Spinosaurus

Nº 26 - Protoceratops

Nº 27 - Velociraptor

Nº 28 Maiasaura

Nº 29 - Euoplocephalus

Nº 30 - Cearadactylus

[Horridus]

Most of these are really good for the time.

I did collect some dino cards. Apart from the Jurassic Park ones (both the Topps cards and the ones that came with the toys), there were promotions alongside PG Tips tea and Jacob's 'dinosaur' biscuits. I think they both featured John Sibbick art.

Oh, and I have some postcards too! I think they're on the first page of my collection thread.

[RobbieSKatz]

Those look really awesome, and, like Horridus said, a lot of them are surprisingly accurate (the hands on Dilophosaurus are even positioned correctly, and Spinosaurus [while having four fingers] has a crocodile snout).

I have a binder with two sets of trading cards - one of them is Dinocards, and features some good illustrations. The other is Dinosaur: The Mesozoic Era, with spectacular artwork. I don't know if I have complete sets of either, but I've had them both since I was a child.

There's also another set that will forever haunt me... One day, my dad brought me home a gift. He collects baseball cards, and used to go to card shows all the time. It was a rectangular box, not too big, not suspicious looking. I opened it up, and as I sifted through the cards of the DINOSAURS ATTACK! series, I was horrified. However, many years later, I can look through those cards and have a good laugh. It's an awesome series (for those who don't know it, Horridus' avatar is of one of the cards).

[ikessauro]

Jan 19, 2012 20:35:43 GMT RobbieSKatz said:

Those look really awesome, and, like Horridus said, a lot of them are surprisingly accurate (the hands on Dilophosaurus are even positioned correctly, and Spinosaurus [while having four fingers] has a crocodile snout).

I have a binder with two sets of trading cards - one of them is Dinocards, and features some good illustrations. The other is Dinosaur: The Mesozoic Era, with spectacular artwork. I don't know if I have complete sets of either, but I've had them both since I was a child.

There's also another set that will forever haunt me... One day, my dad brought me home a gift. He collects baseball cards, and used to go to card shows all the time. It was a rectangular box, not too big, not suspicious looking. I opened it up, and as I sifted through the cards of the DINOSAURS ATTACK! series, I was horrified. However, many years later, I can look through those cards and have a good laugh. It's an awesome series (for those who don't know it, Horridus' avatar is of one of the cards).

I've seen these Dinosaur Attack cards online, they show very violent dino attacks, even herbivores eating people alive ... but I like 'em anyway, just don't have the set.

[RobbieSKatz]

They're definitely entertaining, though not for the faint of heart. I think the funniest card is one of two Parasaurolophus that have torn the top of a school bus off and are eating the children inside.

[takama]

Cynognathus . Thats the coolest picture i ever seen of one.

[Griffin]

Woah those are really awesome illustrations! I love the movement and perspective on a lot of them! Thanks for sharing!

[Himmapaan]

These are quite wonderful! Correct hands on some of the theropods and sauropods too. All are highly aesthetically impressive in every way.

[gwangi]

Great set of cards, I particularly like the Staurikosaurus and Allosaurus but they're all terrific especially for their time. The Archeopteryx even had the hyper-extendable toe!
I used to have the complete card sets for both Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Topps but I gave them away a long time ago. I did hang on to my Dinosaurs Attack! set though and am glad I did, I have the complete collection.

[sbell]

I'm pretty sure that the Dilophosaururus was the inspiration for the FameMaster 4D puzzle figure.Except for the hands, which they messed up.

[mihnea]

That is one gorgeous set of cards! I love the brachiosaurus alot! ;D