Half dinosaur, half construction truck, full-on fun! Watch giant Ty Rux, his little buddy Revvit and the crew come face-to-face with evil D-Structs.
20 Apr Dinotrux (2015–2017)
Inner Toys
My kids have outgrown this by a few years; I suppose it takes that long to have the tendency fade to dismiss it as trivial. I actually have a rather high opinion of this now.
These types of things have three layers. There’s the world itself. There’s the larger situation of structural conflict and roles that is evoked in every episode. And then there’s the actual events, which in most cases are uninteresting, only there to evoke the other two.
Readers, you may never see this, so let me describe it. We have two communities of dinosaurs in a barren planet. The dinos are versions of collaborative construction vehicles, made of sheet metal and powered by unimportant invisible forces. They are simply beings with a social order and squarely cartoon values.
This layer is where the brilliance is. Boys play with trucks the way girls used to play with dolls: their primary identity gets submerged in whatever role the kid makes up. Trucks are already actors. So when we enter this role, we follow a creative narrative path already ingrained. But the filmmaker has made it attractive play because the kids don’t have to make up the world.
My guess, at least with my boys, is that mirror neurons engage their hands in ways that any other kids show does not.
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Ted’s Evaluation — 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
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