The other day I made a post over at The Blood Sprayer about Garbage Pail Kids (if you're not aware, the original Kids are back - read the post for all the details!) and while I was searching through my dad's old card collection as part of my research for the post, I came upon a series of cards called Dinosaurs Attack!, which I just had to share with you guys. They're some of the goriest most badass cards i've ever seen and it's been well over a decade since the last time I laid my eyes on them. My dad used to be hardcore into collecting cards and he amassed over the years quite the collection of both open and sealed packs, which he fortunately never sold. It was thanks to this very collection that I saw my first pair of tits (Benchwarmers, anyone?!) and it may have even been my first inroduction to the world of horror - I remember sifting through Fright Flicks cards depicting the likes of Pumpkinhead and Predator, years before I ever actually saw those movies. Needless to say, I reaped the benefits of my dad's card habit.
But anyway, the main gist of the Dinosaurs Attack! series was that a scientist developed a "Time Scanner" which was supposed to give him the ability to view any era of Earth's past that he wanted. The experiment went awry and flesh hungry dinosaurs came to earth, devouring everything in their path. God damn, I love the 80's.
Here's just a few of my favorites!
The back of each card tells the continuing story of this experiment gone wrong, through the use of fake newspaper clippings ('Police Precinct Assault!') and things of that nature.
Eventually, things end happy for the earthlings when the dinosaurs are ripped apart, back to their rightful time period.
Sounds like these cards have all the makings for a movie adaptation, eh? Well, through a little digging, I found out that Tim Burton had at one time considered making a Dinosaurs Attack! movie, but eventually ending up making one based on the cards that they were inspired by, Mars Attacks. Story goes that after seeing Jurassic Park, Burton ditched the idea. Bummer, but at least we'll always have the cards to enjoy!
If you want to learn more about Dinosaurs Attack! and view all the card fronts and backs, head over to Bob's Dinosaurs Attack! Homepage.
7 comments:
Holy shit I have multiple sets of this sitting in my parents basement back home!!! I forgot about these!
I just always loved how bloody and amazingly real they were. This is what happens if dinos return!
I say let Rob Zombie adapt this and if he can't pull it off then he's legally not allowed to make movies anymore. Fair?
Sounds fair to me, Zach! But do we really want to see bearded and long haired dinosaurs whose every other grunt sounds like "fuckin' cunt"?
There's a card set of Civil War cards that my dad talks about from when he was a kid that are almost as gory as these. He bought me several of them when he discovered eBay heh. I also remember these though, still have mine as well as all my GPK's.
Those are absolutely fantastic. Real classics. That squished guy is quite gruesome.
These are great!
I wish I had the foresight as a kid to hang on to all this cool shit. These cards were the best and the little stories on the back are just icing on the cake. "Several students were chewed beyond recognition"...it was a great time to be a kid, that shit would never fly today.
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